# Old timers, remind me of some early 70's stuff **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 7, 2009, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-timers-remind-me-of-some-early-70s-stuff/516726 "2009-11-07T17:55:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2009, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-timers-remind-me-of-some-early-70s-stuff/516726/121 "2009-11-09T05:09:31Z")
> [@ghardester](#): > > Which we all called Annie Bed Springs, because, you know… I wasn’t old enough to know such things. Was the commercial jingle _Aaaaanie Greenspringe You know I love that apple wine_ ? ---
**Author:** ![Imasquare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Imasquare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Imasquare)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2009, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-timers-remind-me-of-some-early-70s-stuff/516726/122 "2009-11-09T05:51:01Z")
> [@spoke-](#): > > They were invented in 1975. They didn’t show up in the marketplace until several years later. (Can’t retool all those machines overnight.) They did show up in 1975 in Australia though. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2009, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-timers-remind-me-of-some-early-70s-stuff/516726/123 "2009-11-09T11:35:57Z")
> [@AHunter3](#): > > Oh, I thought of another one! > > This fellow B. Kliban released a cartoon book of cats. It really took off and B. Kliban cats were freaking _everywhere_. Pillowcases, little statues, calendars, t-shirts, etc. Ah, sweet memories. _Love they little mousies, Mousies what I love to eat. Bite they tiny heads off, Nibble on they tiny feet._ ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2009, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-timers-remind-me-of-some-early-70s-stuff/516726/124 "2009-11-09T11:46:15Z")
Holly Hobbie everything. Train layouts were in somebody’s basement you knew. Some cool kids had a basement with a bar and pool table. Having a pool table was a goal of many kids. ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2009, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-timers-remind-me-of-some-early-70s-stuff/516726/125 "2009-11-09T13:30:12Z")
> [@Harmonious\_Discord](#): > > Holly Hobbie everything. > Train layouts were in somebody’s basement you knew. > Some cool kids had a basement with a bar and pool table. Having a pool table was a goal of many kids. Guess I must have been a cool kid without realizing it. We had a finished basement with a bar (beer on tap which I wasn’t allowed to touch), a slate-bed pool table, and a dart board. I keep promising myself that I’ll refinish my basement now into something as cool as dad did back in '73-'74 but I never get around to it. ---
**Author:** ![sqweels](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f19dbf/32.png) [@sqweels](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sqweels)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2009, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-timers-remind-me-of-some-early-70s-stuff/516726/126 "2009-11-09T15:09:16Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > [Cola nut, Un-cola nut](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JinBKqSCSac). We had a couple of these [Uncola glasses](http://www.ioffer.com/i/7478315) shaped like upside down cola glasses. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2009, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-timers-remind-me-of-some-early-70s-stuff/516726/127 "2009-11-09T15:13:36Z")
> [@sqweels](#): > > We had a couple of these [Uncola glasses](http://www.ioffer.com/i/7478315) shaped like upside down cola glasses. We had one of those. We also had the Coca-Cola glasses. One day my sister came home from work and she was dead-tired. She got a glass to get some water, and was annoyed that she’d grabbed the 7-Up glass and the water was just cascading off of the ‘top’. 😛 She seemed to think it was my fault. ---
**Author:** ![sqweels](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f19dbf/32.png) [@sqweels](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sqweels)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2009, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-timers-remind-me-of-some-early-70s-stuff/516726/128 "2009-11-09T15:20:09Z")
[“I can’t believe I ate the whole thing”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_xpbaj18g8) (some 80s nostalgia intrudes on this clip, but hey…) ---
**Author:** ![sqweels](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f19dbf/32.png) [@sqweels](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sqweels)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2009, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-timers-remind-me-of-some-early-70s-stuff/516726/129 "2009-11-09T15:25:16Z")
> [@The New and Improved Superman](#): > > I thought this link was going to go to a clip like [this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3sanpjm6cI) Then you weren’t a kid at the right time. I remember the rivalry between drag racers Snake and Mongoose (and the toys and model kits it spawned) better than I remember the Vietnam War. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2009, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-timers-remind-me-of-some-early-70s-stuff/516726/130 "2009-11-09T15:29:15Z")
I had the Snake and Mongoose Hot Wheels cars. ---
**Author:** ![jali](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecae2f/32.png) [@jali](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jali)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2009, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-timers-remind-me-of-some-early-70s-stuff/516726/131 "2009-11-09T15:45:29Z")
I learned a few words in Swahili. Black history classes were offered at neighborhood centers. I wore an Afro - then Afro Puffs. Hot pants. Tights with multicolored designs were hot. Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On album was amazing. Popcorn shirts were the rage. Sparkle accessories were hot. Platform shoes. Jeans were dry cleaned for the perfect crease. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2009, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-timers-remind-me-of-some-early-70s-stuff/516726/132 "2009-11-09T16:03:35Z")
