The Seventies

[Tony Moanero]

[Harry's Lad]

25 minutes ago, Tony Moanero said:

I got an LED watch for Christmas one year. It was a Dixon's special, an Odyssey something or other. The batteries lasted about a week, but it was cool as fuck.  I thought so anyway.

I was only about 13 mind.

 

[Tony Moanero]

Harlem, New York circa 1970.

 

[YorkshireRed]

This isn’t the street where I lived but I remember the party we had. Aged five, I didn’t give much of a hoot about why we were eating cakes in the street but I was glad we were.

 

 

[CapeRed]

On 14/01/2020 at 14:12, easytoslip said:

Wish I could go back , boss music boss times, not to mention tuning in every bird possible.

A great time to grow up. The music, the clubs, footy. Codnt ask for more.

[easytoslip]

9 hours ago, CapeRed said:

A great time to grow up. The music, the clubs, footy. Codnt ask for more.

Yeah fresh snatch and Steely Dan what can ail. Those days are gone sadly. 

[easytoslip]

The 70s, what a time, listening to great tunes and seeing great local bands in pubs,

[sir roger]

They were very blatant about the local industry back then.

[CapeRed]

8 hours ago, easytoslip said:

Yeah fresh snatch and Steely Dan what can ail. Those days are gone sadly. 

Walter and Donald were a bit special

[redheart]

Some cool 70s pics

 

NYC Times Square 1977 | Flickr

 

New York City Vintage 70s | Flickr

 

Coney Island 1977 | Flickr

 

NYC Canal Street and others, 1977 | Flickr

 

NYC 1974 | Flickr

 

NYC Streetfairs 1977 | Flickr

 

1970s New York City | Flickr

[easytoslip]

9 hours ago, sir roger said:

They were very blatant about the local industry back then.

Haha. 

[easytoslip]

1 hour ago, CapeRed said:

Walter and Donald were a bit special

Yes. 

[Harry's Lad]

Eric's. 

The bands that played there and the whole scene, in its heyday it must have been some place.

I never got the chance to go which is a real shame.

 

[Total Longo]

More of an 80's fan myself, as that was my era. My vague memories of the 70's was that it was always dark and everything was brown/beige. 

[General Dryness]

1 hour ago, Total Longo said:

More of an 80's fan myself, as that was my era. My vague memories of the 70's was that it was always dark and everything was brown/beige. 

I was born in 1974, and I can relate to that. Throw in a bit of mustard yellow too and you're bang on.

[Tony Moanero]

12 minutes ago, General Dryness said:

I was born in 1974, and I can relate to that. Throw in a bit of mustard yellow too and you're bang on.

And orange.

 

Ace colours. My dad wasn’t one for change, so we had 70s decor in ours throughout the eighties. In fact, my dad didn’t get rid of his flock wallpaper until the turn of the millennium.

 

[sir roger]

2 hours ago, Harry's Lad said:

Eric's. 

The bands that played there and the whole scene, in its heyday it must have been some place.

I never got the chance to go which is a real shame.

 

Went there a couple of times and It is probably one of this things that it is better as a brag than the actual experience. Saw Elvis Costello and Wire and both were good concerts , but there was a quite cliquey , too cool for school , poser feel with a lot of the regulars.

[VladimirIlyich]

At the time I thought the 70s were shit,well the fashion and a lot of the music too. Having seen what has followed,the fashion apart,I now realise it actually was pretty good all told.

[Harry's Lad]

2 hours ago, Total Longo said:

More of an 80's fan myself, as that was my era. My vague memories of the 70's was that it was always dark and everything was brown/beige. 

I was born in 1963. The 70's were pretty glum, my Dad was forever getting called out on strike and they lasted for weeks, even months on end.

 

There was a lot of strike action back then which affected a lot of people both directly and indirectly so times were hard and there wasn't much money, so you're right about it being dark.

 

The 80's, early 80's in particular were also a bit on the bleak side for those with responsibilities, but I was of the age where I didn't need to think much about that, so late 80 until mid 83, using your analogy, there were more colours. I had a great time.

 

I met my Mrs in 83, so things changed a bit and then when my lad was born in 85 things changed again. 

