Ziggy.
Smiley Faces.
Captains. Captain Kangaroo, Captain Bob, Captain and Tenielle, Captain Caveman…
Disaster movies with all-star casts.
Meat Loaf’s Bat out of Hell.
Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours.
And a lot of one-hit wonders on Top-40 radio.
Burnt orange and lime green.
Ugh. It was everywhere, and I couldn’t escape it. I didn’t know any different when I was living in it, but as soon as I was out of it I actively rejected it.
There are lots of things about the 70s I can look back at fondly with some nostalgia, and a fair amount of it is objectively good and timeless, but not those godawful colour schemes and fashion choices involving orange and green.
I graduated from high school in 1978. I was not into drugs or sex really, so it’s the music and the movies I remember most. Elton John and Fleetwood Mac , I listen to them all the time now. It’s amazing how music can take you back.
I personally missed it by a few years, but I was going to say “orange,” too.
If you add an “F” to the front of his/her poster name, the answer is the OP.
Custom Vans were everywhere. The more bling the better.
The decor is memorable, Shag carpeting, Bright wall colors, Sunken living rooms.
Bell bottoms, zip up boots, and tie dye shirts. Blow dried hair styles.
I loved the 70’s.
Polyester.
Pretty much everything **kiz **said. I was born in 1969.
(BTW, the Sundance network plays marathons of MAS*H and Barney Miller in the mornings. I’ve got Barney Miller on instead of the news today.)
With leather-strapped wedge sandals and a tight scoop-neck t-shirt. Wasted on me since I was 10 at the end of the decade. Would’ve looked great five years later, though.
And another vote for oh-god-orange-and-mud-brown-and-yellow-and-avocado EVERYTHING. I’m still allergic to those colors. Ditto the tweed sofa that everyone seemed to have – damned itchy when you wore shorts. I lived in Florida; we wore shorts all the time.
I’ve started to listen to a lot of Classic Rock because, by god, those people knew how to play instruments and sing without effing auto-tune and didn’t use “UNNNH, UNNNHHH” as a lyric. (And get off my lawn!)
**70s:
Pros: **
Music: Classic Rock was absolutely great. Zep, Pink Floyd & Yes just to name a few.
TV: the best decade for Sitcoms. All in the Family, MAS*H, Barney Miller, Taxi, WKRP, Mary Tyler Moore, Soap, The Odd Couple, Fawlty Towers and evan Bob Newhart and the early seasons of Happy Days.
Movies: Pretty great decade that includes both Godfathers, The Sting, Star Wars and Jaws. Young Frankenstein, Animal House, Holy Grail & Blazing Saddles and so many more.
Album covers of the 70s were pretty awesome as a minor side note.
Politics: Nixon going to China was pretty awesome
**Cons:
**Music: Disco was about the worst music has been.
Politics: Almost all bad, Nixon, Carter, Ted Kennedy just to name a few.
TV: Pretty crappy time for drams
The Economy: terrible, terrible & terrible. Oil crisis & Gas Lines, Inflation & wildcat strikes.
The morale of the US & UK: Dreadful, both countries felt like we going down the drain. NYC burning and nearly going bankrupt. Rioting in the inner cities. Crime out of control. Military probably at its all time low.
Vietnam, Watergate & Iranian Hostages.
I annoy my coworkers whenever the PA system satellite radio does its 70s track, LOL. Or, as one of them says, “Oh god, that’s Dad music…” with an eyeroll.
Disco/ Funk
Inflation
Oil Embargo/ gasoline shortages
Ineffectual presidents
Blaxploitation movies
New York City as urban dystopia
Science-Fiction movies all had lots of white plastic
Poofy hair
I was born in '66 and the colors are some of what I remember as well. I don’t recall green so much as a lot of yellow and orange in everything. furniture covers, table cloths, wallpaper, clothes etc. It was like people suddenly had an aversion to natural tones and wanted the world to know it.
There was a popular green, I don’t recall its name but my parents had both fridge & stove in the color. Harvest gold, Red and pumpkin orange were big time 70s colors.
Actually the fondue pots of the 70s represented the dominate colors of the 70s pretty well.
Sky high interest rates. A 6 month CD was paying 15% and mortgage rates were at or near 20%. Ugly.
I swear the CD rates didn’t hit 15% until the 80s. How sure are you of that number?
Avocado Green was the colour used in appliances. But there were many shades, from blindingly vivid to a muddy swamp green too.
The Brady Bunch.
Perms for men.
Porno-type mustaches.
Halter tops.
Bell-bottom/hip hugger jeans.
No mention of Farrah Fawcett?