I didn't vote for him, I saw through his BS right from the start. Unfortunately, many of my contemporaries bought the BS, and we are still paying for it.
When Reagan won the election my friends and I half-seriously joked about leaving the country. Little did we know what was in store for us 36 years later.
One of my fondest memories is going to Peaches record store in Seattle’s University District with my dad on a biweekly basis. We’d spend so much time there. Loved it. 😊
You can thank sellouts and Clearstation for their demise. I was a DJ at a station in 1988 turning records, talking live, playing local bands tapes, absolutely having fun and enjoying my job. Then one night, an executive (from LA with a nose full of coke) came in, and that was it...literally. It went to a satellite feed and became a robot station with zero staff, everyone let go. Sad.
That’s a big one… I view things now as it’s like the old adage “Give someone enough rope and they’ll hang themselves” things just keep getting worse all the time…I’m not a doom and gloom person but it’s not looking to bright from here…
Lack of a voluntary tracker and connection on every human 24/7.
Mobile phones and wifi cost us the entire 70s vibe.
I'd take that slower paced lifestyle back in a heartbeat.
And I'm no luddite.
Having to find a phone or use a library wasn't a hardship.
Just that feeling that life was good. Especially after the end of the Vietnam war. Equal rights, disco days, COL more in line with wages, etc. I was lucky to be in my 20’s during the era. Good times.
My first apartment. Two bedroom duplex, fridge full of Oly, my stoner buddies coming and going, Yamaha stereo that never shut off EXCEPT when Saturday Night Live came on. A place to get up or party down, get high or lay low, but mostly it was a sanctuary. All for $80 per month!
Sense of hope, tolerance, acceptance. It wasn't an ideal time at all BUT IT SURE BEATS THE HELL OUT OF HOW WE ARE NOW!!! For God's sake people, we used to have STREAKERS and every one LAUGHED!!! We take ourselves WAAAAAY too seriously now.
Pubic hair, and funky fashionwear. Groovy baby. The 60s blended with early to mid 70s.
When the 80s hit, the magic was gone. Pubes became unfashionable, as did this ornate enchanting patchwork dress, featuring dramatic bell sleeves.
Intriguing artistic colorful outfits and jewelry, which for me made women flow and glow like mystical deities,
tbh, women lost their good taste, along with allure, charm and sex appeal, in the 70s. 80s was all black leather punk crap.
It's all been downhill since. Trashier by the decade. Uglier by the hour.
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White dog shit.
You didn't have to pick up dog poop back then.
It would dry, turn into a white chalk like substance, and eventually blow away with the wind.
Decent wages with better raises. We used to get a dollar or more an hour raise. Thats a rare thing in most companies today. Today if you get a quarter an hour you did good.
A strong middle class and a larger percentage of people being able to find affordable housing
My oddly specific wants to bring back from the 70s
* My dad in his prime
* Ebinger's Black Out Cake - (if you know, you know)
* Well-written sitcoms
* 25-cent baseball card packs and day-time baseball
* Walter Payton, Tony Esposito, Wilt Chamberlain, and Roberto Clemente
* Mr. Rogers
* Record stores
All those killed in the crash of American Airlines Flight 191 at O’Hare on 5/25/79 due to corporate greed and stockholder subservience to maximize profit.
Horribly unnecessary deaths.
If it were possible, I would bring back my father, who was 38 years old when he died on August 28, 1976. I was 6 years old, and unfortunately, my brother and sister have no memories of him at all.
The music scene. Seeing great bands at small clubs like CBGB or Max's or Toad's Place for $10 or less. Always someone new and interesting and an interesting, friendly audience. Also, cheap, delicious restaurants where you could get a great meal for $5. And cheap rent you could afford with a part time job.
Sanity in the world. Or a reasonable facsimile thereof! If I can't have that, I'll take my old banana seat bike with the ape hanger handle bars. That thing was cool.
A real and thriving middle class.
Unions. This is what made a thriving middle class.
And full pensions.
Right on, Sister!!
Say the people who voted for Reagan in a landslide...
I didn't vote for him, I saw through his BS right from the start. Unfortunately, many of my contemporaries bought the BS, and we are still paying for it.
Those people probably aren’t here. Carter being voted out was my first political heartbreak.
Yes we are. A lot of us voted for the very first time in 1980!
When Reagan won the election my friends and I half-seriously joked about leaving the country. Little did we know what was in store for us 36 years later.
My Mom and Dad 🥲
College tuition prices
Yes indeed. That was my first thought as well.
My exact thought
Summer vacation, about 73,74, not a care in the world for 3 months except what to do when I wake up, and come home at dark.......
Home before the street lights came on
Record stores
So comforting strolling through the vinyl A to Z to see what they had.
