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Watching2
Member
07-07-2001
| Wednesday, July 06, 2005 - 10:36 am
I totally forgot about this one, but then again, I missed one of my "have to see" shows last night because I got goofed up over the holiday and I messed my VCR up taping things I didn't need to watch! I saw a couple of commercials for this last weekend and thought I might check it out. I graduated in '74 and I don't remember EVER saying GROOVY except as a joke by that time! I hung out with the "jocks" and the "freaks" as we so kindly called one another (LOL) - more jocks in HS and more "freaks" in college. I remember a guy I dated in HS coming to my college the 2nd yr and saying, "All your friends are freaks!" I told him that must make me one, too! LOL We were more of the "disco sucks" group but some of us did enjoy what we could fake as the hustle once in a while. I DO remember the polyester suits, but that was only for dress up (LOL) and this one picture of my oldest brother with a perm and a mustache, cracks us up every time!! I think he looked that way when we got married in '78. Funny note - my DS has our old rotary wall phone hooked up in his room for a couple of reasons. One being he thinks it's cool and the other being, we learned really quickly when we had a blackout that none of our phones worked, even the cells because the towers went out, too! And I can't remember hardly anyone's phone # either anymore. If I didn't know it before I started programming numbers, forget it! LOL I even have my number scroll across my cell so I can make sure I tell people the right number! Ditto on catching this on MTV sometime during the week. They're good at that.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Wednesday, July 06, 2005 - 10:41 am
My daughter was asking me this morning if I ever said groovy or outta sight. I told her that we never did and I didn't know anyone else who said it. We used to say it if we were joking about the Brady Bunch but that was about it.
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Watching2
Member
07-07-2001
| Wednesday, July 06, 2005 - 10:48 am
Ditto Mames... Ditto! I think that was more 60s, wasn't it and then only "dorks" said it in the 70s. LOL
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Wednesday, July 06, 2005 - 11:11 am
Watching, you married your brother??? This show was cute, but most of it was about the clothes, the decor, the words, etc. Not much on the human interaction. It is fun seeing some of the "antiques."
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Seamonkey
Member
09-07-2000
| Wednesday, July 06, 2005 - 11:25 am
I never said "groovy" and I just don't remember plaid stuff at all! I remember some hideous orange polyester pants I work with a, um.. yellow top.. and I did some what would seem very strange combinations of flourescent pink and orange tights.. like orange with pink fishnet on top.. Lots of fishnets, patterns, ACK! I began the seventies with short dresses, then we finally got to wear pantsuits to work and I adopted those right away.. The Surfer stuff was very big in the sixties here (I went to school in Newport Beach, CA) and I suppose in the seventies, but I was deep into working and dog shows so was using computer lingo by day and dog show vocabulary the rest of the time. I did think it was a fun show and will continue to DVR it especially since the new episode airs right after the new episode of RW Austin..
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Terolyn
Member
05-06-2004
| Wednesday, July 06, 2005 - 12:18 pm
I wore the hip huggers, midi tops and the high rise pants but my main staple were Levi's, t-shirts and my converse sneakers. 
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Scout
Member
01-20-2005
| Wednesday, July 06, 2005 - 12:22 pm
Same here, Terolyn - mostly Levi's. I got a catalog today that had the jeans styles that looked a lot like what we wore - faded, nearly worn out. Only we had to work hard to get ours to look that way!
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Wednesday, July 06, 2005 - 3:20 pm
I had some dressy plaid pants with the high waist and the cuffs. They were yellow and red and some other color that I can't recall. I had a vest to match! I mostly lived in little shirts and cutoff jeans.
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Brenda1966
Member
07-03-2002
| Wednesday, July 06, 2005 - 3:41 pm
I had a pair of red-orange hip huggers with white pint stripes. They were long and drug the ground so the ends were all freyed. Can you say cool?! I don't remember ever saying the word "groovy" but I do remember "no duh!" I was pretty young during the 70's but admired my relatives who were teens during the 70's. Oh, and I had one of those donut phones. A brown one. I had it for years until it finally wouldn't dial out anymore and I pitched it. That was an expensive phone in it's day. LOL.
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Sharebear
Member
09-16-2001
| Wednesday, July 06, 2005 - 3:44 pm
I watched this last night and thought it was hilarious. **Do the hustle** hehe I do agree the hosts were a little too much but all in all it was pretty funny.
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Beachcomber
Member
08-26-2003
| Wednesday, July 06, 2005 - 6:14 pm
I had a pair of pink and white ultra-bellbottom hip hugger seersucker pants that were "jack city!" Jeans, cords, plaid skirts with velvet vest and blazer. My niece has commandeered my velvet stuff and wears it now. Brenda, love the phone story! We had an orange phone that matched the orange and brown shag carpet in the den.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Wednesday, July 06, 2005 - 6:36 pm
I remember wearing hot pants and sizzler dresses.
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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Wednesday, July 06, 2005 - 6:38 pm
I had a pair of pants that were wild multicolored. Seems like it was more of a "patchwork" multicolor though, rather than the plaid. But....that was a long time ago. All I remember is someone at school commenting I wore them quite frequently.
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Roppiepie
Member
05-06-2004
| Wednesday, July 06, 2005 - 6:57 pm
I remember bleeding madras blouses. My jeans were always decorated with a border sewn around the bell bottom. Can't forget the smock tops either! my initial smocks I bought in the maternity department! Dr. Scholl's exercise sandals were one of my 1st fashion statements! I wore hot pants and a midi-coat, and crochet'd vests...great memories!
