What do you miss most from 1973?

I'm getting old. Remind me of what we're missing.

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But then again, she's all grown up with her own nursing baby daughter...

It was my job (as a four-year-old) to turn the TV to channel 2,7,10(weather permitting), or 22.

Aside from that, I mostly read books or climbed trees.

The best almost 5 years of my life.

What did I miss?!?! :P ;)

Austin, Texas was the cool capital of the United States.

and the Watergate hearings,
and the Watergate hearings,
and news about Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist
and inflation
and the first oil shock
and the Watergate hearings

I guess I would miss naps and sippy cups.

I was five in '73.

I don't remember seeing sippy cups until the 80s or 90s.

I had one when I was 5 years old, and that was well before 1973

In hindsight, Topps having a virtual monopoly on sports cards back then was probably a good thing for collectors...

And before Skunk Baxter decided to be a jerk.

I believe we were also burning up to the Crocodile Rock.

Existing is severely overrated.

Learning to drive, my first real girlfriend, MJ for the first time, the trip around Lake Superior.

It was a good year.

3-year-old racing today is an unfunny joke by comparison. With all the comebacks at the wire to ruin Triple Crowns, more like an icky practical joke. :eyes:

I was 2 years old. What the hell else could I miss?

Isaac Hayes - to name just one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2cHkMwzOiM

Yes, indeed! Great music!

is that all you women think about?... To you and Snowball, I just need to say , men have MINDS too ! ( although ...in my case, since what I miss is cheap and plentiful hashish, the immediately preceding statement may no longer apply).:crazy:

Of course, I cherish men for their MINDS, and ABSOLUTELY NOTHING ELSE. Giggle, sniff.

I was only six.

I'm gettin' old.

with her miniskirts and Klute shag
yes indeed

and going to the bowling alley on Friday nights

I was only 5 then but it would be a great idea for the wealthy to start giving back to a country they have profited greatly from.

Nixon made millions while he was in office and paid almost no taxes.

who were everywhere, where I lived

I spent the second half of the year far from big cities, thinking about the fact that every year we had a new "greatest environmental disaster in history" and that nobody cared very much and that the planet was pretty much doomed

That is some WAY awesome metal. Sweet.

As a former 20-year veteran of the auto industry, i bemoan the commercialization of the profound...automotively, at least. :)

That car...sigh...no words.

The draft ended in 1973 but us dumb draftees that added "no value, no advantage, really, to the United States armed services" discovered we had a no-cut contract and would not be sent home until our ETS date rolled around.

uh, *ahem* worked much better than now.... :)

Enquiring minds want to know!!!

:hi:

I bet that was the inspiration for Buzz Lightyear.

God, I loved Emergency! I've been catching up with it on Netflix, and it's just as good today as it was back then.

I was only 12 at the time. All these years later, I still think he's a cutie--even in current form. He has aged very well:


I have been enjoying the "Emergency!" re-runs on Retro TV.

That's an ounce for you young'uns. That or brown windowpane.
:hippie:

And microdots by the handful.

And Armadillo World Headquarters was open.

You may recall some of the names....Link:

http://www.besteveralbums.com/yearstats.php?y=1973


It still amazes me that so much great-and vastly different-music came out at the same time as the late '60's till the late '70's....


mark

Just seeing some of those album covers takes me right back. :hi:

In the early '70s, it was not unusual to hear "Stairway to Heaven", "Rocket Man", "A Boy Named Sue", and "Brandy" played on the same radio station, and no one thought twice about it.

As a kid, I had the radio playing CONSTANTLY, almost every waking minute when I wasn't in school or watching TV.

Quadrophenia is probably my favorite album and the rest of them on that list were fantastic too. And today?? Sigh...

It was THE fragrance to wear.

OMG, I had completely forgotten about it until you mentioned it, and now it's "in my nose"!

They also had a perfume called Love's Fresh Lemon. I can smell it now, too! :)

What was it called? All I remember is that a girl I worked with always wore it. And now I smell scent number three!!! Thanks for the memories, blue neen!

And, you can still get it. I used to wear it all the time in Jr. High in the early 90s. As my allergies and sensitivities get worse as I get older, I find myself thinking I'll buy it again. It's a lovely light scent.

In 1973, my parents met and married, and there were NO FLASH CUBES for the camera at the wedding, so no wedding pictures. I was still a star twinkling in the sky somewhere. *SNORT*

I'll have to check it out! Flash cubes, oh my gosh. I had forgotten all about them!

or Wal*Mart. Actually I haven't seen the cologne itself, but more of a perfumed body spay. Same thing. I'll have to get some now... I can still smell it.

Which gave it a burned smell. But I remember that scent well!

