Decade discussion: The 1970s

[Hinchcliffe's Corner]

You could afford a good night out, and heaven forfend, a taxi for which you didn't need a payment plan.

A taxi? Everyone in the 70s drove home drunk.

 

[summerisle]

A taxi? Everyone in the 70s drove home drunk.

Tunnel bus me.

 

[blulouie]

Was only a whippersnapper but remember the great music of all things in the 70's
Santana , Creedence , Eagles , Doors , Blue Oyster Cult , Led Zep, Ramones , True greats like Marvin Gaye even the Saturday night fever stuff.
Most of all David Bowie , had a serious influence on my music taste forever.

Life was pretty grim with the blackouts , strikes and almost food rationing.
We never had much , but also never much to moan about.
Oh and none of the sicko social media stuff that poisons people's minds.
Not a bad era all in all.

 

[mahermi1]

I have been noticing some well reasoned debate on the forum, discussing exactly how should the 1970s be remembered.
Was this a magical decade full of exotic tinned food and cheeky hooligan football fans or should this be remembered as the decade that invented working class Tories and chronic acne?

Thought it was the 80's that invented working class Tories myself, right to buy Council houses, yuppies, greed is good society..

 

[mahermi1]

Air wear boots, Crombies, two tone parallels, leather trench coats, penny rounds, como brogues, Glam rock, disco, Morecambe an Wise, Steptoe and Son, Porridge, Slade, Bowie, Queen, workers rights, probably the best Everton team and waiting for the Alpine wagon every Saturday afternoon.

 

[Tommy Chong]

Ok, thanks for all your feedback but I was right. Crap decade

It's the decade were cocaine made a came back in a very big way, wasn't it?

Studio 54... On the disco dance floor and everybody trying reach a state of complete cocaine fueled euphoria?

It's the decade that made Pablo Escobar one of the wealthiest criminals in the world.

 

[coollino]

Another mystery solved via the power of forum debate. Looking forward to the next instalment.

Unfortunately evidence of the 'eagles' being good also shows that many members alive or born during that period now suffer from brain damage

 

[verreauxi]

Worth a look. (USA focused, mostly)

https://www.cnn.com/2015/05/21/world/gallery/70-historic-moments-from-the-1970s/index.html

 

[verreauxi]

Hustler
High Society
Cheri
Chic
Gallery

 

[verreauxi]

Unfortunately evidence of the 'eagles' being good also shows that many members alive or born during that period now suffer from brain damage

Eagles suck the ball sack, but I would put up Maggot Brain against any album in any decade.

 

[Tommy Chong]

Worth a look. (USA focused, mostly)

https://www.cnn.com/2015/05/21/world/gallery/70-historic-moments-from-the-1970s/index.html

'I am not a crook!' Ahhhhh, the good old days when if the president is a slimy two-faced cretin, he gets held accountable for it and resigns in shame...

AND not getting a chance at running for a second term after been voted out of office, inciting a riot, multiple indictments and charges of fraud, and so forth...

 

[verreauxi]

'I am not a crook!' Ahhhhh, the good old days when if the president is a slimy two-faced cretin, he gets held accountable for it and resigns in shame...

AND not getting a chance at running for a second term after been voted out of voice, inciting a riot, multiple indictments and charges of fraud, and so forth...

So true! So sad how things have changed for the worse.

 

[Littlesue]

Thought it was the 80's that invented working class Tories myself, right to buy Council houses, yuppies, greed is good society..

Don't forget The Champagne Socialists too, the decade of the luvvies.

 

[Yarrgh]

I'm just making some pizza dough mate so I'll be back in a min (I'd be hanged for that back then)

Enjoy!

 

[Alanbileysfeathercut]

CITB...
Bring it back.