Did anybody grow up in the 70s?

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The 50s and 80s threads are fascinating. Can anybody shed light on the 70s please?

DIY Tie dye tshirts.

I remember doing my homework by candlelight!.Miners strike.Also no CH,remember getting undressed by the fire (just to vest and pants )and running upstairs to nice warm bed .(electric blanket)!."Playing out" rounders ,Tennis ,and so on Remember Virginia Wade ,winning Wimbledon .1977 I think.Going to the Saturday morning Disco .wearing hot pants ! .

I was a small child in the 70s. I remember the power cuts and found them exciting...getting all the candles out from under the sink and sitting in the candlelight.
We had milk at school breaktime in little glass bottles and in summer it would be warm
School dinners on the other hand were excellent at my school...lovely roasts, cottage pies, cake with pink custard! We could smell it being cooked and our bellies would be rumbling from 10am.
Tv only had three channels and you'd have to press buttons on the tv to switch over.
We didn't have a phone, if we wanted to make a call it was round the corner to the phone box with a pile of 2p coins.
I got a cassette player and a bay city rollers tape for Christmas when I was 6, I loved them and always wanted some "bumper boots" like they wore (converse in this day and age).
I remember washing day we couldn't get in the kitchen as the massive twin tub took up the whole floor space, dm would stand over it poking it with a stick.
Frozen food became a thing in the 70s, fish fingers, findus crispy pancakes, mr brains faggots (all with chips of course)

Oh and mustn't forget...no central heating! Bloody freezing in winter, we would all queue up in front of the 3 bar electric fire to get dressed and go to bed under piles of blankets. We had frost on the inside of the windows.
Summers always seemed hot, and we never had sun cream but I don't remember getting sunburnt either, what's that about?

ozone layer i think,
we used to use ambra solair bronzing oil in the 1980s

Long brown and blue flowery party dresses.
Large colourful flower print wallpaper and a brown dralon sofa (like velour).
Ford cortinas.
Icecream from the icecream van with raspberry sauce that dripped onto your hands.
Bowl haircuts for boys and girls.
Findus crispy pancakes and tinned Heinz soup.
10p mix at the local shop. Some of the sweets were 1/2p each.

Our old VW Beetle and never wearing seatbelts. Sitting on my dad's knee and "driving" the car.
The heat! The summers seemed hot and sunny and I never wore shoes until it was time to go back to school.
The IRA and The Troubles on the news every single night. When we went to Belfast, having to walk through the massive security barriers, having your bags searched and even having babies lifted out of prams to check for explosive devices...and thinking nothing of it, it was normal.
Sweets were better and crisps seemed to come in big bags that were full up.
No mobile phones being booted out of the house in the morning and only coming back at dinner time.

Oh and not being allowed any of my mum's expensive sunscreen (SPF 2 max!) and being told to just put a tee shirt on! I spent most summers like a lobster until I was about 8 and my skin was damaged enough to tan.

A can of fizzy drink was a treat for Christmas/birthdays. The can had a seam and a detachable ring pull (detachable ring pulls continued until 1986).

As a pp said... freedom.

Respect. As in children respected adults.

Children were either bright, average or thick.

Remedial classes for the 'thick' ones.

School meals were proper meals.

Hand written school reports which actually told you something about the child.

Staff rooms full of cigarette smoke.

Macrame
Cheesecloth
Long party frocks.
Didn't know any mothers who worked.
Only knew 1 mother who could drive.
Hardly any food waste.
Junior aspirin in a little bottle with cotton wool inside, a pill crushed between 2 spoons and mixed with a drink.
Olive oil for earache.
Hot water bottles were a must in winter.
Being a child in the 70s was great. No pressure.

DM used to rub olive oil on her skin to help her tan!

Cast off clothes.
Home knit jumpers.
Shopping in shops not supermarkets.
Party-line phones - you shared a landline with another house.
Phones with a dial, in beige, cream or green.
Telephone number you rang to find out what was number 1 in the charts. If you rang from the phone box, you could hear a few notes without putting any money in. I think the phone box would take 2p or 10p coins.
No 20p or £1 coins. People still calling 5p a shilling, and 50p ten bob.
Buying 8 sweets for 1 pence.
Diets becoming a thing.
Bay City Rollers, Grease and the Sex Pistols.
Flares, hot pants and tank tops
Hot summer of 1976.
Petrol 'rationing'
Silver jubilee
Having just one pair of shoes and plimsolls for gym
Chocolate bars like Mars and curly wurly much bigger, as were Wagon Wheels.
KitKats had Rowntree on them
Shopping from catalogues.
Getting a colour telly.
Telly with a knob for changing the channel.
Only 3 TV channels.
Not having a way of recording tv.
Transistor radios and cassette players.
Tiny Tears, Pippa dolls.

Black and white war movies on the TV on Sundays.
Roast every Sunday.
20p mix - black jacks and fruit salads
Sherbert dib dabs
The Magic Roundabout, Top Cat, Rainbow and Pipkins
Bingo at the working men's club
Cherryade
Weddings where the bride had long sleeved, A line dresses and long straight hair
Roller skates
John Travolta, Grease and Saturday night fever - watching TOTP every week hoping "you're the one that I want!" was still number one.
Quiet for the news as my Dad was in the forces in NI, we lived there in married quarters and sometimes it was the only way to know if anything had happened. One day it had and I remember my Mum crying and running to the neighbours to ask if they'd heard anything more.

