The 70s

[Stagger]

FS1E 50cc motor bike to start with

then on to

X7 250cc

First car Triumph Toledo

Oh and feeling like I had been robbed when Decimal currency was introduced.

[Stagger]

Tetley Bitter or Falstaff

versus

Webster Bitter or Mild

Then Hallelujah

Taylors came to our village Landlord or Ram Tam

4 pints and change from a quid

[Derby Tup]

The Phantom Flan-flinger and Spit the Dog. Don't talk to me about cultural legacies!

[Daletownrunner]

Born in 68, the 70's for me were
great, pretty much unaware of political strife etc at the time, it was all fishing and playing in the fields for me, remember being paraded around the neighbours s I'd got so dirty hiding from the police (in a white mini van, remember them) on our local building site (we were only playing in the houses, throwing bricks out on the windows, trying to start up cement mixers, typical 70's kids stuff), Me giving it 'leave it mam' thinking they were going to come down the road and spot me.

[LissaJous]

Thanks all, lots of 70s stuff but not very much that U20s will ever have heard of? And a lot of things that were more associated with the 80s. Wiki's 1970s page has a lot.

Here's a really good one:
Pompidou Centre

Raleigh Choppers
Mass-market paperback books, apparently
Microwaves

70s Wallpaper
70s tableware/furnishings
Ladderax (originally 1964; my parents still have it)
Lava lamps
World Trade Centre & the CN Tower
Houses like on Brookside
Terrorist attacks (especially Palestinian-related and far-left like Baader-Meinhof)
Plane hijackings
Green movement
Hippies
Second Wave Feminism

Did no-one mention The Godfather?

I'm not trying to be superior on the classical music, I don't know enough to associate any with the 70s, apart from the Star Wars theme (& trends in film music) which started me thinking on this.

[Derby Tup]

Nylon snorkel parkas
Platform shoes
Parallel bags ("Wigans")
Bondage trousers with bum-flaps
Butterfly collars with vast Windsor knots
Turgid coffee coloured Crimpilene by the acre
Party Sevens
Rusty British cars
Concorde
Mud, Slade, Showaddywaddy, Alvin Stardust and Suzi Quattro
Mott the Hoople, Bowie, Iggy Pop and Kraftwerk

[porcupine]

stolly you cant put that between them 2 surely
chips
ready steady go
tommy and quadrophenia
the cure
the jam
the who were still huge
andrew what about the dog tooth suits and prince of wales checks
bowling shoes from the local bowling alley
blazers i had a red white and blue striped to go with shoes
parkas
scooters
sex pistols
dukes of hazard
there is a vast amount of stuff that could still be mentioned

[Stolly]

The World at War - the documentary TV series of WWII (probably never ever bettered, even though it missed out so much stuff)
My first car, a second hand Ford Capri mark II - bronze with a black roof
My first ever visit to the Yorkshire Dales (when John Smiths magnet bitter was actually a really decent pint)
Rubik's cube
TV rental
Gold top milk
Doc Martins
Dunlop Green Flash
My first ever McDonalds
Light and bitter
Vodka and orange
Prawn cocktail
Blue Nun (Liebfraumilch)
Black Forest Gateau
Horse of the Year Show

[porcupine]

my doc martins came with pilot jacket early 80
disc donnington park
can this be changed to 70/early 80
alf i own or owned some of them as well
football started for me early 80 first leeds match against manchester united all i can remember was riots before and after and the wall
but a year later living in ainsworth greater manchester watching the game the other way round
now not football team supporter but been to hundreds of matches i do take the kids to see sunderland now and again

[LissaJous]

can this be changed to 70/early 80

it's a forum do what you like
start with 80s or 70s/80s so people know.

Concorde was a good call; 747s as well.

20th Century Fox Logo & Fanfare (repopularised)

Jon Pertwee/Tom Baker (first golden age of Dr Who?)
60s/70s Hammer Horror