1977 Big Foot Game:

Val mentioned this one, although I don't remember it. However, around '75 - '78, Big Foot was a huge topic. Seems like everyone was reporting a Big Foot sighting. "In Search Of" and other SciFi TV shows regularly mentioned him. To this day I'm not quite sure what Big Foot was supposed to be...

A 1976 fave:

"Evergreen" by Barbra Streisand. This song always takes me back.

Misc. Remembrance:

It was probably 1972, and a friend of my mother's came over to have coffee with my mom. She came with her two kids: Lori and Teddy. Lori and I decided to hide on our parents and have Teddy tell them that he couldn't find us, while we hid behind the chimney of my house as our parents searched for us. We lived near a swamp. So our parents are outside frantically calling our names, while Lori and myself were hiding behind the chimney laughing at them. Finally after about 10 minutes we ran out from behind the chimney and said "Here we are!" We got our @$$e$ kicked that day. I think I was punished for a week...

Non-'70s oldies fave:

"Goodnight Irene" by Bob Hope, Judy Garland, and Bing Crosby.

Saturday Night Disco:

"Boogie Oogie Oogie" by A Taste Of Honey.

Random Fact:

The Carpenters weren't the first to record "Top Of The World". Lynn Anderson recorded the song first, and I like her version much better.

Misc. Remembrance:

I can remember circa 1972 and watching "That Girl" re-runs on daytime TV, and noticing that in the opening song how the girl in the window bore an uncanny resemblance to Ann Marie, and being amazed that they were able to find someone who looked just like her for the store window. It blew my mind.

Misc. Remembrance:

In the late '70s (ca. '77) my cousin Joanne fell on some ice and broke her leg. Her relatives showered her with toys and get-well cards and money. They really went all-out for her. Less than a year later, my cousin Paula (Joanne's sister) broke her arm, and she remembered how Joanne really raked it in and was looking forward to all the stuff she was going to get, but by then everyone was burned out from giving to Joanne they basically told Paula to "just deal with it". She got nothing. She was really bummed out about it. Sucked to be her..

A public service announcement from Joe:

This is drugs:

This is your brain on drugs:

Any questions????

Misc. Remembrance:

My mother has smoked ever since I can remember. And always Marlboro Lights. One day in '78 we were driving to my aunt's house in Whitman Massachusetts. Mom was lost in thought, not paying attention to anything except her driving, and my window was open so I took her cigarettes and threw them out the window while she wasn't looking. I stared at her and smiled. She smiled back. I'm still smiling, and she says "what???". I'm still smiling and said that I threw her cigarettes out the window. She laughed. I laughed. While the smile was still frozen on her face, she said "you didn't". I said "I did". She's still smiling. Then she says "no, really...". Me (still smiling): "yup". All of a sudden she wasn't smiling. She starts looking around the seat hoping I was kidding. By then we were about 3 miles from where I threw them out, and frankly I didn't quite remember exactly where I threw them out. Reality "sets in". She didn't have any extra money with her, so she had to turn the car around to look for them. It took us 20 minutes to find them again. As I recall we ended up being late...

To all Mothers:

 Happy Mother's Day.

Saturday Night Disco:

"More Than A Woman" by The Bee Gees.

Busted!

The first several seconds of this video seems to stick for some reason, but then it kicks in and plays.

Misc. Remembrance:

Around '78 / '79, all the girls in my school seemed to be wearing clogs. I still think they're the ugliest things I've ever seen..

Random fact:

In the mid-'70s, one of my cousins used to drink buttermilk. She drank maple syrup a couple of times also. Hey if that's her "thing"...

Question:

What do you get when you combine The Brady Bunch, Soul Train, and Up With People??? You get Good-Time Music!!!

Non - '70s post:

 

In the '50s, mom wanted to date a certain guy. One day he finally asked her out and she said yes. When he came to pick her up for their date, my grandmother told them "no way" and sent him home because he was wearing a leather jacket, and no daughter of hers was ever gonna date a guy in a leather jacket..

For the record:

I played Monopoly a lot, and not once do I ever remember anyone choosing the iron. And nobody never referred to it as "stud boy". Nobody wanted that token.

