What do you remember most about the 70's?

[chowder66]

138. Guys wearing seriously cut-off jean shorts

The not so good stuff;
Guys wearing seriously cut-off jean shorts or any super short shorts that were painful to look at
Wood Paneling
The milkmans final days were ahead
News was getting scarier and we started locking the house up
Puffed wheat cereal (in gigantic bags to boot)
Swansons frozen dinners
Shirts with gold threads running through them
Pintos and their explosiveness.... or should that go under the good things?
Really bad make up and hair everywhere


Good stuff;
Seeing a lot more stars in the night sky
Liner notes, Album covers and record players
Listening to Dr. Demento
Calling to get the time and temp
Calling Frankenstein and Dracula
Memorizing everyones telephone number
It was more quiet and days seemed longer
Roaming the neighborhoods as a child without supervision
Leaving windows open and doors unlocked
Playing in the fire hydrants when the local fire chief opened them up for the kids
Always running outside or to the window when a plane flew over which was a rarity and helicopters were even rarer
Running to the basement during bad thunderstorms and tornado sirens going off and listening to the transistor radio for updates
Playing around with the short-wave radio to hear other languages and weird sounds
Going to the local movie theater on Saturdays and paying only 50 cents to see Jan Michael Vincent movies.
Going to the drive-ins regularly seeing off the wall movies or horror films as kid and not understanding them at all.
Listening to comedy albums; Cheech and Chong, Richard Pryor and George Carlin
Drinking Water tasted better
Air smelled and felt fresher
Kids played outside all the time
Neighbors greeted each other all the time
Shame was still felt
People were generally more considerate and polite though not for much longer
Hamburger Helper which I loved but tried again and can't stand now
Roller skating