what was it like.....?

Question

For anyone who lived in the sixties or seventies??? I feel I was born in the wrong generation. So can ya'll tell me what it was like living in that time? Do you have any cool stories for me?

Answer 1

every generation has its good things and bad things. so, just be content with the time you are in now. i wasn't born yet, so i don't have any cool stories to tell you. don't worry though, you will have "cool stories" to tell your children someday.

Answer 2

I was born in 1968 and grew up in the 1970s. Some things I remember:

Cars were really big and had bench seats. Most seats were vinyl. Seatbelts weren't mandatory, although most cars had lap belts. Some had chest belts, but the were kinda folded and strapped to the inside ceiling of the car.

When we were kids, we'd pile into a friend's mom's station wagon and have fun riding in back. No seats or seatbelts!

I remember long gas lines. One time we spent hours in line for gas at a station across the street from a McD's, and one guy came along the line taking orders from people who wanted food or drinks.

Disco and rollerskating were in.

Appliances were often avocado green or harvest gold (ugh!). One friend had kitchen wallpaper that was a plaid pattern in avocado green and bright orange, with matching avocado green appliances. It was very cool back then.

Shag carpet. Feathered hair. Bell bottoms. Polyester. Croched clothing and purses and decorations. Macrame was in.

Air quality was lousy. I remember days in the summer when there was a dark smog hanging over the city. It smelled bad too. It wasn't uncommon to see cars with black smoke coming out of their exhaust pipes.

Back then you had a choice between Regular gas and Unleaded gas. Most cars took Regular (leaded). Most service stations were full service.

When you paid with a credit card, they took the carbon paper and ran the credit card through a machine that made an imprint in triplicate. They had a book of numbers of stolen credit cards that they had to check. Prices were keyed into registers by hand.

The US went nuts in 1976. I remember toilet paper with the American flag on it. I also remember SNL (back when it was good, with Chevy Chase and John Belushi and Gilda Radner) making fun of that.

Answer 3

I was born in 1969, and grew up in the 70's. IAll I remember, is that the things that were big back then were: Bell-bottom pants with clog shoes, blue eyeliner, disco, Andy Gibb, going to the skating rink...that's about it. Oh yea, Farrah Fawcet featherd hair was in style. The shows that were big were: The Dukes of Hazzard, Dallas, The Incredible Hulk, and Aqua Man.

Answer 4

I was born in 1960. I had bell bottoms but, did'nt like them because, they kept getting hung in My bicycle chain. I did like the cars better then because, You could tell one from another. the music was cool. I liked, Led Zeppelin, Creedence Clearwater Revival and, the Doobie Brothers. the races were a lot more segregated then but, it was just starting to change. anyone who talks about how bad the race situation is now, was'nt around then. politics were about the same. We had Johnson and, Nixon.

Answer 5

Hey you were not born in the wrong generation.Every generation has its own issues it's still the same today except that things are done more openly and freely without moral restraint!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 6

It was like a human zoo.

Everyone smelled, careless sex and disease all over the place, drugs galore, nobody had any respect for themselves or each other.

Disgusting pigs walked around with no clothes on and spit on our own soldiers. Drunken and drugged out losers threw turds at each other like monkeys in a cage. Civilization itself was almost completely erased.

It was a horrible time, trust me, you were born in the right generation.

James Marshall rocks.. he wasn't a filthy hippy though.

Answer 7

People wore lots of rainbow colored clothes and bell bottoms.

Answer 8

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