Saturday Night Disco:

"Higher and Higher" by Rita Coolidge. To be honest I'm not really sure if the above is technically a disco song, but it's always been a fave.

Welcome:

My life has been a tapestry of rich and royal hue; an everlasting vision of the ever-changing view. A wondrous woven magic in bits of blue and gold; a tapestry to feel and see; impossible to hold.

Saturday Night Disco:

"I Love The Nightlife (Disco Round)" by Alicia Bridges

Random:

Above is the episode of That '70s Show where Hyde makes his "special brownies" for the Foremans' garage sale. It's one of my favorite episodes.

Misc. Remembrance:

I remember watching back-to-back rerun episodes of Gilligan's Island and The Brady Bunch around '74, and noticing on the credits that both of them were created by two guys both named Sherwood Schwartz,and being amazed at what an uncanny coincidence that was. Like what were the odds of that happening....

Non-'70s random:

Between you and me, there's nothing worse than that moment of "dawning comprehension"..

Arrested development:

Did anyone else find it odd that Thurston Howell III had to take his teddy bear along on a 3 hour cruise??

Fact:

Some novels should never be allowed to be made in to musicals. Like, oh, the above, for instance..

Saturday Night Disco:

"Last Dance" by Donna Summer

For ChiTownGirl:

My condolences for your losses. Here, I got you some flowers.

"Dream On", one of my top ten faves of the decade:

I found a clip that included the lyrics, because quite frankly at times I'm not sure what the hell he's sayin'...

I was always doing stupid things:

In '75 / '76 my cousin Karen was given an autograph dog as an 8th grade graduation present. They lived up the street from me so I was always over their house. One day she wasn't home, so I was up in her bedroom rifling through her closet checking out her stuff and I came across it. I felt bad for her that it wasn't signed, so I decided to sign it. But I figured she wouldn't want my signature, so I decided to sign my teacher's name to it, instead. So I signed it "Mrs. O'Brian". But I did some really funky artistic thing with the signature, where the "O" kind of encircled the whole name, and I was rather proud of it, so I signed it again. And again. And again. And again. 35 times. "Mrs. O'Brian". And she didn't even have Mrs. O'Brian as a teacher. I don't know what the hell I was thinking. And she probably blamed her sister for it, too..

Some people always seem to have to learn the hard way:

I laughed my @$$ off the first time I saw the above.

Misc. Remembrance:

When I was about 4 years old, my mother told me that if I ran over the electrical cord while vacuuming I'd electrocute myself. I really fell for it, so one day I was over a friend's house and she started to vacuum. I warned her about running over the cord or she'd get electrocuted, and she naturally gave me a look like I was out of my mind. So I was like, "fine, go ahead and electrocute yourself. See if I care...."

Random:

As I remember, this is the time of year they'd play The Wizard Of Oz on TV. It was always a major event, I never missed it. And we'd talk about it in school the whole day after. While I'm glad we have YouTube and CD players now, there was something about having to wait to see something that just made it so much better.

Misc. Remembrance:

I used to love going to the beach back in the day. We usually only went to the beach when we visited my grandparents in Chatham. My grandfather used to drive us all to the beach and drop us off at Harding's Beach which was 3 blocks away from their house, then pick us up in the afternoon. My grandparents didn't really care for the beach too much, but we loved it. When we weren't visiting my grandparents we'd go to the beach in Point Judith, Rhode Island because it was only a half hour away from our house. The '70s wouldn't have been the same without the beach. Good times.

The original:

Dick in a box.

"And then there's Maude":

Above is an episode of All In The Family where Edith's cousin Maude comes for a visit to take care of everybody while they're sick. I'm guessing the episode was circa '71/'72. Maude is one of my all-time fave TV characters. I really miss Bea Arthur.

Does anybody remember Anissa Jones?

I was 8 years old when I heard she passed on. Back then the rumor going around amongst my friends was that she died in a house fire during a slumber party. The concept of a drug overdose was totally foreign to us, we had no idea what that was. I don't remember if it was before or after Freddy Prinze committed suicide, but I think the 2 were pretty close together. How sad for someone to pass on before their life really gets started; I guess it just proves that no one's too young to die.

