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Sea Monkeys, Mood Rings, Men on the Moon, Black Lights and Hippies...
Fran:
--- Quote from: David on January 19, 2008, 02:46:39 am ---I also remember a big ball with a handle on it. I'd sit on it and bounce around the basement! I forget what those things were called. Mine was blue I think.
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David, do you mean one of these:
I think they were called Hoppity Hops.
David In Indy:
--- Quote from: Fran on January 19, 2008, 03:06:54 pm ---David, do you mean one of these:
I think they were called Hoppity Hops.
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Yup!
Mine looked like the blue one the girl is bouncing on. I never bounced on mine outside. I only used it in the basement. It could really bounce high too. Or at least it seemed like it was very high.
Thanks Fran!! :D
LauraGigs:
I LOVED the 70s. So I'm loving this thread, yall!
Anyway . . .
Wallpaper like this (more late 70s, I guess)
LauraGigs:
LauraGigs:
Afros (on black and white people)
The "Bump" (my older sis would practice it to "Jive Talkin" by the Bee Gees)
Rotary phones (if you had a "push-button" phone, you were on the edge of technology)
Feminism was called "Womens Lib"
Orange or Olive-green carpeting/furniture
Station wagons with the wood-grain exterior strip
Vans with groovy painting on the sides
Striped socks
Socks with fitted toes (like gloves for your feet)
Big hoop earrings
Making the 2-fingered peace sign
"SHORT-shorts"
Percussive wah-wah pedal guitar "wacka-WOW wacka-wacka-WOW . . . "
Drive-thru banking with the plastic canisters (no ATMs yet)
"I'd like to buy the world a Coke, and keep it company . . . "
Women's hair in a bun (held by a piece of leather & a stick) with a big curlicue hanging down each side of her face
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