who has fond memorie of the sensational seventies? what are they?
mine are
leaving school for ever, what a great feeling working at bairds television, great job, great mates ice skating 3-4 per week first real boyfriend my crombie, loved it. the feather cut, ( girls haircut) the osmonds being able to just leave a job if you hated it, on the friday and getting another one to start on the monday. watching top of the pops tank tops and so much more.
The Bay City Rollers
Playing in the sun with your friends
Going out after breakfast (during the summer) and only coming home when you were hungry and noone worring where you where
No mobile phones
the Banana Splits
The Hair Bear Bunch theme tune
Making your own ice lollies
drinking from taps in the back garden
watching the monkees on tv, (or was that the 60s, not sure)
being allowed out at night
sneaking fags into the house
drinking half pints of cider at lunch tine
planet of the apes
the sweet, wig wham bam, and all that.
when �12 wage lasted all week, for 3-4 nights out, bus fares, cinema, and canteen lunches, plus board money and clothes too, blizz
the sun seemed to shine forever
when i was gorgous and slim. lol.
The Banana splits omg I'd forgotten them.
Girls trying to look like Agnetha from Abba in tight white jeans :)
Dodgy unsophisticated disco's.
Having a group of mates you'd known all your life and thought you always would.
Really cr4p bands you could laugh at like the Brotherhood of Man.
TV, Tiswas, Space 1999,Blakes Seven,Top of the Pops (all the DJ's had weird mid atlantic accents).
Cars, big old Sweeney style Granadas with plastic seats you struck to in summer and burned yourself on and I had a Ford Capri 3.0L ( oh I was such a prat) but it was like a girl magnet at the time, hilarious when I think about it and wouldn't be seen dead in it now but god I loved it at the time.
Horrible fabrics for cothes, nylon shirts and kipper ties.
What a decade.Lol
Here's mine;
Going to see great bands such as; Led Zep,Free, Jethro Tull, The Nice,ELP etc.
Buying my 1st car for �45-00.
Going abroad for the 1st time.
Owning a Great Coat....RAF issue.
Going-out with a 38 yr old teacher (watch the Graduate)...phew.
I'll add some more later.
platform shoes. bellbottom trousers, cheesecloth blouses,bright green eye shadow, red martini, campari and soda, rod stewart, elton john, taboo perfume,
Oxford Bags/Rupert trousers
Bell bottoms
Shirt collars like the wings of a Boeing 747
Tank tops
Platform shoes
Flared jeans with high waistbands that touched the floor and had to hide your shoes (Wranglers or Levis)
Watneys Party Sevens
Big sideburns (euugh!)
Gyspy style haircuts
Bare feet & lovebeads
Knitted, stripey, halter-neck tops
Maxi skirts
Leg 'o' mutton sleeves
Crocheted dresses that left little to the imagination
Kinky/Wet look boots
Babycham
Cherry B
Cut down, frayed jeans, Huckleberry Finn style
Chopper bikes
Big velvet baker boy hats a la Donny Osmond
Disco 45 magazine (a must every week, had all the words to the top 10 songs in the charts)
Top of the Pops
Slade
Motown
Marc Bolan
Dark Side of the Moon (Pink Floyd)
Tubular Bells (Mike Oldfield)
Jackie magazine (complete with free metal studs for your denims!)
Bunty magazine
Whizzer & Chips
The Beano and Dandy
Alvin Stardust as the Green Cross Code man
Charlie Says public information adverts
The Jackson Five cartoon on Saturday mornings
The Partridge Family
HR Puff 'n' Stuff
Vesta curries
Fray Bentos tinned pies
Bazooka Joes
Mojos
Jubblies
Fools Gold nuggets of chewing gum in a linen bag
Bottles of Corona lemonade/cherryade/limeade with money back when you returned the bottle to the shop
The rag & bone man
The top 20 on the radio on Sunday evenings
Old Jamaica rum & raisin chocolate bars
Threepenny bits/tanners/ha'pennys
Lava lamps
Glam rock
Ford Anglias
Lotus Cortinas
Bri-Nylon bedding (that crackled with static!)
Blankets on your bed (no duvets back then)
Wrestling on the
.....Wrestling on the telly on Saturday (or was it Sunday?) afternoons with Kendo Nagasaki and Mick McManus
World of Sport with Dickie Davies
Black & white TV
Radiograms and vast piles of 7 and 12ins ins vinyl records
Cresta fizzy drinks..."It's frothy man!"
Wimpy bars