#the 1970s

[todayontumblr]

Wednesday, July 12.

1970s.

Ah, those were the days...

...not that we were there, of course. But we can sure as sugar pretend: listen to dusty vinyl records, grow our hair in all manner of styles, write on typewriters, watch films from the innovative "New Hollywood" directors such as Martin Scorsese, Stanley Kubrick, Mike Nichols, Elaine May, Barbara Kopple, and Francis Ford Coppola if we're feeling artistic, neigh, intellectual (or sit down with Star Wars, Jaws, Rocky, and Saturday Night Fever if we're not), go to a lot of protests, recall our most grisly, harrowing memories from 'Nam, wear high-waisted trousers, and try to sneak into Fleetwood Mac's ever destructive, irresistibly sexy inter-band drama. 

In short, there was a lot happening in the 1970s, or indeed, the #70s, all of it big, bold, colorful, yet earthy, and very often brilliant. It was a decade of immense cultural, political, and societal change, much of it for the better, and much of it that, at the very least, continues in spirit to our own day. The 70s is not such a period of time, indeed, but a state of mind. 

#today on tumblr #culture #the 70s #70s #1970s #the 1970s #70s television #70s vintage #70s horror #1977 #70s music #seventies #that 70s show #1974 #hippy

[poll-position]

#poll #polls #the 1970s #the 1980s #the 1990s #television

[stone-cold-groove]

Clairol Herbal Essence Shampoo & Creme Rinse - 1972.

#vintage advertising #clairol #vintage illustration #the 70s #the 1970s #70s style #70s aesthetic #clairol herbal essence shampoo #herbal essence shampoo

[dominik528]

Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, "Doin' a Dahmer" (2022) / My Friend Dahmer (2017)

#Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story #My Friend Dahmer #film #mini series #episode #Doin' a Dahmer #period drama #the 1970s #true crime #psychological #teenager #high school #boy #Evan Peters #Ross Lynch #Marc Meyers #Clement Virgo #similarities #references #GIF set #edits

[bobdobalina]

Album covers for Bobby Caldwell:

Bobby Caldwell (1978, Clouds/TK Records)

Carry On (1982, Polydor)

August Moon (1983, Polydor)

Heart of Mine (1989, Sin-Drome)

Where Is Love (1993, Sin-Drome)

#music #album art #design #yacht rock #city pop #1978 #1982 #1983 #1989 #1993 #the 1970s #the 1980s #the 1990s #soft rock #smooth jazz #color #Bobby Caldwell

[whispering-about-the-tmnt]

I'm tempted to make a 1970s TMNT AU.

Imagine Splinter watching Mork & Mindy, Dallas, Good Times, The Love Boat, Charlie's Angels, and Three's Company every week.

Imagine Leo being obsessed with all the martial arts movies coming out, and watching "Drunken Master" so many times that Splinter has to scold him for adopting Jackie Chan's fighting style.

Imagine Don watching Martin Cooper present the world's first portable phone... then going on to make a much improved version, himself when he was just twelve years old.

Imagine Raphael going out into the richer parts of the city during the gas crisis and siphoning fuel out of businessmen's cars and putting it into cars in the poorer parts of town.

Imagine Mike filling out those "do you want to be an artist" ads in his comic books and sending them in, hoping to get to be a professional comics artist some day.

Imagine all of the Turtles trekking out into the Blizzard of 1978, completely bundled up to both keep warm and keep from being seen, to help the locals dig their cars and homes out of the snow.

Imagine April's apartment all in shades of avocado and gold, with bean bag chairs and macrame and shag carpet; and her having pin-straight hair but trying out the Farrah Fawcett look, ultimately finding it too labor-intensive.

Imagine Casey Jones with a Tom Selleck mustache and a mullet, riding a Harley-Davidson XR750, and having a massive collection of 8-Tracks.

I mean, the 70s was a fascinating decade. It was a time of rising crime and political turmoil, television was in a state of great flux, there was a gas crisis that brought out the absolute worst in people, New York saw blackouts and arson and unprecedented weather events, the Bronx was compared to a war zone and looked like one... terrorism was on the rise, the music industry was reaching out and stretching its legs, the battle of the sexes was in full swing, gun sales were on the rise... Watergate, Vietnam, the Son of Sam...

It was a hard time, but also an interesting time.

#tmnt #teenage mutant ninja turtles #ninja turtles #tmnt au #the 1970s #the 70s

[get-back-homeward]

October 8, 2010: NPR Fresh Air revisits a 2000 interview with Jon Wiener about his book Gimme Some Truth: The John Lennon FBI Files [listen] [full transcript]

GROSS: Did you find anything in the FBI files that were released to you that indicated that the FBI went beyond surveillance - that they ever tried to set Lennon up?

