Forty Things From the 70s You Won't Probably Find in Today's Homes-- Part 4: 8-Tracks

31.  8-Tracks*  I have about ten of them. I never got into them.  I still have and record using their forerunners, the audio cassette.  I also still have one 8-track tape player.)

32.  Textured walls

33.  Vinyl tablecloths 

34.  Slides  (hey, vacation)  For that matter a slide projector.*

35.  Rec rooms*

36.  Concrete patios*

37.  Pendant lights  (gigantic globes)

38.  Fondue pots

39.  Massive coffee makers

40  Super 8s  (to record those family activities in case you're wondering)  Well, we have a couple camcorders.)

Reckon We're Still Somewhat Stuck in the 70s.  (Oh well, we don't spend all day looking at our "smart Phones."  --Cooter

Forty Things from the 1970s You Probably Won't Find in Today's Homes-- Part 3: Oh That Typewriter

21.  Radios*   I also have a bunch of boom boxes with radios.

22.  Funky lights  (colored lights)   Do Christmas lights I leave up in the bar year round count?

23.  Pod chairs  (ball or egg chairs)

24.  Popular pottery*  (Some of our lamps are pottery)

25.  Chrome finishes

26.  Typewriters*   Even though I haven't seen it in years, I know we have an electric one somewhere.)

27.  Pyrex dishes   (with color)

28.  Record players   (Hey, we still have three of them.

29.  Dark tones  (red, gold & avacado)  Our first home had an orange countertop in the kitchen.

30.  Exposed brick

Stuck in the 70s.  --Cooter

Forty Things from the 70s That You Probably Won't Find in Homes Today-- Part 2: Stereo Systems

*  means we have it now.

11.  Sunken living rooms

12.  Floating stairs (like the Brady Bunch)

13.  TV dinners

14.  Rattan furniture  (that tropical look)

15.  Floral sofas

16.  Push button phones*

17.  Stereo systems*  (I have four of them)

18.  Macrame everything*    (Tying cords into knots)  In second thought, I do have one plant hanging from the ceiling on one of these in the sunroom.

19.  Colonial furniture  (Bicentennial)

20.  Fringe elements (fringes hanging down)  (I lost my Davy Crockett jacket years ago.)

Love Those Old Stereo Systems.  --RoadStereo

Forty Things Every 70s House Had That No One Has Today-- Part 1: Shag Carpeting

From March 15, 2022,  MSN "40 things that every house in the 70s had that no one sees today" by Jill Gleeson.

I just had to see what we still have.  Quite a few of them evidently.  *  Means we "Got" It somewhere.

1.  Linoleum floors*

2.  Bean bag chairs  (I could hardly get out of them back them.  I really couldn't even think about getting out of one now.)

3.  Wood paneling*

4.  Crocheted blankets

5.  Lava lamps*

6.  Shag carpeting

7.  Huge TVs (as in ones to heavy to hang from a wall)*

8.  Statement stone fireplaces  (made of rough stone)*

9.  Alarm clocks*

10.  Patterned paper

It's A Start.  --CootStuckOld

Anti-Vietnam War Protest in DeKalb By NIU Students in 1970

From the April 15, 2020, MidWeek  "Looking Back."

1970. 50 Years Ago.

"More than 200 Northern Illinois University students led by the Student Mobilization Committee marched through downtown DeKalb at about 9 p.m. last night to protest the Vietnam War.

"The campus activities are related to the nationwide anti-war week.  The SMC attempted to have the college shut down classes today, but permission was refused.  Students also picketed the draft board office on North Fourth Street yesterday."

I was at Northern Illinois as a freshman living in Lincoln Hall when this happened.

It Was a Scary Time.  --Cooter

Let's Dance-- Part 4: Decades of Dance 1960s-1970s

These are some popular dances from past decades:

1960s

The Mashed Potato

The Twist

The Monkey

The Watusi

The Jerk

1970s

The Bump

Salsa

The YMCA

Le Freak

The Hustle

The Two Left Feet.  --DaCootFlop

41 Years Ago Today... It Was 1973

And there I was at the tender age of 21 and deep into student teaching at Maine West High School in Des Plaines, Illinois, and set to graduate from Northern Illinois at the end of May. I was still driving the infamous "Ramblin' Wreck" 1963 Rambler station wagon, which had finally started after shutting down for the DeKalb winter. It wouldn't be long before I bought my first new car, a 1973 Ford Pinto, manual transmission. Anyway, Chicago's WXRT, 93.1 FM, is going back to 1973 for the next two and a half hours, streaming live at www.wxrt.com. So, if you're getting ready to go to your local mom and pop record store for Record Store Day (I still say it should be called National Record Store Day) , give it a listen. Last several songs played: I CAN'T STAND THE RAIN-- Ann Peebles ROSALITA-- Bruce Springsteen LET'S GET IT ON-- Marvin Gaye FAT MAN IN THE BATHTUB-- Little Feat SAIL ON SAILOR-- Beach Boys DEAR ABBY-- John Prine DYERMAKER-- Led Zeppelin Lots of Memories. --Cooter

Deaths: Partridge Family, Gilligan's Island

I was really sorry to hear this morning that two of the actors from two of my favorite sitcoms back in the 60s and 70s died yesterday. RUSSELL JOHNSON, 89, "GILLIGAN'S ISLAND"-- Played Professor Roy Hinkley on "Gilligan's Island" which ran 1964-1967, who was "always one coconut away finding a way off of Gilligan's Island. He was a distinguished World War II veteran so I will be writing more about him in my Tattooed On Your Soul blog. //// DAVE MADDEN, 82 "THE PARTRIDGE FAMILY" Born 1931, died January 16, 2014. Played manager Reuben Kincaid to the group on "The Partridge Family" TV Sitcom which ran from 1970-1974. H ewas also on "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In" and played Earl Hicks on the sitcom "Alice." I always loved him against Danny. //// Finish This "The Professor and ____ ___."

Deaths: A Sweathog

ROBERT HEGYES, 60

Died January 26, 2012. Born May 7, 1951.

Actor best-known for his role on 70s TV sitcom "Welcome Back Kotter" as Juan Epstein. Also played detective Manny Esposito in TV's "Cagney and Lacey."

As I was teaching back in the 70s, I sure enjoyed "Welcome Back Kotter" and all those Sweathogs Gabe Kaplan had to put up with. I don't know how the cast could keep a straight face when Kaplan would read a note from getting Juan out of something signed "Epstein's Mother."

Laughing about it right now.

Funny Guy.

Fifty Years of Holiday Memories-- Part 2: The Seventies

THE SEVENTIES


REMEMBER?  Waiting for our Polaroid photos to develop (or taking the Instamatic camera film in to be developed.

KITCHEN SMELLED LIKE:   Butterball turkeys (A big improvement.  No more dry, gag-you white meat.)

ON THE 8-TRACK PLAYER:  Jackson 5 Christmas Album (and the the getting messed up.  Well, at least you didn't have to flip the cassette tape or album.)

ON THE TUBE:  The Waltons: The Homecoming  (That show and "Little House on the Prairie" still my favorites.  I always wanted a taste of te Baldwin sisters' "Recipe.")

IN THE THEATERS:  "Scrooge"with Albert Finney and Alec Guinness

UNDER THE TREE:  Pet Rocks, Legos, Wonder Woman dolls and Atari 2600.  Imagine blipping on your TV.

FOR ME:  Brandy, the Christmas puppy in 1975.  The attack on the Christmas tree and ornaments eaten.  First and last time that happened.

And How About Those First Realistic Artificial Christmas Trees?  --Cooter