What made growing upin the 70's so special...

[jalimon]

In winter we played king of the mountain. Once the snowblower had cleared the school parking there was a big mountain.

The goal was to climbed to the top without being thrown back down. So much fun

 

[unassuming]

British Bulldog!!

 

[tml]

 

[opieshuffle]

Every lunch on CHCH this plays! Just watched the Sasquatch episode the other day!

 

[unassuming]

Every lunch on CHCH this plays! Just watched the Sasquatch episode the other day!

Andre The Giant!

 

[unassuming]

Growing up my family was poor I didn't get a turn table until I was 17, all my music I listened to was from a transistor radio, any songs I liked I recorded them from the radio on to a cassette recorder using a mic.

My first album I bought was Wings Over America when my father finally purchased a good stereo system. The next 2 were probably Sgt. Pepper and Abby Road. I do miss the feel of taking out a record out of it's sleeve and running my fingers over the grooves before putting it on the turn table. Loved the sound of the needle dropping onto the vinyl and hearing the "snap pop and cracking" sound, lol

 

[Sonic Temple]

to all of it and don't forget.....

 

[jeff2]

Dose of reality in case anyone contemplates not wearing your seat belt after watching that video.

Were the “good old days” really better for kids?

Helpful tips to keep your children safer this summer while still having fun It’s popular now on social media to miss the 1970s (or further back) when many children (including us!) ran wild all summer long. It’s true that, back then, we didn’t wear helmets or seat belts, and we had less adult...

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There are some good points in it. Kids spent more time outdoors and had more friends in their age group than exists today.

At least with adult men, and to a lesser extent with adult women, the lack of friends and lack of leisure time is a major defect of society today. Work demands and the cost of living is much higher. Everyone was poor in the 1970s and unemployment was very high. Much like the Great Depression, there is a nostalgia about it that brings some a strange sense of enjoyable remembrance of it.

Depends. Much more union jobs(with good pensions) in the private sector for men. Real wages for young men peaked in 1977 then declined with big declines in the 80s and and first half of the 1990s. Different situation for women. They are not as nostalgic about the era. And professionals often have a distaste for the 1970s. They did not like to see Joe lunch bucket moving up. And Canada was catching up to the U.S. standard of living in the 1970s. High commodity prices at the time for Canada.

 

[Patron]

Depends. Much more union jobs(with good pensions) in the private sector for men. Real wages for young men peaked in 1977 then declined with big declines in the 80s and and first half of the 1990s. Different situation for women. They are not as nostalgic about the era. And professionals often have a distaste for the 1970s. They did not like to see Joe lunch bucket moving up. And Canada was catching up to the U.S. standard of living in the 1970s. High commodity prices at the time for Canada.

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Great points. Archie Bunker enjoyed the 1970s more than others on the show, including Edythe, Meathead and Daughter.

And most of this kids nostalgia involve packs of boys enjoying life while unknowingly courting danger, not so much with girls.

I do remember kids getting hurt and even killed doing things that would be unapproved or even illegal today, and there are millions of more cars on the road today. So I like many of the safety requirements, and I am not in agreement with the video narrator.

And with smaller family sizes, you need more structured activities with adult supervision. Back in the supposed day, the packs of kids had different age groups and older brothers, who sometimes had lifeguard training and Eagle Scout type training, looked out for younger brother and his friends and kept them from doing anything really stupid.

Society would not be well-served by turning kids loose in the wild today.

 

[jeff2]

Great points. Archie Bunker enjoyed the 1970s more than others on the show, including Edythe, Meathead and Daughter.

And most of this kids nostalgia involve packs of boys enjoying life while unknowingly courting danger, not so much with girls.

I do remember kids getting hurt and even killed doing things that would be unapproved or even illegal today, and there are millions of more cars on the road today. So I like many of the safety requirements, and I am not in agreement with the video narrator.

