just one memory will suffice here, and its a funny one. In 1976, I was 14 and in the throes of puberty. When I heard this Gino Vennelli song played on the radio, I thought they were saying "Masturbate-keep your hole open cause love will find a way". What the original lyrics were I have no idea, but, being the 70's, maybe they really WERE saying, "Keep your hole open cause love will find a way"???!!!!!!!
Scott <skuzminski@yahoo.com>
chicago, il USA - Monday, September 27, 2004 at 00:58:21 (EDT)

I remember the 70's oh so well!! I hung out with linda and randy ( who has passed in 2004) rip randy! We hung out got high listened to all kinds of cool jams like foghat, ccr, alice cooper welcome to my nightmare, queen, deep purple ted nugent wild cherry boston-- all great! Linda was the super slim tall redhead with long straight hair and I had the afro!!! Randy wore bell bottoms and had the cool trans am that we used to raze corn fields in! We used to hang at Jerry's restaraunt and frisch's (when they had car hops still) We cruised the park went to concerts and played pranks on our neighbors like ordering pizza or calling a cab. I remember the radio stations giving away rolling stones albums if you could sing the campbell soup jingle!! We'd have fake seances or make prank phone calls all the stuff kids can't do now cause so much violence between kids today. It's sad. Friendship really meant something then not so today. We'd get high and sit around playing games and just laughing and laughing and having the greatest times I miss those days. I am happy now have a grandchild and great daughter but the memories of those bygone days can make me laugh and cry at the same time PEACE MAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sandy <calebsgranny2001@yahoo.com>
louisville, ky USA - Saturday, September 25, 2004 at 07:40:50 (EDT)

WOW!!! the 70's, do I remember, My best freind I hung out with was Gail, I had a lot of other friends but back then it was Gail and I, Frick and Frat as we were called. Jon, Ken, Paul and so many others. Going roller skateing at river side rollerway. We owned the place!!. All night skates, usely drunk or high. Boons farm strawberry wine. I remember clogs, mockasens, long and short jean jackets. Loop belts. Cordiors.There were hush puppy's and Earth shoes. leather braclets and Macrume neckless and braclets, spoon rings, mood rings. Loop ear rings. I can remember When coke still came in a glass bottels. Remember Fresca Soda?? I remeber a comercial for one of those evirmental agancies, like green peace stating that by the year 2000 what they would acheave and thinking will we even make it to the year 2000?? That was like soooo futuristic, so far away. Remember how everything that anyone done or said as long as they said sorry, it was just "No biggy"!And everyone was a dude. We had the best shows on then, No reality tv then. The closes was a live show of All in the Family, can't forget Mash, The A team. Ofcorse there were things going on in the world like the Iran hostage case. But you never heard of then was someone stealing childern. I never heard of that till the mid 80's. Rock and Roll was to live forever.And we really thought it would, now it seems it has or is making a comeback after rap. I remember crusing and Jon driving the car up on two wheels I don't remember the make nor the modle it was just called "Make out city", I wonder did he ever become a MD State trooper?? So many I remember I wonder to this day how are they all doing today and do they remember all that I do? We were Crazy!!! wild child!! I resently reunited with Gail and boy did we have fun going over all those stupid stunts we pulled when we were teenagers in the 70's. Like the song said" If I could keep time in a bottel". I dated and had my first kiss in the 70's. I also recall all those games we played in the early 70's kick ball, hit the bat, dodge ball, kick the can. Racing our bikes in the road and agrivating the one person on the street that was always getting agrivated by everything. I remember drive inn movies, were you got to see three movies rather than just one. I also remember the movie theaters and the movies like Jaws, Star wars, Cheek and Chong. I Remember after Jaws My cousin wouldn't go into water even fresh water. And you never forget all those party spots that are no longer there or you can not get to them. Places like the pits, the tressle, the cliffs,the powerlines. Everyone it seemed no matter were you went had places like that. Yes we thought we had the world by the tail. walking in thunderstorms, washing our hair in the rain.We didn't care if we got wet, get sick by water? I also started to work in the 70's on tobacco back when kids really did do hard work. boy's would moon the girls and girls would in turn moon the boys bus. We sang song like "I've been working on tobacco all the live long day, I've been working on tobbaco just to pass the time away. ect ect. We had fun but we busted out butts too. I remember all our teachers were called Mr. Or Mrs. or Miss. Not Bob, Bill or John. skipping school was the funnest when you didn't get caught. CAn't for get those hours spent hanging out at the mall. Or the arcade playing bin ball and pool. Remember the first atarie game. it was two dots bouncing a nother dot back and forth on the tv screen. I remember something way back in the early 70's but no one else seems to remember. Anyone remember WACKY STICKERS. They were stickers that made fun of real poducts. like CRest would Be CRUST. And they would have a cartoon of someone with blackened teeth. remember the hair styles, Feathered back hair for both girls and guys. Sideburns for the little bit older guys. Thank God for the hair drier and curling irion,and yes the comb in our back pocket tto make sure every hair was in place. Paul rremember hair number 458 is out of place better go fix it. We love to tease you about that dude EXuse me it's now 4am and I can't seem to spell at all. But it sure has been great remembering all those good old days. If your young and your reading this, remember this, have a great time in life because it's the good times that you will tresure. Have a good one ya all.
Tina <rpmtbird@cox.net>
Enfield, Ct USA - Saturday, September 25, 2004 at 04:50:37 (EDT)

