Let's talk about the non- pop culture pop culture enjoyed by Real Amurricans in the '70s.

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Following from the couple of disco threads over on ILM.

What this thread is about: inspirational music ("You Light Up My Life"), patriotic movies, strongly "American" movies, the sort of mass-market paperbacks that sell in the millions but have titles and authors you've never really heard of, the sort of mass-market paperbacks that end up at the Goodwill five years later.

― jody von bulow (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 18:45 (twenty years ago)

the 70s seemed like such a massive decade for this sort of stuff!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 18:47 (twenty years ago)

Now you've made me think of Jonathan Livingston Seagull.

Born to Run, invoked & dismissed.

― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 18:48 (twenty years ago)

http://adorocinema.cidadeinternet.com.br/filmes/rocky-2/rocky-2-05.jpg

HI DERE

― absolutego (ex machina), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 18:48 (twenty years ago)

those things you list were pop culture though. what would be non pop?

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 18:48 (twenty years ago)

(First Blood came out in 1982 Rocky 2 was 1979.)

― absolutego (ex machina), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 18:49 (twenty years ago)

oh, I misread the thread! Sorry

― absolutego (ex machina), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 18:49 (twenty years ago)

pop culture = kid stuff, hipster stuff.

― jody von bulow (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 18:49 (twenty years ago)

Trying to think of anything from the seventies that isn't considered "pop culture" is kinda hard.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 18:50 (twenty years ago)

"the non- pop culture pop culture enjoyed"

i'm having trouble wrapping my head around this for some reason.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 18:50 (twenty years ago)

pop culture also = obviously "urbane" things.

― jody von bulow (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 18:50 (twenty years ago)

Harold Robbins?? Oh, I thought you said Harold Robinson, really dreadful stuff.

― Basil Fawlty (nickn), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 18:51 (twenty years ago)

Is this a thread about Charles Bronson?

― Dude, are you a 15 year old asian chick? (jingleberries), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 18:51 (twenty years ago)

Eric!

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 18:52 (twenty years ago)

http://www.adclassix.com/images/78toyotacorolla.jpg ?

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 18:52 (twenty years ago)

So... jody, are you asking for stuff that's not kitschy, but just plain crappy?

― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 18:52 (twenty years ago)

what i'm asking is -- all those midwesterners in their 30s-50s who weren't into hard rock or disco or funk, who didn't watch wkrp or smoke pot, people who went to church and worked on farms and stuff -- what was THEIR '70s pop culture?

― jody von bulow (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 18:52 (twenty years ago)

i was gonna say jonathan livingston seagull too! what is UP with that book? what's it about?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 18:53 (twenty years ago)

Sunshine!

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 18:53 (twenty years ago)

let's not use the word "kitschy"

― jody von bulow (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 18:53 (twenty years ago)

Lawrence Welk

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 18:53 (twenty years ago)

Dude that Corolla was my dad's first car!

― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 18:53 (twenty years ago)

Looking Out For #1!

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 18:53 (twenty years ago)

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 18:54 (twenty years ago)

knitting

― The Sensational Sulk (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 18:54 (twenty years ago)

non- pop culture pop culture ?= mundane things everyone did/had?

Plymouth Duster?

― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 18:54 (twenty years ago)

seriously, it has to be Welk

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 18:54 (twenty years ago)

Linda Goodman's Sun Signs!

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 18:54 (twenty years ago)

so massive they still rerun his show years after his death

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 18:54 (twenty years ago)

macrame!

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 18:55 (twenty years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000059TEQ.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 18:55 (twenty years ago)

http://tulsatvmemories.com/imag1999/heehaw.jpg
http://www.nostalgiacentral.com/images_tv/heehaw_00.jpg ?

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 18:55 (twenty years ago)

I Never Promised You A Rose Garden!

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 18:56 (twenty years ago)

love story! now we're talkin'.

― jody von bulow (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 18:56 (twenty years ago)

Insight!

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 18:56 (twenty years ago)

may be missing the point of the thread here but...

the last few seasons of M*A*S*H when it shed its irreverant, surprisingly counter-cultural (for network television, anyway) tone and got all preachy and boring

― Will(iam), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 18:57 (twenty years ago)

the scarsdale diet?

― jody von bulow (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 18:57 (twenty years ago)

http://www.theconnection.org/photogallery/sex/images/1.jpg

― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 18:58 (twenty years ago)

those '70s disney live-action movies?

― jody von bulow (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 18:58 (twenty years ago)

"Run Joey Run"!

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 18:58 (twenty years ago)

ewwww joy of sex ewwww

― jody von bulow (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 18:58 (twenty years ago)

http://www.brownsbook.com/pics/60browncollier.jpg

http://www.jimmccrary.com/pages/page75/images/paul.jpg

― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 18:59 (twenty years ago)

ewwww joy of sex ewwww

I know. But everyone had a copy!

― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 19:00 (twenty years ago)

oh my god yes paul williams!

― jody von bulow (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 19:00 (twenty years ago)

where is rosemary. she will pwn this thread when she finds it.

― jody von bulow (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 19:01 (twenty years ago)

alex comfort truly brought comfort to the homes of many americans. and extreme discomfort to those people's children when they discovered the book.

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 19:01 (twenty years ago)

http://www.bloomsburymagazine.com/Images/Books/Batch1/0749396059.JPG

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 19:02 (twenty years ago)

those '70s disney live-action movies?

http://www.ultimatedisney.com/images/apple1.jpg

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 19:02 (twenty years ago)

most of these are pop culture

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 19:02 (twenty years ago)

http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/images/BB/juice-shirt.JPG

― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 19:03 (twenty years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000065814.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 19:04 (twenty years ago)

scott seward and jocelyn understand what i'm gettin' at.

― jody von bulow (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 19:05 (twenty years ago)

CB Radio?

― absolutego (ex machina), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 19:05 (twenty years ago)

I'm Ok, You're Ok

― Will(iam), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 19:06 (twenty years ago)

CB Radio?

as an entity, yes. as a fad, no.

― jody von bulow (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 19:07 (twenty years ago)

up with people

― jody von bulow (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 19:07 (twenty years ago)

The Other Side Of The Mountain!

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 19:09 (twenty years ago)

i'm going to put on my up with people cast album right now!

― jody von bulow (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 19:09 (twenty years ago)

Sweet Hostage!

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 19:09 (twenty years ago)

Apple's Way!

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 19:10 (twenty years ago)

The Feather & Father Gang!

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 19:11 (twenty years ago)

isn't love story late '60s?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 19:11 (twenty years ago)

http://www.crimelibrary.com/graphics/photos/notorious_murders/celebrity/woodwards/6-4-Happy-Hooker.jpg

― nickn (nickn), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 19:12 (twenty years ago)

Movie is 1970 (I checked)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/archive/posters/images/pstr_updown_3_lg.jpg

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 19:12 (twenty years ago)

Tenspeed & Brownshoe!

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 19:12 (twenty years ago)

And

http://www.gaycitynews.com/gcn224/Coffee-Tea-of-Me.jpg

though this may be 60s.

― nickn (nickn), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 19:13 (twenty years ago)

I want to say V.C. Andrews, but I'm not 100 percent sure she reached her apex in the 70s. She should have if she didn't, though.

― sugarpants: kind of blurry, kind of double (sugarpants), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 19:14 (twenty years ago)

Can I also nominate burnt sienna as a reasonable color for kitchens (or anything, for that matter)?

― sugarpants: kind of blurry, kind of double (sugarpants), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 19:15 (twenty years ago)

reminded by the corolla upthread, this was one of the first cars i recall my family cruising around in. the mighty Datsun B-210! we had 2 of them over the years, one of which lasted my mom until '85 or so.

http://www.psycocavr.com/images/b210_1973.jpg

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 19:16 (twenty years ago)

http://www.ucsbngbgc.com/Club%20Proteo/Maze/img1330%20Swap%20Meet.JPG

― jody von bulow (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 19:17 (twenty years ago)

http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/events/bancroftiana/120/images/recipe4.jpg
aka the reason I had to be a vegetarian as a child.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 19:18 (twenty years ago)

who wrote Reds & Heavy Number? Who wrote Durango Street? Ah, It was Frank Bonham. i don't know if they liked that in the mid-west though. did they watch my favorite shows in the mid-west: wonderama, hot fudge, and marlo & the magic movie machine? maybe not.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 19:19 (twenty years ago)

http://www.cyberattic.com/stores/Winder/items/340082/thumb.jpg

― jody von bulow (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 19:20 (twenty years ago)

one of the local country stations still plays 'the americans', god bless 'em.