And with smaller family sizes, you need more structured activities with adult supervision. Back in the supposed day, the packs of kids had different age groups and older brothers, who sometimes had lifeguard training and Eagle Scout type training, looked out for younger brother and his friends and kept them from doing anything really stupid.

Society would not be well-served by turning kids loose in the wild today.

Yeah, safer today. For example, the diving board at the community pool was taken away. Way back, I almost cracked my head open on the underwater ledge.

 

[Phil C. McNasty]

Disco music

 

[jalimon]

Disco music

Yeah because 55 years later... Disco still sucks

 

[Phil C. McNasty]

Yeah because 55 years later... Disco still sucks

I like it

 

[Butler1000]

Let's see......

Going downtown yonge st at 12, crossing the street near the St Charles Tavern to avoid it. Going to the various pinball(and eventually video game) places, looking in the head shops for posters lighters etc. Maybe a Big Slice. Corner stores would sell you smokes. Returning glass bottles for cash. Going to the local bush party the next morning for empties. Or cut lawns, shovel, spring clean cars.

A shit ton of freedom. Of learning shit the hard way. Broken bones, cuts and bruises. Walk it off. We all have scars in odd places, somewhere on our scalp, or the chin. Fighting. Lots of that. But fair, and broken up when it got serious.

Bikes were freedom, school yards were used all year. Dad's gave a sip of beer out of a stubby without being asked if you walked by. Community parenting. If another came by the house, you were in shit. But if you got in a legit fight, you probably deserved it for mouthing off. We policed ourselves.

Plastic blades on sticks, red nets and yelling "car!" As needed. Ratty goalie pads handed down. Fingers out on the blocker. No need for a ref.

That should warm up the nostalgia neurons.

 

[unassuming]

Let's see......

Going downtown yonge st at 12, crossing the street near the St Charles Tavern to avoid it. Going to the various pinball(and eventually video game) places, looking in the head shops for posters lighters etc.

Yonge Street was closed to vehicular traffic between Gerrard Street and Queen Street during the summers from 1971 to 1974 as part of a temporary pedestrian mall experiment. It was packed with people but it was discontinued due to drugs and seediness.

The street closure was quite the spectacle, as a young teen saw my first Street Walker , young pretty blonde near Yonge and Gerrard , heard her negotiating with a dude about her services.

3 years later in '77, Emanuelle Jacques , the young shoe shine boy was brutally sexually assaulted and murdered, his body was found on a roof top on Yonge below Dundas. This started the clean up of Yonge st. of the porn houses and massage parlours.

 

[SchlongConery]

 

[tml]

Godfather and Godfather 2.

All in the Family, the Mary Tyler Moore show, MASH, Barney Miller, WKRP in Cincinnati, SCTV, Three's Company, the Jeffersons, PBS, the Muppet Show, Siskel and Ebert, the Nature of Things, Monty Python, Fawlty Towers.

The beginning of the Toronto Blue Jays, the Canada Cup, Borje Salming, Lanny McDonald's OT winner against the Islanders, heavyweight boxing, Nolan Ryan, the Montreal Expos, the Montreal Canadiens, Hockey Night in Canada, Howard Cosell.

RUSH', Supertramp, Jethro Tull, Led Zeppelin, The Police, AC/DC, Max Webster, April Wine.

Elementary school, Junior high, puberty.

 

[SchlongConery]

Doug and The Slugs

Downchoild Blues Band

Both of whom played at the infamous Atherley Arms biker bar by night, peeler joint by day in Orillia.

 

[Insidious Von]

Playing touch football in the snow and football (soccer) on asphalt.

I heard Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody, for the first time, at the old pinball arcade just south of the Yonge Theater.

Never did find what that polka music was that introduced CHCH Wrestling. Lord Athol Layton got destroyed by The Shiek.

Mortadella Primo commercials also on CHCH with Bobbi Vinci, it eventually led to a Canadian Icon:

And last but not least...hey Rockfish.

 

[unassuming]

Never did find what that polka music was that introduced CHCH Wrestling. Lord Athol Layton got destroyed by The Shiek.