The 1970's

[renard_ruse]

I was born in 1970, so I was a little kid in the decade. But I still remember it vividly. It seemed like such a fun, free time. I always wished I had been a decade older and gotten to enjoy the 70s. Not that we didn't have fun in the 80s and 90s but I 've always had fantasies about the 70s. Certainly I have mixed feelings about them just as I did as a child. Disgust for the moral licenciousness but admiration for the desire to live life to the full and experience all it has to offer.

It seemed like an amazing time.

 

[OneFineYoungCannibal]

In the UK the 1970's was when the "permissive society" went into full swing. In Britain the subject of of sex was addressed in a comedic way in sitcoms and comedy films, which were quite sexually charged but in a way that seems quite tame by todays standards.

 

[Fingerfuxs]

I was born in 1960

We had joy , we had fun
We had seasons in the

But the wine and the song
like the seasons
There all gone

Vietnam is what I remember , protesters , government haters , veterans
disrespected. But it wasn’t on the internet. It was in print in the daily newspaper and on the evening news. Every friggin day , like a social media newsfeed is today. With the exception of veterans .Today vets are actually valued and not called baby killers. The media actually fucked up that part of the 70’s. POW’s where a real friggin thing, not just a flag to fly on Memorial Day. My Pop ‘s was a career soldier. The up side to that and the 70’s was I lived at a lot of different air bases as a kid. Spent the summer of 1969 in England. So that part was cool.

I spent the last part of the 70’s into the 80’s in Germany.

 

[oneblueye]

hey ...

I was born in 1970, so I was a little kid in the decade. But I still remember it vividly. It seemed like such a fun, free time. I always wished I had been a decade older and gotten to enjoy the 70s. Not that we didn't have fun in the 80s and 90s but I 've always had fantasies about the 70s. Certainly I have mixed feelings about them just as I did as a child. Disgust for the moral licenciousness but admiration for the desire to live life to the full and experience all it has to offer.

It seemed like an amazing time.

To me there was only a few memorable things about the 70's...the smell of marijuana every where you went, the smell of sex in the city parks and the sound of guitars fueling the rioting in the streets.

 

[FGB]

Well .

I lived through them once... but Mother Fucker it took a toll on me!

The Drugs , The Alcohol, the Sex...the Stress.

It was a happening time.

It had it's down side. It was a struggle like the middle to late sixties. The society really was trying to force people to conform and wasn't above using force either...and NOT just the Government .

I learned several things.

NOTHING IS FREE. Anything "Free" Usually has a hidden price tag you don't want. Words are often used as camouflage to excuse wrong doing and excuse selfishness...and for political gain.

If it sounds really good you are fixing to get royally anally invaded.

Friends that do things that are against you best interest in the name of friendship are not your Friend.

https://video.search.yahoo.com/sear...=3d1a76bd4551e42923b6b091176f2722&action=view

 

[Wrong Element]

I was born in 1970, so I was a little kid in the decade. But I still remember it vividly. It seemed like such a fun, free time. I always wished I had been a decade older and gotten to enjoy the 70s. Not that we didn't have fun in the 80s and 90s but I 've always had fantasies about the 70s. Certainly I have mixed feelings about them just as I did as a child. Disgust for the moral licenciousness but admiration for the desire to live life to the full and experience all it has to offer.

It seemed like an amazing time.

Everything seems amazing when you're a kid. But despite some real positives (the second wave of feminism, the environmental movement, sex that was not just guilt-free but mostly disease-free, Aerosmith before they sucked), the '70s were objectively not The Good Old Days.

 

[BrokenBarbie]

I was three when the 70’s ended.

The 90’s were a blast, though!

 

[Fingerfuxs]

The wonder years and that 70’s show packaged it up pretty well , for those that are interested in binge watching it instead of reading the thread

 

[LLCox]

I lived in San Francisco from 1970 through 74. I have so many stories I do not even know where to start.

We were all... "On The Road" (Jack Kerouac)

Bottom line... "Far out man."

 

[thør]

I lived in San Francisco from 1970 through 74. I have so many stories I do not even know where to start.

We were all... "On The Road" (Jack Kerouac)

Bottom line... "Far out man."

I went to school across the bay in 77-78. It was a fun time.

 

[RunningJib]

Well

I have to agree with FGB.

Beginning in the mid '60s, everything was changing. Civil rights and riots. The English invasion had ended, but rock and roll (influenced with drugs and "free love") had begun. Viet Nam war was in full swing as well as the anti war efforts. Women's rights had begin (if you opened a door for a young lady, she'd yell at you and tell you that she was capable of opening her own door.)

Oh yes, Richard Nixon was president and suddenly we weren't terribly certain we had a government that was failing.

 

[Saint_Ann]

If you remember the 70's, you did it wrong.

 

[KeithD]

I was living in Bangkok, Thailand, through much of the 1970s. Flat out sexually open.

 

[LLCox]

I went to school across the bay in 77-78. It was a fun time.

You went to Berkley? the hotbed of the anti war movement. There was a Yuge Gay Day parade in San Fran. and I went to check it out one year. It was almost like the Macy's Day parade... Hilarious... A group of gays from Berkley looking more like a dirty mob march with a stained bed sheet in front that said, Berkley Faggots. Every day was a party. I finally had to leave Cali. to keep from turning crispy.

 

[sandybrooke]

Grand father of 4

Born in 56, my mind was formed in the crazy 60's & 70's. Everything was changing like it always will!
Left home at 16 and worked my way up and the west coast.
Smoke weed with my "kids" and have great stories to tell.