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RE: you know you're a 70s kid when .... - 8/19/2008 1:04:28 PM
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Roberta_
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I don't remember what sis and I were talking about in the car yesterday, but after about 10 minutes or so, my niece piped up from the back seat and said "You guys are sooooo '70s!" and we took it as a compliment!
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RE: you know you're a 70s kid when .... - 8/21/2008 3:14:31 AM
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and I Never Promised You a Rose Garden too
And you can sing the lyrics.
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RE: you know you're a 70s kid when .... - 8/21/2008 3:17:29 AM
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If you're Australian, you remember The Leyland Brothers.
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RE: you know you're a 70s kid when .... - 8/21/2008 5:16:13 AM
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Anyone remember when you used to buy soft drinks in ounces and still came in glass bottles?
Steel cans is another memory also.
TV stations that actually signed off for the night and had the National Anthem played at both the beginning and the end of the broadcast day?
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RE: you know you're a 70s kid when .... - 8/21/2008 8:40:50 AM
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and the airforce flying.
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RE: you know you're a 70s kid when .... - 8/21/2008 9:56:59 AM
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The Rick Springfield I remember 
The Bewitched vs Jeanie conversation was really real.
The Ginger vs Mary Ann conversation was also very real.
And, you had to have seriously oily hair for that Pssst to work. Baby powder did about the same thing, but you had to really pat it out or you had a white cloud all day.
I had curtain tiebacks made out of the pop tops from soda cans all hooked together in a chain. tacky tacky tacky
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RE: you know you're a 70s kid when .... - 8/21/2008 9:58:05 AM
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oh and skateboards were much cooler then and harder to ride 
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RE: you know you're a 70s kid when .... - 8/22/2008 2:10:36 AM
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Anyone remember when you used to buy soft drinks in ounces and still came in glass bottles?
I remember that. And if you took certain ones back to the store, you'd get a nickel. I remember at least once picking up bottles along the road with a couple other people so we could get the deposits.
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RE: you know you're a 70s kid when .... - 8/23/2008 3:15:35 PM
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The Rick Springfield I remember
Rick Springfield, the 70's: "Speak To The Sky" yes, that would be it!
The early 80's: "Jessie's Girl", etc. 
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RE: you know you're a 70s kid when .... - 8/24/2008 12:52:41 AM
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Sis and I both said the same thing at the same time and I said, "Jinx on you!"
I didn't know this was a 70s thing. When my best freind and I would say the same thing, we'd say "One, Two, Three Jinx, you owe me a Jolly Pop!" I hated Jolly Pops, but would say it anyway. We never paid up.
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RE: you know you're a 70s kid when .... - 8/24/2008 1:21:10 AM
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Sis and I both said the same thing at the same time and I said, "Jinx on you!"
I didn't know this was a 70s thing. When my best freind and I would say the same thing, we'd say "One, Two, Three Jinx, you owe me a Jolly Pop!" I hated Jolly Pops, but would say it anyway. We never paid up.
We always said either "Jinx!" or "C-Coke-C-Coca-Cola you owe me a Coke!" We never, or rarely, paid up either. I don't know if this was a 70's thing or not. It was 70's and maybe some in the early 80's when we were saying it, but since it varies so much what people said, it may have been regional as well.
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RE: you know you're a 70s kid when .... - 8/25/2008 2:04:35 PM
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I was just thinking about the National Anthem a couple of days ago and wondering if any stations in the U.S. do that anymore. In fact, I don't hear the anthem that much anymore - except during games. But when I was a kid I heard it all of the time. I grew up on military bases, so we were always hearing the Anthem. It would play before the movies at the movie theatre (we kids would make little cymbal clashing noises at appropriate times during the song) and we would stand with our hands over our hearts to salute the flag which was shown on the movie screen as the music played. And every day at 5:00 p.m. EVERYONE who was outside (except those who were driving in cars) would stop wherever they were, put their hands over their hearts, and listen to the National Anthem that was played on loudspeakers all over the base.
Same here! However, where we were stationed, if you had your windows down and could hear the music, you better stop of the AP's would stop you.
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RE: you know you're a 70s kid when .... - 8/25/2008 2:06:27 PM
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Do you remember the flowers made from fake fur? They kind of looked like trolls hair.
Yes and they were sticky so you could put them practically anywhere...I made a mess on the walls of my room with those.
Mom was soooo NOT pleased
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RE: you know you're a 70s kid when .... - 8/26/2008 10:52:05 AM
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I made the fake fur flowers, and strung coke can tabs together and zig-zagged them across the ceiling of my room.
I remember when the Vietnam war ended, when Nixon resigned, and watching Ford's speech on television--as historical event as the first president that had not come to the office through election--becuase he was appointed to fill Agnew's unfinished term, he had not been elected on the Nixon ticket.
My first "real" job, the starting salary was $425.00 a month; my first car of my own was a used Pinto wagon that I bought for $1800.00. It was finianced for two years, I think my note was around $90 a month.
Prices were low and interest rates were high--now prices are high and interest rates are low!
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RE: you know you're a 70s kid when .... - 8/26/2008 12:10:32 PM
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rgod
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cinwood and doinkdom - hi there fellow brats!
I seem to vaguely remember a canon firing too, but I'm not sure :) I wonder if military bases still do that today? I do remember hearing about the MPs (we didn't use the term AP - what does the A stand for?) stopping people who would continue to walk or whatever if the anthem was playing.
What bases did you grow up on? I only grew up on three: Ft. Richardson, AK; Ft. Hood, TX; and Ft. Meade, MD.
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RE: you know you're a 70s kid when .... - 8/26/2008 1:05:47 PM
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AP is Air Police. My dad was air force (SAC).
I was born on MacDill in Tampa, FL (1957) then we got transfered to Bunker Hill, IN (1959) which his now called Grissom (I think).
Then back to McCoy AFB in Orlando, FL (1964) and then dad was stationed in Okinawa (during Vietnam - they airlifted in/out of country) for a few years and we had to live off base.
After that was over, he got orders to Charleston Air Force Base, SC. And from there retired.
We lived on the CAFB from 1968 until 1978. I still live in the area.
I was in serious culture shock when I started living the "civie" life.
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RE: you know you're a 70s kid when .... - 8/26/2008 5:04:34 PM
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I was in serious culture shock when I started living the "civie" life.
Me too! I think the main thing that I noticed was that the other kids in school weren't nearly as welcoming. Part of this was, I think, because on a military base, you know that you only have 2 years and then you are going to be somewhere else. So, you make friends at an accelerated pace, because they might be gone next month. In the civie world it takes longer. There was also no real segregation by culture or race that I could detect when I was a kid. I guess the division was more by rank - officer kids vs. enlisted kids. But as soon as I entered the civilian world social groups became very apparent. Also, there was a certain amount of structure and order to living on base that wasn't apparent in civilian life. It is truly a different world.
I've long since adjusted - but I still feel a bit antsy every two years. When I look back over my life, I see that I have the urge to change something in my life - right around the time when we would have moved. Isn't that strange - that all these years later I'd still feel that way?
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RE: you know you're a 70s kid when .... - 8/26/2008 5:26:03 PM
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doinkdom
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Not really...the foundation of growth in your life was an ever changing demographic area. So I think you're perfectly normal.
The first thing that shocked me was the movie theaters....good grief, me and 2 friends were so embarassed when we tried to stand up for the national anthem
that never got played 
And although we were on an air base, there were no schools on the base. We were bused about 20 miles away, so we did have that much interaction. And it was a whole nuther world of its own back then for sure.
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