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 19:20 (twenty years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00000DD02.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 19:21 (twenty years ago)

http://www.usedtraps.com/WebSitePictures/cookbooks/LetsCookDutch.jpg

― jody von bulow (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 19:21 (twenty years ago)

http://media.bestprices.com/content/isbn/53/1574860453.jpg

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 19:25 (twenty years ago)

http://www.weallr1.com/images/Sunsetcvsm.gif

― jody von bulow (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 19:26 (twenty years ago)

http://www.weallr1.com/images/Newestcvsm.gif

― jody von bulow (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 19:28 (twenty years ago)

the sting is so awesome

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 19:28 (twenty years ago)

(re: sunset magazine. ooh... Clarendon. I love examples of now-popular fonts that date from when they were popular the first time.)

― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 19:29 (twenty years ago)

http://www.ryter.biz/media/image/pic/fondue.jpg

― andy --, Tuesday, 5 April 2005 19:30 (twenty years ago)

"You Are The Sunshine of My Life"

― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 19:30 (twenty years ago)

MACRAME'!

http://perso.wanadoo.fr/loisirs-alice/Albums/brico/chouette%20macrame.jpg

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 19:31 (twenty years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000286RO8.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 19:31 (twenty years ago)

http://www.abong.com/product/1973-12.jpg

― jody von bulow (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 19:31 (twenty years ago)

http://students.dwc.edu/scotti_Silvio/I%20Love%20NY.jpg

― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 19:32 (twenty years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/6300216853.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 19:32 (twenty years ago)

http://www.culturalianet.com/imatges/articulos/6969-1.jpg

Wow, I almost used that same macrame owl but switched to fondue at the last minute.

― andy --, Tuesday, 5 April 2005 19:32 (twenty years ago)

http://www.tnt-audio.com/jpg/carole_king_tapestry.jpg

― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 19:33 (twenty years ago)

The Freedom Train and the whole bicentennial event...

http://www.freedomtrain.org/IMAGES/m_bumper_stickers.jpg

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 19:34 (twenty years ago)

http://images.bestwebbuys.com/muze/books/35/0451209435.jpg

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 19:36 (twenty years ago)

Somewhere in the depths of her sewing box, my mother has an unmade "Make your own macrame owl!" kit.

― caitlin (caitlin), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 19:38 (twenty years ago)

First wave coffee geekery courtesy of Mr. Coffee

http://www.suncomm.com/images/backintheday/mr-coffee.jpg

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 19:39 (twenty years ago)

http://www.books-4u.com/images/footprints.jpg

― jody von bulow (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 19:40 (twenty years ago)

Not quite midwestern enough to really fit here, but I distinctly remember the first wave of food processors. "La Machine" specifically

http://library.thinkquest.org/J0113061/media/la_machine.jpg

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 19:41 (twenty years ago)

Anything with a sunbonnet on, such as Little House on the Prairie

http://www.fantv.org/serie/devenu/petitemaison/laura.jpg

and Holly Hobbie.

http://www.holly-hobbie.co.uk/hollie-hobby/hollie-hobby-left.gif

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 19:41 (twenty years ago)

http://www.dolllover.com/DollImages/jodymib.jpg

― jody von bulow (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 19:44 (twenty years ago)

o man does FOOTPRINTS dates from the 70s? that and those 'jesus talks to us thru SANDDOLLARS' are my faves.

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 19:45 (twenty years ago)

http://i19.ebayimg.com/01/i/03/50/88/86_1_b.JPG
http://i15.ebayimg.com/01/i/03/50/a4/8f_1_b.JPG
http://i16.ebayimg.com/02/i/03/51/03/ba_1_b.JPG

― Pickled Pickslide, Tuesday, 5 April 2005 19:47 (twenty years ago)

full disclosure: when i was a kid i had a hanging bamboo scroll with "footprints" painted on it. i swear i didn't know it was an xtian thing.

― jody von bulow (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 19:47 (twenty years ago)

http://www.le.ac.uk/press/press/mastermind1.jpg

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 19:47 (twenty years ago)

for those of us in christian homes with parents hip enough to keep track of pop gospel trends, i present...

Evie from Norway!
http://crossspot.net/cindyswanson/Evie.jpg
there's better and more representative album covers than this one, though, but you get the idea.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 19:47 (twenty years ago)

I fuckin' LOVE Paul Williams.

― jill schoelen is the queen of my dreams! (Homosexual II), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 19:49 (twenty years ago)

i have an evie album!!

― jody von bulow (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 19:49 (twenty years ago)

http://i23.ebayimg.com/03/i/03/50/de/cc_1_b.JPG

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 19:50 (twenty years ago)

youth soccer (US, duh), tennis (anyone?), and marathons (and i guess 10Ks and 5Ks and the like) kinda took off in the 70s, no?

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 19:57 (twenty years ago)

http://www.cyberattic.com/stores/Winder/items/340082/thumb.jpg http://www.cyberattic.com/stores/Winder/items/340082/thumb.jpg http://www.cyberattic.com/stores/Winder/items/340082/thumb.jpg http://www.cyberattic.com/stores/Winder/items/340082/thumb.jpg http://www.cyberattic.com/stores/Winder/items/340082/thumb.jpg http://www.cyberattic.com/stores/Winder/items/340082/thumb.jpg http://www.cyberattic.com/stores/Winder/items/340082/thumb.jpg

We still use these at family dinners.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 19:59 (twenty years ago)

http://www.cameoroze.com/bookshelf/images/readdigcomguide.gif

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 20:03 (twenty years ago)

http://www.nostalgiacentral.com/images_music/shanana_montage.jpg

― jill schoelen is the queen of my dreams! (Homosexual II), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 20:06 (twenty years ago)

from my personal collection:

http://southsidecallbox.com/ilx/lp1.jpg

http://southsidecallbox.com/ilx/lp2.jpg

― jody von bulow (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 20:06 (twenty years ago)

also LAZY SUSANS, MAYONNAISE AND MACRAME

― jill schoelen is the queen of my dreams! (Homosexual II), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 20:06 (twenty years ago)

Another way of putting this thread title would be, what pop culture did Rabbit Angstrom come across and enjoy in the 70s? And that would be, if I remember, Donna Summer, and not much else.

― 57 7th (calstars), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 20:09 (twenty years ago)

i am still trying to figure out what non-pop culture pop culture means.

anyone?

― thee jim steve., Tuesday, 5 April 2005 20:10 (twenty years ago)

We still use these at family dinners.

my parents still have theirs.

― jody von bulow (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 20:10 (twenty years ago)

hi. read the thread. thanks.

― jody von bulow (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 20:11 (twenty years ago)

ok neverind I MA SORRY. jeez. calm down.

i consider all that pop culture, ineveer thought pop culture to = 'hip'.

xpost[hahaha i typed taht before you said that, or at least, before i saw it]

― xpost?, Tuesday, 5 April 2005 20:12 (twenty years ago)

― Curious George (1/6 Scale Model) (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 20:14 (twenty years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0316290998.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.gif

― f--gg (gcannon), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 20:14 (twenty years ago)

http://www.forbesbookclub.com/bookimages/ingram/055/327/0553271067.gif

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 20:15 (twenty years ago)

http://www.ci.port-washington.wi.us/SummerTheater/PastProductions/Godspell.jpg

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 20:16 (twenty years ago)

passages! exactly!

― jody von bulow (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 20:16 (twenty years ago)

and Holly Hobbie

omgwtf, holly hobbie is a REAL person!!!

my little sisters used to LOVE these dolls.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 20:16 (twenty years ago)

wtf f--g or ahtever your name is. terrible selection.

― the freunc lieutantents TWITCH, Tuesday, 5 April 2005 20:17 (twenty years ago)

http://www.abduct.com/books/_bookpix/b37.jpg

― f--gg (gcannon), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 20:18 (twenty years ago)

ok TWITCH i'll try to keep it to what "farm people" were into, strictly.

