I Miss 1978; I WANT IT BACK AGAIN, NOW!!!

5', 12"? Did you ever reach 6'?

Music was the best part of the 70s

I'd like a do over from 1973.

Thread: Stupid teens dont know 70s music.

I was 1 .

The year I was born I spent 10 months on earth while elvis still waked the same ground , son of sam killer was caught , star wars was released born on the coldest day of the year in my city in RI

I was seven, collected GLASS Coke/Pop bottles for a living ... 10 cents a piece ... made a killing along the roads - how did I survive?

Mom's car was a '67 Skylark, no seat beats, her forearm was the seatbelt and it deployed faster than an air bag - yep - I was in the front seat - how did I survive?

I wandered the woods with my dog, miles from home at this age ... getting into creek water, catching Mud Puppies and Salamanders, fishing like crazy ... not a worry in the world about the Blue Green Algae blooms ... how did I survive?

The Ohio River froze over, I walked halfway across it with my dad ... how did I survive?

I chopped wood for the wood burning stove during the Blizzard, we went without electric for 2 weeks, no school for 3 ... how did I survive?

I was still two years away from being allowed to cut, mow, and take the IH tractor down to the cattle ... how did I survive.

I called on a rotary phone I could barely reach hung on the wall, how did I survive?

Oh, I had a beer can collection at 7 too ... collected from the road and dad's friends ... Foster's Lager cone top I think was my fave ...

1978 was an AWESOME year! Seriously, what an awesome time to be alive and LEARN TO THINK FOR YOURSELF AND SURVIVE!

Ok goobers

Yeah, I remember the lines for gas ..people would park their car in gas lines and then walking to work from there...also, mortgage rates were over 20% if I remember correctly! I think it was all caused by The Federal Reserve!

BUT ...those were still "the days" when people didn't care about locking their front doors and slept with the windows open during the spring and summer months! Kids would bolt first thing in the morning and drag themselves back in before it was dark! We used to use up every minute of daylight we could squeeze out of the day! Perverts were still hiding in the shadows and as a general rule, honor, consideration and decency were valued over profit! Food tasted real back then too ...remember when oranges, grapes, plumbs and apples were delicious?

oh yeah...the sun was yellow back in those days too!

Your "heyday" was when you were 14?

I was getting more pussy than there are apples in a bushel basket.

I second the motion...

Jesus.

Remember this one? Nice tune.

I would even take the big hair decade 1990's over what we have now lol

Sucks to be you, I was wearing 29" Waist in 1978 and still wearing 29" today at 64!

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if only i could re do

I hear ya. Same here. If I knew that I would still get my wonderful kids, I'd go back. Or just back for one day, in college where I met my ex. What would I tell my 21 year-old self?

We'll see who goes to Valhalla first!

This one was recorded at the end of '78. I feel sorry for the kids today. All they get is garbage.

For people from other eras...you have to understand...that period from 76-82 really was the "golden years."

Freedom was much more extensive in everything. Nam was over, drinking age was 18 (generally speaking...even if it did turn back to 21 they didn't really enforce it for 5 or so years), sexual revolution of the 60's actually occurred in the 70s (people fucked alot), PRE-AIDS!, college tuition was cheap, if college wasn't your thing you could still get a real life factory or construction job, SPRING BREAKS were INSANE and cops let you do what you wanted without all that clampdown b.s., if you got caught drunk driving the cops would take your keys away and drive you home to your parents house!!!!!! If they caught you with weed they would just dump it out (later you would go back and scrape the ground...hehe), an OZ was 30-35 bucks

Its true jobs didn't pay a lot but things didn't cost that much either, pro football was awesome (Safety Jack Tatum describes in in his book "They call me Assassin"), Half the hockey players didn't wear helmets and fighting was encouraged, Basketball had Bird and Magic and baseball talent level was at its pinnacle.

Computers? well they sucked Fortran? egads, "Do Not Fold, Spindle or Mutilate?", the good thing though was half the people who graduated with a computer science degree in the late 70's early 80's became the dot com millionaires of the 90s ( Rats...I should've been a nerd)

And get this...people actually talked to each other! Thank god there were no smart (dumb) phones. The racial thing was over, nobody cared if you were gay or not ("whatever blows your hair back") we knew Elton John and Freddie Mercury were gay and Bowie and Jagger were Bi...so what? Was the music good? hat's all we cared about. Concerts were cheap, numerous and awesome. House parties were happening every weekend and people interacted face to face.

Finally, the media was generally honest. Oh sure it has always been somewhat biased...but not like today where it is just outright propaganda. Newspapers and journalists had some level of integrity.

That's when women started thinking they were men!

Farrah was the HOT one!

The only good thing about the 70's was the music and cars, everything else was pure shit.

Don't forget the drugs!

Alabama? The hell you say!
Our stomping ground is pardon the pun, Georgia-Florida line. Here's their great grandparents. [link to www.findagrave.com (secure)]

Aline "Elymra" Elizabeth Lane was the sister of my ggg grandpa and John Clarke Campbell was the brother of my ggg grandma. Hence the double cousins.

The Campbells were semi-celebrities of their time. Based on the life of the progenitor Jacob Campbell.

Robert E Lee High School! Find out where it is!

no, not back then