The 70's were better because:

The clothes were cool..Bell Bottoms and silk shirts. huckapoo shirts

Zeppelin!!!!!

McDonald burgers were actually good

The Godfather movies
Dog Day Afternoon
One Flew Over the Cockoo's Nest

76/77 Winter

 there was also plenty that sucked...Nixon/Carter
Gas Lines

JasonWx wrote

The clothes were cool..Bell Bottoms and silk shirts. huckapoo shirts

Zeppelin!!!!!

McDonald burgers were actually good

The Godfather movies
Dog Day Afternoon
One Flew Over the Cockoo's Nest

76/77 Winter

 there was also plenty that sucked...Nixon/Carter
Gas Lines

Good point, those 70’s movies were raw , great stuff
Taxi Driver & The Deerhunter ....... wow!

Miss those double live albums of the 70’s too, again rough and raw.

Good call on the double wides I love those too. Yessongs and Europe 72. McDonald's always sucked but we were young and stupid.

Europe 72 is tip-top 👍

MC2 5678F589 wrote

PeeTex wrote

, I can’t think of a whole lot great about the period 1971-1982..

Didn't you have a kid during this period?

I like the tax rates and titties of the 70s. Some solid rock music was produced in the time, too. NASA was kicking some ass. Carl Sagan. The Godfather movies, Animal House, Caddyshack, golden age of Saturday Night Live, the EPA starting.

Seems like an okay time. Now there's better beer, better vehicles, more knowledge, and things are better if you're gay.

Good things/bad things, just like almost every other time in history.

I did and for me things were pretty good then, but I was thinking more the big picture and not just little’ol me.

JohnIrvingwrestles wrote

JasonWx wrote

The clothes were cool..Bell Bottoms and silk shirts. huckapoo shirts

Zeppelin!!!!!

McDonald burgers were actually good

The Godfather movies
Dog Day Afternoon
One Flew Over the Cockoo's Nest

76/77 Winter

 there was also plenty that sucked...Nixon/Carter
Gas Lines

Good point, those 70’s movies were raw , great stuff
Taxi Driver & The Deerhunter ....... wow!

Miss those double live albums of the 70’s too, again rough and raw.

Right on!

People actually interacted with people

 Killer muscle cars and trucks

Although i commented earlier : Things wre pretty good for me and my family too , and as i said i loved the massive change over in guitar instrumention and amplification and trick boxes etc The change over to hard rockin, edgy stuff with killer licks n riffs was a welcome changeover from the socially antiseptic drivel of the Beatles and real first generation RnR . Disco sux but hard rock even funk had some kick to it . The clothes were as i mentioned earlier often a hoot as were the staches, burns and long hair ( saved me a ton of jack on barbers ) hahahah, the Queen did my salon work hahahahah.the only fashion cit i hated were the damned polyester leisure suits ugh and then even worse were those damn platform shoes that you VASELINED to polish them .. Loved me some elephant bells , suede vests , longcollared shirts n BOOTS baby ! ZEP , n Steppenwolf in the late 60s early seventies were rad . Cmon Jimmy Page !!! dammit dude was from another planet! Then when AC DC and GNR ( Angus. N Slash ) came out a bit later things really took off . Yup fun times ...the politics as PT mentioned were meh ( shit they always are ) hahahah

Don't forget the funky black rimmed glasses and pocket protector dudes = my physics/chemistry teaching father

The 70's were the best time ever!
Disco was unfortunate but there was Blood on the Tracks and a lot more.
The clothes are still providing hours of hilarity whenever you look at the pictures.
Penicillin cured everything, and no one ever heard of HIV, HPV or herpes.
Jimmy carter was my favorite President of my lifetime.

And best of all  

I WAS YOUNG!

mm

Yeah BUT he played with DIO 4 crissakes ! and my pappy wore horn rims n used pocketprotectors tooo bwaaaa hahahah

Camper : UR the best !

campgottagopee wrote

Don't forget the funky black rimmed glasses and pocket protector dudes = my physics/chemistry teaching father

Smart teachers = the story of your dad and uncle deciding on which size bucket of balls to hit...smart teachers!!
School was cool back in our day!

camhan22 wrote

campgottagopee wrote

Don't forget the funky black rimmed glasses and pocket protector dudes = my physics/chemistry teaching father

Smart teachers = the story of your dad and uncle deciding on which size bucket of balls to hit...smart teachers!!
School was cool back in our day!

LMAO!!!

School was totally cool --- I'll go as far to say it was because the stooodents were cool AF

campgottagopee wrote

Don't forget the funky black rimmed glasses and pocket protector dudes = my physics/chemistry teaching father

Those were the 60s, not the 70s, although I was still using a slide rule in the early 70s - a nice beautiful SK circular. My PC was a Harris Slash 4 running a Vulcan OS - about the size of a refrigerator with a whopping 32K of memory.

I didn't have gout.

Summers in the 'daks, Zeppelin, BadCo and Flyers cups... otherwise I had much more fun in the 80's!

The drinking age was 18
Viet Nam War ended before my mom had to send me to Canada
The Pill
Everybody was high
The Music......
FM radio and AOR stations
Early 70s muscle cars
All in the Family
Tight Ski Pants on women
No Cell phones

x10003q wrote

 
No Cell phones

I was in the coffee shop this morning with 5 others waiting in line. All but me were busy on their phones. Made me laugh.

The six million dollar man

Buckey fucking dent!

Lansingburgh Little League

Cutting doug fir trees on the back side of the mtn and dragging home through the woods for christmas tree

...and Charlies Angels!! also the Wonderful World of Disney, Wild Kingdom, and Jacques Cousteau!

skateboards, Skateboarder mag and Dogtown/Z-boys!