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Daniel

Sat, 11 Oct 2025 23:34:57 -0500 from mastodon

I never experienced the 1970's. Tell me something good or bad that you experienced from that decade that doesn't exist anymore. Could be just personal stuff, boosts appreciated.

David B. Himself

Mon, 13 Oct 2025 06:57:20 -0500 from mastodon

@Daniel You can still experience some of it: music and movies.

Daniel

Mon, 13 Oct 2025 12:44:15 -0500 from mastodon

@David B. Himself True. I have gone through a lot of books, music, and movies from then. Tragic and beak sci-fi was definitely formative for me.

@reiver ⊼ (Charles)

Mon, 13 Oct 2025 07:03:07 -0500 last edited: Mon, 13 Oct 2025 07:03:35 -0500 from mastodon

@Daniel

In the 1970s —

Space Sci-Fi was popular.

By today's standards, electronics were anywhere from limited to non-existance.

Everyone in the same home shared the same phone. Sometimes, even in the same neighborhood. (I.e., party lines.)

Phone booths were common.

You memorized other people's numbers.

You wrote your to-do list and schedule on paper.

It was more common to see kids around the neighborhood on their own.

Credit cards weren't common yet. Cash was the norm.

@reiver ⊼ (Charles)

Mon, 13 Oct 2025 07:06:45 -0500 from mastodon

@Daniel

Plastics were becoming more common, but you were still being affected by the previous era, where the common materials were —

• wood,
• leather,
• brass,
• and for some things, steel.

For example, fake wood stickers were being put on new things to make them look like like things from the previous era.

Chris Pitts

Mon, 13 Oct 2025 07:09:40 -0500 from mastodon

@Daniel @craignicol Great music, great bands, and all before music was sacrificed at the altar of profit from the 80s onwards 😁

Box464

Mon, 13 Oct 2025 07:30:00 -0500 last edited: Mon, 13 Oct 2025 07:30:49 -0500 from mastodon

@Daniel Local radio stations with local disc jockeys talking about local events, playing local favorites, taking tons of calls from people you probably actually know in real life about what they wanted to hear. It exists today, but not nearly as popular. The dj’s were local celebrities!

Bob Thomson

Mon, 13 Oct 2025 07:41:26 -0500 last edited: Mon, 13 Oct 2025 07:46:19 -0500 from mastodon

@Daniel U.K. perspective, bad: lots of stray and free roaming dogs or dogs left out in gardens - that and public information films about rabies made me fearful of dogs for a while as a kid.

https://youtu.be/m0xmSV6aq0g?si=g9EKqAyugS60zOpR

If you’re really interested you should read Scarred for Life Volume 1:

https://www.lulu.com/shop/stephen-brotherstone-dave-lawrence/scarred-for-life-volume-one/paperback/product-23116461.html?page=1&pageSize=4

They have a podcast too and are active on other social media.

royal

Mon, 13 Oct 2025 09:33:18 -0500 from mastodon

@Daniel Cars designed with no thought at all toward fuel economy.
Fuel was so cheap before the mid 70s(?) that there was basically no incentive to seek economy. Our family for a while had a 1972 Chrysler Newport Royal.
https://www.forcbodiesonly.com/mopar-forum/threads/1972-chrysler-newport-royal-all-original-36200-miles-5900.32063/

Ours was brown, with a 440 cubic inch engine. That's more than 7 liters. It would cost a fortune to drive today. I'm sure it would have had an mpg rating on the single digits.

The engine was loud and while it could produce a lot of power, it was very slow to respond to the accelerator.

Noimrud

Mon, 13 Oct 2025 13:36:01 -0500 from Fresh Tales of my Life (streams)

Until 1973, I believe it was, with the OPEC embargo. Then came Jimmy Carter to fix things.