― f--gg (gcannon), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 20:18 (twenty years ago)

http://www.ohioreadingroadtrip.org/bombeck/Bombeck3.jpg http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/section/movies/amg/video/cov120/drv000/v080/v08093yxemx.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 20:18 (twenty years ago)

The est cult

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/9998136474.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 20:19 (twenty years ago)

g--f otm

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 20:19 (twenty years ago)

― Curious George (1/6 Scale Model) (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 20:19 (twenty years ago)

Jody -- I have a mental list of the books that I see most often at Salvation Armys and other thrift stores. Passages is easily in the top five, alongside, for example, Bill Cosby's Fatherhood, John Naisbitt's Megatrends, and the Lee Iacocca autobiography.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 20:20 (twenty years ago)

http://www.venosa.com/collage.jpg

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 20:21 (twenty years ago)

I always see this at Goodwill:
http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~aahobor/Lucy-Day/Images/Covers-50/Shogun.jpg

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 20:22 (twenty years ago)

oh wow you pegged me ferg now just explain to me how a pomo victorian novel novel was some kind of cultural landmark or representative of or contributive to the landscape ure we're tryign to paint here in any way, IDIOT.

― call me MR twitch, Tuesday, 5 April 2005 20:23 (twenty years ago)

http://www.authentichistory.com/images/1970s/general_1970s/pet_rock_01.jpg

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 20:23 (twenty years ago)

http://www.svenskretro.com/images/skiva-l-bee_gees.JPG

― donut debonair (donut), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 20:23 (twenty years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00014NE6M.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 20:23 (twenty years ago)

http://i.timeinc.net/time/magazine/archive/covers/1978/1101780828_400.jpg

― f--gg (gcannon), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 20:24 (twenty years ago)

http://www.authentichistory.com/images/1970s/watergate/watergate_button_06.jpg

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 20:25 (twenty years ago)

btw my distinction between "pop culture" and "non- pop culture pop culture" is that one is youth-oriented, a bit sarcastic, something that those who are vaguely rebellious and in-the-know can latch onto. our pop culture = south park and fight club and trashy pop stars. then there's the uberculture, the red-staters, the people who are a bit older (or may as well be) and squarer and more interested in a weird but insanely popular substrata of things that fly over mainstream youth culture's heads cuz the people in new york who write for the tv shows and magazines don't know about 'em.

― jody von bulow (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 20:25 (twenty years ago)

http://www.zcportal.com/graphics/orsonbean.jpg

― Pickled Pickslide, Tuesday, 5 April 2005 20:25 (twenty years ago)

more bicentennial kitsch, bitches!!!

http://www.wtblock.com/wtblockjr/History%20of%20Jefferson%20County/Images/Bicentennial.gif

http://www.ofb.net/~epstein/sl/04/20040105b-bicentennial.jpg

http://www.libertybellmuseum.com/images/1976celluloid.jpg

http://www.phillytrolley.org/IMAGES/BOATCAR.JPG

ihttp://www.mapsofpa.com/stateofficial/1976_0284.jpg

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 20:26 (twenty years ago)

est, james clavell, otm.

― jody von bulow (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 20:28 (twenty years ago)

― Curious George (1/6 Scale Model) (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 20:28 (twenty years ago)

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/features/1998/deford/0916/BOBBYRIGGS.JPG
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/features/1998/deford/0916/BJK01.jpg

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 20:28 (twenty years ago)

although est may be a little too west coast for what i'm talking about.

― jody von bulow (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 20:28 (twenty years ago)

first of all twitch you need to calm the fuck down.

second of all, you need to maybe actually go to the midwest, and dig around in some used bookstores, and you'll find all that 70s breaking-the-frame euro art novel shit all over. giles goat-boy, all that stuff. the hard divisions your throwing up are based more on your own contempt than on what was actually consumed.

many xposts

― f--gg (gcannon), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 20:31 (twenty years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0843178094.01.LZZZZZZZ.gif

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 20:31 (twenty years ago)

http://www.impawards.com/1974/posters/life_and_times_of_grizzly_adams.jpg

Not just Grizzly Adams specifically, but all the "old west" movies and TV shows (Jeremiah Johnson, etc.) that owed more to environmentalism and hippie values than capitalism and western expansion.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 20:34 (twenty years ago)

― Curious George (1/6 Scale Model) (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 20:34 (twenty years ago)

kind of like the cultural equivalent of the "left behind" series?

― jill schoelen is the queen of my dreams! (Homosexual II), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 20:34 (twenty years ago)

i'd think the "left behind" stuff is a bit too far on the other side. maybe josh groban?

― f--gg (gcannon), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 20:36 (twenty years ago)

the book came out in 1980, but what the hell, it fits:

http://www.ffbooks.co.uk/images/n2/n10233.jpg

― jody von bulow (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 20:37 (twenty years ago)

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/0440174643.03.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 20:38 (twenty years ago)

http://www.retrorecipe.com/jellosalads/guacamole.jpg

― Pickled Pickslide, Tuesday, 5 April 2005 20:38 (twenty years ago)

http://images.bestwebbuys.com/muze/books/74/0881036374.jpg

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 20:38 (twenty years ago)

bake mcbride and oscar gamble, the 2 MOST seventies ballplayers evah!

http://www.cnnsi.com/baseball/mlb/features/1997/wsarchive/images/1980.jpg

http://espn.go.com/i/page2/photos/040414mcbride.jpg

ihttp://funnycards.topcities.com/81mcbride.jpg

ihttp://funnycards.topcities.com/75gamble.jpg

ihttp://funnycards.topcities.com/76tgamble.jpg

http://www.joesportsfan.com/oscar2.jpg

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 20:39 (twenty years ago)

Jeremiah Johnson the movie is definitely one of one of the era's rugged-individualism landmarks, good call Donut. (am I wrong in thinking rugged individualism + vague new-agey-ism is a hallmark of a lot of what Jody's looking for here? like, we're still apart from the pack but we're also in touch thanks to the pot the '60s introduced us to in a widespread way?)

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 20:40 (twenty years ago)

http://www.impawards.com/1979/posters/concorde_airport_seventy_nine_ver2.jpg

― Doobie Keebler (Charles McCain), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 20:40 (twenty years ago)

ithaca reprazent!

http://www.fabulousfoods.com/shop/prods/bookimages/moosewood.jpg

totally, matos.

― jody von bulow (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 20:41 (twenty years ago)

Better Still:

http://www.movieposter.com/cgi-bin/showpid.cgi?id=IDSTRING&pid=A70-255

― Doobie Keebler (Charles McCain), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 20:42 (twenty years ago)

(am I wrong in thinking rugged individualism + vague new-agey-ism

what year did zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance come out?

― jody von bulow (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 20:43 (twenty years ago)

would Dock Ellis allegedly pitching a no-hitter on acid (dispelled to some degree here: http://espn.go.com/page2/s/list/baseballrumors.html) count for this?

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 20:43 (twenty years ago)

would Dock Ellis allegedly pitching a no-hitter on acid (dispelled to some degree here: http://espn.go.com/page2/s/list/baseballrumors.html) count for this?

mmmm, not sure. judges?

― jody von bulow (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 20:44 (twenty years ago)

http://services.windowsmedia.com/video/cov120/drv000/v088/v08858dwpmq.jpg

For me, the 1970s "Holocaust" TV series was the first time I recall the Holocaust becoming part of the national consciousness.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 20:44 (twenty years ago)

what year did zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance come out?

1974!

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 20:45 (twenty years ago)

Jeremiah Johnson the movie is definitely one of one of the era's rugged-individualism landmarks, good call Donut.

Hey, that was me!

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 20:46 (twenty years ago)

http://www.snopes.com/sports/baseball/ellis.asp

― absolutego (ex machina), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 20:48 (twenty years ago)

more mod christian household fun
http://www.boardgamesrus.com/images/Ungame.jpg

in the royal tenenbaums, you can spot it on the shelf in the game closet!

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 20:51 (twenty years ago)

ihttp://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/3/A70-1977

― jody von bulow (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 20:52 (twenty years ago)

http://www.usedbooks-freeshipping.com/images/921.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 20:53 (twenty years ago)

Time-Life "libraries". Specifically the Science, Nature, Old West, World War II, Flight, Seafarers series, but really any of the book series that you subscribed to ("receive a new book every month, cancel anytime!"). They were published up to the 1980s, but their heyday was in the 70s.

http://www.biblio.com/b/865m/1239865-0-m.jpg
http://www.forttumbleweed.com/thesoldiers.jpg

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 20:53 (twenty years ago)

sorry ET!

