Any 70’s children in here?

[Alias Detective 1,474]

https://a-broad-in-london.com/blog/2019/7/16/a-childhood-of-the-70s-versus-today-are-we-lucky-we-survived-our-youth-or-have-our-kids-really-missed-out-on-something-wonderfulnbsp
 

[Shooter McGavin 618]

Good Times!

[Hardcore troubadour 16,037]

Liberals ruin everything.  Even childhood. 

[TimmySmith 2,783]

I remember when I got my Schwinn Scrambler 36/36 in 1977.  The exact bike in the link.  

1977 Schwinn Competition Scrambler - BMXmuseum.com

[Shooter McGavin 618]

My first bike was a huffy from the toy store which I rode for years, until I got my dream bike, a Redline 600c

https://bmxmuseum.com/bikes/redline/72922

[TimmySmith 2,783]

1 minute ago, Shooter McGavin said:

My first bike was a huffy from the toy store which I rode for years, until I got my dream bike, a Redline 600c

https://bmxmuseum.com/bikes/redline/72922

Redlines were sweet. 

[edjr 7,034]

1972  - Fock the yutes of today. Puzzies

[fandandy 3,314]

1972 as well.  I remember family vacations sitting between my two older sisters in the back seat, also listening to Neil Diamond on 8 track and the only time we stopped was when my dad had to pee, get gas, or when we got a Happy Meal.  I remember asking if I could lay on the floor or in the back window while we barrelled down I-75.  

Yep.  Just be quiet.

[[echo] 82]

this is great

[edjr 7,034]

33 minutes ago, fandandy said:

1972 as well.  I remember family vacations sitting between my two older sisters in the back seat, also listening to Neil Diamond on 8 track and the only time we stopped was when my dad had to pee, get gas, or when we got a Happy Meal.  I remember asking if I could lay on the floor or in the back window while we barrelled down I-75.  

Yep.  Just be quiet.

Can't tell you how many times my dad pulled over the baby blue firebird on the highway  (breakdown lane) to get out and lean in the back (2 door car) and throw me a beating for fighting with my younger brother. 

[Alias Detective 1,474]

1 hour ago, TimmySmith said:

I remember when I got my Schwinn Scrambler 36/36 in 1977.  The exact bike in the link.  

1977 Schwinn Competition Scrambler - BMXmuseum.com

 

56 minutes ago, Shooter McGavin said:

My first bike was a huffy from the toy store which I rode for years, until I got my dream bike, a Redline 600c

https://bmxmuseum.com/bikes/redline/72922

I went through endless bottles of WD-40 spraying my chain whilst my bike was upside down and I was hand crankin the pedals!  GREAT MEMORIES!

[edjr 7,034]

1 minute ago, Alias Detective said:

 

I went through endless bottles of WD-40 spraying my chain whilst my bike was upside down and I was hand crankin the pedals!  GREAT MEMORIES!

with a Cal Ripken topps card in the spokes. 

[TimmySmith 2,783]

11 minutes ago, Alias Detective said:

I went through endless bottles of WD-40 spraying my chain whilst my bike was upside down and I was hand crankin the pedals!  GREAT MEMORIES!

I broke so many chains. I would always be going to the bike store to get a master link, then putting it on.  Must have had 10 master links on it by the end.  We learned this stuff by ourselves.

[frank 2,355]

1 hour ago, Shooter McGavin said:

Good Times!

The Jeffersons! 

[TimmySmith 2,783]

3 minutes ago, frank said:

The Jeffersons! 

   What's Happening!!

[Shooter McGavin 618]

What's Happening > Good Times > Jeffersons

[Alias Detective 1,474]

12 minutes ago, TimmySmith said:

   What's Happening!!

DYNOMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIITE

[supermike80 2,146]

I saw a kid about two weeks ago riding his big wheel thing...with a frickin helmet on.   Good god.

[Hardcore troubadour 16,037]

I used to ride my first bike with the banana seat off the dock into the lake after the beach closed. Needless to say I ruined it and did not get another.  I had to build my own after that. 

[porkbutt 897]

1974 and i had this bad boy handed down to me from brother...

https://bmxmuseum.com/image/image57e758896c_blowup.jpg

[JustinCharge 2,397]

bicycles?  when i was a kid, id fly planes.  real planes.  the local airport didnt care.  theyd hand me a booster seat and say have fun!  i wasnt a psycho that beat up my siblings or ran bicycles off a dock into the water, so i got trusted status.  the scary part was clearing the treeline at the end of the runway. ill never forget the feeling of approaching those trees, wondering if im gonna die, pulling up and clearing them with ease.  that was fun.

 

after 911, i doubt theyd ever allow a kid to do that again.  altho you can jump in and pilot small toy planes or a paramotor without a license to this day.

 

looking back, that was an AMAZING way to keep a child behaved.  start out by giving the kid access to something azamingly cool like flying planes, but let them know that if you turn into a little punk bending and breaking rules, destroying property, etc, its gone for good. that will keep you o the straight and narrow without shouting or yelling or spankig.