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Wednesday, July 06, 2005 - 8:28 pm
Twinkie, yeah I think it was called Princess phone. I wore many of the clothes I saw on the show....I was a teen in the 70's. I met Denny Terio in the 70's, we danced in a show at a club he was at in LA..he was a total ass...it was at the height of his career and he was prolly on coke.
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Theowl
Member
09-28-2000
| Wednesday, July 06, 2005 - 10:44 pm
I had a pair of pasley hip-huggers with huge bells, and the tight tops that snapped at the crotch, I can't remember what they were called. I loved madris blouses, and daisies!! I made curtains for my bedroom out of green burlap with yellow and orange felt daisies. My dresser was painted yellow and orange, and I had a shag rug of a yellow daisy with orange center. Also, wool shorts with knee socks, nothing blouses, chain belts, and guitar picks for earrings. Did anyone see a lava lamp last night? I looked for one, but couldn't find it. I loved my "bloop" lamps. I think only "flower children" said Groovy. I would also like to hear the story about Watcher marrying her brother. I don't remember that being a fad in the 70's, but I was only from Mich.
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Jmm
Moderator
08-16-2002
| Wednesday, July 06, 2005 - 10:51 pm
Body suits?
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Theowl
Member
09-28-2000
| Wednesday, July 06, 2005 - 11:02 pm
Yep!! That's it, thanks JMM!!
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Seamonkey
Member
09-07-2000
| Wednesday, July 06, 2005 - 11:55 pm
Oh I had some of those, too!! LOL.. and of course at times the crotch would unsnap at the wrong time! Bleeding madras, yeah!! We never had that big donut phone, but in the sixties (and until my parents went out and bought a horrible heavy old black phone, but it was like escaping the phone company which only rented phones like the princess. that was in my bedroom when I lived there.. when they came to pick up the Princess they tried to come in and take OUT the jack.. well my mom lit into them because they had paid to have that jack put in when the house was being built and it belonged to them.. LOL. Phone co guy wasn't pleased. Ah yes crochetted vests and shawls too.. I used to knit and crochet a lot in the seventies.. fringe!! Because I had a whole bunch of labradors, I spent much time in.. yup bell bottoms and t shirts,but for showing in conformation women wore some kind of skirt or dress, men wore shirts and ties, so lots of us who were younger wore little dresses with built in pants that were short.. the dresses and actually kind of cute and of course had to be in a color that showed off your dog!! A contrasting color unless the dog had a saggy topline then I guess some people would dress in the same color as the dog to hide that. I don't think I ever had 8 track tapes.. had tons of vinyl records of course and we went to cassette tapes right away.. also had a gold volvo with a rainbow heart decal on the back window.. lots of people had those little rainbow decals too..
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Thursday, July 07, 2005 - 5:29 am
We had a big ole Olds regency and were so excited it came with an 8 track! LOL That phone reminded me of something else I had..a 'toot a loop' it was round like that and it was a radio. We had that 70's green decor and patchwork shag carpet
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Thursday, July 07, 2005 - 6:54 am
In 1975, I have a yellow Mustang AND a yellow leisure suit to match! I was stylin'!!! My bedroom was lime green and powder blue with lime green shag carpeting....my daughter has all the bedding now including the canopy and loves it! LOL
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Seamonkey
Member
09-07-2000
| Thursday, July 07, 2005 - 11:16 am
I had the Takahashi (San Francisco) cannisters in blue and green (they also came in pink/orange).. that was late sixties. I spent the seventies in a canyon cabin so there was no actual "decor" but then rented a house starting in '79 that had a nightmare kitchen with harvest gold stuff and the drawers and cabintes had been painted with gold and orange and it had very busy hideous gold/orange/green wallpaper on the walls AND the ceiling!!! <shudder>
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Thursday, July 07, 2005 - 12:07 pm
I live in a house built in 1971 and not greatly remodeled since. I have one harvest gold bathroom and one avocado green bathroom.
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Riviere
Member
09-09-2000
| Thursday, July 07, 2005 - 11:45 pm
The 70s were so far out!!! My room had special blended ultramarine blue walls and foxglove purple ceiling and door. One wall was a really leftover 60s psychadelic wallpaper in deep blue, purple, gold, a hyper bold paisley look. Custom ordered purple drapes for the large windows. And the must have shag carpet. Golly, I still have pictures of that wonderful room! My shelves were full of vinyl, all of which I still have; by 1977 I added the necessary dual cassette deck. A prerequisite blacklight, lava lamp, and giant hand made candle from a pal in Ann Arbor. Clothing, what a blast my wardrobe was! Hot pants, over the knee suede boots, a suede fringed jacket a la Davy Crockett, my winter coat was a faux suede maxi with a faux fur and tapestry trim. Levis and more, boot cut, pencil leg, big bells, hip huggers, and a bevy of colorful midriff tops, smocks, madras shirts. As fashion progressed I also had some cuffed hem high waist slacks and platform shoes. Of course today I don't know how we got along without computers and microwaves and cable TV back then!
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Watching2
Member
07-07-2001
| Friday, July 08, 2005 - 1:56 am
ROFL.....I couldn't figure out why you were all asking about me marrying my brother and then I READ the whole paragraph....and LOL..... ewwwwwww...... that would have been just too weird. My brother looked that way at my HUSBAND's (he's not my brother!) wedding and get this.. all of my girlfriends thought he was HOT. LOL.... I really need to watch how I word things... but I know you were all just teasing me.... I think?! teehee I shall comment on the clothing I wore when I've had some sleep or I can only imagine what I might come up with! 
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