[Evel Knievel](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evel_Knievel) made his last big jump in '75. The following year, he jumped the shark. Literally. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2009, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-timers-remind-me-of-some-early-70s-stuff/516726/133 "2009-11-09T16:28:52Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > [Hang in There, Baby](http://i481.photobucket.com/albums/rr177/Alja-Markir/HangInThereBaby.jpg). 😉 Determined or not, that cat must be long dead. ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2009, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-timers-remind-me-of-some-early-70s-stuff/516726/134 "2009-11-09T17:12:20Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > I wasn’t old enough to know such things. > > Was the commercial jingle > > _Aaaaanie Greenspringe > You know I love that apple wine_ > > ? You are probably whoosing me. In case you are serious, it was a favorite alcoholic “pop” of young girls. And young guys took advantage of that. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2009, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-timers-remind-me-of-some-early-70s-stuff/516726/135 "2009-11-09T17:36:00Z")
> [@ghardester](#): > > You are probably whoosing me. > > In case you are serious, it was a favorite alcoholic “pop” of young girls. And young guys took advantage of that. Nope. I have a memory of Annie Greenspring (no ‘e’ :smack: ) commercials with that jingle. Sort of a bluegrass/hillbilly sound to it, which was popular in the early-'70s. (Another example that comes to mind is the jingle for Honda motorcycles. It also had a ‘country’ sound and went, _Get yourself a Haaawnda! Built like a watch that was meant to last a hunnerd yeeeeears!_) ---
**Author:** ![Tequila\_Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/41988e/32.png) [@Tequila\_Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tequila_Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2009, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-timers-remind-me-of-some-early-70s-stuff/516726/136 "2009-11-09T17:46:19Z")
I remember lots of people having those “raining” oil lamps with drops of oil falling down fishing wire on the outside of golden statue in their living rooms. I guess their called rain lamps, like [this one](http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2331/2210947570_faa9dd89e1.jpg). I also remember my cousin loving Alice Cooper, and piercing my sister’s ears by numbing them with an ice cube then stabbing a needle though her earlobe into a chunk of potato held behind her ear. ---
**Author:** ![Tequila\_Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/41988e/32.png) [@Tequila\_Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tequila_Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2009, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-timers-remind-me-of-some-early-70s-stuff/516726/137 "2009-11-09T18:15:56Z")
I also remember my friends who were boys having do it yourself models displayed in their rooms that they’d put together, but not of cars or planes but famous movie monsters. Tang really was big. Even my friends Mom’s were offering us powdered orange drink at every turn. Commercials telling us how bad butter was for us, and that margarine was so much healthier, we should be eating that instead. ---
**Author:** ![mack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mack)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2009, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-timers-remind-me-of-some-early-70s-stuff/516726/138 "2009-11-09T18:38:55Z")
Sorry if these have been posted already: Carnation Instant Breakfast Gorilla Milk Shake-a-puddin’ Soccer in the US was just starting up. Mood rings and those discs that turn colors when you rub your fingers underneath When thermometers broke - catch the mercury - great fun with heavy metals! In 5th grade - my teacher left my friend and me alone in the classroom to cut up apples - with knives - while the rest of the class went to music class. [Wacky Packages](http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.wackypackages.org/stickers/2nd_series/whitebacks/capncrud_white_front_small_smaller_images.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.wackypackages.org/stickers/2nd_series/whitebacks/capncrud_white_front_small_smaller_images.html&usg=__mXDz8yQNesyQ2mhweqE31fc3DRE=&h=640&w=480&sz=87&hl=en&start=2&um=1&tbnid=b0fD4VX1qmxSPM:&tbnh=137&tbnw=103&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dwacky%2Bpackages%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26um%3D1) The advent of the phallic shampoo bottle ---
**Author:** ![mack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mack)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2009, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-timers-remind-me-of-some-early-70s-stuff/516726/139 "2009-11-09T18:58:30Z")
Comet Kohoutek ---
**Author:** ![HelloKitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ecccb3/32.png) [@HelloKitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HelloKitty)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2009, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-timers-remind-me-of-some-early-70s-stuff/516726/140 "2009-11-09T19:07:22Z")
Here’s a couple I hadn’t seen on the list yet: Mood Rings (where it would change color based on your body heat) The Flip Wilson Show - Geraldine and Killa!! Reel to reel tapes were the epitome of awesomeness [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-timers-remind-me-of-some-early-70s-stuff/516726.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-timers-remind-me-of-some-early-70s-stuff/516726.md?page=8)