Grow up in the 70s?

[mheymann]

My girl friend always tells me she wishes she grew up in the 60s/70s. She thinks the styles, cars, overall lifestyle was so much better then they are now. Does anyone who lived through the 60s/70s agree?

 

[threefiftyfour]

no, the late 40s/50s are much better

 

[Birds Away]

The style in the 70's was grotesque color combinations and plastic. Not a good era for style.

 

[goinggreyfast]

If you remember the 70's you weren't really there.

Honestly, I loved the 60's-70's, but I was a child-teen then and life was a lot more simple.

The music was certainly better! This stuff that is out now sucks! Uncle Ted, Aerosmith, Pink Floyd, BTO, CCR, etc, etc, etc.

BTW, Disco sucks too.

 

[eldirector]

The 70's were horrid! Polyester? Crappy cars (at least after about 73)? Disco?

Yeah, I'm glad I was too young to care during that decade. Of course, the 80's and 90's weren't much better!

For style, I'd say the 50's. For cars, the 60's, and for music, well, I'm a hair band kind of guy.

 

[Ted]

Watergate, Viet Nam, Presidential resignation, The rise of OPEC and gas prices, Patty Hurst, Bank Robberies, Bombings, Hyperinflation, Jimmy Carter, Iran, Hostages, GRID....turned to AIDS, Elvis dead, John Wayne dead, Bing Crosby dead....yeah, a real blast.

50's were grease, 60's were grass, 70's were gross.

 

[HandK]

Yep I grew up in the 60's and 70's it was a great time to grow up! Music, Cars, it was a great time!

 

[Redskinsfan]

I was a teenager in the 70s, people often remember things better than they were. The styles were not better, in fact many of them are repeated now such as the hip hugger jeans.

I do not think the cars were better, they may have looked better but they were inferior in many ways. A car needed to be tuned every 5000 miles and have all the plugs replaced, cars now need new plugs and wires every 100,000 miles. I do not miss doing all those tune ups.

 

[Mosinguy]

I prefer the teens to be exact. 1910-1920-ish. Back then a man could have a handsome waxed moustache and be the coolest cat in town. Also, the Model T cars came in one color, evil assault weapon black, my favorite color.

 

[Ted]

I prefer the teens to be exact. 1910-1920-ish. Back then a man could have a handsome waxed moustache and be the coolest cat in town. Also, the Model T cars came in one color, evil assault weapon black, my favorite color.

The Thompson.....and no NFA.

 

[Myles]

I think the late 40's early 50's would be fun to grow up in. Too much hair in the 70's for me.

 

[BigBrian]

I grew up in the 60s and 70s, Best thing I remember was you could by nice 50s,60s70s cars cheep! I had a 1972 Z28 Camaro and a 1970 Ply Fury Sport coupe. Fury cost me $100 with blown up mtr,replaced it with another383 with 4 bbl. seemed gas was cheaper back then for the time.Bought the Z28 for $1700 in 1977 and it would pull the wheels off the ground! Loved those cars! I remember the oil crisis but it never affected anyone i remember around here. I liked the 60s and 70s, the 80s sucked except for the birth of my son.

 

[kjf40]

The style in the 70's was grotesque color combinations and plastic. Not a good era for style.

Nail on the head right here.... +1

My family photo taken about 1974/1975 shows all my sibs in pinks and purples and butterfly collars.

Not to mention the dutch hair cuts...lol

 

[Colt556]

I grew up in the 60's and 70's and I miss those times. Not so much the products or the styles but more the way of life. You could walk the streets at night and not be afraid of being robbed or murdered. The people seemed friendlier back then. Kids played outside and we walked or rode our bikes everywhere. Later I worked at Steak N Shake and it was just like American Graffiti on Friday and Saturday nights! Hot cars, cold shakes, cute girls and an occasional cold beer. Lots of racing and an occasional fight but no knives or guns being waved around. Often times the guys that fought would be friends by nights end. If you had $10 on Friday you had it made as gas, food and a movie were cheap endeavors. I joined the Navy in 74' and by the time I got home everything had started to change, and not for the better. That area looks like a foreign country now.

 

[sepe]

I like the cars of the 30s-50s and some into the 60s. Music was better in the 20s-50s. Style was better/more simple. The change over from everything going from black and white to color would have really been weird though.

 

[Vladislas]

Born in 1970 did not like them now the 1980's were a great time to live.

 

[Mackey]

Watergate, Viet Nam, Presidential resignation, The rise of OPEC and gas prices, Patty Hurst, Bank Robberies, Bombings, Hyperinflation, Jimmy Carter, Iran, Hostages, GRID....turned to AIDS, Elvis dead, John Wayne dead, Bing Crosby dead....yeah, a real blast.

50's were grease, 60's were grass, 70's were gross.

Yes, this and drugs were a real problem. We moved away from the pot and booze and people started tripping on acid and a lot worse.
Charles Manson had just finished starting his Helter Skelter and people were freaking about how the hippies had turned evil. Lots of cults, lots of nuts ....

It's amazing how we forget.

 

[chocktaw2]

I tried to

 

[Suprtek]

One of the things that stick out to me is the fact that back then as a kid I could take off on a summer morning and spend all day doing who knows what and no one would think anything of it. No phone, no texting, no contact at all. I just had to be home by dinner if I wanted to eat or be home by dark if I didn't want to get in trouble.

Nowadays, if we can't be in constant contact we have to be worried about what may have happened.

 

[Suprtek]

I like the cars of the 30s-50s and some into the 60s. Music was better in the 20s-50s. Style was better/more simple. The change over from everything going from black and white to color would have really been weird though.

Yep! Many of my childhood photos are black and white. I always get to hear all the "old man" comments whenever the kids see them.