Growing up in the 70's

[aimee30]

YOU WERE A LITTLE GIRL IN THE 70's IF:

you wore that rainbow shirt that was half-sleeves, and the rainbow went up one sleeve, across your chest, and down the other.

you made baby chocolate cakes in your Easy Bake Oven. You washed them down with snow cones from your Snoopy Snow Cone Machine.

you had that Fisher Price Doctor's Kit with a stethoscope that actually worked.

you owned a bicycle with a banana seat and a basket.

you even owned roller skates with metal wheels.

you thought Gopher from Love Boat was cute.(Admit it!)

you had nightmares after watching Fantasy Island.

you had rubber boots for rainy/snowy days -remember Moon Boots(you then advanced to Duck Shoes in the
80s)?

you had either a "bowl cut" or a "pixie", not to mention the "Dorothy Hamill" because your mom was
sick of braiding your hair. How traumatic when people thought you were a boy.

your Holly Hobbie sleeping bag was your most prized possession.

you wore a poncho, gauchos, and knickers.

you begged Santa for the electronic game, Simon.

you had the Donnie and Marie dolls with those pink and purple shredded outfits.

you spent hours out back on your metal swing set with the trapeze.

you had homemade ribbon barrettes in every imaginable color.

you even had a pair of Doctor Scholl's sandals (the ones with hard so! le &the buckle).

you wanted to be Laura Ingalls Wilder really bad; you wore that Little House on the Prairie-inspired plaid, ruffle shirt with the high neck in at least one school picture; and you despised Nellie Olson!

you wanted your first kiss to be at the roller rink.

your hairstyle was described as having "wings" and you kept it "pretty" with the comb you kept in your back pocket.

you know who Strawberry Shortcake is, as well as her friends, Blueberry Muffin and Huckleberry Pie.

you carried a Muppets lunch box to school.

you and your girlfriends would fight over which of the Dukes of Hazard was your boyfriend.

YOU had Star Wars action figures, too.

it was a big event in your household each year when the Wizard of Oz would come on TV. Your mom would break out the popcorn and sleeping bags!

you even asked your Magic-8 Ball the question: "Who will I marry...Shawn Cassidy, Leif Garrett, or Rick Springfield?"

you completely wore out your Grease, Saturday Night Fever, and Fame soundtrack albums.

you made Shrinky-Dinks!

you used to tape record songs off the radio by holding your portable tape recorder up to the speaker.

you couldn't wait to get the free animal poster that came when you ordered books from the Weekly Reader
book club.

you learned everything you needed to know about girl issues from Judy Blume books (Are you there God? It's me, Margaret.)!

you thought Olivia Newton John's song, "Physical" was about aerobics.

you wore friendship pins on your tennis shoes, or shoelaces with heart or rainbow designs.

you wanted to be a Solid Gold dancer.

you had a Big Wheel with a brake on the side, and a Sit-n-Spin.

you had subscriptions to Dynamite and Tiger Beat

[finnmom]

Aimee

You proofed it; I´ve deffenately been a little girl at 70´s ;D In an other nation, mayby, but I remember a lot of these thing´s: Laura Ingal´s Wilder...loved that show Gopher....yes I have to admit he was qute ;D and a lot more.... Thank´s Aimee, that was funny.... a flashback from past

Marja

[rosyred45]

I'll let you know when I stop LAUGHING.......Wait, I HAD a Little House on the Prairie Lunch Box!!!!

[tridlette]

I had my first kiss with a guy named John Baker (and pretended he was from CHiPs) at the roller rink! OMG

I had a Dorothy Hamill hair cut, too! I still have my Dr. Scholl's sandals, with the splinters even!

I was the only one in 4th grade who didn't read Are you There God, it's Me Margaret... because I was already experiencing what the rest of the class was reading about

And my jewelry box is still filled with friendship pins from the kids at summer camp!

Wow, my depression is lifting a little! Thanks!

[rosyred45]

OK, since Tridlette admitted it, I had a Dorthy Hamil too, all of the above except the lunch box, but we did play the Muppets Christmas Album with John Denver ALL the time. Just to hear Miss Piggy Ba dum bum bum ;D

Oh and we weren't allowed to have a magic 8-ball, some religious kick mom was on at the time, watch Tara will say she wants one and will get it

[aimee30]

Do any of you remember a Christmas album with Red Skelton's (sp) Littlest Christmas Tree on it? It was my fav song.

