What did you like most or disliked about the 70's (if you lived in it).?

Question

don't answer if you didn't since that doesn't help me. i'm researching the 70's for a script i'm writing.

Answer 1

Ok, this is going to sound stupid but the color brown.  I was about ten in the mid 70's and so many of my clothes were brown.  The fake leather in the cars was brown.  The shag rug at our house was brown.  Even the phone was brown.  I remember that awful shade of brown.

Answer 2

I loved but now hate the tube socks up to the knee with pro NFL colors.

Metal rollerskates that you had to put your shoe in and had the s***w that would come loose.

Everything polyester.

Teen Beat magazine.

I still love the rock n roll.

I miss drive in movies

Answer 3

hated disco music and the stupid polyester shirts and pants with their weird colors and patterns, but, most of all, the leisure suit!! ugh! gag me with a spoon!

Answer 4

Things i loved:

7Os disco music,

Bay city rollers,

platform shoes

flares

noddy holder

Afro hair

T.I.S.W.A.S

Things i hated:

kipper ties (ask your dad if your from the UK)

the mullet

footballers shorts

Saturday swop shop

crackerjack

I was aged between 7-17, probably the best and easiest  times of my life.

Answer 5

I loved being a kid.  My friends and I would ride to the store, go all over town and just had to be home by dark.  The times were a lot simpler and safer.

likes: rock music, roller skating, learning to drive, using my dad's C.B. radio, the movie Grease (saw it 5 times the week it came out)

dislikes:  being "the remote" for my dad and older brother ( I had to change the channel), disco (but I like it now)

Answer 6

Liked: Rock Concerts & finding obscure (but good) music.

Disliked: Disco & all the creepy fashion that came with it.

Answer 7

What I liked...long hair, bell bottoms, leather jackets with fringe, army jackets, the peace sign, Jimmy Carter as president, plaid pants, moon shoes, tie-dyed shirts (back in the day when you made them yourself), candles in Chianti bottles with wax dripped all down the side, neon posters and black lights, the Brady Bunch, rock and folk music - James Taylor, Joan Baez, Three Dog Night, CCR, etc., gas prices, cars (Volkswagen bus, VW beetle, the THING, mustangs, etc.), man there was a lot to like about that time as a teenager and graduating from HS...going off to college, could drink beer at 18, etc.

What I didn't like...how women and minorities were treated - still, the war in Vietnam (although it was over early in the 70's - it was still there), Richard Nixon, lots of things about HS - but things aren't much different for students today - but back then, we didn't worry much about guns at school - although someone did set a tear gas bomb off one day, most of the stuff I didn't like centered around politics and religion...some things never change.

Hope this helps.

Answer 8

I graduated high school in 1972, so my answers will be a bit different than folks who were kids then.

It was "the Me Decade" and I despised that aspect of it. The beginning years of the 70's we were still mired in Vietnam. I was in the last draft lottery of that era. Still remember what number I pulled. Those were also the last years of the Nixon administration, ending in the Watergate scandal. There were wage and price controls, and the first gas crisis.The last thing I should mention as a dislike is most disco.

What did I like? There was also good music. Many companies, institutions, open space and such that I now miss were still around. Environmental awareness continued to rise, as did women's rights.



I think the dislikes outweigh the likes, because many of what I enjoyed in that decade had to do with me coming of age as an adult, and had nothing to do with what year it was.

I hope this helps...

   --Mike

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Answer 9

i hated my corduroy bell bottoms, oh yeah, i hated changing the channels for my old man

Answer 10

most, you could take your kids to a bar, no seat belt laws,  watching weekly made for tv movies with my dad like Marco Polo, and the story of Jesus, girls wearing a red or blue hankie, folded into a triangle tied around their head.

least, disco, standing in from of the tv changing channels by turning a large dial, phones with long tangled cords, running into the house to answer the phone before they hang up (no answering machines), dirty hippies.

Answer 11

I loved the music. It was a much simpler time. I hated the war. I lost friends in Vietnam and my Dad was wounded.