Remember teh 1970s

[brian1984_2001]

Anybody watching this on VH-1?

I have been pleasantly surprised. I expected it to be another Pink Floyd/Disco rehash. It's actually been engaging.

I also suspected they would resurrect dozens of 70s pop icons to relive their glory days. While there has been some of that, it's been more about people in their late 30s and early 40s discussing how they felt about what was going on around them.

I thought I was the only person in the world who owned a "Slip and Slide". Of course, I thought I was the only person in the world who listened to CBSRMT.

[vgarci]

Brian,
I've watched several episodes and it's been very enjoyable. I can certainly relate to "click-clack" injuries, pet rocks, 8-track tapes, and ABBA. It's great to see the things we experienced as kids and it's even better to see my kids enjoy it.

[Badmude]

It is funny to see that stuff...our museum has an exhibit with abunch of things from the 70s and I love to reminise once in a while.

Your right Vgarci, my 9 year old daughter love the old shows on TV Land too......Especially the Love Boat and Fantasy Island when they air... smile.gif

[brian1984_2001]

My son had to create a museum exhibit for school for a parents' night.

He took three old 45 RPM records of mine (Kansas, Styx, and Led Zeppelin) and put them in a glass case.

Other kids took Pet Rocks, 8 track Tape players, and other stuff I thought of as pretty good stuff. We parents were a little dismayed at how old we were getting.

[Lagavulin]

There's an interesting idea... the grade 8 curriculum here in manitoba is a survey of ancient civilizations. one component of it is to learn how we know about them, including basic elements of archaeology.

might be interesting to have students gather, identify, label and describe some 'artifacts' they can find from their parents' era...

hrmmmmm smile.gif

thanks for the idea!!

cheers
miles

[brian1984_2001]

It was pretty interesting. Aaron (my son) had to label it and describe what it was and how it worked. He described the diamond stylus being dragged across the grooves of the record and he noted that larger versions were also called "albums".

[storytellermommy]

I'll have to watch out for that show. What's it called?? I think I may have stumbled upon bits and pieces of it. What a hoot that kids school projects involve getting artifacts from the 70's. Man that makes me feel so old. LOL. By the time my kids are doing that, they'll probably be onto the 80's. ;)

One of the shows we like to watch about the past is Unwrapped on the Food Channel. They sometimes have shows featuring things like cereals that don't exist anymore or old candy, etc. I seemed to have lived on an entirely different planet than people growing up in the same era because the things I remember, they don't. Things that we had that people have never heard of were: Space Food Sticks, Koogle flavored peanut butter, Sun Butter (a sunflower based spread similar in texture to peanut butter), Freakies cereal, Squoze (a lighter on the sugar Koolaid sort of beverage powder) and I'm sure I'm forgetting a few. Oh and of course nobody I know outside of the people I've met online have ever heard of CBSRMT or any of the other radio shows--well other than my parents and my brother! It's been great seeing several of these items shown on the Unwrapped show (food wise, not radio programs of course). LOL!!!

[vgarci]

My wife LOVES "Unwrapped" so we watch it all the time. It's great to see how they make so many foods we take for granted.

[brian1984_2001]

The only food I recognize from that list is Koogle. I liked that stuff.

[Lagavulin]

what an interesting list of food!!

i don't remember any of those, mind you they may not have been exported to Canada. i recall quite vividly reading the TV Guide and wondering what all those other programs were like - no cable until i was 11 in 1978... then i wondered about all those interesting soft drinks that we didn't have here... like Mr. Pibb, Dr. Pepper, Mountain Dew... we have them now (except Mr. Pibb).

i drink dr pepper don't you know
it's the original taste that i love so
i'm a pepper,
you're a pepper,
he's a pepper,
she's a pepper,
wouldn't you like to be a pepper too
be a pepper
drink dr pepper...

cheers
miles

[brian1984_2001]

That Dr Pepper commercial was a classic.

I'm with you, Karen. Nobody I knew then listened to the show. My father in law used to work at the radio station where they were broacast, but he had the 6A - noon shift, so he didn't stay up late enough to listen to them.
He did tell me that the program director was hooked on them and that although they couldn't sell local advertising that late, they kept the show anyway.

That was back when AM radio tried to be all things to all people to compete with FM. They played music (AM classics like "Billie Don't be a Hero" and "Seasons in the Sun") and had community based programming. Of course, the staple was always baseball and I'm sure it was my beloved Reds who brought me to CBS radio mystery theater.

I've mentioned the show to a couple friends today who listened back then, but apparently were not as captivated by it as I was.

[Charlie]

It drives my girlfriend crazy when we go to McDonalds and I start humming "Mc Donalds is my kind of place. It's such a happy place...."

I get things like that from the 70's running through my head all the time. That's why I like to go to http://www.airchecks.com and listen to radio airchecks from the 70's. You'll hear a lot of stuff that will take you back like that.

Charlie

[vgarci]

Ok, speaking of McDonald's and the 70's....who here didn't make a killing at McDonald's with their 1976 Olympic promotion. If you'll remember, they created scratch off cards for every Olympic event and they gave away something like a coke for a bronze medal, french fries for a silver and a hamburger for a gold (I can't remember exactly what the prizes were). If you had a scratch off card with a boxer, you were going to eat like a king as they were very successful.

[Charlie]

I eat at Burger King frequently (but the local one infuriates me) and recently I ordered a double-cheeseburger, which was on special for $1.00, and I told them to hold the cheese (as I do not like cheese) and they told me that it would be $2.59 for a double-hamburger - the special was double-[b:af0ea4530f]cheese[/b:af0ea4530f]burgers not hamburgers.