i'm with the guy who hates the 21stcentury. the 70's was it!!!!!!!! we can never get them back but we can share them and if the kids today could only live them,then they could say they have lived!! i loved reading these pages,i think i could just cry. luv ya---wishing it was 1971 wendy
wendy <wjcurrys_home@yahoo.com>
toccoa, ga USA - Sunday, September 19, 2004 at 19:01:25 (EDT)

The 70s were great!! Smoking reefer with strawberry-flavored papers, drinking Boone's Farm Strawberry Hill, Jack Purcell tennis shoes, putting silver studs in our jeans by hand, smiling and laughing (something the kids only seem to do today if they're hurting or embarrassing someone), taking drives for fun, much less traffic, seeing Q ueen at the Civic Center, I miss those days, and I'm lucky to have experienced them.
Puff
Baltimore, MD USA - Monday, September 13, 2004 at 14:10:23 (EDT)

I HATE 2004!!! i hate everything about our time and i wish i could have had the honor of living in the 70s. Everything today is backwards, nobody cares for anyone. It's all about money, EVERYTHING IS ABOUT MONEY. I'm sick of it. I try to spend as much time as i can by myself and listen to my music. My music is the only thing i have that can take me away from this evil and disgusting time we call the 21st century. Music from the 60's, 70's, and early 80's is the most motivational, inspirational and absolutely beautiful music i have ever heard and i will take my feelings for that music to my grave. Peace and Love to all!
Asad <asad311@msn.com>
commack, ny USA - Monday, September 13, 2004 at 02:48:12 (EDT)

