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i bought a pair of dingos a couple years ago but couldn't find any with the pouch for a barlow knife

The only good thing about the 70's is the STEELERS were winning Super Bowls!!!!!

and beating the Cowboys not once but twice at that!

Except in '76 ....

Then, after finishing 13�1 in 1976, the Raiders defeated the Steelers 24�7 in the AFC Championship game. Oakland then defeated the Minnesota Vikings, 32�14, in Super Bowl XI for the franchise's first NFL championship.

Yes but if Franco & Rocky not both been injured it would have been 3 straight for Pittsburgh!

As Bradshaw would say they beat us.......no whining they beat us.

Worked on the Alaska pipeline 3 years.

One point that I think has been skipped was living in the shadow of nuclear war. I remember being much more worried about the USSR then than Alquida(sp?) ever. On the whole everything seemed fake and crappy and we were glad to see the 70 gone.

Jimmy Carter and B-HO are so much worse they are not even in the same league. They are disasters of a magnitude not seen since FDR. They are/were without a doubt the worst presidents this conutry has ever had.

The only thing that really sets Nixon apart was getting caught doing what his predecessors had been doing.

Late '70"s? I was managing R&D contracts involving radio navigation (LORAN and a new concept later named GPS) and advanced radio communication systems. What we considered VERY advanced then is so obsolete today that it in museums.

Nixon prepped the ground for Carter, and if you don't include destroying what stability was left in the currency, and the expansion of the Federal government, I guess you could give Nixon a pass.

I personally feel that with only the former, he did more damage to the country than Carter. Without doubt he was/is better than the current occupant, but still nothing to write home about; certainly not worth defending as one of the great Presidents.

I never said Nixon was a great president. And I don't know if Nixon expanded the government as much as GWB..............

It's just much more is made of Watergate than there really was. If they applied the same level of outrage to Clinton and B-HO, they would have never been elected.

Hmmm would have thought CS & N was older than that!

Mike

Amen.

Scouts were not AMC, they were International Harvester. I had a 71 and a 78.

I was married in the late 70s and already had my first born.
I still had my pony tail and my 70 Dodge Charger R/T.

Pat

Was kid in the 60's, fun time to be a kid,.
Drafted in 69.
Had just married my HS sweetie, she was seeing some one within a month of my departure.
I was out soon with a Honorable medical.
Life changed.
Found a party girl or two, and plenty of other fun things, till I am not so sure I remember a lot of the 70's.
I do know I had a hell of a lot of fun, feel fortunate to have lived through it, and that I am still paying in some ways.

Disco Sucked -- Long Live Rock n Roll !

All those stations that play "The Best of the 60s" or "The Best of the 70s" suck too -- They only play what Casey Casum said was best -- He never picked Zepplin or Tull or anything but pop.

Yeah the cars started getting getting bad right at the very end of the seventies, especially at the break to the 80s, but most all the kids I hung out with got stuck driving 10-15 year old cars anyway -- They ran.

The Class of '81 still Rules!!!!

BTW, earless prime Coyotes were $85.00 in the Rockies -- didn't even have to skin 'em -- Just throw 'em in the back of the truck and freeze 'em. There were fur buyers parked at local gas stations nearly every other day of the week all winter. It wasn't too hard to get the money to keep in beer and grass and keep the hot rods full of gas and fixed up with those kind of funds around. Then when everyone started calving and lambing in the spring, bounties came out, and you could sell all those 'yote ears for $25.00 more a pair. I hung out with guys that could fill a pickup or two a week with fur. (same deal on $40.00 coons, but no bounty)

I still have a "Disco Sucks" shirt. It's in a cheap frame in the game room.

I started 9th grade in the Fall of 1972 and graduated college in the Spring of 1980 so I was a child of the 70's. My 1st car was a 69 Firebird that got 8mpg and registered 160 on the speedometer. I worked part time at $1.90/hr. when not playing football. Had to work at least 1 hour each day just to pay for the gas to get to and from work.

Had a lot of fun. The mill where my dad worked had a community pool where I worked summers as a lifeguard until the mill shut down in 77. I wish I could still get paid for hanging around with girls in bikinis.

You know the economy was probably worse then than now, but I was a kid who didn't know any better at the time.

LOL!!!

A kid I work with--My apprentice, is a twenty something.

I'll give him heck about his music when he plays his radio at work. One of the things I tell him is that it's no wonder kids shoot each other at school -- all of the music that they listen too just sounds really angry to me.

When he's heard enough of my bellyaching, he'll put it to a seventies station to try to appease me. After a while, I'll tell him , "If that $%^%$ station plays one more ^$^%#% Disco tune, I'm gonna smash that *&$&*# radio with a block!!!

Some days he probably thinks I might be hard to get along with!!!