Shoe by Gary Brookins and Susie MacNelly for September 11, 2021

Disco came and went.

If you couldn’t find it because of a messy house you could always go to the wall, find the plate where the line plugs in and follow the wire back to the phone.

True, and the only mobile phones were installed in cars.

I always liked the pizza outings our Engineering Group had. Gas lines, not so much. So I always bought gas for the car in the “off” hours.

Bell-bottom pants and platform shoes came and mostly went.

Match Game!

I don’t miss the lines to buy gasoline, a war the Pentagon and WH had known we couldn’t win for almost ten years already by that time plus all the violence around the world related to it, disco, using “My wife – I think I’ll keep her!” as an advertising slogan, the massacre of Olympic athletes, and a lot of other things. A lot of those things I don’t miss (or their “kissin’ cousins”) are still around today.

The phones were durable as heck as well.

Nothing! Worst decade of my life. LOL. (Luckily good decades were ahead).

No robocalls!

leisure suits… grin

lord, the fashions were awful…

saturday night live was my favorite part of the 70s…

And we never had to yell CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW.

ac/dc,kiss,twisted sister,ted nugent

Pink Floyd. Rush. ZZ Top. Grateful Dead. Rolling Stones. Led Zeppelin. The Who. Dire Straits. Tom Petty. Bob Dylan. Elton John. The Doobie Bros. Jethro Tull. Bob Seger. Fleetwood Mac. Warren Zevon. Joe Walsh. Neil Young.

alice cooper,ozzy osbourne,judas priest,the scorpions

andre the giant

Good question… nothing is coming to mind

So true, the phones were still connected to the wall.

The music of the first half.

People didn’t steal your phone back then, either. The national criminal pastime in most South American countries now is cell phone theft.

A couple of kids….

Sister’s kids found an old dial phone. “Look at this funny phone – what is this round thing with the numbers under it!”

As kids in the ’70s, we were too busy playing outside to be thinking about a phone.

Anyone who thinks ‘70s music sucked was either (a) not there, or (b) listening to the wrong music! See BearsDown’s post above; I’ll add to that – Stevie Wonder, James Brown, Earth, Wind & Fire, Parliament-Funkadelic, Rufus feat. Chaka Khan, the Bar-Kays, the Isley Brothers, Kool & the Gang, the Brothers Johnson, Isaac Hayes, Billy Preston, the Commodores, Bill Withers, Herbie Hancock…well, I could go on, but you get the point – I hope!

That is no lie!

I was a teen in the 70s, when the telephone came in on a wire and television didn’t.

No internet, smartphones or pc. Just Atarie 2600

I wish. Any phone that could be disconnected from its wire and moved to another location in the house had the potential to be “lost” when you needed it.

Corinthian Leather…wait, no – that and the car it came in were the worst!

The 1970s left behind some great and memorable music, American cars were more fun to drive and easier to work on, I was in my care-free 20’s and traveled around a lot, as most modes of traveling were cheaper and easier back then. The 1970s will not be forgotten!

Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd.

… and no telemarketers

I was young, free (unwed) and…having fun.

Yup. Screwed right into the wall, they were!

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