To ask what you were doing in the 70s?

[PossiblyPattio]

I feel like having a nostalgia moment. I was a teenager in the 70s and I remember wanting to be like Patti Smith, I idolized her much to my mums disapproval... I was Patti and my friend was Stevie!!
Looking back I was quite cool!!
Any mumsnetters who were teenagers in the 70s? What did you enjoy doing? Who did you want to be? I'm looking back and I miss it so much!!

I was being a kid and, emotionally dysfunctional family not withstanding, it was a good time to be one.

@MrsWooster It was a good time. The music, the clothes.. So much individuality!!!

I was a kid.
I remember the music, the clothes.
Shops shutting on a Friday, half day on a Saturday and completely on a Sunday.
3 TV channels. No TV channels in the day except the news and playschool.
No central heating or double glazing. Ice on the inside of the windows.
Calorgas heater and that smell.
Walking everywhere.
50p pocket money. A can of coke was 11p, a fry’s peppermint cream was 7 1/2 p
Oh yes 1/2 p coins!!
Walking home from brownies with my little sister in the dark with a torch at age 7 or 8 by our selves. About a miles walk.
Hair bobbles, pain as my hair was ripped from my head every morning to get bobbles in.
Being hungry...all the time. Constantly. Food rationed. Only allowed 2 biscuits as a special treat.
Digging in the garden with a spoon, washing up bowl with water in, in the back yard in the summer. Our paddling pool.
Never heard of sun screen or cream!
Angel delight. Powdered milk.

Oh I want to cry!!! It's all really coming back to me now!! I miss it so much.

Anybody else? That made me so happy PP, thank ypu

I was listening to music and buying a top of the hits record which had all of the hits on it but sung by other people and cost about 80p. Learning the words to the songs from smash hits and before that disco 45 magazine. I was dressed in Socks with individual toes, cheesecloth smock, Applecore on a necklace ( god knows why) and of course an ID bracelet

Love these threads so following - I was born at the end of the 70s.

Not a happy time.
Terminally ill father and a mother struggling with mental health.
Dinner was typically smash and tinned meat.

@Ahwig Ah, the cheesecloth!! Cheesecloth everywhere!!

@speakout I'm so sorry you went through that.

No seat belts in cars.
Every grown up I knew smoked everywhere.
Waiting in the car with a glass bottle of lemonade and packet of crisps, in the pub car park for hours when my mum & dad went into the pub drinking.
The smell of calomine lotion on chicken pox.
Records, albums, singles, popping the middle bit out to put into the next record.
Cleaning the fluff off the needle.

I loved the seventies. I was a teenager. Loved the music, the much simpler life . No internet, no phones. Just the top 40, and what seemed like a lot of excitement. Punk , school discos, great TV on only three channels. I loved the fashions.The world seems a much worse place now.

Yes, it was so much simpler!! I miss it so much. I pity todays teenagers.

I wanted to be - or be like - Mary Tyler-Moore (as did Michelle Obama!). I wanted to have my own apartment in London and be a girl about town.

I did eventually and it more than lived up to the dream, although I was probably more like Rhoda

I’ve been listening to Heart70s on the radio this afternoon. I was 18 in 1976. It was the best time. The music, the clothes, the night clubs. I just wish I’d had the confidence then that I have now!!

I was a teenager in the 70's and loathed the clothes, music, decor (burnt orange and brown EVERYWHERE).

I LOVED the 80's though, then in my early 20's.

I was born! At the every end of the year.

I was born in late 73 so I remember bits ,we went on holiday mainly to Wales ,I remember going to a few working farms that had a B&B attached ,don't know if this was a thing in the 70,s? My dad's cars were always ford Cortina,s or ford escort ,in red or yellow,mum smoked ,people could smoke just about anywhere,my primary school which I started in1978,was a very old fashioned convent primary school,we all had to eat school dinners ( I think this was probably unique to my school though) .

I remember going to nightclubs when I was about 16, (1974), I can also remember wearing a bright yellow smocktop, if they asked your age you just said 18 but they rarely did. A bit later on I liked Punk Rock and Lou Reed and stuff like that and I can remember in the late 70s gelling my hair so it stood on end

I had my hair cut in a short shag like Patti

I was primary age, spent my days out playing. Building ganghuts on the railway and rope swings to jump in the river
Roller disco on Sundays
Whilst my own ds has a lot of freedom I don't think I'd be OK with him playing on railways and in rivers! He is very jealous I grew up without health and safety!

Playing out.
Serious playing out.
Waiting for the One Record Shop to open so I could get my Shaky single.

Being a kid Stealing money to buy 10p mixes, the football results on Saturday teatime, wearing long dresses at birthday parties.
I also remember there being more scary dogs just running around the streets than there are now.

A teenager at the beginning of the decade, went to uni and started work in the middle and bought a house and got married at the end. So huge decade for me.

Brilliant music, great clothes and the long hot summer of 76, what's not to like? Ah yes the food which looking back was a bit shit

Carnage on every club coach trip to the seaside.