The World Renown Definitive
1970's List
bell bottoms: elephant bells and big bells, terry cloth, polyester,
platform shoes, leisure
suits, enormous "Goody" combs sticking out of your back pocket,
Puka shell necklaces,
bean-bag chairs, The Brady Bunch, avocado green or harvest gold
kitchen appliances,
K.C. and the Sunshine Band: "Shake Your Booty", your hair parted
down the middle, earth
tones: rust, browns, lemon, tans and burnt orange, shiny polyester
brown shirts with a
lime green flower print, pick-up lines: "Hey mama, what's shakin'
?" and "Hey babe, what's
your sign?", the game "Life", big leather watch bands, the slogan
"Keep on Truckin' ",
Superfly, Angleflight pants, J.J. Walker, Pong, Movin' On jeans,
Welcome Back Cotter, the
song "Rhinestone Cowboy", Shaft, Poprocks, tube-tops, The Captain
and Tenile, Duncan
"Butterfly" Yo-Yo's, Frisbees, Rockford Files, Yahtzee, three prong
belts, Police Woman,
the song "Sky Rockets in Flight", Hawaii Five-O, Muskrat Love,
the Bad News Bears,
Starsky and Hutch, Herbie the Love Bug, Charlie's Angels, Mother
Juggs and Speed,
Emergency, Berkies, Evil Kanevil, hush puppies, Donnie and Marie,
S.W.A.T., Tony Orlando
and Dawn, wrist bands, Charles Bronson, the movie "White Line Fever",
Green Acres, the
California Suns football team, Plymouth Volares, big gold medallions,
puffy down vests,
thongs, Slime, the movie "Blackula", wrought iron patio furniture,
butt-cuts, the movie and
song "Live and Let Die", Christy McNichol, the Six Million Dollar
Man, Margaret Keane
paintings, streaking, Dr. Don Rose of KFRC, Pet Rocks, Hang-Ten
T-shirts, three quarter
length burnt orange leather jackets with denim patchwork on the
inside worn with your
long polyester shirt collar over the jacket collar, Boston, the
movie "The Legend of Billy
Jack", big giant novelty size sun glasses and combs, fondue, driftwood
anything, the term
"wrap your ass in fiber glass" referring to a Corvette, Lagoona
brand swim trunks, the term
"up your nose with a rubber hose!", H.R. Puff n' Stuff, Soul Train,
Huggy Bear, CB radios,
Rice A Roni, AMC; Gremlins, Pacers and Matadors (and anything else
AMC made), Klogs,
the album "Framton Comes Alive", Holly Hobby, feathered back hair
a.k.a. the mall-chick
cut, "Boogie Down", Datsun B-210 Honeybees, soap-on-a-rope, the
show "What's
Happenin' ", Farah Fawcett, Petticoat Junction, Rodney Allen Rippey,
the Gong Show, the
Partridge Family, Scooby Doo Where Are You?, the Dating Game, Foghat,
Let's Make A
Deal, Tootsie-Pops, the $100,000 Pyramid, Otter Pops, Honey Comb
cereal, Kool Aid,
Patty Hearst, Sugar Corn Pops, Chuck Manson, Super Sugar Smacks,
Love American Style,
Star Trek, Chico and the Man, Sanford and Son, Aba-Zabas, hitch-hiking,
Pixie Stix, the
Unknown Comic, mood rings, waffle-stomper boots, naugahide, macramé
plant hangers,
G.I. Joe with the kung fu grip, Space 1999, UFO's, Omega Man and
armageddon movies in
general, the entire "Planet of the Apes" series including; Return
of, Beneath the, Beyond
the and Escape From, Lawn Darts, Weebles, Slip and Slides, Muhammad
Ali, the
Carpenters, hats made from Coors cans and knitted yarn, bicycles
with banana seats, tin
soda cans with pull tops, KISS, chopper bikes, Night Gallery, the
song "Everybody Was
Kung Fu Fighting", Rhoda, fat Elvis, All in the Family, Dr. Hook,
Maude, Schlitz Malt Liquor,
James at 17, Leif Garret, the movie "Convoy", the Hardy Boys, Earth,
Wind and Fire, the
song "Hotel California", Dittos, E.L.O., the Village People, the
song "Short People", earth
shoes, Shasta cola, Nutter Butter peanut butter sandwich cookies,
Fat Albert,
Bit-O-Honey, Fruit Stripe gum, Shazaam, Gone in 60 Seconds, the
movie "Car Wash",
Benji, Escape from Witch Mountain and anything else Eddie Albert
was in, Don Ho, the
Courtship of Eddie's Father, big side-burns, stretch and sew pants,
the Hustle, the movie
"Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band", Shawn Cassidy, Elton John,
Barry Manilow at the
Copa - Copa Cabana, disco roller skating, the Rocky Horror Picture
Show, movies in which
the stuntmen are the stars, the Wiz, Mean Joe Green, the Carol
Burnett Show, Aligator
baggies, Lynard Skynard, the Apple Dumpling Gang, Meat Head, a
Mustang II with a
sticker that reads: "this vehicle powered by Primo beer", Sit n'
Spins, any Steve McQueen
car movie, Zoom, Jimmy Carter, Wings, Fuzzy Shrinky Dinks, Obi
Wan Kenobi, 8-tracks,
the term "Hang Loose", Kojak; "Who loves you baby?", mud flaps
with slogans, the Big Blue
Marble, a dirty t-shirt with a picture of a dog gesturing "fetch
this!", Silly Putty, Bonnie
Belle Kissables Lip Gloss, Snuffle-Ufflegus, the saying "understand
rubberband/don't be
wise bubble eyes or I'll knock you down to peanut size", hang gliding,
click-clacks, the
show "Soap", McCloud, the movie "Foxes", Columbo, the show Sigmund
the Sea Monster,
Pete's Dragon, "Airport" and all disaster movies, Wonder-Rama,
Spirograph, ding dong
ditch, Wonder Woman, Speed Racer, the band America with the song
"A Horse With No
Name", the show "Davie and Goliath", Oscar Goldman, John Denver,
Hollywood Squares
with all the regulars-most prominent of whom was Paul Lynd, Tarzan
starring Ron Eli,
Charles Nelson Riley, the show "Salvage" with Andy Griffith, Sonny
and Cher with their
daughter Chastity; "I Got You Babe", Billy Beer, water beds, black
lights and felt black
light posters, velvet paintings, deep pile shag carpeting, a-frame
houses, fake wood
paneling, dome homes, shoes with cork soles, the movie "Tommy",
Barney Miller and the
spin-off show Fish, Shake and Bake, Fresca, Merv Griffith, green
Chrysler Cordobas,
Witchy Poo, Sha-Na-Na, I Ski brand sun glasses.