70's Fads You Participated in...

[Loyal]

There are a lot of you old bastids out there who can participate in this one. Tell us of the fads you did back in the day. Fess up!

*Earth Shoes
*Bell Bottom pants
*Mood Ring
*Puka shell necklace/bracelet
*Clackers
*CB Radio
*8 Track Players
*Cal Worthington and his Dog Spot

We know @Merlin loved to Streak, when not wearing a leisure suit. gold medallion and platform shoes....

 

[Dodgersrf]

Roller Skating

 

[Loyal]

Roller Skating

and heart breaking World Series losses to the Yankees...

 

[Memento]

Are y'all purposely trying to exclude me?

 

[Juice]

I had a brown transitor rado when I was a kid. I used a belt to hang it from my handle bars as I cruised around the neighborhood on the bike. I think it was this one, but I am not sure.

 

[IowaRam]

There are a lot of you old bastids out there who can participate in this one. Tell us of the fads you did back in the day. Fess up!

*Earth Shoes
*Bell Bottom pants
*Mood Ring
*Puka shell necklace/bracelet
*Clackers
*CB Radio
*8 Track Players
*Cal Worthington and his Dog Spot

We know @Merlin loved to Streak, when not wearing a leisure suit. gold medallion and platform shoes....

clackers

good times , good times

 

[Merlin]

Nothing quite like a long-legged girl in bell bottoms.

Though some girls could really rock dittos...

 

[JustMe]

Moon boots.. might be 80's though.

 

[JustMe]

TV dinners complete with the TV tray.

 

[IowaRam]

Roller Skating

View: https://youtu.be/xuv_YcpM4nU

 

[IowaRam]

TV dinners complete with the TV tray.

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I still go on ebay from time to time looking to buy a set in good shape

 

[Deac]

70s helmet hair, almost a carbon copy of mine.

 

[Loyal]

70s helmet hair, almost a carbon copy of mine.
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Me too, but not before I endured crewcuts until 1974....after that, it was the hair helmet!

 

[Loyal]

I still go on ebay from time to time looking to buy a set in good shape

Those trays freed us from a hot kitchen before central ac. We took our food to the living room with all of the curtains closed and a wall ac unit working it's ass off, while we watched tv. AC, TV trays changed our family's lives. So AC wall units were not a fad, but extremely important for quite a while.

 

[CGI_Ram]

TV dinners complete with the TV tray.

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Look how fancy those are. Configure them right, you have a high end dinning room!

 

[Corbin]

There are a lot of you old bastids out there who can participate in this one. Tell us of the fads you did back in the day. Fess up!

*Earth Shoes
*Bell Bottom pants
*Mood Ring
*Puka shell necklace/bracelet
*Clackers
*CB Radio
*8 Track Players
*Cal Worthington and his Dog Spot

We know @Merlin loved to Streak, when not wearing a leisure suit. gold medallion and platform shoes....

How about you stop talking colonial English!? What’s a clacker?
Puka shell? Wtf is that?
Earth shoes!!?

You got some splainling to do old timer!

 

[IowaRam]

How about you stop talking colonial English!? What’s a clacker?
Puka shell? Wtf is that?
Earth shoes!!?

You got some splainling to do old timer!

Clackers / Klackers

These toys were dangerous as he'll, and we're eventually banded


View: https://youtu.be/bs7GAEkJITI

 

[NJRamsFan]

The only fad I was participating in was waiting 20 plus years to be born ya old farts

 

[Oldgeek]

Perms for guys, The Greatest American Hero look. Indeed I think I have destroyed all the evidence of that look.

 

[Selassie I]

Puka shell necklaces are a Hawaiian thing Brudda. Maybe they became a fade on the Mainland in the 70's? I don't know... but I rocked a badass Puka necklace throughout the entire 70's growing up in The 808.

Most of them I see here on the Mainland nowadays are fake. Made out of something other than a real Puka shell. BTW... Puka is Hawaiian for Hole. I would rock one today if I could find a cool real one. I do wear a traditional Hawaiian fish hook necklace carved out of a whale bone tied on what the old time Hawaiians used for fishing line to this day though.