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I have no idea how old I was when I saw the term "Jedi" in print and realized for the first time that people were not saying "Jet-Eye", but it was decades after the movie came out.
When I first saw that poster, I was wondering "Who the heck is Jed I?"
OMG, I am just smiling as I read through this thread, so many great memories popping up. I even liked Brady Bunch and thought I looked like Marcia or maybe a bit like Susan Dey. Hip hugging bell bottoms with those tube tops, smock tops or my hubby's favorite, the halter tops. And yes disco was fun and a work out. Lots of other great music too, Eagles, Aerosmith, Meatloaf, Rolling Stones and on and on. My husband took me to see Star Wars and Jaws.
I'm really a failure in this thread because I can't think of anything nostalgic in that era that I hate.
I can’t say any if these made me sick, loved my disco days , that’s where I met my husband, loved the fashions, and loved the pop art designs.
That said , despite having enjoyed them , I don’t like the “good old days “ mantra. Some things were good, bad, fun, ugly ect. I’m from the era and area of the movie “get Carter “ . I can enjoy the memories of many things but certainly not blind to all the awful things too.
I can’t say any if these made me sick, loved my disco days , that’s where I met my husband, loved the fashions, and loved the pop art designs.
That said , despite having enjoyed them , I don’t like the “good old days “ mantra. Some things were good, bad, fun, ugly ect. I’m from the era and area of the movie “get Carter “ . I can enjoy the memories of many things but certainly not blind to all the awful things too.
OMG, I am just smiling as I read through this thread, so many great memories popping up. I even liked Brady Bunch and thought I looked like Marcia or maybe a bit like Susan Dey. Hip hugging bell bottoms with those tube tops, smock tops or my hubby's favorite, the halter tops. And yes disco was fun and a work out. Lots of other great music too, Eagles, Aerosmith, Meatloaf, Rolling Stones and on and on. My husband took me to see Star Wars and Jaws.
I'm really a failure in this thread because I can't think of anything nostalgic in that era that I hate.
Do not feel alone. It was a good time for many. First world problem - how to keep a tube top in place when there is not enough to keep it in place?
Wait, can you say that again, slowly? You . . . NEVER . . . saw . . . a . . . Star . . . Wars . . . movie? Ever? Not even once? Not even the original one? Wow. I never knew such people actually existed in real life.
As far as nostalgia that I don't share in goes, fondness for the 1960s tops my list. It was before my time, but from what I know about it, I could never understand why some people (cough Baby Boomers cough) idolized it so much. To me, there were a lot of things about the Sixties that were quite a bit less than praiseworthy. I supposed that could be said about any era, but it seemed much more pronounced in terms of the Sixties. Maybe it was because, for a time, Sixties nostalgia was all the rage. And I truly did get sick of it.
Here was my take on "Star Wars". At the time, I didn't care about nacen t computer generated images. So that was not a draw. I don't hate science fiction. I love some of it. "The Twilight Zone" for example - it's genius. I watched "Startreck" and my family watched it together.
Now I am enjoying "Stranger Things".
I loved "American Grafitti" - obviously, not science fiction, but a George Lucas movie. I wish he did.
Men's hairy chests with shirt buttons undone is the only thing that comes to mind.
Let's hope that fad doesn't come back, especially since many men are now way heavier than men were 50 years ago. A friend sent me this video link recently about fads of the 70s, which includes the horror of hairy bare-chested men.
I might be alone here, but I LOVED the late 60s and the 70s. I enjoyed a lot of great music in the 60's. I mean Steppenwolf played live at our high school senior prom and Aqualung played at our college homecoming. Lots of other "new bands" like Chicago, Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple played at the local bars. In college I worked part time at a "hip" men's store and I'm guilty of selling a TON of polyester including all those nylon Nik-Nik shirts for the disco crowd. And Free Love was no joke either pre-AIDS.
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