I got made redundant in late 84, Mrs was already pregnant, and I never worked again until 88, but not through lack of trying.

 

It was the same for most people my age in Thatcher's Britain. There was an upper class, middle class, a working class, but she created a fourth class, the non working class and you weren't alone being one of those.

 

Back in those days, if you had a family and were working and on low pay, you could apply for Family Income Supplement, (FIS). Forty years on, low paid jobs are still prevalent, but now, we have zero hour contracts and people still claim for top up benefits. 

Progress eh?.

 

I wonder if today's 18 - 20 somethings will look back on the last few years through rose tinted glasses.

I very much doubt it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Harry's Lad]

1 hour ago, sir roger said:

Went there a couple of times and It is probably one of this things that it is better as a brag than the actual experience. Saw Elvis Costello and Wire and both were good concerts , but there was a quite cliquey , too cool for school , poser feel with a lot of the regulars.

I've heard about the cliquey element to the place and it being a bit of a dump, but I'd still love to have seen it.

 

 

[VladimirIlyich]

38 minutes ago, Harry's Lad said:

I was born in 1963. The 70's were pretty glum, my Dad was forever getting called out on strike and they lasted for weeks, even months on end.

 

There was a lot of strike action back then which affected a lot of people both directly and indirectly so times were hard and there wasn't much money, so you're right about it being dark.

 

The 80's, early 80's in particular were also a bit on the bleak side for those with responsibilities, but I was of the age where I didn't need to think much about that, so late 80 until mid 83, using your analogy, there were more colours. I had a great time.

 

I met my Mrs in 83, so things changed a bit and then when my lad was born in 85 things changed again. 

I got made redundant in late 84, Mrs was already pregnant, and I never worked again until 88, but not through lack of trying.

 

It was the same for most people my age in Thatcher's Britain. There was an upper class, middle class, a working class, but she created a fourth class, the non working class and you weren't alone being one of those.

 

Back in those days, if you had a family and were working and on low pay, you could apply for Family Income Supplement, (FIS). Forty years on, low paid jobs are still prevalent, but now, we have zero hour contracts and people still claim for top up benefits. 

Progress eh?.

 

I wonder if today's 18 - 20 somethings will look back on the last few years through rose tinted glasses.

I very much doubt it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Good post. I was born in 1966 so I went through a lot of the same stuff. The Thatcher years were sould destroying for many,many people so the late 70s and early 80s are a mixed bag for me.

[stringvest]

1 hour ago, sir roger said:

Went there a couple of times and It is probably one of this things that it is better as a brag than the actual experience. Saw Elvis Costello and Wire and both were good concerts , but there was a quite cliquey , too cool for school , poser feel with a lot of the regulars.

The beer was the worst ever.  I think it was called Swan Lager.  Plastic glasses.  But I saw some fantastic gigs in there.  Every week there'd be at least two gigs you'd really want to go to.  A lot of the posers were just knobs though.  Wannabe Pete Burns twats.

[tokyojoe]

56 minutes ago, stringvest said:

The beer was the worst ever.  I think it was called Swan Lager.  Plastic glasses.  But I saw some fantastic gigs in there.  Every week there'd be at least two gigs you'd really want to go to.  A lot of the posers were just knobs though.  Wannabe Pete Burns twats.

Darn sarf we had the pleasure of Watneys Red Barrel, Worthington E and Double Diamond.

 

Pure dishwater.

[Harry's Lad]

16 minutes ago, tokyojoe said:

Darn sarf we had the pleasure of Watneys Red Barrel, Worthington E and Double Diamond.

 

Pure dishwater.

There was a pub in Skem that was a Watney's house back in the 70's, it was called The Tanner. The darts team was called The Red Barrels, so it wasn't just down south.

You could get Worthington E up here as well at one time, piss, but not as bad as Greenalls.

 

Double Diamond didn't work wonders round here though.

(one for the older posters).

[Total Longo]

4 hours ago, Tony Moanero said:

And orange.

 

Ace colours. My dad wasn’t one for change, so we had 70s decor in ours throughout the eighties. In fact, my dad didn’t get rid of his flock wallpaper until the turn of the millennium.

 

My Ma had a carpet in the living room like that which never used to bother me until they went away one week in the early 90's and i had some "mushy tea"...