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 20:53 (twenty years ago)

http://www.current.org/prog/prog609b.jpg
ihttp://www.booksale.com.ph/octoberbooks/buscaglia_bus.JPG
http://www.specialneeds.com/images/books/79.jpg

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 20:56 (twenty years ago)

http://www.bibliopolis.org/graficos/libros/cowblues.jpg

― jody von bulow (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 20:57 (twenty years ago)

i heart this thread. i knew you guys would pull through!

― jody von bulow (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 21:05 (twenty years ago)

ihttp://www.retrocom.com/ad's&flyers/JOHNSON%20CB%20RADIO%20ACCESSORIES.jpg

― Stupornaut (natepatrin), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 21:49 (twenty years ago)

My picture failed there good buddy (over)

― Stupornaut (natepatrin), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 21:50 (twenty years ago)

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 21:52 (twenty years ago)

I wish the DVD of the Royal Tenenbaums was infinitely zoomable...

― absolutego (ex machina), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 21:53 (twenty years ago)

If you can recognize this house, you are an oldie.

http://www.1164.com/ranch/photos/waltons/waltons.jpg

(Just looking at it makes me hum that stupid song.)

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 22:13 (twenty years ago)

http://www.musicweb.uk.net/film/june99/towering.jpg

http://members.rott.chello.nl/alely/pics/tower.jpg

http://www.cyber-cinema.com/reprint/towering788920Rpt.jpg

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 22:16 (twenty years ago)

ok, that one isn't so amusing post-9/11

perhaps "the poseidon adventure" is better!

http://users.aol.com/aleong1631/poseidon1.jpg

http://image.compusa.com/prodimages/50/3b89a43e-5624-4c77-b4e1-07096d027493.gif

http://www.channingposters.com/poseidonhorz.jpg

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 22:18 (twenty years ago)

eisbär otm!
http://www.jimusnr.com/airport75poster.JPG

― absolutego (ex machina), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 22:21 (twenty years ago)

http://www.albertspage.it/sigle_tv/foto/Love_Boat07.jpg

http://www.bertconvy.net/bertloveboat1.jpg

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 22:23 (twenty years ago)

There's got to be an Eisbar after...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 22:25 (twenty years ago)

"LOVE IS ...," MOTHERFUCKERS!!!!!!!!!

http://www.starstore.com/acatalog/Love_is_2005Calendar-01.jpg

http://www.sugarcraft.com/catalog/holiday/mom/love-is.jpg

http://www.ecomallbiz.com/iwmhost2/nss-folder/scrapbook/LoveisBW7.jpg

http://pouletnoir.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/love_is_2.jpg

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 22:26 (twenty years ago)

http://www.fishingnj.org/gifs/nouvebk.gif

― jody von bulow (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 22:37 (twenty years ago)

I like that the Love Is characters are NAKED!

― nickn (nickn), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 22:39 (twenty years ago)

What, no Tupperware here? Man.

http://www.numarkets.net/images/RAL/SEP/72614a.jpg

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 22:41 (twenty years ago)

woah tracy - NOW I'M FLASHING BACK OMG

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 22:41 (twenty years ago)

man that is some ugly shit

― jody von bulow (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 22:48 (twenty years ago)

http://images.allposters.com/images/MG/196125.jpg

― jody von bulow (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 22:51 (twenty years ago)

I like that the Love Is characters are NAKED!

yeah, the 70s were STRANGE.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 22:51 (twenty years ago)

peaceful, easy feeling indeed!

http://www.allposters.com/IMAGES/MMPH/220017.jpg

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 22:52 (twenty years ago)

and then in 1980...

http://images.rottentomatoes.com/images/movie/coverv/07/115307.jpg

― jody von bulow (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 22:56 (twenty years ago)

Also, 70s World Book Encyclopedias, and Reader's Digest magazines.

"I am Joes Penis" or whatever. Heroic stories of survival in the woods against all odds (and one cantankerous bear).

I spent much of my childhood devouring this stuff.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 22:57 (twenty years ago)

Haha, I remember those Reader's Digest body parts articles. The one for balls referred to them as "man glands" rather than testicles (I swear!)

― nickn (nickn), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 23:01 (twenty years ago)

for the kids: a suspicious-looking fisher-price medical kit!

ihttp://joeandbeckystoybox.westhost.com/onlinestore/images/303.jpg

― jody von bulow (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 23:06 (twenty years ago)

OMG I HAD THAT

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 23:07 (twenty years ago)

I did too! The blood pressure gauge ruled.

― absolutego (ex machina), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 23:08 (twenty years ago)

what type of parents encourage their kids to play doctor? parents what own the joy of sex that's what

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 23:08 (twenty years ago)

http://www.obscure.org/~dew/FP//Playsets/146Shoe1.jpg

― jody von bulow (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 23:11 (twenty years ago)

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 23:14 (twenty years ago)

This is 60s, but our family had one and I found (and bought) one at a rummage sale once. One of these days I'm going to hang it on the wall.

http://www.samstoybox.com/toypics/HighGearBox.jpg

― nickn (nickn), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 23:18 (twenty years ago)

The villain girl on Little House — did she pose nude somewhere after she grew up or did I imagine that?

― Curious George (1/6 Scale Model) (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 23:19 (twenty years ago)

Yow, the DJ on WFMU just played the theme song for this show:

― Curious George (1/6 Scale Model) (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 23:21 (twenty years ago)

me and my dad got into an argument over what was the biggest stephen j. cannell show the other day, i say rockford files he sez simon and simon (wtf dad).

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 23:24 (twenty years ago)

Not the A-Team?

― Curious George (1/6 Scale Model) (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 23:26 (twenty years ago)

This thread is giving me memories of my wholesome wholegrain vaguely hippy piano teacher, whos house had wood pannelled walls, exposed beams, brown EVERYWHERE and loads of macrame potplant holders.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 23:27 (twenty years ago)

ihttp://www.timewarptoys.com/oriental.jpg

― jody von bulow (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 23:28 (twenty years ago)

I want to be around when J Blount has arguments w/his dad because they are clearly the MOST WORTHWHILE ARGUMENTS EVAH.

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 23:38 (twenty years ago)

I had that madical kit when I was a kid. Never used it on girls, I'm ashamed to say.

― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 00:31 (twenty years ago)

I don't even have to look at the picture to know which Fisher Price medical kit you're talking about.

Taschen's 70s All-American Ads to thread

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 00:50 (twenty years ago)

fern bars

(what are fern bars?)

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 00:52 (twenty years ago)

salad bars

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 00:52 (twenty years ago)

my dad had ALOT of ferns in his apartment after the divorce. were fern bars like a hippie lo-fi version of oxygen bars?

― j blount (papa la bas), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 00:53 (twenty years ago)

olde tyme style resturants

health food: brown everything

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 00:54 (twenty years ago)

avocado appliances

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 00:54 (twenty years ago)

the daisy motif

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 00:56 (twenty years ago)

"You've Come A Long Way Baby" : ERA + "Olden Tyme" photos!!

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 00:58 (twenty years ago)

haha 'the daisy motif' otm

― j blount (papa la bas), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 00:59 (twenty years ago)

I was gonna vote for SPEAK AND SPELL... but then I suspected it might fall under the popculture radar, yes?

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 00:59 (twenty years ago)

http://www.npr.org/programs/morning/features/2004/apr/citrus/bryant140.jpg

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 01:04 (twenty years ago)

OMG, I think I still have a letter from the creator of the Ungame! I was very interested in becoming a game designer when I was a pre-teen and I wrote letters to various companies about what I should do.

― RS £aRue (rockist_scientist), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 01:04 (twenty years ago)

Bantam paperbacks

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 01:05 (twenty years ago)

the golden age of the young adult novel and its televisual interpretation, the after school special

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 01:06 (twenty years ago)

Hardcore p0rn paperbacks in every convenience store in every town in America — those were MY seventies.

― Curious George (1/6 Scale Model) (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 01:09 (twenty years ago)

avocado appliances

and Harvest Gold.

x-post, I remember those, but only in few liquor stores.

― nickn (nickn), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 01:11 (twenty years ago)

And I can't believe no one's posted this yet.

http://www.flagline.com/images/novelty-smiley-face.gif

― nickn (nickn), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 01:12 (twenty years ago)

http://i.cnn.net/si/pr/subs/swimsuit/images/50th_ctiegs_01.jpg

― RS £aRue (rockist_scientist), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 01:17 (twenty years ago)

(Oh wait, that doesn't fit the original theme, though this thread seems to have derailed ages ago.)