Mary Poppins, Lady and the tramp, the Jungle book and 101 dalmations
Headmaster smacking hands or legs and for the very worse offences - the cane.

The black jacks and fruit salads were the 8 for 1p ones.
On telly, The Onedin Line, Upstairs Downstairs, The Professionals, The Sweeney (after my bedtime), Love Thy Neighbour, Bless This House, Butterflies, The Good Life, Mike Yarwood, Morecambe and Wise. The New Avengers and Purdey haircuts.
Ford Cortinas and Ford Capris, Morris Marinas, Austin Maxi and Austin Princess/Ambassador.

Bunty, Jackie, My Guy, and Fab something.

Wedding dresses having long sleeves and a bride's bouquet might contain a silver horseshoe or a number plate with U2R1 on it.
People ' having ' to get married, and the large bouquet needed to hide the bump.
Cancer seeming much less common and was only spoken of in hushed tones as the Big C.
Avocados were called avocado pears and were a treat.
Deposits on glass bottles.
Lucozade, orange juice and/or grapes only if you were ill. Lucozade had a cellophane wrapper.
Pop was a rare treat.
Only having a glass of water at lunchtime. No carrying bottles of water everywhere.
Only a small number of kids were fat.
Takeaways were occasional treats.

Born in 1968 so at primary in the 1970s. I remember:

Austin Allegro - Dad had a mustard coloured car with brown seats. It was a crap car!
K -tel compilation records
Ronco gifts at Christmas - lots of useless gadgets -my Mum had a buttoneer
Woolies' Xmas ad which had lots of celebs
Larry Grayson, Les Dawson, Dave Allen, Frankie Howerd, Bob Monkhouse ...all comedians on tv
Leonard Rossiter/Joan Collins ads for Cinzano
Swap Shop on BBC1 on Saturdays with Noel and Cheggers
The Muppet Show
Sundays were sooooo boring, everything shut!
Grease/Saturday Night Fever and John Travolta mania in 77/78
Elvis dying in August 1977
Hot summer of 1976
Double egg and chips and a Coke float in local Wimpy bar
Bejams opening and my Mum getting a chest freezer
No central heating, no fitted carpets, hiding from the milkman when Mum didn't have the cash to pay him
Going to laundrette with Mum to do the washing until she got a twin tub washer in 1976
Buses or walking as Mum didn't drive
Hours spent in the local library

no take aways, I remember one Wimpy in our town centre and a fish and chip shop. Perhaps that was a good thing.
getting a slap at school or board rubber / chalk thrown at you
walking to school in a snow blizzard and school staying open regardless

This is fabulous! I've gone all misty eyed and nostalgic!

Me too!

Watch with Mother
Twinkle girls mag
Walking with mum every day to the local shops, butcher, greengrocer etc
Getting some silver hot pants with a butterfly on when I was about 6 because I wanted to look like my older sisters.
My red poncho, I thought I was the bees knees
Ditto when I was 10 and I got my Bay City Roller Trousers with 12 buttons up the waist.
T Rex, Slade, Sweet
Playing out from 9 to 9 in the summer holidays
Kids TV, I loved champion the wonder horse, Casey Jones, white horses, double deckers.
Older Brother getting a bubble car and we all tried to pile in.
Cars breaking down
Those massive 8track cassette tapes for cars and dad playing Motown non stop.
Getting our first colour TV in 1971
Putting money in the back of the old black and white tele when it went off.
The Galloping Gourmet
Fanny Cradock
All sitting down to watch Morcambe and Wise every Christmas
Power cuts
One bathroom for all of us
Hesian wallpaper
Thinking pot noodles were the best thing ever when they first came out.
Angel delight
Strawberry sweetheart (dessert in a tin)
Mums trifle which she made with blancmange instead of custard.
Cheese and pineapple on sticks.
Rushing home from school for Grange Hill
Learning to Iron correctly in Domestic science
The Sex Pistols being on TOTP and everyone being horrified!!
Ditto Gary Numan, although I thought he was fab!!
Teen mags, Oh Boy, Pink, Fab 208

Fab 208! I remember Pink and Diane too.

Oh yes
Buying my school uniform from Chelsea Girl and Martin Fords.

Desperate to have a Crombie coat and tonic skirt.

Having Miss ( not Mrs) Price measure your skirt... then turning it up at the waist when she'd finished

Getting a Mary Quant nail varnish ! In cherry black and my dad not letting me out wearing it!

Great days.. although at the time didn't appreciate it.

Oh and this may out me but the Phone box opposite our house belonged to my mum ... well so she thought. She actually used to clean it .. properly with window cleaner and pledge !

The Hard Rock Cafe in London opening.
Having my 21st birthday there.
O levels
Going to the phone box with 4d
Decimalisation - I worked in the village shop on Saturdays and had to learn it fast to help all customers .