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1970s

Far Out, Man.

Bell bottoms, eight-tracks, and Saturday morning cartoons that actually meant something. If you grew up in the 70s, you didn't need WiFi — you had a backyard and your imagination.

🧸 Toys 📺 TV Shows 🎵 Music 🌼 Life 📰 Comics
You Begged For These

Toys of the 70s

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Atari 2600
1977
The one that started it all. Pong on your own TV. Space Invaders at home. Your parents had no idea what they were in for when they put this under the tree.
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Pet Rock
1975
A rock. In a box. With a care manual. It sold 1.5 million units in six months and made Gary Dahl a millionaire. Sometimes the simplest ideas really are the best.
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Lite-Brite
1967 · Peak 70s
Punching colored pegs into black paper at 10 PM when you were supposed to be asleep. The glow was magical. The cleanup was not.
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Big Wheel
1969 · Dominated the 70s
Low-riding, hard-plastic, and absolutely indestructible. You drove that thing until the front wheel wore completely flat — and then you kept going.
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Stretch Armstrong
1976
You stretched him. You tied him in knots. You and your sibling pulled from opposite ends. The mystery of what was inside him haunted an entire generation.
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Magic 8-Ball
1950 · Peak 70s obsession
"Does Tommy like me?" Shake. "Cannot predict now." Shake again. "My sources say no." You shook it until you got the answer you wanted.
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Skateboard Craze
Mid-70s
Before helmets were mandatory. Before skateparks. Just concrete sidewalks, clay wheels, and absolute fearlessness. The 70s kid's knees still remember.
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Mood Ring
1975
Blue meant happy. Green meant calm. Black meant you were either stressed or you'd just washed your hands with cold water. Science was flexible in the 70s.
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Six Million Dollar Man Figure
1975
Roll up his arm to reveal his bionic eye. We had the technology. We rebuilt him. And every kid on the block wanted to be Steve Austin for Halloween.
Saturday Morning Was Sacred

TV Shows of the 70s

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Scooby-Doo
1969 · Ruled the 70s
Four teenagers and a talking Great Dane solving mysteries. The villain was always the caretaker. And you knew it every time — but it still got you.
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Super Friends
1973
Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, and the Wonder Twins — all fighting the Legion of Doom every Saturday morning. The animation was rough. The memories are perfect.
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Schoolhouse Rock
1973
"I'm just a bill, yes I'm only a bill..." An entire generation learned grammar, math, and civics through Saturday morning cartoons. More effective than any classroom.
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The Dukes of Hazzard
1979
The General Lee. Daisy Duke. Boss Hogg. Every Friday night the whole family was on that couch. And every kid in America wanted to slide across the hood of a car.
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Happy Days
1974
The Fonz. Richie Cunningham. Arnold's Drive-In. Happy Days made the 50s look cool through 70s eyes, and somehow it worked perfectly for a decade straight.
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Lassie
Beloved through the 70s
That dog saved someone from a well approximately every three episodes. And it made every kid in America believe their own dog was capable of the same heroics.
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Land of the Lost
1974
Dinosaurs. Sleestaks. A family lost in time. The special effects were breathtaking — if you were seven. Looking back now is a different experience entirely.
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The Muppet Show
1976
Kermit trying to keep it together. Miss Piggy refusing to accept reality. Statler and Waldorf heckling from the balcony. It was a masterpiece and everyone knew it.
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Isis & Shazam
1975
Before superhero movies ruled Hollywood, Saturday morning was the only place you got them — and Isis and Shazam were the crown jewels of the 1975 lineup.
What Was on the Eight-Track

Music of the 70s

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Disco
Mid-to-Late 70s
The Bee Gees. Donna Summer. KC and the Sunshine Band. The mirror ball. The polyester. The Saturday Night Fever soundtrack that everyone owned on eight-track.
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Classic Rock Golden Age
Throughout the 70s
Led Zeppelin. Fleetwood Mac. The Eagles. Lynyrd Skynyrd. Aerosmith. Every garage band in America was trying — and mostly failing — to sound like these guys.
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Elton John
Peak 70s icon
The platform boots. The oversized glasses. "Rocket Man." "Crocodile Rock." "Tiny Dancer." The man was on another planet and somehow everyone wanted to go there with him.
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Eight-Track Tapes
Throughout the 70s
The format that changed tracks right in the middle of a song. Every road trip involved the click-clunk of switching tracks. Inconvenient? Absolutely. Nostalgic? Immensely.
The Way Things Were

Life in the 70s

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CB Radios
Mid-70s craze
"Breaker one-nine, this is Rubber Duck..." Every trucker had one. Then every dad had one. Then every kid wanted one. "10-4, good buddy" entered the American vocabulary and never left.
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Star Wars Changes Everything
1977
May 25, 1977. Lines around the block. A galaxy far, far away. Nothing was the same afterward — not movies, not toys, not the imagination of every child on Earth.
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Family Bowling Night
All decade long
Rented shoes. Score kept by hand. The smell of lane wax and hot dogs. Bowling was a legitimate Friday night family activity, and it was genuinely great.
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Station Wagon Road Trips
Every summer
No GPS. A paper map and a dad who refused to ask for directions. Vinyl seats. No AC. Kids in the "way back" with no seatbelts. Somehow everyone survived and still talks about it fondly.
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Pizza Hut was a Destination
Throughout the 70s
The red lamp shades. The salad bar. The Book It! program would come later, but even in the 70s, Pizza Hut felt like an event — not just dinner.
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The County Fair
Every August
Funnel cake. Prize stuffed animals. The Tilt-A-Whirl. The county fair was the social event of the summer, and you spent all year counting down to it.
Sunday Morning Royalty

Comics of the 70s

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Peanuts
The undisputed king
Good grief, Charlie Brown. Snoopy on his doghouse. Linus and his blanket. Lucy pulling the football. The 70s Sunday paper wasn't complete without it.
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Beetle Bailey
Military humor for civilians
Private Bailey sleeping through everything while Sergeant Snorkel turned red. A strip your grandfather and your dad both found funny for completely different reasons.
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Blondie
Still going strong
Dagwood's legendary sandwiches. Blondie's patience. The boss Mr. Dithers. A strip that had been running since 1930 and somehow never got old.
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Garfield Arrives
1978
June 19, 1978. A fat, lazy, lasagna-obsessed orange cat debuted and immediately became the most relatable cartoon character in American history. We were never the same.
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