― RS £aRue (rockist_scientist), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 01:18 (twenty years ago)

http://www.gospelcom.net/rox35media/logoscom.jpg

― RS £aRue (rockist_scientist), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 01:21 (twenty years ago)

(I may still have that.)

― RS £aRue (rockist_scientist), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 01:21 (twenty years ago)

ihttp://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.filmposterworld.co.uk/movieposters/hidingplace.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.filmposterworld.co.uk/stock/hidingplace.htm&h=226&w=300&sz=13&tbnid=OYPpPiBrpYUJ:&tbnh=83&tbnw=110&start=21&prev=/images%3Fq%3D%2522the%2Bhiding%2Bplace%2522%26start%3D20%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26sa%3DN

― RS £aRue (rockist_scientist), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 01:22 (twenty years ago)

http://img.epinions.com/images/opti/d2/3b/0808510746-books-resized200.jpg

― RS £aRue (rockist_scientist), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 01:23 (twenty years ago)

http://www.filmposterworld.co.uk/movieposters/hidingplace.jpg

― RS £aRue (rockist_scientist), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 01:24 (twenty years ago)

http://www2.willard.lib.mi.us/bcphotos/fairs_festivals/images/h12_2239.jpg

― Pickled Pickslide, Wednesday, 6 April 2005 01:25 (twenty years ago)

passages! exactly!

Somewhere along the way I met someone who roomed with that author. (I can't even remember who he was anymore.)

― RS £aRue (rockist_scientist), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 01:29 (twenty years ago)

Maybe not mid-western, but:

http://i9.ebayimg.com/03/i/03/14/01/28_1_b.JPG

(Actually this still has some use as a reference source. Perhaps I should commission Ned to read from the 1976 Bulletin Almanac.)

― RS £aRue (rockist_scientist), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 01:31 (twenty years ago)

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/si_online/features/2002/top_sports_books/3/book67.jpg

― RS £aRue (rockist_scientist), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 01:36 (twenty years ago)

Raquel Welch

― the fucker that will burn you (sundar), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 01:44 (twenty years ago)

Joe Garagiola

― Curious George (1/6 Scale Model) (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 01:46 (twenty years ago)

ihttp://theatreorgans.com/music4sale/images/2003/gaither.jpg

― RS £aRue (rockist_scientist), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 01:47 (twenty years ago)

Damn. Anyway, that might be from before the 70s, though it was sure around in the 70s.

― RS £aRue (rockist_scientist), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 01:47 (twenty years ago)

The Late, Great Planet Earth, people.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 02:00 (twenty years ago)

http://i7.ebayimg.com/01/i/03/c3/41/0e_1_b.JPG

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 02:02 (twenty years ago)

That makes me think of this:

http://132.170.202.235/cmicorp/images/Mego/Mego_Zaius.jpg

― RS £aRue (rockist_scientist), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 02:03 (twenty years ago)

http://i1.ebayimg.com/03/i/03/c8/be/84_1_b.JPG

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 02:10 (twenty years ago)

Or is that really more very early '80's? Can't remember.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 02:11 (twenty years ago)

ihttp://www.fonts.com/findfonts/detail.asp?pid=201344&GCID=C2250x011

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 02:12 (twenty years ago)

garfield's more reagan first term. the book(s) of lists deserves a shoutout (again) here.

― j blount (papa la bas), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 02:18 (twenty years ago)

http://www.library.hhpl.on.ca/images/RA/Books/His-bastard.gif

I remember my mom reading through a John Jakes series and then basically saying they were crap.

― RS £aRue (rockist_scientist), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 02:28 (twenty years ago)

http://www.3dstereo.com/Merchant2/graphics/00000001/viewers/modelG_box.jpg

― RS £aRue (rockist_scientist), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 02:37 (twenty years ago)

oh man my dad had all those 70's paperback books about UFOs & shit.

both he & my mum had the cb radio.

we need more books:

http://mc.clintock.com/second_floor/bookcase_2/ICON-images/future_shock.jpg

http://i9.ebayimg.com/02/i/03/4a/32/53_1_b.JPG

after the TV series became a hit, Richard Hooker churned out a DOZEN M*A*S*H books.

ihttp://home.flash.net/~jhlittl/rngwrld.jpg

Science fiction in the 70's was all about sex with aliens.

― kingfish van pickles (Kingfish), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 02:41 (twenty years ago)

http://www.musicweb.uk.net/film/2002/May02/Logans_Run.jpg

(this is being re-made, gunna come out next year)

― kingfish van pickles (Kingfish), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 02:44 (twenty years ago)

http://www.70slivekidvid.com/run/joetrain2.jpg

― RS £aRue (rockist_scientist), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 02:46 (twenty years ago)

OMYGAWD kingfish!

― g e o f f (gcannon), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 02:47 (twenty years ago)

Some inventions and innovations of the 1970s that shaped the culture:
1970: Liquid crystal watches go on market
1971: CAT scan
1972: Pocket calculator
1973: Car airbags
1974: Barcodes on supermarket products
1975: Birth of the home computer (various now-extinct manufacturers)
1976: VHS and Betamax
1977: First complete genetic structure of an organism found (Great Britain)
1977: First flight of the Space Shuttle
1977: First commercial flight of supersonic Concorde between New York, Paris, London
1977: USA admits testing Neutron Bomb
1977: Trans-Alaska Pipeline starts oil flowing Prudhoe Bay to Valdez
1978: Louise Brown born (first In Vitro Fertilization "Test Tube" baby)
1979: Graphical User Interface developed at XEROX PARC (led to Macintosh, Windows)
1980: Sony Walkman; Ghetto Blaster

from http://www.magicdragon.com/UltimateSF/timeline1980.html

The 1970s was not a decade of stylistic revolution such as the "New Wave" of the late 1960s, but perhaps a decade of consolidation, where the lessons learned from maninstream literature, "New Wave" experimentalism, and the classics of science fiction were melded into a healthy hybrid. For example, leading author of the literature of paranoia Thomas Pynchon published a mainstream bestseller which used experimental techniques and was unquestionably science fiction: "Gravity's Rainbow." Samuel R. Delany, who had astonished readers with his adventurous works written while he was still a teenager absorbed academic theories and Semiotics to produce massive and puzzling works such as "Dhalgren." E. L. Doctorow blurred the line between history, fiction, and fantasy with Nebula finalist "Ragtime." Italo Calvino wowed his native Italian audiences, and critics, then the world at large with hypermodern fantasy and science fiction which was nonetheless solidly based on his study of Italian folktales. Kingsley Amis, known for many mainstream and satirical novels, also wrote science fiction and was a useful critic of its literary history. William Kotzwinkle was marketed as mainstream, but his giddy fantasies such as "Doctor Rat" were embraced by our genre.

― kingfish van pickles (Kingfish), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 02:48 (twenty years ago)

http://www.andreawilkinson.com/books/covers/ragtime.jpg http://outerlife.blogs.com/photos/uncategorized/gravity.jpg http://www.ottosell.de/pynchon/0820310263.01.jpg

http://www.digitaljournalist.org/halstead/Images/p01.jpg

― kingfish van pickles (Kingfish), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 02:52 (twenty years ago)

http://www.schickele.com/images/Scanned/psrecs/silent.jpg

holy shit. the guy who did the soundtrack is the same guy who does P.D.Q. Bach!

― kingfish van pickles (Kingfish), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 02:54 (twenty years ago)

man, who the hell first came up with the idea of putting Star Wars figures on a cake, anyway?

http://www.toysrgus.com/pete/happybday.jpg

(my first 9 birthday cakes had SW figures)

― kingfish van pickles (Kingfish), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 02:58 (twenty years ago)

http://www.torpedo-emscher.de/wr/union/rakete/img/evel.jpg

he even released an ALBUM, ladeez...

http://www.topps.com/Entertainment/Flashback/EvelKnievel/images/Flbk_74_Knievel_14.jpg

awwww yeahhhhh

― kingfish van pickles (Kingfish), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 03:01 (twenty years ago)

I had that medical kit too!

also:
http://www.mildreds-antiques.com/images/best_record_27.jpg

though that might be a little too straight pop than staid pop.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 03:03 (twenty years ago)

still, my mom was a midwesterner so I insist it belongs

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 03:04 (twenty years ago)

http://www.strictlymint.com/online_store/store/images/0000029741.jpg

Milhouse: Excuse me. Do you have the Carl Yazstremski baseball card from 1973, when he had big sideburns?