I grew up in Carroll County Md. in the 70's and 80's. Man, those were the best of times. No computers, just do it yourself fun. A time when you could be driving down the street on a saturday afternoon and look out the window from the back seat of your mom and dad's 73 chevrolet station wagon and see 3 or 4 kids in each yard playing together in the dirt with their G.I. Joes or their Hot Wheels cars, or just playing a game of freeze-tag, or bicycle tag or whatever. You dont see that anymore, and probably never will again. Now kids just want a video game controler or a pc for a best friend. There was no internet, so instead of meeting people whom you never talk to face to face or really get to know, we actually went out to the movies, the mall, the skating rinks and made friends the right way...face to face, and stayed friends for years to come! I remember getting my nerve up at the sportsmans hall skating rink enough to go ask a girl I liked to skate with me on the next couple's skate. I remember staying out till 12:00 midnight playing hide-n-seek or flashlight tag (a game that is now extinct) with the neighborhood kids and having the entire neighborhood as the boundries. No fear of abduction, or getting murdered. That was just something you only heard about on tv once in a blue moon. I remember walking down to simmons ice cream store and spending an unheard of 2 dollars for an INSANE amount of assorted candies....gummy fish, marathon bars, links bars, cow tails, skull crushers, pop rocks, hubba bubba or bazooka joe gum, jaw breakers, everlasting gob-stoppers, candy necklaces, candy whistles, wax teeth, ect... It's a miracle we didnt lose all our teeth back then. I remember sneaking around with my buddies in the Snydersburgh gang (our neighborhood gang) late on Halloween night (we called it "Moving night") pranking folks, egging people, soaping windows, shaving creaming people's cars, and just plain having fun! I remember how Christmas time in the 70's and even 80's was so very MAGICAL! How you could feel the magic and enchantment...the joy of christmas in the air back then....people really did care about each other! There really was such a thing as "peace on earth and good will towards man"! I remember watching "Santa Claus is coming to town", "Frosty the Snowman" and "Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer" on the nbc tv christmas special every year. Piling wood in a neat stack just outside the sliding glass door of our den to burn in our wood stove when it got cold outside, and smelling the smell of burnt wood and feeling so cozy and warm in the den while it snowed all night long. I remember the yellow shag carpet in our living room where the christmas tree was. I remember falling asleep under a lit artificial christmas tree, watching lights blinking and fading in and out while listening to Burl Ives on our 8 track player sing me to sleep with his soft cheerful christmas carols like only he could do. I remember waking up christmas morning to find so many presents heaped up under the tree, that santa had to stack them all the way over behind the green velvet armchair next to the fireplace, behind which, I proceeded to build myself a fort out of christmas presents and played there all morning until my folks woke up around 7:30 am to come open them with me. The joy, the happyness, the love we had together back then! I also remember how we would all get out our runner sleds after the first snow had fallen and going out to play sled tag down the frozen street.....we neighborhood kids pouring buckets of hot water all the way down the hill above our bus stop and freezing up the street so that the bus couldnt make it up the hill to take us to school in order to get out of going! lol God, how I miss those times! Seeing kids coming home from school in the fall and raking up huge piles of leaves just so we could all take turns jumping in them over and over! Hanging out every long summer day at Cascade Lake (our local swimming hole)just down the street from where I lived. collecting superman and starwars trading cards, playing with the coolest toys in the world, like shogun warriors, tzr's cars, stomper 4x4's, my remco frankenstein monster playset, my ghost gun, my 18 inch tall kenner alien figure, my bionic man doll, my hot wheels cars, my huffy bmx bicycle, my flying nurfman, my frizbee, and too many more to name. Playing with my friends until it got dark and we could hear our mom's yelling for us to come in. These were such great times to be a kid! It's true what everyone on these memory posts are saying....the 70's were so much more innocent and happier times....now, it's all about money, material possesions, technology and trivial things. Nobody wants to be my friend anymore. They have all faded into my past. Everyone's so pissed off at the world now. They want "retribution" or "political correctness" but they dont even know what for. The term "Best friends" is all but a joke now. Everyone's so afraid of everyone else too, I've noticed this. I find myself more and more going out of my way to try to spend time with my so-called friends, only to find that they wont return the favor or even bother to call me on the phone, yes those damn cell phones that we all have glued to our ears 24-7. Everyone has a phone now, but no-one wants to just talk as friends and say "Hey, how ya doin?" or "Hiya! just thought I'd call to see what your up to!" or "Mind if I stop by for a while?" Now it's all about "What do you have that I want?!" or "What can you do for my benefit that I dont have to repay you for?!" It's really sad. Give me the 70's any time, any place! God, how I miss those golden years! 70's people, please come back!
Rob <Morbidious@yahoo.com>
Deerlodge, Tn USA - Wednesday, September 08, 2004 at 21:11:26 (EDT)

Does anybody have a pic of wolfman Jack????
mary <lazykujo@advnet.net>
Port Huron, Mi USA - Wednesday, September 08, 2004 at 20:14:06 (EDT)

"Goodbye middle american man..........." Anyone can remember a song with this text round 1975 ?. Pls. Email me the tittle or artist. THANKS! !
john R <aragon@telsur.cl>
temuco, chile - Wednesday, August 18, 2004 at 23:09:48 (EDT)

OK. I was born in '68. I remember when my mom promised me... Promised! That I could no longer wear bell bottoms because she could not buy them anymore because they were no longer available. I could just not understand that. But hey, I'm just wondering if anyone out there remembers a cereal that also went by the wayside.... it was little round balls filled with powdered sugar. I loved that cereal! I used to get little flipper deals that fit on my bike that made clicking sounds. yeah it was cool. - Later - Darin
Darin Miller <darinmiller@hotmail.com>
Wamego, KS USA - Sunday, August 15, 2004 at 22:52:48 (EDT)

