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“Remember when you listened to songs like these.”
Brand New Key / Melanie
Brown Sugar / Rolling Stones
For All We Know / The Carpentars
Got To Be There / The Jackson Five
Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves / Cher
How Can You Mend A Broken Heart / Al Green
Me and Bobby McGee / Janis Joplin
You’re No Good / Linda Ronstadt
Knock Three Times / Tony Orlando & Dawn
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THINGS THAT HAPPENED IN THE 70’S
Patty Hearst joins in bank raid
Barbara Walters becomes most highly paid woman on TV
Elvis Presley dies
Hank Aaron breaks Babe Ruth’s home-run record
STAR WARS out on the big screen.
The world’s first mass suicide of religious cult members
Electrical blackout in New York City
Apollo 14 blasted off for the moon
Two Apollo 14 astronauts walked on the moon
Mariner 9 launched for journey to Mars
Skateboard invented
Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida opened the Magic Kingdom
Lyndon B. Johnson dies
Muhammad Ali regains heavyweight boxing title
Richard M. Nixon, President
Spiro T Agnew, Vice President
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70’S FADS
Pet Rocks were big in the 70’s. They would come in little boxes with piece of straw in the bottom.
“Earth Day” was a popular fad also. This was celebrated on April 22. It was a day when people did such things as wear gas masks to demonstrate their concern about pollution and the wish they had a cleaner earth.
Mood Rings, Lava Lamps, Sea Monkeys, Smiley faces,
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The art of Telephone Booth Stuffing was one of the most well known fads of all time.
Several college students would squeeze themselves into a phone booth, one after another, until no one else could fit. The more people who could fit in, the better, the record was set at twenty-five.
Toga Parties were short lived.
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70’S Fashions
Jogging suits – with an increase in people who like to jog in the 70’s.The jogging suit was invented, go figure.
Bellbottoms-trousers that flared out from the knee, and covered shoes.
Blakies- metal sole protection that you fixed on the heel of your shoes, mostly to make as much noise as possible.
Espadrilles- Canvas wedge shoes/sandals with long ties to criss-cross up the leg.
Halter Necks-lovely little backless tops for the girls, which tied up around the neck and midriff.
Platforms- were chunky shoes with dangerously high heels and mega thick soles.
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Entertainment
With 72,900,000 households having TV’s, our entertainment was shows like; “All in the Family”, “Starsky and Hutch”, “HR Puff n Stuff”, “Sanford and Son”, “Laverne & Shirley”, “Happy Days”, “60 minutes”, M*A*S*H”, “The Love Boat”, “The Incredible Hulk”, “Welcome Back, Kotter.
There were many different styles of music in this decade. Disco dancing became popular
with the release of the movie “Saturday Night Fever”. Also, heavy metal rock music was born. A popular heavy metal band was Led Zeppelin; David Bowie was another heavy metal rocker. In the late 70’s was “Punk Rock”
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Movies we watched were “Coming Home”, “The Deer Hunter”, “The Goodbye Girl”, “You Light Up My Life”, “Rocky”, “A Star Is Born”, “JAWS”,
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70’S Toys
Pet Rocks, Crossfire, Battling Tops, Choppers (Bikes), Slinky’s,
Klackers-Do you remember all the bruises on your arms?
Spirographs, The Batmobile, Etch-a-sketch, Hot wheels, PONG,
Simon, Rock em Sock em robots, Baby Alive Doll, Rubiks Cube, Hacky Sack
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Remember prices like:
1970 gallon of gas was 36 cents and by 1979 was 86 cents.
1970 a new house $23,400.00 and by 1979 was 58,500.00
1970 average income per year $9,350.00 and by 1979 was $17,550.00
1970 average cost of new car $3,900.00 and by 1979 was $5,770.00
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A special thank you to Dottie ODriscoll Wear for her research. She did all of this and I uploaded it. Again.. She wins the Spirit Award for this month! Linda
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Other prices
Car 8 Track Stereo Tape Player $38.99
CB Radio $147
Eggs/dozen .58 cent
Miracle Whip $1.09
King Size Bean Bag Chair $19.99
Porcelain Kitchen Sink $9.88
Flour/5 lbs.….60 cent
Milk/half gal….67 cent
Pair of Pants $13.49
Shotgun $135.00
Loaf Bread .24 cent
1 ct. Diamond Ring $1,000.00
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