Prof. WIENER: You know, there's like a couple of documents. Their concern was that Lennon would participate in some kind of concert, rally, anti-war demonstration outside the Republican National Convention. And there's a memo from J. Edgar Hoover to the head of the Miami FBI office that suggests that if Lennon could be arrested on possession of narcotics charges he would become more immediately deportable. Now this seems to me an effort to set Lennon up for a drug bust. The FBI doesnt enforce possession of narcotics charges, that's a state offense, this is not part of what the FBI is supposed to be doing. I then filed a Freedom of Information request with the Miami FBI office, asking for their files on Lennon, to see what their response to this was. They replied to me that their John Lennon file had been destroyed as a part of a routine file destruction procedure.

GROSS: Hmm.

Prof. WIENER: Now I have to note that - know that Lennon files were collected in five other cities and none of those places destroyed their Lennon file, so we wonder what was in the Miami Lennon file that was destroyed.

#john lennon #richard nixon #j edgar hoover #gimme some truth book #politics and the beatles #activism #audio #bug book list #mine #the bit about the miami file being destroyed coupled with the denial nondenial bit about the wiretapping is most interesting #john was paranoid but not by much the files show he was surveilled hes politically targeted and effectively it worked in shutting him up #the 1970s #1971 #1972 #1973 #oh and that the files wrap up when hoover dies #but the problem persists for 2 years he's under an order to leave the country in 60 days and has to request extensions over and over #this is in addition to the apple legal stuff and the copyright cases #i think i need a courts and john tag no wonder why he was a pro by 76

[krystaljasper]

#black art #black artist art #facebook #ai art work #the 1970s #television #shows

[boybasher]

#the 1990s #the 1980s #the 1975 #the 100 #the 1950s #the 1970s #the bolter #my boy only breaks his favorite toys #fortnight #down bad #so long london #but daddy i love him #fresh out the slammer #florida!!!

[rowandriftwood]

I just remembered that when I was in high school, I somehow got my hands on a novelization of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, a movie from 1978 with no dialogue, just intermittent narration stringing together Beatles songs, as sung by the Bee Gees, Peter Frampton, and others into a semi-coherent story. What was even in that book? I could not tell you now.

#books #movies #musicals #the 1970s #all about rowan #sgt. pepper's lonely hearts club band

[kindly-whisper-norbury]

From a 1974 Springfield, MA newspaper I found in my dad's stuff (along with other newspapers from the 50s-70s).

But there is like... just so much to unpack here.

#guns #shooting #kids #history #children #the 1970s #1974 #newspaper

[poll-position]

#poll #polls #television #the 1990s #the 1980s #the 1970s

[stone-cold-groove]

The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour depends on it - 1971.

#rca #radio corporation of america #vintage electronics #vintage advertising #vintage televisions #vintage tv #vintage tvs #rca xl-100 #rca xl-100 tv #sonny & cher #sonny & cher comedy hour #rca tvs #the 70s #the 1970s

[anotheruserwithnoname]

Something struck me as I was watching some YouTube clips of The Waltons (in case you don't know the show, this glimpse of its opening credits gives you the general gist):

Anyway, after I cleaned up the blood - I was damn lucky whatever struck me didn't do more damage - it occurred to me that when this classic family drama, set in the mid-1930s great depression era, was made and broadcast during most of the 1970s, it was depicting a time that was less than 40 years before.

Forty years back from 2024 is 1984.

I still remember meals I had in 1984, movies I went to see (Helen Slater as Supergirl, for one), TV shows I watched (Remington Steele with a pre-Bond Pierce Brosnan). I've been getting back into Kate Bush recently and Running Up That Hill came out in 1985. And still, 1984 to people today is just as far back as the Waltons were to the TV audiences of 1974.

How make a guy feel old.

#nostalgia #the 1980s #the 1970s #the waltons #Youtube

[dominik528]

The scrawny kid I first met in junior high was now a strapping six-footer. He added some muscle, too. He was lifting weights at home, at his dad's suggestion. One of Lionel Dahmer's many attempts to get his son interested in something. Not that bulking up improved his standing among his peers. He had an odd walk, arms straight at his sides, shoulders thrust slightly forward. A distinctive gait.

-- John "Derf" Backderf, My Friend Dahmer

#My Friend Dahmer #John Backderf #Derf #Jeffrey Dahmer #quote #memoir #true crime #film #edits #black and white #the 1970s #high school #Ross Lynch #Alex Wolff #teenagers

[thenewdemocratus]

WKRP Turkey Drop Episode: Arthur Carlson: 'As God As My Witness, I Thought Turkey's Could Fly'

. Source:The New Democrat  I don’t believe there has been a funnier episode in TV history and certainly not on WKRP. This is the episode that this show is known for that was a hit for I believe five season. And this show is one of the best sitcoms of all-time as far as being able to make people laugh. And having the writers and cast that can deliver the lines and perform the scenes. So this show…

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#1978 #America #CBS #Cincinnati #Frank Bonner #Gary Sandy #Gordon Jump #Howard Hessman #Jan Smithers #Loni Anderson #Ohio #Richard Sanders #The 1970s #Tim Reid #Turkey Drop #United States #WKRP #WKRP in Cincinnati #WKRP Turkey Drop Episode