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The 70's
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Cheddar George
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I remember getting the first continental quilt in our house. That was definatly the start of not wanting to get up in the winter.
Far too snug
My parents had the first one in our house, unfortunately they vastly underestimated the tog rating system and had to take it back the next saturday to exchange for a lighter one.
captain nemo1701
Space cadet. Deck 42 Main Engineering.
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Yes, so did I and I get cheesed off when the arty-farty types go on telly and claim it was the decade that taste forgot. As the recent TV series on C4 showed (it was on last Saturday night), it's easy to look back through today's lens and judge the past, especially fashion. We often forget that society evolves all the time so in 30 -40 years from now, someone will be looking back at now and harshly criticising it.
That being said, I had a great childhood in the 70's: Long hot summers (1976 anyone?), hardly any cars around on my bike
, great telly - Tom Baker as Dr Who, Porridge, Dads Army. Morecambe & Wise etc. Great movies, Jaws, Star Wars. Great music - Pink Floyd released DSOTM. Yes, punk happened, but by the end of the decade it had fizzled out and Floyd had a massive hit with Another Brick in the Wall.
gbb
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Watched that, excellent stuff.I was 10 years old in 1970 so those were my Formative years
Is the OP talking about "Cradle to Grave" set in 1973 and is a take on Danny Bakers book "Goiong to Sea in a Seive" ? If so it was funnfy for someone like me who lived the times
Shaun
Dayvo
just passin' through
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I'm 55 and remember the 70s very well (although I preferred the 80s).
Liked the clothes: Levis sta prest trousers, tonic trousers, Harrrington jackets, DMs, brouges, Ben Shermans, but hated loons, flares, bell-bottoms, jumbo collars, budgie jackets, tank tops etc. The hair styles, though, were terrible.
Music tastes started with Slade (their music is still good today) then developed into Genesis (with Peter Gabriel) then Pink Floyd, Supertramp, Yes, Mike Oldfield, King Crimson, ELP, Bob Marley....
Had my first Indian at the age of 13 (a vindaloo
) and have loved Indian food ever since. Fell in love with downhill skiing, and didn't achieve the O and A-level results expected of me due to Siddhartha and Jonathan Livingstone Seagull.
A lot of the TV programmes have already been mentioned above, but my favourite was Alias Smith and Jones. Plus any cricket matches shown on BBC at the time.
1976 convinced me that holidays were better than studying/work and I still hold that view very strongly.
And then the 70s moved into the 80s and I moved into my 20s...
Liked the clothes: Levis sta prest trousers, tonic trousers, Harrrington jackets, DMs, brouges, Ben Shermans, but hated loons, flares, bell-bottoms, jumbo collars, budgie jackets, tank tops etc. The hair styles, though, were terrible.
Music tastes started with Slade (their music is still good today) then developed into Genesis (with Peter Gabriel) then Pink Floyd, Supertramp, Yes, Mike Oldfield, King Crimson, ELP, Bob Marley....
Had my first Indian at the age of 13 (a vindaloo
) and have loved Indian food ever since. Fell in love with downhill skiing, and didn't achieve the O and A-level results expected of me due to Siddhartha and Jonathan Livingstone Seagull.A lot of the TV programmes have already been mentioned above, but my favourite was Alias Smith and Jones. Plus any cricket matches shown on BBC at the time.
1976 convinced me that holidays were better than studying/work and I still hold that view very strongly.
And then the 70s moved into the 80s and I moved into my 20s...
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cyberknight
As long as I breathe, I attack.
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Ice on the inside of the windows in winterI remember getting the first continental quilt in our house. That was definatly the start of not wanting to get up in the winter.
Far too snug
FrankCrank
Old layabout
...anyone else have those shoes with a compass built into the heel, and them ones with animal footprints underneath? Used to save up my paper round money to get high-waister trousers and Brutus shirts with rounded collars, and of course a leather bomber jacket, and then a real long leather one like Keanu Reeves in the Matrix, and a parka - smelled awful when raining and wet........
Mireystock
SIip-slidin' down Big Pig...
Tony Bastable.
(Great name.)
(Great name.)
gbb
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1970s, we lived in dad and mums married quarters, we had steel window frames, single pane of glass. Frosty mornings had you scraping the inside to see out.Ice on the inside of the windows in winter
When the Vulcans took off or did engine run ups at Scampton several miles away...the windows used to shake. That beautiful, all powerfull, low rumble carried for miles
gbb
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Vulcans, Victors, Canberras, Blackburn Buccaneers, the occasional Shackelton, Phantoms, English Electric Lightnings, Hawks, Jaguars, Folland Gnats, Tornados, VC10s, early Hurcules..the skys were interesting back then.
Dayvo
just passin' through
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Yeah, and with Sue Stranks and Mick Robertson, IIRC.
Wasn't as good as Blue Peter, though.
Hill Wimp
Fair weathered,fair minded but easily persuaded.
Magpie now and then
Smokin Joe
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The best time is always the one where you were young, free and single with plenty of spare cash and the seventies were indeed my time. But if we went back there now we'd realise what a miserable and intolerant decade it really was.
Hill Wimp
Fair weathered,fair minded but easily persuaded.
I can still smell the paraffin heater that used to sit at the top of our stairs and i can remember my Dad reading my bedtime stories by candle light during the power strikes.
