The TV series “The Streets of San Francisco” somehow manages to make the city look absolutely squalid.
It was beginner’s polyester and it wasn’t trying to look like cotton. It was the very beginning of permanent press fabrics, and if you’ve never spent a full day ironing your family’s clothes, you don’t know what a relief that was. Flaunt that new shit.
LOL ironing. There was a recent “Ask Martha” in a Martha Stewart magazine pleading “Is there anyway to keep sheets from wrinkling? They’re just so big to iron.” WTF, seriously? Talk about first-world problems!
I would love to be shown a clip like this with no prior setup. That’s the only way to get a real reaction. Hell, her questions are a creepy as anything he says.
Oh God- that 3:29 look- friends who are even more messed up than I would insist those are Reptilian Eyes & that he almost dropped the mask there!
And that’s the Seventies for you.
Well, since I was born in the mid-1960s I certainly have plenty of memories of the 1970s.
First, neither myself nor my friends thought it was particularly “creepy”, although the various crisis that afflicted the US during this time (say after 1972, which upon reflection is the true end of the “1960s”-era) did give our parents plenty to complain about at the dinner table (e.g. 2 fuel crisis, stagflation, crime, etc).
I remember strange fads - Chariot of the Gods! Est! Past-Lifes! Mother’s Earth News! Plants are Like People! Odd fads like that coming and going thru-out.
Music, well it was Corporate 70s rock you know (with plenty of 60s classics thrown in) - Boston, Led Zep, Aerosmith, Kansas, Styx, Stones, The Who, Bowie - you know it. Oddly, very little Disco filtered down into our little world - I think “Disco Duck” was about it…(30 years on…some Disco isn’t half bad upon reflection).
Our fashions as '70s kids? Heck, we worn the universal since the 1950s I think, blue jeans, sneakers (I preferred all white), and t-shirts (or heavy shirts - even flannel!) when it was cold. Not real high fashion there (high fashion for us was a Boston or Zep T-shirt) , but I did have a shirt made of Qiana which actually looked kinda nice IIRC. Colors were not bold, pastels and earth colors IIRC. The '80s, OTOH (and looking at images of the peak 1960s - 64-69…bright colors there too)
Couldn’t really tell you that I saw people w/ Lesiure Suits or Annie Hall fashion in real life, didn’t really start clubbing till the mid-1980s. Yeah, I saw fashions on television, and really didn’t care. Speaking of TV - I liked Taxi, Good Times, Barney Miller, Mary Tyler Moore, Bob Newhart, MAS*H and, of course, the Rockford Files- and you know what, they really were pretty good shows. Oddly enough, another thing you could eventually do with TV was to play Pong and other games on it - interesting concept, I wonder if anything ever became of it :p…
As for American cars, they became quite boxy, and didn’t really have any great style - Corinthian Leather or not -and stayed that way IMO until the mid-1980s, and the JellyBean revolution (nowadays most sedans still have the basic lines they had from the 1990s - 15 years and the Honda Civic really hasn’t changed all that much? Harley Earl would NOT be pleased). Besides, 1970s = Pickup Trucks, BJ and the Bear, Smokely and The Bandit - trucks were where the action was!
Finally, we lived in a New York City Suburb. Yep, NYC was hurting during the 1970s, the culmination of 20+ years of urban decay and abandonment from the 1950s. Sanitation, road and utility repair was hit or miss during the Beame administration, and even the best of neighborhoods had abandoned buildings. A Queens or Bronx street with litter, potholes, some non-functioning street-lamps, some graffiti (scrawls, not the big bold letters that was to come), that lent to a bit of a forboding atmosphere that TV & Film makers loved to capture, and I guess leads to the ‘Creepiness’ factor that is the topic of this thread (that, and really Ugly hair-styles - which probably included mine by the end of the '70s).
One final thing, I think there was a sense of resignation in regards to the '70s and a weird sense of relief whe it ended (even though it’s just a number) - did any other decade get a song like Yaz’s “Goodbye '70s”
OK, as Columbo would say - “Just one more very thing” - publishing technology advances + changes in obscenity laws + sexual revolution = Cheri, Hustler, Oui, Penthouse, High Society at affordable prices = two words - woods porn = Gold! for us average pre-internet-access 13 year old boys… 
Oh god. Remember the song “Chevy Van”? ::shudder::
That song is a favorite of serial killers and child molesters around the country.
Remember that the 70’s were pre-PG-13. You had G, PG, and R. And they got away with alot in PG films. Tommy (you know, The Who, Pinball Wizard) is rated PG. I saw that when I was 7.
There were topless women in a lot of PG movies. It was good time to be boy.