One of my fondest memories is going to Peaches record store in Seattle’s University District with my dad on a biweekly basis. We’d spend so much time there. Loved it. 😊
Yes! I live in the area that Tower Records sprung from. The best chain of stores ever!!!!
Radio stations with real DJs, playing local bands and new music, not just the programmed top 40.
You can thank sellouts and Clearstation for their demise. I was a DJ at a station in 1988 turning records, talking live, playing local bands tapes, absolutely having fun and enjoying my job. Then one night, an executive (from LA with a nose full of coke) came in, and that was it...literally. It went to a satellite feed and became a robot station with zero staff, everyone let go. Sad.
I was forced to listen to that format by a San Francisco station back in 82
My youth
Free range childhood
This.
Classic rock
Just good music. It’s rare these days with the plastic, empty, computerized garbage out there today.
Led Zeppelin
First concert.
Charles Nelson Reilly
You got that right, Gene!
Brilliant
Just three reliable news sources that reported accurately so we all can base or opinions on facts.
As well as "morning" and "evening editions of newspapers!
Hope for the future.
That’s a big one… I view things now as it’s like the old adage “Give someone enough rope and they’ll hang themselves” things just keep getting worse all the time…I’m not a doom and gloom person but it’s not looking to bright from here…
Lack of a voluntary tracker and connection on every human 24/7. Mobile phones and wifi cost us the entire 70s vibe. I'd take that slower paced lifestyle back in a heartbeat. And I'm no luddite. Having to find a phone or use a library wasn't a hardship.
My figure.
Same
My hair
A gray one fell out the other day. I had mixed emotions.
Thai sticks
The smaller wealth gap
Saturday morning cartoons !
Whacky Packs
Score!
Boredom. Let's all go do something, anything, because there's nothing on TV.
Playing board games!
My wife and I played battleship a few weeks ago. Clue is next. I’m working on an MBA rn so not a lot of fun time.
Evel Knievel
Prices
National Lampoon magazine, colorful interiors in cars, and variety shows (Carol Burnette, Sonny and Cher, Johnny Cash, etc).
Hee—Haw!
My Dad loved that show mostly for Roy Clark’s guitar work, but I am certain the hot women were an appreciated bonus.
Barbi Benton
How to play your guitar. Get your wing wang squeezed and not spill your drink.
Hey, thanks everyone, this has been a fun exercise. No two answers alike.
My Beloved Grandparents!!
Housing cost.
Just that feeling that life was good. Especially after the end of the Vietnam war. Equal rights, disco days, COL more in line with wages, etc. I was lucky to be in my 20’s during the era. Good times.
My knees.
Prices, especially of gas & groceries. Oh & Michael Jackson's original nose.
“ Oh baby give me one more chance…”
…just his *nose?!*
Yeah but, just the nose..!! Nothing else..
Don't forget his skin color, I grow up, and being obsessed with the Jackson 5
Christmas morning as a 6 year old.
Bralessness
Underneath a crocheted top..
Jean shorts & halter tops... man we had it good!
... that's come back, at least in my area
Tube tops and sundresses are making a comeback too!
A Marathon bar.
Marathon bar was bomb! Reggie bar was pretty good too.
The Music Industry
My first apartment. Two bedroom duplex, fridge full of Oly, my stoner buddies coming and going, Yamaha stereo that never shut off EXCEPT when Saturday Night Live came on. A place to get up or party down, get high or lay low, but mostly it was a sanctuary. All for $80 per month!
Kindness
Black gum hash
My comic book and Topps Card Collection 😮💨
My mom got tired of my brother’s card collection laying around, so she threw it in the trash 🚮 😑
my teeth
Blizzard's of 77 and 78 riding snowmobiles everywhere
My figure.
The music
The bush
Real Lynard Skynard
1970’s neighbors. Lots of friendly socializing and occasional block parties, it was cool.
Shares in Apple
An enchirito.
My body
Peak prog rock
John Henry Bonham
Affordable rent.
Real Coca-Cola with sugar in 10oz soda lime glass bottles!
Magazines. Rolling Stone, Mad, and National Lampoon. Look, National Geographic, Reader’s Digest
I miss MAD.
Free range summers with my cousins out in the boonies. Being dropped off at the pool for the day with 25 cents for a coke and a pack of crackers.
Common sense and free thinking. We are now a society of gullible sheep.
Housing prices.
The food. It’s shit today.
The love!
leisure suits
My youth
My Innocence
My Grandpa. He died 5/15/75.
Mine died in 1977. ☹️
Green car interiors, and I don't mean ecological ones either.
Led Zeppelin
Innocence
John Bonham
Hunter S. Thompson.
My 1970 VW Beetle…
The music, cheap concerts, records, running around free from morning until night, cool cars, good living, my mom and dad and my good health.
Manners!
Smoking sections.
Qualudes.
A pet rock.