[vickilyn32]

LOL I had all of the above. My first kiss was at the skating rink, and I loved my dorthy hamil haircut. We had the combs in our back pockets and at the skating rink we played comb tag. We would take eachothers combs and put them in our own pockets, and meantime try and keep anyone from taking ours. I still drool over dukes of hazzard, and I still watch little house on the prarie, read all the books too (which I still have), I still have the video tape for grease and grease II, still have some of those homemade cassette tapes and I still listen to them. I guess I never outgrew the 70's or 80's.

[rosyred45]

I have a picture floating around here somewhere of one of our family portraits. UM In it, my aunt and sister have on the rainbow shirts, and I have on the plaid with lace around the neckline.....oh and my hair was "Feathered" :-Xand short-----ewwwwww

[loveforeric]

aimee;

Just read the post and am still LOL.!!!!! That was so true and funny as ever.

I had the feathered hair and actually the rainbow shirt was in my wardrobe. I loved my metal wheeled rollar skates. and my pancho.....

Have a great day,
christina

[Jorgy]

a TEENAGER in the 70's:

girls had "shag" haircuts

"elephant" pants were big and so were striped, tight zipper tops with the metal ring as a zipper pull!

Nights In White Satin and Crystal Ball were the "in" prom songs

EVERYBODY who was somebody had granny boots (early 70's)

Robert Redford was a huge heartthrob and so was Bobby Sherman and wats his name from the Partrige Family

My first "real" concert was "Heart" with Anne and Nancy Wilson and at the end of the concert we all lit lighters for an ancore(?sp)

Saturday Night Live was a MUST see and all the "greats" were on then, Chevy Chase, Gilda Radner, John Baluchi to name a few ( I'm getting old and can't remember as good as I used to!)

The BIG games at sleepovers were Truth or Dare and/or lighting a candle in front of a mirror and chanting something????Mary... Awwww, Linda help me out here! and a ghost was supposed to appear in the mirror.

Boy, this is briging back some memories...my first kiss was at a park on the back of a motorcycle and....GET THIS....A FRENCH KISS!! TOO GROSS AT THE TIME! I went home and washed my mouth out and refused to go out with him again! ;D Sue

[rosyred45]

OMG Sue that is too funny, I was at a hospital and the dude I was going out with at the time tried to kiss em......talk about gross, needless to say he thought I was like, um, easy, an dhe broke u pwith me then and there. Nice huh.

What about the Bloody fingers, I think it goes along with the Mary thing. Walking up the steps or somehting like that...

[camismom]

Oh aimee, thanks for sharing that.... boy did you take me back.

I too had the Hamill cut, my mom always kept my hair short and I can't count how many times I was called a boy! Grrr! I had a Holly Hobbie doll I drug around until there was only one strand of yarn left for hair. I had Simon that I would spend hours playing with. My metal swing set was at the grandparents, my 7th grade year book pictures shows my ribbon barrettes, holding my "wings" in place, and I had on the high neck shirt.... yes indeed. If I wasn't at home recording songs with my little tape recorder off Solid Gold (while drooling over Andy Gibb and kissing the poster of him that came from Tiger Beat) I was at the Skate Center.

Boy those are all good memories!

Now to fast forward to being a teen in the 80's... how many of you had parachute pants? Or the two tone jeans... you know the ones that were faded in front, and dark in the back. Did you wear your collar turned up like the Miami Vice guys? Oh, those were the days!

[rosyred45]

Nope, didn't have the parachute pants, mom said they were too expensive ::)So I figured they were ugly anyhow. I didn't want them.

I DID HOWEVER HAVE A PAIR OF High Top Aerobic sneakers ;D LA GEAR before they went mainstream. Got them from K Mart for $10, next thing I know they are all the rage and when I needed another pair of sneakers I couldn't get them because they were too expensive

Any one know where to get a pair? I loved the ankle support ;D

[Jorgy]

remember smock tops?
I once wore one as a dress and went downtown with my cheeks "peeking" out . I got the whistles but my mom was ready to "kill" me!!!! ;D Sue

[finnmom]

High top aerobic sneaker´s, Yes I got those too, but I´am not sure if I would like to have a pair now, didn´t fit for me as well as for you Kaiti I had no parashute-pant´s I thought those were... hmmm, affull might be the word ;D But I did have those jean´s you can parely get on, those were really thight one´s Wouldn´t want those eather