It's probably a helpful hint that she learned from "Seventeen" magazine! They used to always print little items like that. :)

It was in 1972 that I first visited the United States, twenty years old. Arrived in NYC, and then went on to Utica, upstate NY. And that's where I bought my first Seventeen magazine. Kept it for years and years.

I'll check it out! :)

It was all analog...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pfTfMoR8sg

It's not the song that I miss most from 1973, but my dad. David Gates wrote the song as a tribute to his dad.

Give it two years. Even then, I wouldn't remember...

Uncool, Potsie.

It was a decent little sitcom back then, in the days before it invented shark-jumping.

All I really remember about the "lip ups" was the scene with the two nerds practicing on either side of the pinball machine and the owner of the restaurant asking why they were kissing his pinball machine.

The one with the cop had a cool ending, with coming in wearing leather jackets to make the point that if he drove out Fonzie, another would replace him, and then another, etc. That cop would fit in JUST fine in Arizona.

During the first season, they worried about him being too much of a "gangster" or "hood" type, so they only depicted him wearing his leather jacket around his motorcycle. He either had to be riding it, or polishing it, etc. Any scenes without his bike - he wore sweaters (!). By the the time the second season was underway, those rules were mercifully scrapped. He was no longer a bit part, but a full-timer.

It was called "Love and the Happy Days", and it inspired George Lucas to cast Ron Howard in another '50s nostalgia project he was working on at the time called "American Graffiti".

Just a little trivia tidbit, there.

The feeling of falling in love with my future husband and that particular song are inseparable.

On second thought... *anything* by Marvin Gaye, The Temptations, Stylistics, Chi-Lites, Wilson Pickett, James Brown. 1973 was a wonderful year for me. Twenty-one years old and taking those first steps in the adult world. I think that's what I miss most... the promise of what adult life held in store.

Lovely bloke. He died that year. I got old, he didn't.

I bet you still miss him after all those years, don't you? Bittersweet memories?

Barely 21, and I often wish I'd got to know him as an adult. There would have been struggles, he was more conservative than my mum. But I feel like I only half-knew him.

Not the musical, the long fluffy stuff.

1973 companies still felt some loyalty to their employees. No longer.

You could afford to move out of your parent's house the moment you graduated!

He had a princely job at a small electronics company earning $3.33 an hour. I worked part-time in an office. We still managed to save enough money for a down payment on a condo within three years. Those days are over.

:bounce:

I forgot they were in back in the 1970s

:bounce: :bounce:

and the night a girl in Florida called me up in my Little Rock AR control room. She was making spaghetti sauce and was clad only in her panties. Said cooking was the second best thing she did...

Did Little Rock even have a 50,000 watt station? If it did, I couldn't pick it up, and I was in the NW part of the state testing my new GE portable radio. I could pick up WLS and WBBM in Chicago, KOA in Denver, WLS in New Orleans, and even KDKA in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; but the reception for the Little Rock station was pure crap.

suppers with friends, respect for nature, good music.

I remember thinking 'Chancellor' was the coolest name ever!...

I used to LOVE "That 70's Show" because the kids were the same age as I was, and the costumers were GOOD - I saw a lot of clothes on Jackie that I used to wear. Even the purses were right - stamped leather.

Great pic!

Seriously. The orange and yellow and red thing.

I live in my grandmother's house. She bought that red and yellow plastic ball hanging lamp from the Sears Roebuck catalog!!! It also came in blue'n'green.

It hangs over my 1925 Gulbransen upright piano.

and really good dope.....

The prices.
Good TV shows.
My schnauzers.
Watergate.

I want one so badly, I can taste it...

elevators had ashtrays

Their local (NW Arkansas) TV commercials included a bit about how many new stores they had added.

I remember Wal-Mart ever since at least December 1963, when as a wee lad I saw a Christmas tree in the register area decorated with dollar bills, and decided to help myself :evilgrin:

Hey, I was 3.

...as in locally produced kiddie shows and horror movie night (Saturday, of course).

DJs that were actually in the studio.

All the Beatles were still alive.

and of course sex without worry about aids, at least where I was. I miss mindlessness and freedom from worry. I miss dancing all night. I miss my old body and looks, the clothes I used to wear, the feeling of a new life starting rather than one ending. I would go back in a heartbeat knowing nothing more than I knew then.

She would play Debussy and Carol King compositions. I see vivid colors in my memory of those times although I was really young.

It was better then.

But that didn't work out, so I saw a lot of the world instead. I suspect I'm better off than following the script we were given to follow back then.

Lots of excitement, good times with friends, all kinds of possibilities.

was the question?

but 1973 was not a good year for me. My marriage was bad and getting worse and I had small children. I thought I would never be truly happy again , except for my children.

