What do you remember most about the 70's?

[Arugula Latte]

17. Easy times. Playing with friends. Bell bottoms and cords. Hairy people. Bubblegum pop and disco.

I grew up in a California 'burb and the living was easy. Lots of people in our hood had pools and we swam from April to October. Middle class families kept horses and we kids would ride them around the suburban streets and in the hills. Tennis was HUGE and you had to wait for a court at the public courts. Most people had a couple of cars and a three- or four-bedroom house on one income. It probably wasn't as easy as it seemed to me at the time, because I didn't have any adult problems to deal with.

Television was a huge uniting force. We all watched Roots. Montreal Olympics. Brady Bunch, Partridge Family, All in the Family, Mary Tyler Moore Show, Bob Newhart, Sonny & Cher, Carol Burnett, Johnny Carson, MASH, Waltons, Little House on the Prairie. Those were a big part of my childhood.

I remember so well when the Vietnam War officially ended in '75. I was in a kids' movie with friends and they stopped the projector in the middle of "Zebra in the Kitchen" (which was already ten years old at that point) to say that the war was over. Quite surreal.

Also, in the 70s a lot of weird shit was going down that was related to the Bay Area where I lived. Chowchilla kidnapping. Patty Hearst kidnapping. Jonestown. Moscone/Milk murders. Etc.