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70's Party Essentials, eg Watners Party 7's - what else?

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JemimaPyjamas · 23/04/2019 21:37

I am throwing a 70's 70th for my mother and am fishing for ideas. I like the idea of things that people of her generation will recognise but haven't seen or heard of for a long time.
Google just produces naff 'groovy' signs etc.
Can anyone here inspire me...?
Thank you

OP posts:
Leeds2 · 24/04/2019 13:17

Trifle with Dream Topping.

DGRossetti · 24/04/2019 13:25

Angel Delight

groundcontroltomontydon · 24/04/2019 13:39

Black Forest gateau, Arctic Roll, snowball with glace cherry, prawn cocktail, party hedgehog

Guardsman18 · 24/04/2019 13:45

Martini and cinzano (?) and lemonade. Hope I'm not getting my decades mixed up!

woodcutbirds · 24/04/2019 13:45

Raffia covered wine bottles used as candlesticks.
Giant globe-shaped paper lanterns for lampshades
Onyx ashtrays and LOTS of cigarettes (No7, B&H, maybe Silk Cut)
Soul and Disco music, or 'chill-out' rooms with Leonard Cohen playing in the dark. Grin
joss sticks (incense sticks)
Cinzano Bianco, Asti Spumante, Babycham, Snowballs, and the men drank Double Diamond I think.

Takingtimeoff · 24/04/2019 13:49

Little paper umbrellas in the drinks

x2boys · 24/04/2019 15:43

My mum and dad still have one of those paper lampshades @woodcutbirdsShock

RaspberryRipple1963 · 24/04/2019 15:54

OMG OP! That wallpaper was on my older brothers' bedroom wall! I remember my dad decorating their room around '74 or 75,and even then thinking that it was headache inducing!

JemimaPyjamas · 24/04/2019 16:31

@raspberryripple1963 Grin

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Ronsters · 24/04/2019 17:09

Those little plastic cocktail sticks, shaped like swords.

MitziK · 24/04/2019 18:58

Depends if you're going to MC party or normal people having a good time party.

Prawn vol-au-vents. And/or prawn cocktail in glasses, made with iceberg lettuce, chopped tomato, cheap frozen prawns and sauce made from mixing tomato ketchup and salad cream together.

Woodpecker cider.

Bottle of Blue Nun (for decoration, obvs, as it was fucking vile).

R White's cream soda and Cherryade.

Plain white crappy candles lit with Swan Vestas for the obligatory power cut.

A Red jelly rabbit on a bed of green jelly chopped up for grass. A bowl of tinned fruit cocktail and can of evaporated milk. You could probably come up with some sort of cocktail with those.

White Russians.

After Eights/Twiglets/Ritz crackers/TUC biscuits/Mint Matchmakers/Milk Tray/Terry's All Gold. Primula cheese spread.

Mellow Birds and Camp Coffee (the latter could be used in the white russians, thus saving the cost of buying Kahula/Tia Maria).

Big jar of pickled onions with the little grabber tool.

And the gadgets/kitchenalia. Orange plastic rotary cheesegrater, electric carving knife, plastic tablecloth. Beaded curtain over the kitchen door.

Any chance of a spacehopper race? Or a Grifter propped up against the front wall?

JoeElliotsMullet · 24/04/2019 19:28

Get everyone to leave their kids in their cars and occasionally pop out to bring them coca-cola in glass bottles with straws and a bag of crisps to share.

x2boys · 25/04/2019 08:25

Is it too late to redecorate the walls with woodchip.wallpaper?

cantfindname · 25/04/2019 10:00

Dark glasses and a big supply of paracetamol for the wallpaper Grin
It's so awful I actually like it...

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