Because its 2004 and I'm @ work, I must type sporatically and minimize. Back in 78 when I was 15, sporatically wasn't invented. Green Apple cologne in a green apple. Skate boarding behind my Irish Setter, Towering Inferno, San Francisco Riding Gear Jeans, Sticky Finger Jeans, Clogs, shirts with tinsel sewn into em. Silver Conventions, Cracker box palace, Someone saved my life tonight, Harmony, Do you feel like we do..., Lost in love, Candies high heels at the prom, lip gloss, curling iron at four in the morning, layers growing out to quick, ditching school with my boyfriend, pretending to inhale, fembots, stepford wives...
sammy <gkilcup@aol.com>
Spanaway, WA USA - Wednesday, August 04, 2004 at 02:05:27 (EDT)

god u adults r so lucky! i wish it was the 70s right now i hate our century!!! soon its gonna be all high tech and theres gonna be robots and lfying cars and its stupid and the music from the 70s is way better than what we have today
norma < >
Orillia, on Canada - Wednesday, July 07, 2004 at 20:29:10 (EDT)

SKATEBOARD HOOM PA PA ?. Anyone can remember a song with this text round 1976 ?. Pls. Email me the titel or artist. THANKS! !
Skateboarder'76 <at90s2313@europe.com>
NL - Tuesday, July 06, 2004 at 10:26:55 (EDT)

Hi Robin... I totally dig your site...you should have an EXTINCT CEREALS section...Rice Krinkles...Stacks...Smiles...OKs...these were all great-tasting cereals that I miss terribly. ANYWAY, I was wondering if you remembered the Sugar Pops ad from somewhere between maybe '68 and '72 (back when they were still Sugar Pops, I think), where they tried to show that the cereal was good for you (ha!)because early Native Americans allegedly ate something like it. Inthe ad, a young Native herder discovers a puma stalking his flock; the boy not only chases the puma, but easily kills it. Now THAT'S A SUGAR BUZZ! (We never actually see the cat die, so I am sure that no animals were harmed. We only hear the thump of the bow and assume the rest.) I don't remember hearing of any objections from the animal welfare organizations of the day, but the ad *was* yanked quickly. Do you remember it? I'd love it if someone, on a very odd chance, had a clip. Not politically correct, perhaps, nor particularly honest about the nutritional data (no one was back then!), but in its own way a cool ad. Yours in Faygo Brau Ginger Beer (sadly extinct)
Anonymous
USA - Friday, June 25, 2004 at 21:11:12 (EDT)

Hi all, I remember Listening to Abba and going rollerskating every weekend at the Pvailion at Flushing Meadow Park in Queens New York. I also remember waiting on line for gas, my mom had a Red Ford Pinto, and you could only get $5.00 on odd or even days. I wonder though, that has never happened since then, how come they said we had a gas shortage? I also remember it being a more care free time. People were not so consumed by how much you made for a living, or what kind of car you drove. Maybe because I was a kid in the 70's but money was not an issue. We were happy and we had nothing. People's attitudes had changed over the years too bad I couldn't capture the feeling in a bottle. It sure was sweet. There was Love in the air you could feel it. I was born in 1967 they say it was the Summer of Love. See ya. Write if you'd like to. sweatpeas4@hotmail.com
Carol Streigold <sweatpeas4@hotmail.com>
Farmingdale, NJ USA - Wednesday, June 23, 2004 at 15:01:13 (EDT)

70'S THINGS I REMEMBER, ELTON JOHN CROCODILE ROCK, DISCO, CHARLIE'S ANGELS, BODY ON TAP SHAMPOO. SHABBY HAIR FOR GUYS.
FRANCES CANNON <WAVE191@JUNO.COM>
LOVELADY, TX USA - Tuesday, June 22, 2004 at 16:42:12 (EDT)

