# What most epitomizes the '70s to you? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 31, 2017, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-most-epitomizes-the-70s-to-you/792484 "2017-07-31T07:00:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2017, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-most-epitomizes-the-70s-to-you/792484/21 "2017-07-31T16:22:55Z")
> [@Shagnasty](#): > > That was the first thing that popped into my mind as well. Disco was well known but it isn’t like most people were going to disco clubs. Almost EVERYONE had a shitty car though. To be fair, they were as bad or worse in the '50s and '60s, but at least they had other things going for them (styling, performance.) ---
**Author:** ![Caffeine.addict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f475e1/32.png) [@Caffeine.addict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caffeine.addict)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2017, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-most-epitomizes-the-70s-to-you/792484/22 "2017-07-31T16:35:24Z")
I was a kid, but avocado green and harvest gold appliances are what stood out for me. Underpowered and poorly built large american cars kind of jumps out as well. ---
**Author:** ![somepumpkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7feea3/32.png) [@somepumpkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/somepumpkin)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2017, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-most-epitomizes-the-70s-to-you/792484/23 "2017-07-31T16:36:50Z")
There are better, more-obvious answers but for me it’s the architecture and interior design (shag carpet and swag lamps come to mind). Along with subdivisions and split-level houses. or… Elton John. ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2017, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-most-epitomizes-the-70s-to-you/792484/24 "2017-07-31T16:42:12Z")
You are all wrong. The answer is **[Farrah Fawcett](https://www.bing.com/images/search?view=detailV2&ccid=1KlzY3bZ&id=FED5F7BA717579186E9A8FD963BF417CE5656A5F&thid=OIP.1KlzY3bZFiN7J56lgNPiNwDAEs&q=farrah+fawcett+majors&simid=608017008243707897&selectedIndex=15&ajaxhist=0)**! Specifically Farrah Fawcett-Majors. Jill Munroe AND Steve Austin! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2017, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-most-epitomizes-the-70s-to-you/792484/25 "2017-07-31T16:42:43Z")
Watergate. I was obsessed. I just added another book on the subject to my Kindle. Also Star Wars and incredibly uncomfortable polyester dresses. ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2017, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-most-epitomizes-the-70s-to-you/792484/26 "2017-07-31T16:43:21Z")
An angry, defensive President with an enemies list. A long-drawn-out overseas war. A massive drive to legalize marijuana. Self-absorption as a national pastime. I’m so glad everything’s changed! ---
**Author:** ![Grumbacher\_Red](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/85e7bf/32.png) [@Grumbacher\_Red](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grumbacher_Red)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2017, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-most-epitomizes-the-70s-to-you/792484/27 "2017-07-31T18:10:50Z")
The 70s, you ask? That’s being 15 and flying down a red dirt Georgia back road ridin’ shotgun in a black Formula One Trans Am with the T-tops out, wrecking my long Farrah Fawcett 'do while wearing a halter top and cut-offs, with Freebird blaring outta the radio. That, and sucking pennies because your cousin told you it would take the liquor off your breath. I know, I know…there are people right now in South Georgia who live that every day because they still think it is 1978. Thankfully, I did move on, but my 70s memories are stellar and golden! As for the 80s…well, that’s another thread! ---
**Author:** ![Flyer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/flyer/32/7298_2.png) [@Flyer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flyer)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2017, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-most-epitomizes-the-70s-to-you/792484/28 "2017-07-31T19:25:52Z")
> [@Personal](#): > > Whether clothing, appliances, or carpeting, colors that seemed to clash with whatever they were next to, such as greens, oranges, and yellows. Also, wood paneling that seemed to darken any room. One website I came across said, “art that clashed with everything, including itself.” 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![drewder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/57b2e6/32.png) [@drewder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewder)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2017, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-most-epitomizes-the-70s-to-you/792484/29 "2017-07-31T19:28:37Z")
Narcissistic baby boomers ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2017, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-most-epitomizes-the-70s-to-you/792484/30 "2017-07-31T19:32:28Z")
Good movies. Bad music. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2017, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-most-epitomizes-the-70s-to-you/792484/31 "2017-07-31T19:47:38Z")
I was a child in the 70’s. When I think of the decade my first thought is the colors. There are just certain clothing and decorating colors which were horrifically in vogue at the time. Avocado green, burnt gold, various shades of beige and brown, all within a certain palette and generally ombre’d down to a brownish hue. And Orange, it was a very orange decade. . . ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2017, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-most-epitomizes-the-70s-to-you/792484/32 "2017-07-31T19:51:16Z")
First thing that leaped to mind is how houses were decorated. Harvest gold refrigerator. The bright flowers on my sister’s wallpaper. My orange clock radio. My sister’s night stand was a barrel painted white. ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2017, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-most-epitomizes-the-70s-to-you/792484/33 "2017-07-31T19:52:10Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > Apparently, bellbottom trousers. This. This and everyone cool dressing up like the Fonz. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2017, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-most-epitomizes-the-70s-to-you/792484/34 "2017-07-31T19:55:36Z")
Leisure suits. Yes, I owned a couple. Along with Qiana shirts and platform shoes. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2017, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-most-epitomizes-the-70s-to-you/792484/35 "2017-07-31T19:59:27Z")
_Lisztomania._ The ultimate distillation of the peak of '70s excess at the decadent core of the decade. If the '80s were characterized by excess of greed, the excess of the '70s was all about sex, drugs, and rock-‘n’-roll. _Lisztomania_ is a crash course in what that was like. Ironically, by the time Ian Dury came out with that anthemic '70s song in 1978, the era of sex-drugs-rock-‘n’-roll excess depicted in _Lisztomania_ was over and the New Wave, including Dury, had abruptly shoved it aside. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2017, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-most-epitomizes-the-70s-to-you/792484/36 "2017-07-31T20:20:50Z")
Great music, better movies, but if you are looking at specifics, Fleetwood Mac and Chinatown are what I think of when I think “the 70s”. And Philly soul, and that “scratch guitar” sound I associate with funk. ---
**Author:** ![Aquadementia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aquadementia/32/555_2.png) [@Aquadementia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aquadementia)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2017, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-most-epitomizes-the-70s-to-you/792484/37 "2017-07-31T23:01:19Z")
Hanna-Barbera cartoons drag me right back to the 70s. Hong Kong Phooey Number one super guy. ---
**Author:** ![Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2017, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-most-epitomizes-the-70s-to-you/792484/38 "2017-07-31T23:47:11Z")
I was born in the '70s. Mother made me wear plaid. I had a stupid haircut. It made me really mad. Whoooooaaaah Disco! [Everything in this song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-zPdSXmt2U) basically ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2017, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-most-epitomizes-the-70s-to-you/792484/39 "2017-08-01T00:19:48Z")
My first marriage. Neither was exactly a high spot in my life. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2017, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-most-epitomizes-the-70s-to-you/792484/40 "2017-08-01T00:47:02Z")
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