# Stuff that was different in the 60s and 70s **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 11, 2017, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-that-was-different-in-the-60s-and-70s/788688 "2017-06-11T14:38:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 13
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2017, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-that-was-different-in-the-60s-and-70s/788688/241 "2017-06-16T21:00:02Z")
Bars had like two types of draft beer: Molson Canadian Lager, or Molson Export Ale. (Or the Labatt equivalents.) And I know it was like that in the US with equally shitty choices. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2017, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-that-was-different-in-the-60s-and-70s/788688/242 "2017-06-16T21:12:56Z")
> [@DummyGladHands](#): > > … > > In the wayback machine, our neighborhoods were full of new home construction. When they got done at quitting time, they just left-no fences or security. Those sites were wonderful playgrounds. Soft lovely top soil to play in, piles of it to jump on from the second story, wood scraps and nails to hammer together- we’d do it for hours. When we lived at Otis AFB (Cap Cod) in the late 1950s they were always building new housing units. And yeah, after quitting time and on weekends the empty, unsecured buildings made great sites for hide & seek, jumping out of ground floor windows (no glass in them yet), shouting up the stairwells to hear the echoes, roller skating on the concrete floors. Good times. ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2017, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-that-was-different-in-the-60s-and-70s/788688/243 "2017-06-16T21:28:13Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > Bars had like two types of draft beer: Molson Canadian Lager, or Molson Export Ale. (Or the Labatt equivalents.) > > And I know it was like that in the US with equally shitty choices. In the 60s and 70s, there were still substantial numbers of regional breweries and their beers were on tap in lots of bars. The age of bland, interchangeable macrobrews didn’t begin here until the 1980s. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2017, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-that-was-different-in-the-60s-and-70s/788688/244 "2017-06-16T21:55:05Z")
I was in MA during my formative drinking years, and the drinking age was 18, so no problem. We had a bar on campus (at college, not HS 🙂 ) and used to get loaded there. Ah, the good ol’ days!! I was 21 when I moved out to CA, so I never had to skip a beat. Now, we did have blue laws in MA, and you couldn’t buy even beer anywhere (package store) after 8:30 on Sat night. No matter how much we bought, we always ran out on Sunday and someone had to make a run up to NH to restock. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2017, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-that-was-different-in-the-60s-and-70s/788688/245 "2017-06-16T22:43:07Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > Bars had like two types of draft beer: Molson Canadian Lager, or Molson Export Ale. (Or the Labatt equivalents.) Those would have been Labatt Blue (the lager) or Labatt 50 (the ale). You never saw Black Label or Red Cap or Old Vienna on draft. The bar would have had only one tap, but that made things easier, in a way. Since they all looked and tasted the same, you didn’t really care what was being served, and you could simply say, “I’ll have a draft.” ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2017, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-that-was-different-in-the-60s-and-70s/788688/246 "2017-06-16T23:41:50Z")
> [@jaycat](#): > > That’s not how I remember it. Homer Simpson Rashomon ftw! ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2017, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-that-was-different-in-the-60s-and-70s/788688/247 "2017-06-17T02:18:29Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > Homer Simpson Rashomon ftw! Dear G-d. Is that satire or a better explanation? The world wonders. ---
**Author:** ![jaycat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jaycat/32/3015_2.png) [@jaycat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jaycat)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2017, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-that-was-different-in-the-60s-and-70s/788688/248 "2017-06-17T02:30:49Z")
> [@Ellen\_Cherry](#): > > I can verify that these two things were still going on in the late 1980s and into the 1990s. (re papers set on linos) - where? I worked at the WSJ in 1980 and typesetting was already computerized. ---
**Author:** ![jaycat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jaycat/32/3015_2.png) [@jaycat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jaycat)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2017, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-that-was-different-in-the-60s-and-70s/788688/249 "2017-06-17T02:32:16Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > Homer Simpson Rashomon ftw! I have absolutely no idea what this means. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2017, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-that-was-different-in-the-60s-and-70s/788688/250 "2017-06-17T02:43:41Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > Homer Simpson Rashomon ftw! > [@jaycat](#): > > I have absolutely no idea what this means. > [@](#): > > The Rashomon effect is where the same event is given contradictory interpretations by different individuals involved. The effect is named after Akira Kurosawa’s 1950 film Rashomon, in which a murder is described in four mutually contradictory ways by its four witnesses [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashomon_effect) Note that it’s a 1950 film. Unless you were of moviegoing age then, or something of a film buff, you’re not likely to be familiar with it. ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2017, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-that-was-different-in-the-60s-and-70s/788688/251 "2017-06-17T02:49:53Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Unless you were of moviegoing age then, or something of a film buff, you’re not likely to be familiar with it. Or if you’re a Simpsons fan. ---
**Author:** ![Tzigone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/839c29/32.png) [@Tzigone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tzigone)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2017, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-that-was-different-in-the-60s-and-70s/788688/252 "2017-06-17T02:59:39Z")
> [@](#): > > > [@](#): > > > > Note that it’s a 1950 film. Unless you were of moviegoing age then, or something of a film buff, you’re not likely to be familiar with it. > > Or if you’re a Simpsons fan. Or if you watched the Leverage episode “The Rashomon Job” ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2017, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-that-was-different-in-the-60s-and-70s/788688/253 "2017-06-17T03:27:33Z")
> [@jaycat](#): > > (re papers set on linos) - where? I worked at the WSJ in 1980 and typesetting was already computerized. 1973-1975 Palo Alto middle schools were still teaching manual typesetting and making kids stick their hands in a [running platen press.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLO21ShqGME) Only difference is the one we had was electric and only one speed-fast enough to be dangerous. Each student had to print a set of business card and the press ran fast enough that you had to go in with the blank card in one hand while extracting the printed card with the other. And you had to time it right on each cycle. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2017, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-that-was-different-in-the-60s-and-70s/788688/254 "2017-06-17T06:48:23Z")
> [@MaddyStrut](#): > > We all drank 2% or full milk. Skim milk was nasty! And yet, FAR less prevalence of obesity back then. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2017, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-that-was-different-in-the-60s-and-70s/788688/255 "2017-06-17T06:52:50Z")
> [@Little\_Pig](#): > > In the late 60’s, the FM air waves had very few stations. FM radio stations that did exist and played Rock music were referred to as “underground radio stations”. They were usually on air for a few hours per day, generally after midnight until dawn. If they aired commercials, they were usually read by the DJ. In the (late) 1970s San Diego had at least one hard rock FM station, but now it doesn’t–not even a Jack or classic rock station. The KYXY 96, though, which was the top-40 pop station, is still here. (ETA: Not even sure if the Jack concept still exists anymore.) ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2017, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-that-was-different-in-the-60s-and-70s/788688/256 "2017-06-17T08:05:54Z")
Some thread just reminded me of this one, a flashlight was a big heavy thing with multiple C or D cells that produced barely enough light and lasted barely long enough to find more batteries. And if you didn’t use the thing for a while there’s a good chance when you needed it the batteries would have leaked and ruined the flashlight. There were also cool toy guns that looked like real guns without a red cap on the end. And cap guns with caps on a roll. ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2017, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-that-was-different-in-the-60s-and-70s/788688/257 "2017-06-17T12:46:44Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > cap guns with caps on a roll. They never worked well. It was more fun to unroll the paper rolls on a hard surface and hit the caps with a hammer. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2017, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-that-was-different-in-the-60s-and-70s/788688/258 "2017-06-17T12:53:20Z")
> [@Crafter\_Man](#): > > They never worked well. It was more fun to unroll the paper rolls on a hard surface and hit the caps with a hammer. 🙂 You _unrolled_ them? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2017, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-that-was-different-in-the-60s-and-70s/788688/259 "2017-06-17T12:53:54Z")
> [@Crafter\_Man](#): > > They never worked well. It was more fun to unroll the paper rolls on a hard surface and hit the caps with a hammer. 🙂 True. A rock would do but a hammer was more fun. Of course we’d try to hit a whole roll with a hammer to get them to go off at once but it didn’t work. There were stick on caps also and we’d stick a bunch of them together to try to get a bigger bang but that didn’t work all that well and it was boring sticking caps together so we’d go down to the creek and throw rocks and catch crayfish and stuff. I wonder if kids still do that or do they just use a creek app on their phones? ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2017, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-that-was-different-in-the-60s-and-70s/788688/260 "2017-06-17T14:21:51Z")
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