What do you remember most about the 70's?

[JanMichael]

88. war news reports; the USSR/USA space docking; funky colors everywhere...

...shag carpet; long hair on almost everyone; guitar playing Woody Guthrie singing elementary school teachers; odd mix of disco, old country, goofy music like Kung Fu Fighting and Streaking (?), end of 60's rock transition to stadium rock, lame pop "afternoon delight" really??, mo-town; some very crappy cars but some really cool vans; some very cool cars and scary vans; Walter Cronkite; since I was born in the late 60's the relative normalcy of the economy with the occasional blow up; then the big gas crunch and waiting in lines with parents or grandparents; Jimmy Carter winning; pet rocks; baseball games; parents divorce; plane rides where you always walked to the airport building; people that could have one full time working member and still afford a car and a house; limited food choices and seasonal citrus availability which would freak people out now but was ok then - two types of mustard was OK; our first microwave - it sounded scary and it may have been dangerous too; quiet and silence; tolerable conservatives; seeing news reports of places far away that were finally shaking off European occupiers; Tang; granola lots of granola; less hatred of government; more non-chain grocery stores, new and used book stores; record stores;