CBG: Show me the thirty bucks, 'cos if you ain't got it, I ain't getting off the stool.

― kingfish van pickles (Kingfish), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 03:05 (twenty years ago)

also the previous waltons ref. on this thread is too oblique! the waltons OWN this thread and so deserve a big-ass cast shot:
http://www.the-waltons.com/waclans.jpg

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 03:05 (twenty years ago)

man, it's WAY too easy remembering this stuff

xpost

i liked how the one chick felt the need to appear in Playboy to "shed" her Waltons image

― kingfish van pickles (Kingfish), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 03:06 (twenty years ago)

Too big probably:

ihttp://jtw.jw-music.net/fiddler.jpg

― RS £aRue (rockist_scientist), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 03:10 (twenty years ago)

http://www.tvtome.com/images/shows/0/5/38-17955.jpg
Kind've obvious but it looks like no-one's mentioned it yet.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 03:11 (twenty years ago)

http://diamondvideos.com/images/boy_plastic_bubble_ebay2.jpg

http://www.coolforever.com/temp/rodneyDangerfield_idontgetnorespect.JPG

http://www.sportsfrog.com/electric%20company.jpg

this show had such HIDEOUS design

― kingfish van pickles (Kingfish), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 03:17 (twenty years ago)

http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/peanuts/meet_the_gang/images/meet_rerun_big.gif

Rerun Van Pelt.

First appeared 1973.

― kingfish van pickles (Kingfish), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 03:20 (twenty years ago)

http://www.blaxploitation.com/images/cover_gifs/cover_last_tango_in_paris.gif

BUTTER!

― kingfish van pickles (Kingfish), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 03:22 (twenty years ago)

I feel the need to mention The Summer Of My German Soldier before I go to bed just in case nobody else did. Good night, johnboy!

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 03:22 (twenty years ago)

http://www.betweenthecovers.com/images/68331.jpg

god, i think my dad's huge bookcase of sci-fi paperbacks imprinted itself a little TOO heavily into my brane

― kingfish van pickles (Kingfish), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 03:25 (twenty years ago)

http://malakoff.com/shining1.jpg http://malakoff.com/salems1.jpg http://malakoff.com/stand11.jpg http://malakoff.com/deadzon1.jpg
http://www.tangled-web.co.uk/crimedigests/jpgs2/carrie.jpg

finding images of the original 70's cover art is difficult. 70's book art tended to be FUCKED up.

― kingfish van pickles (Kingfish), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 03:31 (twenty years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002ORP.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― kingfish van pickles (Kingfish), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 03:36 (twenty years ago)

wasn't Evita in the 80s?

― Orbit (Orbit), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 03:39 (twenty years ago)

More sports:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v335/gypsyfrocksbedlam/s1977ryan.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v335/gypsyfrocksbedlam/Rod-Carew.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v335/gypsyfrocksbedlam/fingers2.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v335/gypsyfrocksbedlam/31.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v335/gypsyfrocksbedlam/s_bradshaw_i.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v335/gypsyfrocksbedlam/StaubachRoger23.jpg

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 03:41 (twenty years ago)

iihttp://www.souloflife.com/dibsinsearch.jpg

― Love at the Pier (Arthur), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 03:43 (twenty years ago)

http://www.sd455.com/moviesmokeybandit.jpg

or just Jerry Reed in general.

http://www.execulink.com/~joelb/scooby/episodes/nsdm/pics/jreed.jpg

tonight's special guest star!

xpost: Evita first hit in 1975, then onstage in london in 1978

― kingfish maximum overdrunk (Kingfish), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 03:43 (twenty years ago)

But not the Madonna version. I get it.

― Orbit (Orbit), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 03:44 (twenty years ago)

http://www.souloflife.com/dibsinsearch.jpg

― Love at the Pier (Arthur), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 03:49 (twenty years ago)

HOLY SHIT! JACKPOT!

http://www.execulink.com/~joelb/faq/21.htm

http://www.execulink.com/~joelb/scooby/episodes/nsdm/pics/vandyke.jpg
http://www.execulink.com/~joelb/scooby/episodes/nsdm/pics/mamacass.jpg http://www.execulink.com/~joelb/scooby/episodes/nsdm/pics/globetro.jpg http://www.execulink.com/~joelb/scooby/episodes/nsdm/pics/sandydun.jpg

dick van dyke! mama cass! globetrotters! sandy duncan!

― kingfish maximum overdrunk (Kingfish), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 03:49 (twenty years ago)

http://members.aol.com/SprFriends/sf-superfriends.jpg

― kingfish maximum overdrunk (Kingfish), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 03:49 (twenty years ago)

http://entertainment.tv.yahoo.com/images/ent/ap/20040315/nyet152_film_david_carradine.sff.jpg

― kingfish maximum overdrunk (Kingfish), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 03:50 (twenty years ago)

http://www.autographsonline.com/Scans/spitzmark18467.jpg

That Mama Cass cartoon is so great!

― Love at the Pier (Arthur), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 03:52 (twenty years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v335/gypsyfrocksbedlam/TheMuppetShowAlbum.jpg

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 03:53 (twenty years ago)

http://www.sreweb.com/desiderata.jpg

― Love at the Pier (Arthur), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 03:54 (twenty years ago)

http://www.remembertheaba.com/TributeMaterial/ErvingDunkSimpson.jpg http://www.mikedust.com/spirits/images/spirits-article-erving.jpg http://umasshoops.com/history/alumni/julius_erving/pics/erving_gesture_nynets.jpg

http://www.cedmagic.com/featured/demo-program/5435-kareem-abdul-jabbar.jpg http://sportsmed.starwave.com/media/pg2/2002/0605/photo/s_waltonkareem_i.jpg

― kingfish maximum overdrunk (Kingfish), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 03:55 (twenty years ago)

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/hockey/nhl/features/si_stanley_cup/70s/740506_lg_01.jpg

IT'S SOCKEY, THE WAY THEY PLAY IT HERE

[Ed. Note: Excerpts follow from SI's coverage of the Rangers-Flyers Stanley Cup semifinal -- where Dave Schultz lived up to his nickname and Bobby Clarke played up Philadelphia's "Broad Street Bullies" theme.]

By Mark Mulvoy

In one corner Philadelphia had heavyweight king Dave (Hammer) Schultz , top contenders Bob (Hound) Kelly and Andre (Moose) Dumont and the 17 other toughs who helped the Flyers lead the NHL in knockdowns, knockouts and -- not coincidentally -- penalty minutes over the regular season. In the other corner New York had two fair heavyweights in Ron Harris and Ted Irvine, an overblown middleweight in Brad Park and 17 assorted paperweights ...

Strangely, the quietest Flyer [in Game 2] -- played in Philadelphia -- was Schultz, who by now has become a North American byword for hockey roughhousing. He had set an NHL record by spending 348 minutes in penalty boxes during the season ...

Although Flyers coach Fred Shero tends to regard Schultz' 20 fighting penalties this season as the only true measure of the Hammer's worth, the inescapable fact is that Schultz also scored 20 goals, while becoming the most accomplished enforcer since the days when John Ferguson was bruising bodies for the Montreal Canadiens. "Hockey is a contact sport for men," Schultz says. "It's not an ice ballet or the Ice Follies. I'd be lost on a finesse team like New York ...

"I never want to hurt anybody in a fight. Oh, I like to beat them up and leave them with some bruises and some bumps, but I don't want to hurt them."

They said it ...

"You don't have to be a genius to figure out what we do on the ice. We take the shortest route to the puck and arrive in ill humor. But, tell me, if we're so bad, why haven't they locked us up?"
-- Bobby Clarke

Issue date: May 6, 1974

― kingfish maximum overdrunk (Kingfish), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 03:57 (twenty years ago)

http://www.sportsecyclopedia.com/nhl/philly/JoeWatsonFly.jpg http://www.sportsposterwarehouse.com/warehouse/hansonbrothers02ii-1.jpg http://americanhistory.si.edu/archives/images/d9545-18.jpg http://www.bluejackets.com/graphics/news/beat/2/bruinscoach.gif http://fire.prohosting.com/nhlpics/coaches/don_cherry.jpg http://www.sportsposterwarehouse.com/warehouse/bucyk71-1.jpg

― kingfish maximum overdrunk (Kingfish), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 04:03 (twenty years ago)

http://members.aol.com/PaulEC1/father1.gif

"Wait till your father gets until your father gets wait till your father gets home...
See what I mean?"

