What I Miss About the 70's

Published on August 19, 2004 By Gideon MacLeish In Misc

*Evel Kneivel stunt bikes

*colorforms

*"Star Wars" before Lucas went nuts

*Cindy Brady

*The Big Red Machine

*Starsky & Hutch

*Ironsides

*Muhammad Ali

*a peanut farmer president

*Burt Ward as "Batman"

*"Bonanza"

*AM Radio (apologies to A. Alexakis)

*Air raid drills

*Mary Lou Retton

*Nadia Comaneci

*Those hideous 'Stro's uniforms

*O J Simpson before he was a double murderer

....any more?

Comments

historyishere

on Aug 19, 2004

I miss the Funk!

Gideon MacLeish

on Aug 20, 2004

Oh, yeah, also:

*Billy Beer

*Bruce Jenner on a Wheaties box

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