The 70's (what was it like?)

Happy memories for me including.

Summer started in May and finished in September.
Austin 1100's and Mini's being used as Police Cars.
Power Cuts.
Bread Strikes.
Other Strikes.
Slowing down a single to 78 rpm (LOL)
Stacking singles for a party.
VERY tidy parks and Gardens.
Helping my Grandad in the Garden.
Collecting the deposits on pop bottles.
Corona pop wagons.
Bold and colourfull Maxi Dresses.
Cordrouy flares that swished.
Only one freezer in the supermarket.
Real, different sized and muddy veg at the greengrocers.
Very quiet roads.
The Sweeney
Some Mothers do ave em
The Liver Birds
Party sevens,and something for the ladies was Babycham.
Prawn cocktail, scampi in a basket and Black forest gateau was "de rigeur" for a meal out, with a swift 'alf of course.
Phone calls where an "event" and took time to dial.
Modern "Trim" phones.
Chopper bikes.
No junk Mail.
Kids fun was fun and all outside, no health and safety, you fell while climbing that tree and learned from it.
Lob Scouse and Pea wack.
Radio Caroline.
3 channel TV, the testcard and the dot when you turned it off.
Friendly football rivalry.

I was born in 65, so was a kid into teens in the seventies, I would not change a thing about it in any way. Now I would change many things back to the values and ways of the seventies without blinking an eye. People had more time then, knew not just their neighbours but everyone on the street and had time to talk and help each other. Now everything is in a rush and risk assessed.

Steve...

 

I only had 10 weeks of the 70s...

 

Speeding up vinyl to make them all sound like the chipmunks was funnier for me

 

Thanks @Steve R
I enjoyed reading those

 

One of my earliest memories (but in the 60's more than 70's), was Matchbox cars, and Airfix models. If I recall correctly, there was an Airfix club, which I believe is still going strong?
I can remember sitting at the dining room table with mum, making models, and always putting too much glue on the cockpit , which gave it a frosted look .

 

And more...........

• Sweet shops - just sweets. Nothing else!
• High streets that still had greengrocers, bakers, butchers and fishmongers.
• Van der Valk.

 

Our high street still has all those. We don't have an independent bakers (that I can think of) but we have independents in all the others.

But back to the olden days, I can still remember when the shops used to shut for lunch.

 

Mac Fisheries
Bejam
Space Hoppers
Curly Wurly Bars
firemen's strike and the green goddesses
summer of '76 hot-hot-hot!

 

The Queens Silver Jubilee - the street party was a real treat

 

I remember that. The woman who organised it it for our street had a daughter who was a spoilt brat. The woman who organised it for our street, who had a spoilt brat for a daughter, also judged all the competitions. The spoilt brat won them all.

 

I wish I'd have experienced more of the 70s

 

Jamboree bags, Sweet Spanish Tobacco, Candy Cigarettes, 6 Players Number six for 20p from the machine outside the newsagents so we had something to smoke at school breaktime.

The sugar shortage of 1975, first time I saw a Kilo bag was when the Spar shop managed to get a load of German sugar in, all 2lb bags before that.

Saturday night thriller on ITV

Bottle digging, Kung Fu, The Water Margin, no telly in the mornings, The Banana split show, Sesame Street being part in Spanish, Going down a Badger sett, Cow Horn Handlebars, Checked jackets with furry collars, high waistband trousers, air guitar to Status Quo, Floorboards in Littlewoods and Woolworths, Lyons Café, the first electronic calculators, digital watches, those knocker toys that broke your wrists, mobiles were things that hung from your ceiling, gonks, rubber monsters that you put on the end of your pencil, whizwheels, lone star toys, the first hairy actionman, waggon wheels, cream on top of the milk. free school milk, smallpox innoculations, green shield stamps, some red squirrel that tried to teach you how to cross the road, was he called Tufty? Dog licences, a weeks school dinners for 7/6d Kathleen O'donnel drinking a bottle of quink

HR Puffenstuff, if you can't do a little then you can't do enough.

 

There is definitely some form of Badger fetish going on here
This is something you don't see so much of these days.......neighbours walking in and out of other neighbours houses, without knocking. The whole of the street opposite did it, but my dad discouraged it, and mum wasn't keen on it anyway.
Skateboards! I can't believe they are still going strong today I loved mine.
Cortina 1600E / Jensen Interceptor / Lotus Europa
Go-karts made from pram wheels and planks
Black jacks and fruit salads?
Trump cards
Marbles/ ball bearings
Snorkels
Harringtons
Mods
Red phone boxes