If you were alive in the 70's...

[spankdoggie]

If you were alive in the 70's, then this dude is pretty good; takes me back to my childhood...

link: 15 Minute Lunch: Strap in, shut up and hold on. We're going back.

Enjoy,

spank

 

[Clugnut]

Four words: Too young, thank God!

I was born August 79, so I missed all that fun. I got to grown up in the bland 80's.

 

[Pa Jayhawk]

Unfortunately I remember it all too well. The one I remember the most is the Dr. J afro thing with the ABA Squires and Nets, and the red white and blue ball. To lazy to find a good picture, but this video has some.

YouTube - Julius Erving - Fly like and Eagle - by BaskDunk

I guess you have to take the good with the bad. While Jordan may be one of the best known for his abilities, Julius helped revolutionize that part of the game. Don't know why that is one of the top things I remember from the 70's, while he did play in Virginia, I was a Bullets fan and that was the last time they made it two or won a championship.

Remember watching the dunk from the free throw line live on TV, unheard of at that time.

 

[MGP]

I remember it all too well. I was in high school then and them's was different times.

My graduation picture could have been taken from that JC Penney catalog. I would post it, but I'd get my ass kicked... :laugh:

 

[Bravo]

I graduated from high school in 1973....there were 320 of us. One guy who works for AT&T here makes a hobby of keeping all of us connected through email...of course we're scattered all across the U.S. and in some cases overseas...one fellow lives in Singapore.

Stuart sent this out last Wednesday and it brought back memories. The ugliness was unbelievable....polyester everything.

Remember shag carpet and bean bag chairs?

 

[Bravo]

Unfortunately I remember it all too well. The one I remember the most is the Dr. J afro thing with the ABA Squires and Nets, and the red white and blue ball. To lazy to find a good picture, but this video has some.

YouTube - Julius Erving - Fly like and Eagle - by BaskDunk

I guess you have to take the good with the bad. While Jordan may be one of the best known for his abilities, Julius helped revolutionize that part of the game. Don't know why that is one of the top things I remember from the 70's, while he did play in Virginia, I was a Bullets fan and that was the last time they made it two or won a championship.

Remember watching the dunk from the free throw line live on TV, unheard of at that time.

I met Dr. J at the local Birmingham basketball club meeting about 10 years ago....great guy and very softspoken....yup he brought the art of the dunk into the fore....

Look how short their shorts were!!!

 

[Wi-Golfer]

Look how short their shorts were!!!

Unfortunately I remember a lot of that crap, was 15 in 77 & on somedays it feels like yesterday.

In regards to the shorts, my neighbor is in his mid-late 50's & wears those god awful short assed shorts when he mows the lawn. I call them 70's porn star shorts.

 

[ualtim]

At least now eveyone understands why so many people took drugs in the 70's. How in the hell were you going to get laid wearing that stuff without the other person being heavily medicated? :laugh:

 

[MIKE1218]

I'm so glad I missed the seventies! :laugh:

 

[RustyL]

Man that was some cool stuff. The women were crazy about our dress. Bellbottoms with frayed ends. You guys missed out . I love 70 R'nR still .Hated disco but, if the girl who I thought I loved at the time,I'd bend the rules some.

 

[spankdoggie]

Undercover brother is pretty much the 70's in a nutshell, also: YouTube - Undercover Brother Scenes Part 1

 

[Pa Jayhawk]

I met Dr. J at the local Birmingham basketball club meeting about 10 years ago....great guy and very softspoken....

He was always true class on and off the court. Unfortunately I think when he went to the Orlando Magic and had the problems with his son, it changed him and you rarely see anything about him since that time.

 

[cwo2lt]

That was a blast from the past!:wow:

Ever been to Graceland? Imagine a house decorated like that catalog! Can't believe how tacky it really was.

 

[Eracer]

I remember it all too well. I was in high school then and them's was different times.

My graduation picture could have been taken from that JC Penney catalog. I would post it, but I'd get my ass kicked... :laugh:

Gawd I wish I had my High School yearbook senior class picture! 1977 baby! I was the Max, in my burnt orange leisuresuit, with the sky blue shirt, and the suede two-tone brown Hushpuppies. Strikin' a pose in my blond afro, too.

Nice post, Spank!