I was born in 1973. Some of the things I remember from the 70s...gas was like 70 something cents a gallon. We had an 8 track player in mom's Ford Pinto. Our couch was the ugliest thing I can remember...really small checkered pattern.
Holly Hobby was big and everyone carried a tin lunch box to school...mine was Holly Hobby.
During the summer, we'd get up, eat cereal and then ride our bikes until the sun came down. We didn't have to worry about crazies out there (too much).
The lady across the street became my adopted grandma (she never had kids of her own).
Anyway, I remember being 5 years old and riding my bike to the gas station at the end of the street to buy a 5 cent pack of gum.
We had a color t.v. and my parents had that thing till I was almost finished with elementary school. You had to get up to change the channel and the knobs were round dials that you had to turn.
We could walk to the park and spend hours there and never worried about some pervert watching us. We walked to school and back home.
Mom didn't have rollers so for my long hair, she would roll my hair around a tube sock and I'd sleep in them. Hurt like the dickens but oh, the curls I'd have the next morning.
Wow...this whole thread brings back memories!