I was livid and shouted into the speaker, "[b:af0ea4530f]YOU ARE GOING TO CHARGE ME -NOT- TO PUT CHEESE ON THE *&$% THING???[/b:af0ea4530f]." To which they replied, "Yes."

I shouted back, "[b:af0ea4530f]WHAT HAPPENED TO [i:af0ea4530f]HOLD THE PICKLES, HOLD THE LETTUCE, SPECIAL ORDERS DON'T UPSET US. ALL WE ASK IS THAT YOU LET US HAVE IT YOUR WAY???[/i:af0ea4530f].[/b:af0ea4530f] I was met with silence from the little booger-nosed kids working in there that had never heard that before. Needless to say, I did not get my burger that day.

Or, who would forget that a Big Mac is [i:af0ea4530f]Two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun[/i:af0ea4530f]?

Charlie

[storytellermommy]

Brian, you are officially the only other person on earth that I have "met" who remembers Koogle! I actually have an empty jar with the plastic lid that snaps on (like Tupperware) so I knew it really existed. LOL. My favorite flavor was banana.

Vince, we enjoy Unwrapped for those same reasons. We often wonder how much biz it brings to some of those small companies making some of the products.

Miles, although you had to wait for some flavors of pop (other than the elusive Mr. Pibb), you have the better pop in Canada as they've "converted" all US pop to "high fructose corn syrup" which doesn't taste nearly as good as "good old sugar." We have been making an annual trip to Thunder Bay, ON a couple of years now (after a long dry spell of not going there--we were on a long streak when my brother was ski jumping on a circuit that included Thunder Bay). One of the things we like to bring home is pop--cases of it.

We have a theory that the "new Coke" campaign was a diversion to switch us to the high fructose corn syrup from sugar in Coke since it sure seemed premeditated that they had "Classic Coke" ready to go so quickly (which had changed to high fructose corn syrup as well but after we hadn't been able to drink it for a while we'd forgotten the exact taste). It could be wrong, but it makes for a good theory since the two things coincided (switching from sugar and the whole New Coke/Classic Coke thing). LOL. :lol:

Vince, missed out on that promo. I was in 6th grade and no cash flow. LOL. Have they ever run one like that again? (Maybe they learned their lesson!)

Charlie, way to go with the BK people. You're right, though, the kid behind the counter probably never heard the classic commercial. Guess they don't want us to have it our way anymore. I'm the same way when I go out to a bar every once in a blue moon and they're serving pop for some high price but mixed drinks using pop as the mix are at a rock bottom price. They never let me order a whatever and coke, hold the whatever. LOL.

[Charlie]

Scotch is the thing to drink - then you can go to a bar and order Scotch & water - hold the water. tongue.gif

I'm with you on high fructose corn syrup (with apologies to Iowa corn farmers). I hate it and I think it ruins the taste of whatever it is in.

Interesting that you call [b:3fdd6d93df]soda[/b:3fdd6d93df], [b:3fdd6d93df]pop[/b:3fdd6d93df].

Here in the border region of Downeast Maine and Southwest New Brunswick, in the US it's [b:3fdd6d93df]soda[/b:3fdd6d93df] and in Canada it's [b:3fdd6d93df]pop[/b:3fdd6d93df].

Charlie

[vgarci]

Karen,
McDonald's must have lost their shirts on the 76 Olympic campaign because 1) we never saw it again and 2) you didn't have to buy anything to get a card (one per day per kid). I would have been about 12.5 years old and it was a lot of fun. BTW, it's "soda" here, too.

[storytellermommy]

:lol: Charlie. Yup, we call it pop here in MN for the most part. There are some transplants that call it soda so it's not completely foreign to hear it referred to as soda.

When I was in high school we took a trip to Boston for my dad to run in the Boston Marathon. It was quite an adventure for a MN family like us to be walking the streets of downtown Boston (from the hotel) as we went in search of some pop (for us) and club soda (for my parents). Side note, funny that we didn't change the name of club soda here. LOL. Okay so there we were wide eyed and freaked out about the people hanging around on the street and we finally find a liquor store. We go in and ask if they sell pop and we got a reply something like, "NO, we DON'T sell THAT HERE!" We replied, "You don't sell pop?" to which they replied, "No, we don't sell *pot* here!" Yikes. We said, not that!!! LOL. They clued us in that it's called soda there. Throughout our stay we'd run into all sorts of places that we'd ask to order pop and the waiter or waitress would be in shock that we were asking for "such a thing out in the wide open and all". ROFLOL. It turned into something we did for shock value even after we knew people didn't usually know what we meant. They needed a lesson as much as we did, we figured. LOL

Oh wow, Vince! I didn't realize they were *free*! The McDonalds we had in our neighborhood was right next to the first grade school I went to but that school closed (probably a huge bummer for that McDonalds since tons of kids went there before or after school as well as many teachers going for their lunch break). The next school was in the opposite direction. I have no doubt that I would've been picking up free game cards if it happened while I was at the school.

[brian1984_2001]

[quote]Brian, you are officially the only other person on earth that I have "met" who remembers Koogle! I actually have an empty jar with the plastic lid that snaps on (like Tupperware) so I knew it really existed. LOL. My favorite flavor was banana.[quote:8e14605b63]

My favorite flavor was chocolate. My grandmother used to keep a jar around. I think there were some product safety issues with Koogle. I don't remember what they were.[/quote:8e14605b63]

[vgarci]

Karen,
Yep! They were free (the only way I could have afforded to participate!). I think I helped to contribute to my family's income (or at least lower the weekly food bill) by going to McDonald's every day!!!