FE series Police Interceptor engines in Fords. The Honest Charley Speed Shop catalog

"If you'll be my Dixie Chicken

I'll be your Tennesee Lamb

And we can live together downnn.. in Dixieland"

and sex...damn , I actually used to have that regularly....

Purple Haze. I remember sitting alongside the canals in Amsterdam, higher than a kite. The colors... no shit...

Loved it.

Food for thought, isn't it?

No, not the sex. That was plentiful too but I wasted a lot of it, I was more focussed on pleasing than being pleased back then.

But the hash, oh dear, where did it go?

The energy crisis is not the only problem perplexing Detroit. Auto executives have been at least as worried about a pollution deadline: by late 1975, say the Clean Air Amendments of 1970, all cars must be virtually pollution free.

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Oilmen are hardly pleased. Along with Chrysler President John Riccardo, they have long advocated postponing federal deadlines until the automakers could come up with a modified engine that would meet clean-air requirements without the catalytic converter—or unleaded gas. Congress, however, saw fit to ignore that argument last week. The result, oilmen warn, will be increases in crude oil consumption because producing lead-free gasoline actually uses more oil than making gasoline with lead additives. At first glance, that might appear to be the last thing the U.S. should do during the energy crisis. But, say GM and the EPA, the loss of oil in producing unleaded gas will be more than balanced by the improved gas mileage that cars with converters will get. While the debate rages, precious time is slipping by. Detroit has an extra year to cleanse auto exhaust completely, but the job looks as difficult as ever.

--- From Time magazine Dec 1973
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,910905-2,00.html

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The nerve and stupidity to jump in the car with friends and take off cross country on a moments notice with no money, sleeping along the road or in rest stops. Just hanging out. Ahh to be young again. Now it's all just memories.

A 16 hand, 7 year old Gelding Thoroughbred I had the fortune of looking after when we lived in Alice Springs, Aus.

And no, that's not me up.

He was a bit of a character that had a sense of humor! When I would groom him, I'd lay a couple of towels over the rail of his stall. When I wasn't looking, he would grab one with his teeth and toss it on the ground, then quickly look away, as if to say "I've no idea at all how that ended up on the ground".

Spent many a wonderful hour riding him out in the bush on the north side of town. When I started looking after him, he was out of shape and a bit flabby. As I worked him and he got more fit, his owner decided to race him again, after not having raced for about 2 or 3 years. His best finish was a second in about 8 races.

:P :P

13 room farmhouse, on 100 acres, that I had. I also miss the simplicity of my life at that time. :hug:

and thinking anything was possible.

so I was not even a thought then.....

something thing about that person.


Tikki

From 1971 to 1973, they released "Love It To Death," "Killer," "School's Out," and "Billion Dollar Babies."

The first two albums, "Pretties For You" and "Easy Action," were somewhat weak, and so was the final album by the original lineup, "Muscle of Love" (1973). But the four albums listed above are as classic as classic rock gets.

Also during this time period, Rod Stewart & Faces were at their peak. He wasn't a sellout, he was dominating the charts with songs like "Maggie May."

And as if that wasn't enough, we had Philly Soul classics around this time like Billy Paul's "Me & Mrs. Jones" and Al Wilson's "Show & Tell."

:toast:

Howard Cosell and the original Monday Night Football crew...A time when the Knicks were good, and the Yankees were shit...The Oakland A's and John Wooden still whuppin' ass...The renegade ABA...The NFL before they sanitized the violence...ABC's Wide World or Sports (and those iconic mustard-brown jackets)...A time when many thought the DH would only be a temporary experiment...Tickets for sporting events still within reachable working-class levels...

that we moved away from. (I was four). Yes, my memories of Ohio mostly consist of the playground...:)

and 25 cents more for a candy bar.

I remember taking a trip up to Joplin, Missouri in 1972, and we stopped at a mom-and-pop store along the way. The proprietor proudly announced "This here's the last store in Missouri where you can still buy a bottle of pop for a dime!"

My carefree ignorance about the future.

and now, I really miss my real hair color. I hate using hair coloring because I can't get the shade of red I used to be. Darn getting old - it sucks.

does DEA monitor this forum? :hippie:

:rofl:

:-(

and entire summers at the pool

What route did you take?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x9391190


Going there we went 64 to 35/32- lots and lots of Ohio

coming back we took the AA highway and it cut at least an hour off the time --then we hit a masssive stoppage on the WV turnpike, 3 miles took an hour

My son looks at the 1970's and ridicules the idea that I lived through them.

At the time, I didn't know there was anything else...

Of course, we never got to see that second item, but the anticipation was wonderful.

I never should have let him get away. sigh.

at Folsom lake.

Yeah. 73. A good year.

They truly lived up to the name "World's Greatest Rock n Roll Band" in those years.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zs_LqKH6lVM

:shrug:

I wasn't around then.

...except smoking and the Vietnam war.