Why do I hate the 1970s so much?

[Marc Chevalier]

Something I loved about the Bicentennial: fire hydrants all over California (and other states?) were creatively repainted by local folks to resemble George Washington, Smokey the Bear, bald eagles, hardhat construction workers, the stars and stripes, you name it. Fun, grassroots, creative, joyful. Warmed my 9 year-old heart.


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[jamespowers]

The first thing I wanted to ask him was, 'When the hell did you ever make a rock and roll record?'

lol lol lol lol :eusa_clap :eusa_clap :eusa_clap :eusa_clap

 

[jamespowers]

Something I loved about the Bicentennial: fire hydrants all over California (and other states?) were creatively repainted by local folks to resemble George Washington, Smokey the Bear, bald eagles, hardhat construction workers, the stars and stripes, you name it. Fun, grassroots, creative, joyful. Warmed my 9 year-old heart.


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wasn't done around here. All I remember is the local idiot council went around trying to get everyone to plant trees in the planter strips in front of their houses. Now thrity years later the sidewalks are all screwed up. :eusa_doh: Yeah I love that time. :rage:

Regards,

j

 

[Marc Chevalier]

wasn't done around here.

Maybe it was just a Southern California thing. (I lived in Alameda and Newark from '70 to '73, then moved to L.A.)

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[Spitfire]

Cool photo! You look like a cross between Dennis Hopper and Rob Reiner.

Year, I never could decide either

 

[Spitfire]

Alright, who let Charles Manson have a computer?

Regards,

J

lol lol lol lol lol

 

[Big Man]

The 70's were cool in the 70's.

You hit the nail on the head with that, Matt. I probably had more fun in the 70's than any three other decades combined! It was a great time to be alive, and I tried my best to live it to the fullest. It's only in looking back that I think about how ugly the cloths and styles were.

 

[J.S.Udontknowme]

Something I loved about the Bicentennial: fire hydrants all over California (and other states?) were creatively repainted by local folks to resemble George Washington, Smokey the Bear, bald eagles, hardhat construction workers, the stars and stripes, you name it. Fun, grassroots, creative, joyful. Warmed my 9 year-old heart.


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They were painted like that here. I remember a few corvettes and trucks with stars and stripes too.

 

[Senator Jack]

Actually, you can still see a few of those biecentennial hydrants around here in New York.

 

[jamespowers]

Actually, you can still see a few of those biecentennial hydrants around here in New York.

Is that a shadow of a dog I see in the background?

 

[Rafter]

Also worth remembering is that the early seventies saw a major fad for the thirties -- there were TV shows, movies, books, and fashions all based on thirties themes, to the point of making an interest in the depression and swing eras practically mainstream.

Two music groups that I loathe from the 70's embraced the thirties.


The Pointer Sister's wore depression era thrift store garb.

The Manhattan Transfer also had the depression era thing going on.

 

[Salv]

Two music groups form the seventies embraced the thirties.


The Pointer Sister's wore depression era thrift store garb. ...

The Manhattan Transfer also had the depression era thing going on....

And you can add Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band (but they made swing-style disco so a lot of people will just dimiss them out of hand...)

 

[Marc Chevalier]

THE MANHATTAN TRANSFER were, are, and alway will be AWFUL!!!


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[jamespowers]

THE MANHATTAN TRANSFER were, are, and alway will be AWFUL!!!


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Along with the Pointer Sisters and Donna Summer. :eusa_doh:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNypedXSSlo:rolleyes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cPIT_T3mYU

Regards,

J

 

[ShooShooBaby]

THE MANHATTAN TRANSFER were, are, and alway will be AWFUL!!!


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agreed x800. i had a choir director in high school that always tortured us by making us sing (AND DANCE TO) the manhatten transfer's songs.


that said... i adore the 70s!

 

[Senator Jack]

Yeah, the Manhattan Transfer. I always thought them a poor man's Abba or a rich man's Starland Vocal Band.

 

[jamespowers]

Yeah, the Manhattan Transfer. I always thought them a poor man's Abba or a rich man's Starland Vocal Band.

These people?!:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5axMyJ_-Z8

 

[jamespowers]

I hated "Afternoon Delight". I turn off the radio if I even hear it for a second!!




As for the disco swing style, there was the awful Disco Lucy, Brasil, Tangerine...in fact there were an endless number of "disco-fied" swing songs!

Thinking about them makes me wanna barf!

That's why I embraced the Clash, Devo, and all the Punk that came out at the end of the 70's in defiance of Disco!

Devo eh?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxH39QlRuhg

 

[dhermann1]

Donna Summer

Yeah, but whatta woman!!!!!! (pant pant)

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Devo eh?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxH39QlRuhg

The first truly influential music video. It spawned years of imitators.

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