I was a kid in the 70's. I turned 13 in late 79, so I spent my teenage years in the 80's (another great decade). Being a kid in the 70's, I have such great memories of more carefree and innocent times. Great toys to play with, great tv to watch, every night thru the week, and weekend. All those Saturday morning cartoons, live action shows, Land Of The Lost, Shazam, Run Joe Run, etc... I remember the bicentenial like it was yesterday. Everything was red, white and blue. I remember having a red, white and blue ten speed bike from Sears. I remember going to K-Mart to buy my school supplies, and having trouble picking out a new lunchbox for the new school year. They had a lunchbox for every primetime tv show and every Saturday morning show that was out back then. How does a kid decide which one to get when there are two isles full of them? I remember Marathon candy bars, bottlecaps, the big jumgo size Pixy sticks that came in the plastic tubes in different colored stripes. I skateboarded, so I remember when the skateboard wheels went from being clay to polyeurathane, and the small decks becoming wider. I love mostly all 70's music, to many to name here. Koogle peanutbutter, remember that? Freakies cereal? It was a great time to be a kid back then. Its so wierd in this day and time. People are more pissed of now, more then ever, they walk around with cell phones attatched to their ear. Remember pay phones? Something has been lost. Innocence, a slower pace perhaps. The world has gotten bigger, yet smaller. Many people want to forget about the 70's and pretend the decade never happened. Everything today is hip and happening. PLEASE! I would trade one day back in the 70's for every single day of the 90's and 2000's. I cant stand this day and time. Give me the 70's again....
Micah Evans <fusionman67@hotmail.com>
Madison, MS USA - Wednesday, June 09, 2004 at 18:39:44 (EDT)

Grew up in Ellicott City, Maryland in the late 60's - early 70's... Majorette/Drum Corps units were very popular with kids in that region during that era... I was with the Liberty Belle Majorette and Drum Corps of Howard County and some of our competitors were: - The Toppers (of Baltimore) - The Sailorettes (of Arbutus) - The Kaydettes (sp? - of Savage) - The Green Beret's (of Bowie) - The Y.R. Veteranettes (of Ellicott City) - The Black-Eyed Susans
Gardner Berry <upsguy1@netzero.net>
Statesville, NC USA - Saturday, May 01, 2004 at 08:57:37 (EDT)

the 70,s a time for tv horror movie hosts! do you remember yours! and what do you think of todays tv programing
rick thomas <graveyard49@wideopenwest.com>
hammond, in USA - Friday, March 26, 2004 at 19:13:02 (EST)

the 70,s a time for tv horror movie hosts! do you remember yours! and what do you think of todays tv programing
rick thomas <graveyard49@wideopenwest.com>
hammond, in USA - Friday, March 26, 2004 at 19:13:02 (EST)

wanted any svengoolie photographs of jerry g bishop during his show run! alos anything on son of svengoolie rich koz, shock theatre marvin aka terry bennett,creature features, i work with many obsolete video tape formats, audio formats, so please e-mail me with anything of interest. rick thomas
rick thomas <graveyard49@wideopenwest.com>
hammond, in USA - Friday, March 26, 2004 at 19:03:17 (EST)

katies right, her bf had a fro the size of a beachball!!!!!go fros!!
hayhee <joemama@joemama.com>
okc, tx USA - Wednesday, March 24, 2004 at 11:42:33 (EST)

My boyfriend had big big big big hair. And a long hippie bus like on Scooby Doo!
Katheryn <nun>
OKC babie, OK USA - Wednesday, March 24, 2004 at 11:40:17 (EST)

For Bill who posted about Lolas...FYI Bill...they're still sold at Sugar Mountain Candy Stores!! I know...I buy 'em by the truck load! :-) Blushun
Blushun <blushun@sympatico.ca>
Toronto, on Canada - Monday, March 22, 2004 at 15:58:53 (EST)

Man, this site has brought back some memories. The 70's, 4 finger lid. That big bulge in your pants, now, now I am still talking about the 4 finger lid. Skipping out of class to get stoned. And who could forget the streaking. There goes a streaker across the tv screen durring the Miss aAmerica pageant and another during a football game. Huge bonfire and kegger parties. Going to see Jaws and the Excorcist stoned and laughing all the way threw it. The 70's, when you could get it on with your girlfreind without the fear of aids. When the only type of aids were teacher aids. When drugs were fun, not crack and drugs so you can rape your freind. I remember the MIA and POW bracelets and watching them come home on tv. I beleonged to a group of freinds known as ma petes gang. Ma pete was a cook at school and her son Jim was one of us. Well theres only three out of eight of us left. Man I sure do miss all them guys and the great fun we had. I wouldn't change a thing. Thanks for this site and a chance to remember.
Dave <nvltgo@comcast.net>
Cottage Grove, Mn USA - Tuesday, March 16, 2004 at 21:49:27 (EST)