Random Outdated 70's Experiences

[HardyGirl]

Here's a great recording off regular television back in '77. A news break from the Incredible Hulk and then a promo for Rudolph...sigh... It feels like yesterday once more...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XX8n...eature=related

Cool link! My mom loved the Hulk! She'd watch it w/ me and loved the ending theme. And I remember her rule about Christmas specials: homework finished, clean plate at supper, and PJs on by 8pm if I wanted to watch.

[Doc]

Footy PJs

Mr Softee

Cowboys and Indians were still "in"

[The Batman Professor]

Sitting in my giant Spider-Man bean bag chair with my first girlfriend, watching SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN, and exploring female anatomy.

Did that every Sunday night for almost a year. Then she moved away with her family.

[The Batman Professor]

*This predates the above.

For a few glorious weeks in 1974, the single greatest group of TV shows were on Friday nights:

8pm - CBS - PLANET OF THE APES
9pm - ABC - THE SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN
10pm - ABC - KOLCHAK THE NIGHT STALKER

Shortly thereafter, SMDM moved to 8:30. Then, POTA got canceled. Then KOLCHAK bit the dust. BUT IT WAS MAGIC WHILE IT LASTED,

[MIB41]

*This predates the above.

For a few glorious weeks in 1974, the single greatest group of TV shows were on Friday nights:

8pm - CBS - PLANET OF THE APES
9pm - ABC - THE SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN
10pm - ABC - KOLCHAK THE NIGHT STALKER

Shortly thereafter, SMDM moved to 8:30. Then, POTA got canceled. Then KOLCHAK bit the dust. BUT IT WAS MAGIC WHILE IT LASTED,

I remember that! I also remember that new episodes of POTA were sporadic in the beginning. It was nothing to see a rerun of the same show before they were more than three or four in. I don't even think I saw the series in it's entirety until it came out on DVD, the programming was so bad back then.

[samurainoir]

Now wearing seatbelts tops my list.

[HardyGirl]

Now wearing seatbelts tops my list.

Was that supposed to be NOT wearing seatbelts? Yeah, I can remember being on my knees in the backseat, looking out the rear window at all the scenery we past, or cars approaching us on the freeway. I also used to love to squish myself on the floor between the front and back seat, throw a blanket on my head and pretend it was a cave.

[MIB41]

Hardygirl did you find yourself in one of these like alot of kids in the 70's? I know I sure did. My brother and I use to lay down in the back with the seats folded down and look out the windows when we would take trips. I guess the SUV is the modern day station wagon now.

[HardyGirl]

Hardygirl did you find yourself in one of these like alot of kids in the 70's? I know I sure did. My brother and I use to lay down in the back with the seats folded down and look out the windows when we would take trips. I guess the SUV is the modern day station wagon now.

http://megomuseum.com/mmgallery/file...FordSquire.jpg

Only during one summer when my dad's friend went away and we had to babysit his station wagon. My dad let my older brother use it w/ the condition he had to take me and my foster sister (from Africa) w/ him wherever he went, which he resented. He knew I was really afraid of open fire hydrants at that time (I was 7) so whenever we'd get on his nerves jumping around in the back of that thing, he'd pass under one on purpose, just to freak me out. We would threaten to tell my dad, and then he'd shut us up by bribing us w/ candy or Zingers or some such treat.

[Werewolf]

Fake wood paneling on game consoles. Atari, Intellivison and zillions of Pong consoles had it. Nothing said high tech cutting edge electronics in the 70s like fake wood paneling. I miss it. The XBOX and PS3 would be just that much cooler if they only had that fake wood paneling.

[mego73]

A 70's experience that I haven't heard mentioned here (and I share many that were said) was the imagination overdrive I applied to those forbidden R and X rated movies.

Anytime I saw an ad for an R rated movie, if it was a horror movie I imagined that there was so much carnage, gore, death and scariness in it that it would put me in a straight jacket (made me want to see it so much more).

Anytime I would see an ad for any R rated movie with a sexy theme, my imagination would concoct a wild porn movie (well, as much porn as a kid could imagine, which is basically everybody running around naked most the time and some serious Doctor playing).

In the paper, there were ads for the X rated movies. I couldn't even imagine the thermonuclear goings on in these movies that would top my vision of R rated movies.

Besides that. The 70's were a time that I thought movies and TV could show ANYTHING. There was no concept of if it could be afforded or if the technology was there or not. I figured that if the movie gods wanted to show a huge monster trampling a city of the future, they just did it. And to me, the clunkiest effects usually did the trick, because my youthful imagination erased the matte lines and made me see more than what was actually there.

So, my uniquely 70's experience was watching movies and TV with the idea that they could show just about anything.

Before a time I knew about how the budget and technology limited the effects, before I knew that my vision of R rated horror and sex was ridiculously exaggerated.

[kryptosmaster]

Several times each summer we would take a drive down to my Grandma & Grandpa's cabin that we called "The Farm" because the property was originally a farm and next door (country road next door) there was this ancient farmhouse. It was way up at the top of this long, steep road in the country (out in the middle of nowhere).
We'd take Gram's blue 67 Chevy Biscayne wagon (with the hand-crank roll-down rear window and the original clear plastic covers still on the bench seats).
There were always one or more cousins who went along as well. We'd take a huge brown paper grocery bag full of comics to read on the way there, while down there and on the way back. We got to sit in the way back (no seats and no seatbelts) and this was like a 4 hour drive along twisty 2-lane interstate country roads that went through the Main Street of every little town.
We knew when we were about 1/2 way there because that's when we stopped at the little diner called The Loafin' Tree and got some soft-serve ice cream cones at their "new" outdoor order window. The last turnoff was onto a dirt road about 8 miles long that led to the cabin. A huge cloud of dust followed us all the way and if Grams slowed down a little it would catch up to us and you'd pretend like you got swept up in a tornado or something.
Once we got there we had to hike or take the wagon a ways up the road to pump out spring water to use/drink while we were there. We got to sit on the open tailgate for the bumpy ride.
When nightfall came we would see deer appear at the edges of the woods and we would go on firefly hunts while the adults sat around the open fire where we'd also roast marshmallows.
The woods were only about 100 yards away (if that) and I was always afraid to sleep near the windows because I had seen too many Bigfoot movies.
Rich

[david_b]

I remember that! I also remember that new episodes of POTA were sporadic in the beginning. It was nothing to see a rerun of the same show before they were more than three or four in. I don't even think I saw the series in it's entirety until it came out on DVD, the programming was so bad back then.

Yep.. sad story..: I never missed the show. My parents and I were moving back from Florida to Wisconsin, and I kept insisting that we get to a hotel by 8pm on Friday night so I could watch POTA (which were the last eps by then..).

Back then, my parents would drive all night when going 'cross country on trips, so staying in a motel was a nice change. Never quite got there on time, just in time for the ending..

david_b

[bizzaro megomauler]

How about when the friday before a new cartoon season, watching the specials that sampled all of them. man that was like Ed Sullivan having the Beatles on for us youngsters!

[jds1911a1]

Hardygirl did you find yourself in one of these like alot of kids in the 70's? I know I sure did. My brother and I use to lay down in the back with the seats folded down and look out the windows when we would take trips. I guess the SUV is the modern day station wagon now.

http://megomuseum.com/mmgallery/file...FordSquire.jpg

maybe (the same argument is made for minivans) but Wagons were better. I swear I would rather get a late 80's wagon now than an SUV or minivan