I REMEMBER THE 70S CUZ I WAS THEREsw

[alltatup]

This topic seems required, because some folks are skeptical about who was there or who can remember them. So let's all of us old hippies, curmudgeons, and farts provide incontrovertible proof that we were there. I'll go first.



In the first picture, you see what are called 45 records. We used to play them on record players. They are from the 60s, which, since I'm writing this now, demonstrates conclusively that I was there for the 70s.

The second picture is when I was a senior in high school. I'm the female screaming for more drugs. That was 1970. Since I grow my own, I don't scream anymore.

The third picture is a sterling lizard I got in Guadalajara, Mexico, in 1977. I WAS THERE.

 

[3Berries]

First concert I went to was Sly and the Family Stone and they actually showed up!

 

[alltatup]

I saw Lovin Spoonful, Mothers of Invention, Traffic, Cat Stevens, Jethro Tull, James Taylor, Poco (countless times in the Cowtown Ballroom, Kansas City)

 

[Farmbuck]

Saw my first surround sound concert in Toronto in the early 70's, the band was Pink Floyd.

 

[oldjarhead100]

saw the turtles at a civic center concert, saw Aerosmith at a club in Boston before they made it big

 

[Going2fast]

Elvis live. Am I old enough?

 

[Going2fast]

I was only 12.

 

[bboyfromwayback]

I was born in 76’ but I remember having to get up to change the channel or the volume. If you changed the channel you then had to ‘tune’ the tv in to get the best fuzzy picture possible. Great times 😂

 

[Gingerbeard]

I was catching the matinee cabaret in Deep Ellum back in 29' when Black Friday hit. Josephine Baker, it was. The incandescent light show was amazing. Goddamn technology is crazy! There was a two drum set getting pounded on, keeping tune for the upright. It was like they were coming out of the same megaphone! Spoke to my soul, it did.
Hooked up with the drummer and piano dude and smoked a bunch of weed in the dressing room. 1920's jazz weed, man. Better than bathtub gin to get rid of the blues.

 

[quirk]

I was ten when this miracle hit the market

 

[90Gizmo]

My friend's TV had a remote control that went sployng when you pressed one of the three buttons on it and the TV understood the slightly different sployngs it heard and changed channels up or down or turned the TV on or off depending on the button you pressed. I paid 19 cents a gallon for the first gasoline I ever bought.

 

[UndergroundFarmer]

I drove a Big Wheel back in those days.

 

[alltatup]

WHOA!!! That's REEEEEEALLY old!!!!!

 

[alltatup]

You were 12 throughout the 70s? Wow, you must have taken a LOT of drugs.

 

[alltatup]

You young whippersnapper. But you do have a good memory!!

 

[alltatup]

Yes, GB, you are ageless, timeless and dimensionless. Maybe you're a god....

 

[alltatup]

I remember those contraptions!!! The days before plastic took over the planet were good days...

 

[alltatup]

I remember buying cigarettes for 50 cents out of the machine.

 

[alltatup]

Like a tractor big wheel? So you were always an Underground Farmer even when you were a little tyke?? It was your destiny.

 

[alltatup]

When I saw the Mothers of Invention, the singer from the Turtles had joined the band. So happy together...