Little things you miss about 70's/80s culture

[Werewolf]

I know what you mean about the wood grain. I used to love that faux wood effect on everything.

I also agree about woodgrain. It was everywhere.

Cool! Nice to see some wood grain appreciation. I really dig the look of 70s and 80s consumer electronics. Like the big console TVs and Stereos that had everything built in. It's just all really cool looking.

[tmthor]

1) Saturday morning cartoons
2) afternoon cartoons
3) the toylines were much better

[Mikey]

Little things you miss about 70's/80s culture

The smell of fuel oil exhaust inside a school bus

[Allie Fox]

I don't think it's been mentioned yet but; Baseball cards!

From the mid-70s to the mid-80s, baseball cards were totally important to me and my group of friends. Flipping, trading, team/color poker. . .
for some of us this also expanded into other types of cards including hockey, football, and TV/Movie cards (there is a recent thread dedicated to this).
But it wasn't only the fun of collecting them. Putting a card or cards in the spokes of your bicycle wheel was another great thing about cards.

Although I grew up in the suburbs (on LI) and now live in a very rural south, how about riding your bicycle? In my neighborhood, the bike was the primary form of transportation for all kids. We rode our bikes everywhere. To friends' houses. To the mall. To the movie theater. Just around the neighborhood. My son (age 12) has a few friends who don't even know how to ride a bike. Although they all have four-wheelers.

Bus stops are something else I miss. Again this is probably the result of going from the suburbs to the country but when I was a kid, the school bus picked you up at a bus stop that was not directly in front of your house. These days, where I live now a bus will make five stops on a single street to pick up every kid in front of their house rather than everyone meeting at the corner.

Speaking of wood grain. . .

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This PS4 is so much better for it.

HERE is an eBay auction to dress yours up.

[Mikey]

Bus stops are something else I miss. Again this is probably the result of going from the suburbs to the country but when I was a kid, the school bus picked you up at a bus stop that was not directly in front of your house.

We used to have one of those giant mailbox looking bus stop shelters with advertising on both sides.

Cold as hell in the winter considering they didn't have fronts.

[tay666]

Cool! Nice to see some wood grain appreciation. I really dig the look of 70s and 80s consumer electronics. Like the big console TVs and Stereos that had everything built in. It's just all really cool looking.

Not just that. Cable boxes, video games, and digital clocks were woodgrain.
Video cameras, thermoses, cassette/VHS holders. Heck, I even remember having some paper cups with woodgrain printed on them.
Cars had woodgrain, inside and out.
Paneling was something everyone wanted to put in their houses.

[TrekStar]

Definitely Saturday morning cartoons and after school specials, a happier better simpler time, it's all a joke today.

[Obibob]

[QUOTE=PNGwynne;1314858]Weekend TV with Big Chuck and Little John on ch. 8 and Super-Host on ch. 43. (Can you dig it, Dwayne? )

I'm sure you must have meant Friday nights with Hoolihan and Big Chuck!! I was never too much of a Little John (Rinaldi) fan myself. Super Host ruled - I never missed Saturday Mad Theater. Can't mention Super Host though without giving a shout out to The Ghoul on channel 61. Actually, I miss UHF channels in general...sigh

Great memories to be sure!

[HardyGirl]

Yes, I love wood grain. If I had my way, I'd re-do my living room 70s style! (renting from my brother, so that's a big fat NO) And I do have 2 wood grain entertainment centers, (living room, my bedroom) 16 wood grain VHS drawer sets, 1 cassette tape drawer set, and a wood grain Atari 2600 cartridge holder.

And I really miss seeing kids playing outside, and Big Wheels going up and down the block!

[bigdicebuddha]

-Drive In Movies
-Creature Features
-Five and Dimes
-Having to wait for stuff (no instant accessibility).
-Mail In Promotions
-Brick and Mortar Stores
-Cereal Prizes
-Video Rental Places

[bigdicebuddha]

Thought of something else:

Department Store Catalogs at Christmas
Movie Poster ads in the Newspaper with Showtimes

[Dark Shadow]

Quisp, Quake, King Diamond, Kaboom

Rich colored crafted glassware
Black wrought iron & Spanish decor
Telephones
Mid-century styled lamps & furniture

Local radio & TV stations (and UHF channels)
Family dinners & neighborhood Bar-B-Qs
Mom & Pop downtown shops & services

Local toy stores and 5 & 10's
J. J. Newberry, Gemco, Zody's, Whitefront, Licorice Pizza
Sambo's, Jolly Roger, Straw Hat Pizza, Tastee Freeze, Naugles
Stop 'N Go, Alpha-Beta

Genuine swap meets

[Spawn67]

Random thought I had today. I really miss NBC's Thursday night lineup The Cosby Show, Family Ties, Cheers, and Night Court...

I also miss Wrestling on Saturday mornings and the beginning of how big wrestling would become..

[Mikey]

I also miss Wrestling on Saturday mornings and the beginning of how big wrestling would become..

Remember TNT (Tuesday Night Titans) ?

[TrekStar]

I also miss Kresges and all the stores that sold those Halloween costumes with the plastic masks with elastic band, and the bodysuits inside what I used to call the plastic window cake boxes, I also remember some of those stores had costumes hanging up from the ceilings.