― Love at the Pier (Arthur), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 04:05 (twenty years ago)

man, sports in the '70s certainly did have a certain flair...

― kingfish maximum overdrunk (Kingfish), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 04:06 (twenty years ago)

http://www.chron.com/content/chronicle/millennium/sportscentury/70-79.html

Tennis entered its Golden Age, Title IX and Billie Jean King struck blows for women's equality, Dr. J and friends changed the NBA, and Bird met Magic. The '70s were spectacular.

― kingfish maximum overdrunk (Kingfish), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 04:10 (twenty years ago)

that's when men were men.

― happy fun ball (kenan), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 04:10 (twenty years ago)

http://home.att.net/~sales3d/VMSteelers5R.jpg http://home.att.net/~sales3d/VMSteelers7L.jpg http://www.college-throwbacks.com/football/joe-green.jpg

http://images.allposters.com/images/54/039_40358.jpg

you said it.

― kingfish maximum overdrunk (Kingfish), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 04:16 (twenty years ago)

http://www.betweenthecovers.com/images/71269.jpg

― Love at the Pier (Arthur), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 04:18 (twenty years ago)

"Things get a little easier, once you understand..."

― Love at the Pier (Arthur), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 04:24 (twenty years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000007OHY.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

― Love at the Pier (Arthur), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 04:28 (twenty years ago)

http://www.looseleaf.org/archives/2024/images/xareyou.jpg http://todmar.net/quality4u/ebay/books/freckle-juice.jpg
http://media.bestprices.com/content/isbn/07/0027110907.jpg http://catalog.depotcatalog.com/images/edu/big/TCP/TCM_526_Eps.gif

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0689711999.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0689713509.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg

― kingfish maximum overdrunk (Kingfish), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 04:32 (twenty years ago)

http://www.alfy.com/Teachers/Teach/Thematic_Units/Summer/images/BlueBerries.gif

― kingfish maximum overdrunk (Kingfish), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 04:36 (twenty years ago)

hey, who remember "Chicken Soup with Rice", as sung by Carol King? that counts, right?

"Eat it once
Eat it twice
Eat with Chicken Soup & Rice..."

― kingfish maximum overdrunk (Kingfish), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 04:41 (twenty years ago)

http://www.stuckinthe70s.com/images/burtcenterfold.jpg

― Love at the Pier (Arthur), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 04:43 (twenty years ago)

http://www.pbs.org/lanceloud/images/american/photo_poodle.jpg

― Love at the Pier (Arthur), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 04:51 (twenty years ago)

It's so hard to find a decent Loud Family portrait online. What a shame.

― Love at the Pier (Arthur), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 04:52 (twenty years ago)

http://www.ffplaza.com/images/covers/cage/hfh01.jpg

http://www.cultsirens.com/carter/carter002.jpg

http://www.splashcomics.de/images/specials/cca/green_lantern_green_arrow85.jpg

― kingfish maximum overdrunk (Kingfish), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 04:57 (twenty years ago)

http://www.stuckinthe70s.com/images/KreskinESPBox.jpg

― kingfish maximum overdrunk (Kingfish), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 05:02 (twenty years ago)

I have this strange sense that whatever is in that box is incredibly lame.

― happy fun ball (kenan), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 05:03 (twenty years ago)

http://breakfastrecords.web.infoseek.co.jp/photo/melissa.jpg

― Love at the Pier (Arthur), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 05:19 (twenty years ago)

http://www.coolforever.com/temp/janeolivor_firstnight.jpg

― Love at the Pier (Arthur), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 05:22 (twenty years ago)

Rockist's christian books reminded me of this one. A Baptist friend gave it to me.

http://www.bgillott.com/images/STORE/Cross%20&%20Switchblade.jpg

― nickn (nickn), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 05:47 (twenty years ago)

And what would the 70s in the Midwest be without these.

http://www.pigwings.com/mc/images/camero.jpg

― nickn (nickn), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 05:57 (twenty years ago)

http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/MG/197542.jpg

http://mtceuropavideo.com/noahsark.jpg

http://www.brainsonfilm.com/images/reaptit.jpg

And clearly the disaster movie that best fits this thread is:

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000067FP4.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 06:09 (twenty years ago)

Most people think I'm making stuff up when I reminisce about Wait Till Your Father Gets Home and Electric Company. I was starting to wonder myself about the former. (Was the son's band actually called the Grateful Dead?) Did they continue into the 80s or was I watching reruns as a kid?

― the fucker that will burn you (sundar), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 07:34 (twenty years ago)

Does London Underground still use Love Is... for its etiquette posters?

― caitlin (caitlin), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 10:53 (twenty years ago)

ihttp://av.rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A9ibyKI00FNCbLYArQNvCqMX;_ylu=X3oDMTBvMmFkM29rBHBndANhdl9pbWdfcmVzdWx0BHNlYwNzcg--/SIG=12032lcbj/EXP=1112875444/**http%3a//www.mommyneedscoffee.com/index.php/C4
Raw Umber, Burnt Sienna, Sepia, ....

http://www.straybaseball.com/mwwl/images/players/Catfish_Hunter74-4.jpg

― dave225 (Dave225), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 11:09 (twenty years ago)

That Slapshot poster is GREAT! The original Hanson bros.!!

― Will(iam), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 11:24 (twenty years ago)

My life ages 12-21 just flashed before my eyes. Thanks!

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 12:05 (twenty years ago)

http://www.darkwood.co.uk/images/13238.jpg

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 12:22 (twenty years ago)

http://www.shilhavy.com/y2k/bookstore/gossmug.gif

― RS £aRue (rockist_scientist), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 12:37 (twenty years ago)

Nadia's Theme

― dave225 (Dave225), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 12:39 (twenty years ago)

http://cache.tias.com/stores/select/pictures/dk479a.jpg
Lazy Susan!
More corningware...
http://cache.tias.com/stores/select/pictures/dk934a.jpg

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 12:52 (twenty years ago)

Roosters and hens were a really popular theme in the 70s. I remember my parents having several poultry style accessories in the kitchen.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 12:53 (twenty years ago)

http://www.bambootrading.com/300/a372.jpg
In 1977, we feared the Russians a little less.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 13:09 (twenty years ago)

Pepsi Light
http://www.travelingmenagerie.com/pepsilight.jpg

The birth of the not-plain-white tennis ball:
http://img.coxnewsweb.com/B/02/43/07/image_207432.jpg

― dave225 (Dave225), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 13:17 (twenty years ago)

the greatest sitcom of the 70s (if not of all-time):

http://www.lethaldeath.com/Crimson/Images/ResidentDVDvil/What

http://www.tvparty.com/vgifs12/whats76.jpg

http://www.tvparty.com/vgifs12/whatshap77.jpg

http://www.tvparty.com/vgifs12/whatshap2-1.jpg

http://www.tvparty.com/vgifs12/whatshap89.jpg

http://www.80stees.com/images/products/Whats_Happening-T-shirt.jpg

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 14:17 (twenty years ago)

http://www.thisoldtoy.com/new-images/images-ok/900-999/fp995-record-MIB.jpg http://homepage3.nifty.com/natsu-style/favorite/toy/03a.jpg

This and the medical kit made for some memorable childhood moments.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 15:05 (twenty years ago)

http://gci.gospelcom.net/fm/images/joni.jpg

the inspiring story of joni erickson. how she became a quadraplegic and coped with her anger towards god by teaching herself to draw and write with her mouth. now a christian speaker she says things like "even if a baby lives for just one hour, it can still save a marriage."

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 15:07 (twenty years ago)

Exodus was the 50s!

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 15:09 (twenty years ago)

http://www.sportsposterwarehouse.com/warehouse/hansonbrothers02ii-1.jpg

is the guy on the left ned raggett??

― jody von bulow (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 15:19 (twenty years ago)

ts: the hanson brothers vs.

http://www.stuckinthe70s.com/images/hudson.jpg

― jody von bulow (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 15:23 (twenty years ago)

http://scanimate.zfx.com/Pics/bell.gif http://scanimate.zfx.com/Pics/7mov.gif http://scanimate.zfx.com/Pics/wtvz.gif

scanimate!