[edjr 7,034]

27 minutes ago, JustinCharge said:

bicycles?  when i was a kid, id fly planes.  real planes.  the local airport didnt care.  theyd hand me a booster seat and say have fun!  i wasnt a psycho that beat up my siblings or ran bicycles off a dock into the water, so i got trusted status.  the scary part was clearing the treeline at the end of the runway. ill never forget the feeling of approaching those trees, wondering if im gonna die, pulling up and clearing them with ease.  that was fun.

 

after 911, i doubt theyd ever allow a kid to do that again.  altho you can jump in and pilot small toy planes or a paramotor without a license to this day.

 

looking back, that was an AMAZING way to keep a child behaved.  start out by giving the kid access to something azamingly cool like flying planes, but let them know that if you turn into a little punk bending and breaking rules, destroying property, etc, its gone for good. that will keep you o the straight and narrow without shouting or yelling or spankig.

Did you borrow digbys plane?

[TimmySmith 2,783]

1 hour ago, porkbutt said:

1974 and i had this bad boy handed down to me from brother...

https://bmxmuseum.com/image/image57e758896c_blowup.jpg

Made for sick jumps. 

[TBayXXXVII 2,679]

4 hours ago, Shooter McGavin said:

What's Happening > Good Times > Jeffersons

Definitely What's Happening was the best. Good Times and the Jefferson's are a toss up.  I think Sanford & Son was better than both of them though.

[BeenHereBefore 1,669]

I was reading some of the post on the site and some idiot mentioned his dad taking them to Blockbuster. Glad someone told them BB didn't even come out till 85.

[BeenHereBefore 1,669]

2 hours ago, TBayXXXVII said:

Definitely What's Happening was the best. Good Times and the Jefferson's are a toss up.  I think Sanford & Son was better than both of them though.

I like them all and yea S&S was probably the best. That's when Afro American comedies were good and funny.

[easilyscan 1,065]

What a liberal would say: "the lack of diversity in that article is horrifying"

[Cruzer 1,996]

Being a kid in the 70s rocked. Except for the clothes, gawd polyester sucked. 

[Cloaca du jour 2,157]

4 hours ago, BeenHereBefore said:

I was reading some of the post on the site and some idiot mentioned his dad taking them to Blockbuster. Glad someone told them BB didn't even come out till 85.

Born in 70s...would be 15 in 85...

[Cloaca du jour 2,157]

3 hours ago, Cruzer said:

Being a kid in the 70s rocked. Except for the clothes, gawd polyester sucked. 

Toughskins...cardboard jeans lol.  Garanimals to pick out your own clothes.

[Alias Detective 1,474]

1 minute ago, Cloaca du jour said:

Toughskins...cardboard jeans lol.

Had em.  Husky version too.

[posty 2,849]

Stopped reading the article when they mentioned going to a BlockBuster…. Nice research idiot…

[wiffleball 4,797]

19 minutes ago, Cloaca du jour said:

Toughskins...cardboard jeans lol.  Garanimals to pick out your own clothes.

jesus. Sitting around a campfire and those knee patches would super heat and burn the skin off your knees down to the bone.

 

Frick dude I still have scars I'm pretty sure.

 

I swear to god, we would have saved the space shuttles if we had just replaced the f****** tiles with tough skins knee patches.

[wiffleball 4,797]

You know, I put a lot of thought into this. I guess maybe because it's probably the only decade where I've ever been actually happy.

 

Pathetic or not, I'd say the biggest element of that was television. I've talked here many times here about Saturday morning cartoons. But there are so many other shows too. 

 

There are other things. Like many others here, taking off for the whole day and coming back on the street lights turn on. Epic games of hide and seek. So many things.

 

 

[BeenHereBefore 1,669]

51 minutes ago, Cloaca du jour said:

Born in 70s...would be 15 in 85...

I don't think anyone had vcrs till around 81 and only a very few had them.

[Pimpadeaux 2,407]

I remember being horny all the time.

 

[BunnysBastatrds 2,706]

 Sanford & Son 

Grape Ape

 

[SUXBNME 1,625]

13 hours ago, TimmySmith said:

I broke so many chains. I would always be going to the bike store to get a master link, then putting it on.  Must have had 10 master links on it by the end.  We learned this stuff by ourselves.

I worked at a bike store for a few years back in the days when I raced BMX...

I'll have to post more in this thread with regards to early day BMX if I remember (to post)
Most of you will remember...

[SUXBNME 1,625]

14 hours ago, edjr said:

with a Cal Ripken topps card in the spokes. 

nope..I used my dads 52 Mantle card on the front and my grandpas T-206 Wagner card on the rear. 

O'Doyles Rules !@#

[Dizkneelande 1,136]

73. I also stopped at VHS and Blockbuster. Our poor asses didn’t have that crap til the mid 80s.