My creek
3 of my cars
Prices
My positivity.
Marathon candy bars.
Were these the caramel chocolate bars that looked like they were braided and ridiculously big?
Yes! Loved them.
Roll down windows
My Mustang.
The music!
puka shell necklaces.
My Big Wheel.
Yard Darts!
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Keynesian economics. Anti-trust laws, corporate tax rates, the fairness doctrine, and every other policy that made for a thriving middle class.
Cars the average person could repair.
Electronic football 😎😎😎 Mattel Classic Electronic Football Handheld https://a.co/d/gjJTNqS
Real baseball.
My 60 Buick LeSabre with LED ZEPP plates.
My Youth.
L😀S😃D😁
Summers off.
My weight
Evil Knievel
Being healthy. Not having Crohn's disease And being able to eat whatever I want again.
Fur burgers
A little pubic hair.
Everything. Such a great time to be a kid! I was born in 70 so I got the entire decade to love. My family was intact….
Upbeat disco music— not discos and not the dancing—the joyful energy of disco, Donna Summer ruled.
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Karen Carpenter
The Gong Show, the original one.
Banana seats on bikes with shocks
Sense of hope, tolerance, acceptance. It wasn't an ideal time at all BUT IT SURE BEATS THE HELL OUT OF HOW WE ARE NOW!!! For God's sake people, we used to have STREAKERS and every one LAUGHED!!! We take ourselves WAAAAAY too seriously now.
Riding in the back of a pickup truck on the way to a concert that that cost me 18 bucks
The Eagles, Soupy Sales, Burt Reynolds, Georgia Championship Wrestling, my dad.
Hot pants
Pubic hair, and funky fashionwear. Groovy baby. The 60s blended with early to mid 70s. When the 80s hit, the magic was gone. Pubes became unfashionable, as did this ornate enchanting patchwork dress, featuring dramatic bell sleeves. Intriguing artistic colorful outfits and jewelry, which for me made women flow and glow like mystical deities, tbh, women lost their good taste, along with allure, charm and sex appeal, in the 70s. 80s was all black leather punk crap. It's all been downhill since. Trashier by the decade. Uglier by the hour. https://preview.redd.it/q1g89hqhc0qc1.jpeg?width=600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8d1748cf25a11c3a5170dfba6a36ecd54b5866f3
Erections.
Bush
Hopefully you mean the hirsute variety and not politicians.
Elvis
Pup n taco
The 70s
Marathon bars
My youth
The "good time's vibe!
Gas prices
My hair
White dog shit. You didn't have to pick up dog poop back then. It would dry, turn into a white chalk like substance, and eventually blow away with the wind.
The Groovy Ghoulies
Quaaludes Rorer 714
My youth....
Thai stick.
Some family members no longer here.
Young Black women wearing their natural hair.
the price of gas....
Decent wages with better raises. We used to get a dollar or more an hour raise. Thats a rare thing in most companies today. Today if you get a quarter an hour you did good.
Roller rinks
A strong middle class and a larger percentage of people being able to find affordable housing My oddly specific wants to bring back from the 70s * My dad in his prime * Ebinger's Black Out Cake - (if you know, you know) * Well-written sitcoms * 25-cent baseball card packs and day-time baseball * Walter Payton, Tony Esposito, Wilt Chamberlain, and Roberto Clemente * Mr. Rogers * Record stores
Dave's Corner, Canal St & Broadway NYC 24 hour Hotdogs & Egg creams .🥸👏
All those killed in the crash of American Airlines Flight 191 at O’Hare on 5/25/79 due to corporate greed and stockholder subservience to maximize profit. Horribly unnecessary deaths.
American Bandstand
The 71% top tax bracket.
If it were possible, I would bring back my father, who was 38 years old when he died on August 28, 1976. I was 6 years old, and unfortunately, my brother and sister have no memories of him at all.
The music, and the middle class.
No social media
Saturday night keggers in the woods by a lake.
Sanford and Son
no internet
My road master bike! Although, I doubt I'd fit on it now. Lol
Giant playground equipment that wasn't exactly safe for kids.
Bell bottoms & Huk-A-Poos.
Reagan so he wouldn't be around to take office in 1981
A dark night sky not corrupted by light pollution. Great music. That easy-going, Laissez-faire zeitgeist.
BUSH
The music scene. Seeing great bands at small clubs like CBGB or Max's or Toad's Place for $10 or less. Always someone new and interesting and an interesting, friendly audience. Also, cheap, delicious restaurants where you could get a great meal for $5. And cheap rent you could afford with a part time job.
The Music
Muscle cars. That would include the used ones from the 60’s.
John Lennon
Sanity in the world. Or a reasonable facsimile thereof! If I can't have that, I'll take my old banana seat bike with the ape hanger handle bars. That thing was cool.