― jody von bulow (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 15:30 (twenty years ago)

atari video music!

ihttp://www.atarimuseum.com/videogames/dedicated/videomusic/vmcontrols.jpg

― jody von bulow (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 15:35 (twenty years ago)

http://www.atarimuseum.com/videogames/dedicated/videomusic/videomusic.JPG

― jody von bulow (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 15:36 (twenty years ago)

http://www.jeffcrooke.com/lit/alice.jpg

― nickn (nickn), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 16:42 (twenty years ago)

http://www.makingthemodernworld.org.uk/everyday_life/img/IM.0844_zp.jpg

― OleM (OleM), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 16:58 (twenty years ago)

one of those doofus Hudson Bros is kate hudson's dad!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 17:01 (twenty years ago)

http://homepages.picknowl.com.au/rogoth/spares/denim.jpg

― Doobie Keebler (Charles McCain), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 18:14 (twenty years ago)

"second of all, you need to maybe actually go to the midwest, and dig around in some used bookstores, and you'll find all that 70s breaking-the-frame euro art novel shit all over. giles goat-boy, all that stuff. the hard divisions your throwing up are based more on your own contempt than on what was actually consumed."

o right well im sure glad i don't LIVE IN TEH MIDWEST YOU FOOL, cuz if i did i guess i'd kno that what is in a used bookstore today = what was being consumed EN FRICKIN MASSE by boring middle aged ppl in the 1970s WOW SHERLLOCK HOWDYA COME UP WITH THAT ONE.

― watson., Wednesday, 6 April 2005 18:42 (twenty years ago)

This is all kind of freaking me out, as only the 70s can, I suppose...

http://www.muppetcentral.com/_images/sesame/pinball_number_count.jpg

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 19:25 (twenty years ago)

The Atari Archives. I used to really like borrowing these kinds of old books and trying to write (usu unsuccessfully) games on our pre-Windows PC version of QBasic.

Can you download episodes of Wait Till Your Father Gets Home? Get DVDs?

― the fucker that will burn you (sundar), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 21:20 (twenty years ago)

72-74! Way earlier than I thought.

― the fucker that will burn you (sundar), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 21:31 (twenty years ago)

It appears the show does not enjoy a good reputation with people who may have been old enough to discriminate.

― the fucker that will burn you (sundar), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 21:37 (twenty years ago)

For what it's worth, I watched Wait Till Your Father Gets Home when it was first aired, and thought it sucked. I was in my early teens, so any kind of low-brow outrageousness would have appealed to me. If people are expecting a kind of proto-Family Guy they're likely to be disapointed.

― nickn (nickn), Thursday, 7 April 2005 01:19 (twenty years ago)

i used to see reruns on tv in iceland, i'd never even heard of it til then. i think i've seen it at like four am on boomerang once or twice too. it's not at all great (i was kinda surprised to see some brits rep heavy for it on some thread), it's got some good dated laffs though.

― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 7 April 2005 01:23 (twenty years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00004XPOM.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Jimmy Mod Knows You Eat Your Own Farts (ModJ), Thursday, 7 April 2005 01:33 (twenty years ago)

http://www.brownsteins.net/Images/howard-cosell.jpg

http://www.timewarptoys.com/abcfoot.jpg

― kingfish maximum overdrunk (Kingfish), Thursday, 7 April 2005 02:58 (twenty years ago)

http://www.tvtome.com/images/shows/10/2/67-5936.jpg

― Kim (Kim), Thursday, 7 April 2005 04:29 (twenty years ago)

http://www.shurdington.org/images/godseye.jpg

http://www.make-stuff.com/recycling/images/godseye1.jpg

― Kim (Kim), Thursday, 7 April 2005 04:52 (twenty years ago)

http://www.supercoolstuff.com/items/medals/pics/SP600.jpg

― Kim (Kim), Thursday, 7 April 2005 04:55 (twenty years ago)

I think I deserve bonus points for referencing three items in one picture:
http://www.bradyhour.com/allstar.jpg

― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 7 April 2005 11:23 (twenty years ago)

http://cache.tias.com/stores/gwen/pictures/t857c.jpg

― Nemo (JND), Thursday, 7 April 2005 14:34 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

happy earth day!

http://geosound.org/finnishedgeo36/earthdaybutton.jpg

― my friend flicka (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 23 April 2005 00:59 (twenty years ago)

http://www.coolforever.com/temp/janeolivor_firstnight.jpg http://www.dailyvault.com/edgarwinter_theyonly.jpg

― happy fun ball (kenan), Saturday, 23 April 2005 03:52 (twenty years ago)

http://www.indcjournal.com/archives/fonz.jpg

― David Beckhouse (David Beckhouse), Saturday, 23 April 2005 03:57 (twenty years ago)

FUNNY CARS!!!!!!

http://www.draglist.com/photoimages/WareShoals/DSC02239.jpg http://americanracing.floogy.com/images/members/action/tom_mcewen2.JPG
http://www.autoimagery.com/8060.jpg http://www.computermagiconline.com/70sfunnycars/Photos/1snow.JPG

And of course, the one and only Jungle Pam:

http://www.junglepam.com/photos/012603JJSCAN3.jpg

― Doobie Keebler (Charles McCain), Saturday, 23 April 2005 15:45 (twenty years ago)

http://www.skywavzelectronics.com/graphics/unidenpc68ltwbig.jpg

― David Beckhouse (David Beckhouse), Saturday, 23 April 2005 22:34 (twenty years ago)

five years pass...

Revive! In honor of today's "AMG Album of The Day", which has a cover that defines this thread:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3166/2576301615_c6b0e605be.jpg

― Roomful of Moogs (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 20 July 2010 14:54 (fifteen years ago)

who wouldn't want to get into the middle of that white bread sandwich. hubba hubba.

― scott seward, Tuesday, 20 July 2010 15:09 (fifteen years ago)

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_2yNfAEReZSQ/SQUJau2L3xI/AAAAAAAAA3k/Cz7VN4tvIW8/s1600/ABC%2BWide%2BWorld%2BMystery%2BB.jpg

― too rock for country/too country for rock & roll (m coleman), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 10:05 (fifteen years ago)

http://www.beegees.dk/andy-penzance.jpg

― too rock for country/too country for rock & roll (m coleman), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 10:07 (fifteen years ago)

So I've just perfunctorily skimmed this thread, haven't checked all the images, and still don't understnd what "non-pop culture pop culture" means, but I just wanted to say that Wait Til Your Father Gets Home was probably my very favorite TV show when I was 13 or so, and my wife (a few years younger) is a pretty huge Electric Company fan. I also really loved Almost Anything Goes -- a couple years later, right? -- and swear I first saw the Runaways on the celebrity ("All-Star" I guess) version once, but have never been able to verify that on line. Was also really into all those seemingly proto-milleninarian Chariots Of The Gods and Late Great Planet Earth books: Have those been mentioned? And our little basement bookshelves (for cheap paperbacks -- my dad's hefty philosophy tomes were upstairs) were loaded with sundry I'm OK You're OK type self-help books. Yep, Sensuous Woman on there too, I think. And The Happy Hooker by Xaveria Hollander. And The Naked Ape by Desmond Morris. My family had readers in it!

― xhuxk, Wednesday, 21 July 2010 12:00 (fifteen years ago)

And oh yeah, Wait Til Your Father Gets Home is definitely available on CD. Got ahold of a box set a few years ago (may or may not still have it -- my DVD collection is, uh, erratically organized); watched and enjoyed okay a few episodes, but don't think I ever got through the whole thing.

― xhuxk, Wednesday, 21 July 2010 12:08 (fifteen years ago)

Available on DVD, I mean. (Duh)

― xhuxk, Wednesday, 21 July 2010 12:09 (fifteen years ago)

one month passes...

made-for-TV movies w/moonlighting sitcom stars half-remembered character actors & slumming living legends. in this exciting edge-of-your-seat example Buddy Ebsen/Jed Clampitt/Barnaby Jones's shitty driving triggers a highway pile-up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkL_uWakXpM&feature=search

― parasitic mistletoe (m coleman), Monday, 23 August 2010 21:58 (fifteen years ago)

Harriet Nelson AND Bad Ronald!!

― tokyo rosemary, Monday, 23 August 2010 23:15 (fifteen years ago)

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