Please tell me it still looks like that. Please.
It doesn’t, sorry. An update.
Maybe in Ontario that was the case, but I spent most of the 70s in Florida, and flip-flops and sandals were acceptable for everyone, everywhere. I had a neighbor, Mr. Stephens, who was in his 70s and wore flip-flops (though to be fair, that was pretty uncommon among septuagenarians).
Well, you’re sorta’ on the right track, but you’ve got it ass-backwards. I think the disco-bashers of a certain age are those that were too socially inept to go out and actually, you know, catch the scene and dance with the girls, alla that.
I loved the discos, and still like to play my cassettes of disco music every now and then. The times and the disco scene had some real, advantages, ya’ know?
Do it right
Take me through the night
Shadow dancin’… 
Also: Kids today. They’re rude, sloppy, and their music makes my ears hurt.
You guess the era.
Lessee: the 70s: no AIDS, free love, plenty of drugs and a general preoccupation with sex. On the other hand, bad wallpaper.
Gee, that’s a toughie.
What will people 30 years from now be saying about the fashions, decorating, music, etc., of today, I wonder?
Anybody care to guess?
How accurate is That '70s Show?
Hi, Ma! How is it on the Other Side? The Scotch whiskey over there suit ya, or is it the cheap-ass stuff?
Anyway, I know my friends don’t dress neat and you don’t like the way Barbara does her makeup, especially around her eyes. I know YOU can’t tell the difference between Buddy Holly and Chuck Berry, and you think that Elvis guy is a dope fiend…“I read that he has a Forty-Dollar a Day habit! How’s he gonna keep that up when you guys wise up and stop buying his crap music? And take out the friggin’ garbage before I stuff your head in it!”
Gee, nothin’'s changed since '58!
Oh yeah, Sis got off that powdery stuff she was snortin’. Then she kicked the alcohol too. She goes to more of them “Anonymous” meetings than Carter’s got pills, but she’s been clean for eleven years now. Me, I’m still havin’ a little drink every now and then, and hittin’ a good bar when I get a chance, but it’s gettin harder and harder to find bar-bands that play good music. You wouldn’t believe the crap the kids are listening to these days. I don’t know how they stand it, it all sounds the same!
Nice talkin’ to you again, Mom.
Oh, it’s the good stuff, son. 18 year Macallan.
I’m sure they’ll say that most Top 40 music sounded like it was made on a Mac by a recent high school graduate, and that most white women between 19 and 23 in 2006 looked like a cross between giant flies (enormous bug-eye sunglasses) and cockatiels (with the bangs pulled back over the top of their heads).
I agree with this sentiment and I’m 20.
They’ll be asking “what was up with all the teal?”
“and the mint green?”
I was born in 1960 – I was a teenager in the 1970s, and I had a great time! I don’t regret any fashion decision I made (probably because I can’t recall them right now; maybe I will get out the old pictures when I get home!).
I will say this in defense of the seventies: No decade that introduced the world to Lynda Carter as Wonder Woman (1975 to 1979) can be that bad!
Ohh Noo. I turned 21 in the middle of 1977 and less “socially inept” there were few. I went to all the best disco bars because that is were the hot looking ladies were. I met more than my share and had some good times.
I did not wear polyester or spandex. Nor did I wear platform shoes or clothing that was floresent in color. I owned no disco in any media form.
Being socially adept means going were the ladies are, but DISCO STILL SUCKS.
Sam’s not quite clear about the “bubble car” future envisioned in the 70s. I don’t think he means that people still had a Jetson’s style fantasy about life in the future, but rather that they still believed that the future was going to be a complete break with the past.
So we might have colonies on Mars, we might be living in radioactive bomb craters, we might be living in group marriages and see virginity beyond the age of 10 as a perversion, we might be all be telepaths, we might see social unrest rise to the point of total societal collapse, we might be slaves of ape/robot/alien/soviet overlords…who knows what the future would bring, but it certainly wasn’t going to be anything like the present.
The present was going down the tubes, there was no way the current order would last, we would either be saved by some deus ex machina or go down in flames, but it was a certainty that in 2006 people weren’t going to be living in “houses” and getting “married” and listening to “rock and roll” and watching “television” and holding “elections” and driving “cars” that used “gasoline” and being “employed” by “corporations” and praying to “Jesus”. These were all things that would be swept away, one way or another, in the future.
Sam’s unable to speak for himself?