70's Fads You Participated in...

[IowaRam]

How many had the fringe leather jacket ?

I never did , but I did have the jean jacket with a bunch of patches all over it

 

[Loyal]

How many had the fringe leather jacket ?

I never did , but I did have the jean jacket with a bunch of patches all over it

I did have a maroon leather jacket from Wilsons....lol. Very shiny leather, lol

 

[RamFan503]

How many had the fringe leather jacket ?

I never did , but I did have the jean jacket with a bunch of patches all over it

Yep. Had both.

 

[1maGoh]

How about 70s catch-phrases:

Aaaaayyyy!
Dy-no-mite!
Nanu-nanu!
Up your nose with a rubber hose
This is the big one! I’m coming to you, Elizabeth!
Kiss my grits!
10-4, good buddy
Good night, John Boy

Oof. I was born in the mid 80s, but I just discovered (yet another) reason I wasn't cool. My parents got me saying some those things and clearly none of the other kids knew wtf I was taking about.

 

[Neil039]

TOGA..TOGA...TOGA.... The classic 1978 movie, Animal House

A Top 3 comedy

 

[Loyal]

Oof. I was born in the mid 80s, but I just discovered (yet another) reason I wasn't cool. My parents got me saying some those things and clearly none of the other kids knew wtf I was taking about.

All of us old folks thought you were very cool. So much better than the hip crowd! DYNO-MITE

 

[IowaRam]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1X7IwtPTsc

 

[RhodyRams]

roller skating--- still go on occasion

silly putty

baseball cards in spokes

saturday afternoon kung foo movies

pet rocks

 

[Loyal]

roller skating--- still go on occasion

silly putty

baseball cards in spokes

saturday afternoon kung foo movies

pet rocks

Outer Limits on Saturday and Davey and Goliath Sunday mornings?

 

[SWAdude]

Forgot about these. Spent more time trying to start it then actual flight time.

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Oh HELL YEAH!!!

Don't get me started!!!

 

[SWAdude]

New and never run Cox Dune Buggy.






Need to dust that top shelf...........

 

[norcalramfan]

Sorry kids, Silly Putty and Etch a Sketch were things from the '50s and early '60s.
I went for the ripped jeans look myself, wearing ripped corduroys underneath ripped jeans. Maybe even helped start it .

 

[JustMe]

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New and never run Cox Dune Buggy.






Need to dust that top shelf...........

Same concept as the plane with a guide wire?

 

[SWAdude]

Same concept as the plane with a guide wire?

Actual pic of me in 1971.

Haircut........check
T-shirt..........check
Jeans with knees..check

They didn't make RC cars back then. So I made my own.

That is one of the worlds first home made RC cars.

Maybe a bit of an exaggeration. I was 10 at the time.

 

[JustMe]

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Actual pic of me in 1971.

Haircut........check
T-shirt..........check
Jeans with knees..check

They didn't make RC cars back then. So I made my own.

That is one of the worlds first home made RC cars.

Maybe a bit of an exaggeration. I was 10 at the time.

looks familiar..

 

[Elmgrovegnome]

I’ve never been much of a fad person. I did own some terry cloth shorts though in the late 80’s.

I spent most of my time playing whiffle ball, constructing snap together models and drawing heroes from comic books.

 

[JustMe]

constructing snap together models

I spent many hours in my youth making those..

Eventually, I graduated to bigger and badder

In the end I think we ended up blowing them up with m80s or torching them with gasoline.

 

[Oldgeek]

Roller skating, at rinks and outside.

Trying to win radio call-in contests.

Head/wristbands - I wanted to be Bjorn Borg!

I was playing a lot of tennis through the 70's and 80's. I hated Jimmy Connors and it came back to haunt me in the 90's.

 

[Loyal]

I was playing a lot of tennis through the 70's and 80's. I hated Jimmy Connors and it came back to haunt me in the 90's.

Me too. I used to play almost daily and watched it on tv almost every weekend. Bjorn Borg was a machine and it was mind blowing when McEnroe beat him.

 

[Selassie I]

I was playing a lot of tennis through the 70's and 80's. I hated Jimmy Connors and it came back to haunt me in the 90's.

I did too in the 80's. That was when tennis was at it's peak in many different ways.