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Besides I'm interested in the computers and game consoles of this period. I have some artifacts and touch them with pleasure as rare and expensive rarities.
Cool! So am I.
On a different topic -- one thing that can't really be explained to some of those who weren't present for those decades... the smell! Certainly in the 60s, and most of the 70s, that was before even "non smoking" sections were a thing. Much less whole buildings where smoking wasn't allowed. People smoked in every public place, and probably in about 40% of homes. Even if your family didn't smoke, you'd often have ashtrays for friends and relatives who did. Offices, stores, restaurants, planes, buses, everywhere. In my high school, they had a smoking area for the students. And in every school, the teachers' lounge would be a smokefest.
Honestly, I'll best most of us who lived through that don't remember the smell... I don't. Probably because we were so accustomed to it. But if time travel were possible and someone went back from today, I'm sure the smell would be overpowering.
I guess you could get an idea of it being inside some Vegas casinos today, or perhaps certain foreign countries...
I'm not agreed with the topic. I like very much the music of the 70s (The Rolling Stones, Abba, Frank Sinatra etc.), movies (with Sylvester Stallone, Jack Nicholson etc.). Cars of the 70s (Bullitt) have interesting design and contour (precise and severe).
Besides I'm interested in the computers and game consoles of this period. I have some artifacts and touch them with pleasure as rare and expensive rarities.
If to discuss the clothes of the 1970s I can't say much because not a girl and pay little attention to this theme. But I know well hippy's style (have seen it ... in the movies "Born on the fourth of the July" and "Jobs", in music movies) and like it because it's a part of 1970s!
Why is everything from the 60s and 70s so ugly?
Everything from the 60s and 70s isn't ugly. Back then, we had record albums. Big things. Not some graphic thing for an MP3 download. Not even an insert for a Compact Disc. We had real art in album covers. Some of them have even become iconic. Think about the cover picture for Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band. (Do you remember the insert?) The art for Elton John's "Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy" album was really incredible. There was a poster included with the album too. Chicago had an album cover printed by a bank note company.
Computers and game consoles? From the 60s and 70s? They would be extremely rare and expensive. While some of the earliest game consoles and computers were released in the latter part of the 70s, most of that industry came of age in the early 80s, particularly personal computers. (If I remember correctly.)
Yeah there was a lot of ugly to be had in that decade too, too-big hair on girls and mullets on guys, fluorescent clothes, mauve carpeting, blue kitchens with ducks-with-bowties and baskets for that faux "country look", boxy car designs, I admit it, I had all of it.
Don't forget those shoulder pads in everything from blazers to shirts for women! They kept getting bigger and bigger! I usually cut them out after a while; they were ridiculous!
But lets talk about cars. Cars from the 60s and 70s were the best ever.
Apparently you were never the proud owner of a 1973 Mercury Comet. The only "best" it achieved was "best support of the muffler business".
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Yes, mid-century modern is "in" now, but admit it, if you grew up with it, there was a time when it seemed ugly and out-dated.
My mom's house is still filled with her classic Lane Danish Modern furniture, but she long ago threw away all the mid-century kitschy decor she had when I was little -- pottery, decorative glassware, serveware, framed prints, etc. that screamed late 1950s modern. I managed to salvage some of it from the attic in the 80s, but so much of it apparently wound up in the church rummage sale. Makes me sad.
not everything was ugly . Everything was so awesome from the cars to the music and some of the fashions are being repeated today in the year 2016 . I had a gto goat and my brother drove the judge and we were the hip cool kids who had all the bad but cars LOL .and you could buy a house for 16 thousand dollars back then . Yep very cool and good era .Unless you count kennedy being assassinated and martin luther king as well . and of course let us not forget about Vietnam , now that was the ugly part of the 60s .
On a different topic -- one thing that can't really be explained to some of those who weren't present for those decades... the smell! Certainly in the 60s, and most of the 70s, that was before even "non smoking" sections were a thing. Much less whole buildings where smoking wasn't allowed. People smoked in every public place, and probably in about 40% of homes. Even if your family didn't smoke, you'd often have ashtrays for friends and relatives who did. Offices, stores, restaurants, planes, buses, everywhere. In my high school, they had a smoking area for the students. And in every school, the teachers' lounge would be a smokefest.
Honestly, I'll best most of us who lived through that don't remember the smell... I don't. Probably because we were so accustomed to it. But if time travel were possible and someone went back from today, I'm sure the smell would be overpowering.
I guess you could get an idea of it being inside some Vegas casinos today, or perhaps certain foreign countries...
Some supermarkets even had ashtrays at the ends of aisles for customers. And cigarette vending machines were everywhere. Can you imagine how much trouble you would get in having one of those in your business now (no way to effectively keep minors from buying cigs)?
One person's hideous is another person's flower power. Fashion swings between extremes. Skinny jeans are giving way to bell-bottoms, now, or wide-leg pants for women. (You know, those bell-bottoms from the 60's. I see 'em in dept. store ads all the time.) Wallpaper wasn't a thing on the West Coast, so I don't know about that. It sounds like you're generalizing to the whole US from a few articles you've found. What I remember about the 70's was the dawn of the environmental movement, and that's a good thing, IMO. That's when scientists first started talking about global warming, and everything they described is now happening, we're living it, which scares the hell out of me.
Fashions from a bygone era always look weird a couple of generations later. Your faves will, too, when you have kids your age. Life goes on.
Yeah; we watched "The Deer Hunter" last night, and during the wedding scene and the shots of the town, my wife asked me, "Why is everyone dressed so funny?". I just said, "Those were the only clothes they sold in the 60s. We had no choice!"
My parents built their house in the 70s, didnt update it until probably 1996 or so. Heres what I grew up with. Olive colored refrigerator, floral off white wallpaper, some weird brown linoleum countertops, dark brown cabinets, brown rubber floor in the kitchen, dark brown shag carpet, brown fake wood paneling in the living room, harvest gold master bath, weird blue guest bath. Overall everything was just dark lit and brown.
We had the avocado appliances (the choices in our neighborhood were avocado green, harvest gold, or brown). In our kitchen, we had the Sears and Roebuck orange and avocado green "Mushrooms" pattern, from the flour and sugar canisters, to the wallpaper. We got this HUGE microwave oven in the late 1970's because they thought people were going to actually cook food in them, which never caught on because things don't get brown and look unappealing cooked in the microwave. We actually had kitchen carpeting in our kitchen, if you can believe there was such a thing. In our living room, we had the dark-wood, french provincial furniture, with some kind of velvet blue material, and heavy brass Stiffel lamps. You're right, everything was very dark. But it was home, tacky decor and all. The one take-away from my youth is some of the Christmas decor. I always use C-9 lights because it reminds me of Christmas in the 1960's and '70's.
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The only "best" it achieved was "best support of the muffler business". 