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RE: you know you're a 70s kid when .... - 5/24/2008 8:57:01 PM
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Kath
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Vietnam POW/MIA bracelets - course, that might be specific to military kids, but I had four bands I wore.
It wasn't just for military families, I knew a few kids at school that wore them.
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RE: you know you're a 70s kid when .... - 5/24/2008 10:15:52 PM
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Vietnam POW/MIA bracelets - course, that might be specific to military kids, but I had four bands I wore.
I remember those. My dad was Navy.
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RE: you know you're a 70s kid when .... - 5/25/2008 12:42:44 AM
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The best part of being a kid in the 70's is we went outside to play
not much of that today '''at least like that.
How about the California Freeformer the first mass produced skateboard
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RE: you know you're a 70s kid when .... - 5/25/2008 3:33:35 AM
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I was a kid in the 70's but there's no way I can remember when JFK was shot. That happened in 1963. I was on the way, but I wasn't born yet.
But let's see...what do I remember that hasn't been mentioned yet? I remember learning disco dances in gym class, but was very ambivalent about doing them because my church believed that dancing was sinful.
Homeschooling hadn't caught on yet, and I endured public school feeling different from my peers because of all the things we didn't do that they couldn't understand why we didn't do.
What else do I remember? Wading in the creek and catching minnows. I guess that's not a shared experience of other seventies kids, (though I think legalism in churches, especially southern churches, is!) but how many kids would have the opportunity to do something like that today? Besides, we didn't have computer or video games then. Somehow, I think the creek was at least a little more wholesome, even though we had to make sure we stayed upstream of the cows! 
Memeograph worksheets!
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RE: you know you're a 70s kid when .... - 5/27/2008 12:30:14 PM
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on a more somber note...
Charles Manson
Son of Sam
Zodiac Killer
I'm sure there are more that I just can't remember or don't want to remember 
Oh! And the movie The Exorcist! The book was very scary, the movie was just downright gross.
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RE: you know you're a 70s kid when .... - 5/27/2008 12:31:15 PM
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I was a kid in the 70's but there's no way I can remember when JFK was shot. That happened in 1963. I was on the way, but I wasn't born yet.
But let's see...what do I remember that hasn't been mentioned yet? I remember learning disco dances in gym class, but was very ambivalent about doing them because my church believed that dancing was sinful.
Homeschooling hadn't caught on yet, and I endured public school feeling different from my peers because of all the things we didn't do that they couldn't understand why we didn't do.
What else do I remember? Wading in the creek and catching minnows. I guess that's not a shared experience of other seventies kids, (though I think legalism in churches, especially southern churches, is!) but how many kids would have the opportunity to do something like that today? Besides, we didn't have computer or video games then. Somehow, I think the creek was at least a little more wholesome, even though we had to make sure we stayed upstream of the cows!
Memeograph worksheets!
 Oh my! I remember smelling our test papers before we wrote on them.
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RE: you know you're a 70s kid when .... - 5/27/2008 12:34:43 PM
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Serial killers were almost normal in the 70's. That combined with movies were enough for everyone to have nightmares!
Oh and towards the end of the 70's Bette Midler was becoming popular among the regular people.
Jesus Christ Superstar was new and Fiddler on the Roof was my favorite movie!
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RE: you know you're a 70s kid when .... - 5/27/2008 12:39:51 PM
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I had never heard of Bette Midler until The Rose. I loved the song and thought the movie was OK.
Never saw Jesus Christ, Superstar- my non-Christian parents thought that it was a way of degrading Christians and wouldn't let us see it. I loved Fiddler on the Roof!
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RE: you know you're a 70s kid when .... - 5/27/2008 1:11:16 PM
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Roberta_
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The Waltons were awesome!
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RE: you know you're a 70s kid when .... - 5/27/2008 1:49:23 PM
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doinkdom
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I watched the Waltons, but could never get into Little House on the Prairie.
And the 70's was the decade full of nighttime soaps like Dallas, Dynasty, Falcon's Crest, etc. etc.
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RE: you know you're a 70s kid when .... - 5/27/2008 1:50:48 PM
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And the 70's was the decade full of nighttime soaps like Dallas, Dynasty, Falcon's Crest, etc. etc.
Which is why I wasn't all that crazy about night time TV..... that and I had to go to bed at 8:30 on school nights and 9 on weekends.
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RE: you know you're a 70s kid when .... - 5/27/2008 11:09:04 PM
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I wasn't allowed to watch those nighttime soaps, but I do remember them. I agree with the poster who said The Waltons were awesome. I loved that show because it was so much like my own family! I watched Little House on the Prairie, too, and really liked it as well, because somewhere along the way, I found out that Melissa Sue Gilbert was the same age as me, so I kind of felt like I was growing up with her.
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RE: you know you're a 70s kid when .... - 5/28/2008 12:52:12 AM
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I wasn't allowed to watch those nighttime soaps, but I do remember them. I agree with the poster who said The Waltons were awesome. I loved that show because it was so much like my own family! I watched Little House on the Prairie, too, and really liked it as well, because somewhere along the way, I found out that Melissa Sue Gilbert was the same age as me, so I kind of felt like I was growing up with her.
She's a year older than me. I always thought of her and Kristy McNichol as the "older sisters" I never had.
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RE: you know you're a 70s kid when .... - 5/28/2008 1:19:20 AM
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LOL!
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RE: you know you're a 70s kid when .... - 5/28/2008 2:50:52 AM
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I also remember the girl across the street in histarics and tears because of the death of Elvis
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RE: you know you're a 70s kid when .... - 5/28/2008 3:18:00 AM
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You know you're a 70s kid when you...
know what a Gremlin is. I wonder if those things are collector items now.
have a pet rock in its original "crate" buried in your "things" in the basement.
have a bunch of old Foghat and Bad Company albums in the basement. Or Maybe a few Yes, Grand Funk Railroad or Cat Stevens albums.
have numerous National Lampoon and a huge pile of Mad magazines in the basement.
< Message edited by bzirk -- 5/28/2008 3:26:08 AM >
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RE: you know you're a 70s kid when .... - 5/28/2008 10:14:05 AM
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doinkdom
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Hey come on!
Bad Company and Grand Funk and then later on...Grand Funk Railroad Rawk dude!
and nobody can do what Jethro Tull did with a flute!
Here's a real 70's band question: Does anyone remember the band with the albino guy who played the floating keyboard?
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RE: you know you're a 70s kid when .... - 5/28/2008 10:15:30 AM
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doinkdom
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and I'll have you know that my dad put me on a payment plan when I joined Columbia House and found out the deal was not a deal. 
Course, it took him like 6 months to figure it out, but still....
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