Random:

The 3 Degrees: The Destiny's Child of the '70s..

Misc. Remembrance:

Seems like back in '76 / '77, everyone was wearing Nike sneakers. Except me. My feet were still growing, and my folks said they were too expensive for shoes that I'd grow out of in a few months. They looked good on Farrah, though.. but then again didn't everything....

You can't have it all:

I guess a lot of kids had a Dapper Dan doll. Apparently he was instrumental in teaching them to learn how to dress. I didn't have a Dapper Dan doll, so how in the world I learned to dress myself is beyond me..

Saturday Night disco:

How I miss the disco days. Every song was my favorite.

"Rhymes and Reasons" by John Denver:

Saturday Morning Classic:

The '70s wouldn't have been the same without Schoolhouse Rock. In my senior year in High School, one of our history assignments was to memorize the preamble of the constitution. Everyone aced it because of this SHR segment.

Misc. Remembrance:

In '78, mom was a member of a bowling league, and every Tuesday night she'd drop me off at my aunt Nancy's house, and I'd hang out with my cousin Karla for the night. We'd hang out in her room and listen to records and play a board game, then she'd call her girlfriends, then we'd watch Three's Company on her little black and white television set in her bedroom. When it was over, she'd turn the TV off then we'd go to sleep. When she'd turn the TV off, the picture would reduce to a little white dot, which would stay on for about 15 minutes. I'd watch the dot 'til I fell asleep. I'm guessing they don't make black-and-white televisions any more...

Some people are pretty rough with their toys:

Poor Barbie..

Classic Carol Burnett skit: Eunice playing Charades parts 1 and 2:

So does anybody actually play Charades any more??

Non-'70s random:

I'm guessing the above was very late '30s / very early '40s. I heard this song about 10 years ago on an oldies radio station and I've liked it ever since. I love how the backup singers really get into it. If this makes a geek, that's fine; I'll always like this song....

Probably my favorite disco song:

I always turned up the radio volume when they played this song.

Random:

Mary's apartment then, and now. I found the above pics here.

Lazy Sunday afternoon:

Yesterday was kind of a lazy day, so I watched "The Ghost And Mr. Chicken" on YouTube. I haven't seen that flick since the late '70s. I downloaded and watched the whole thing, but I found a clip of my favorite part: when Luther spends the night in the haunted house (the above clip). The movie was just as awesome as I remember it. I didn't realize that 2 cast members from Bewitched were in it: Dick Seargeant (the second Darren) and Sandra Gould (the second Gladys Kravitz).

Non-'70s random:

So, how's the weather where you are? Did I mention it's in the '80s here today??? Yes, life is good. Here.

Remember "Cold Turkey" from '71??? This is my favorite part:

I quit smoking in '92, and I can totally relate.

Please no offense to Her Majesty...

... but before there was Helen Mirren, we had Carol Burnett.

Land Of The Lost intro:

Pure awesome.

Land Of The Lost "Medusa" - 1976

I saw this the first day it aired on Saturday morning back in '76. I'd forgotten it was an episode after Rick Marshall ditched the kids to fend for themselves to save his own butt ...

If I have to, I can do anything:

I learned to swim at the Taunton YMCA. I was about 5 years old. My swim instructor was a retired Marine named Seth. Seth had a pretty simple way of teaching kids to swim: he'd pick you up, then throw you in the pool. From there it was either sink or swim, and you had to make it to the edge of the pool by yourself. Of course he was there to help you out if you got in trouble, but basically you were on your own. At first it was petrifying, but once I got thrown in the water, I found that I could make it to the edge on my own, and I didn't sink, I swam. Whenever I face a difficulty in life, and I'm thrown into a situation and it seems like there's no way out, I remember back to when I was 5 and when it came time to sink or swim, I swam. I'll never forget that swimming lesson; it taught me a lot more than just how to swim, it taught me how to face life's challenges and make it through. Thank you, Seth, wherever you are. I really owe you.

'70s TV:

One of my favorite shows was Three's Company. Above is the very first episode, I think '78. While it's a little dated, I think it's held up pretty well.