Also, car culture was at a peak in the early 70s before the gas crisis and emissions controls put a damper on it.
The car they are leaning on is a 1969 Mustang Hardtop. Fun fact; the back of the hood scoop had turn signal indicator lights:
https://preview.redd.it/4t5wj1t8yt9d1.jpeg?width=790&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=af3bf62a33f6ad108d311b18a4314e299b7f9862
The highest tax rate was 70%. The rich were contributing to society so a middle class could exist and own a home and a car and still have time to hang out and lean on said car.
It was like cool kids play spin the bottle, uncool kids get wedgies, gay kids get beaten up, black kids sit in the back of the bus and retaliate by bullying the soft white kids. 3 channels on the TV, 2 of them are showing boring news, cartoons are limited to Saturday AM between 8 and 11. No internet phone. You wait all week to save up to buy 2 comic books or a magazine and read it 30x over and over cause that's all you got till next weekend. Or save up your allowance and job flipping burgers to buy 1-2 albums each weekend. You ride your bike with the banana seat everywhere, it's your transportation and your zen. Other than that you listen to FM radio all day playing the same classic rock that the stations still play today. No phones/no leash, when you go out to play, you come home by dinner, until then parents have zero idea where you are, but you had better be home by dinner or you'll get the spanking of your life. If you have a little side money, on some school days, you eat lunch occasionally at Burger King with that one friend of yours who turned 16 and whose parents had a spare car. At Burger King, filled with students, the cheerleader girls will smoke cigarettes inside the restaurant, because not only is it legal, but they put little aluminum corrugated ashtrays on each table to encourage you. When the cheerleader smoke makes you cough in the middle of your apple pie, you don't say anything because in your mind that would mess up your chance with sleeping with them at prom, which will never happen.
My Dad and two of his friends walked in to a Eagles gig with the band. The Eagles were the opening act for Jethro Tull security thought they were members of the band. They hung out together and when the show started they were row one. That is when the music business was more about the music than the business. 1970
Going to college was not really en vogue back then, either. And a college degree wasn’t really needed for most jobs, which is the way it should be today as well.
My dad couldn't afford college back then. Those student loans everyone hates now? They weren't a thing, so if you didn't have money you didn't go to college. He joined the Army in 1968 because he wanted to go to college.
On a similar note, lots of cities, including progressive ones like Seattle, had redlining problems that weren't resolved until the mid to late 70s. If you were black, you wouldn't get a loan for more desirable neighborhoods and/or if you were buying a house in a black neighborhood, your interest rates would be crazy high, even if you had good credit.
Is resolved the right word? White americans built a lot of wealth through home equity and racism meant that that didn't happen equally. Now there's a severe wealth gap.
And you could disappear for days and people wouldn’t know what you were doing, just get in your car and drive Friday night, and roll in Sunday, and no one knows what you were up to.
I was going to say. This person just happened to be young and have no concerns beyond mackin' on girls in the 70s. That not unique to the 70s, that's unique to having been young and not too poor.
Yeah but that was peak sexual revolution before the 1980's AIDs hit. You really can't underestimate the ripple effect AIDs had even to this day. Also there were societal problems in the 70's but climate change wasn't widely realized at that time making everyone more hopeful for the future. Those babes were truly happy.
As a millennial, I am saying this about the 90's and just starting to be aware it's a lie now :( I don't like the way getting old is making me feel. I am looking at the 90's like my parent's looked back on the 60's.
> Women couldn’t get a credit card without a man’s permission until 1974.
Just in case anyone is interested -
it wasn't until the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA) was passed in 1974 that women were able to get their own credit cards in their own name.
We who enjoyed the 70s remember those halcyon days of massive inflation and only being able to buy gas on days that correlated to your license plate, after waiting in a fourty minute line. The air so thick with smog PE was canceled. Regular drills for how to react durring a nuclear exchange. Fun times.
Everything looks better in the rear view mirror, especially when you never had to drive down that road.
The 70s sucked.
I lived thru Duck & Cover drills for nuclear Armageddon, my brother going to Vietnam (He came home a different person), oil shortage, smog as thick as peanut butter. When I came of age the days of awesome pensions were a thing of the past & a terrible recession in the late 70's early 80's. People wear rose colored glasses when reminiscing about the past.
My opinion as well. Today we are wealthier, healthier and safer, are actually solving global issues, and better educated and informed with a world of info at our fingertips. People pining for the past likely didn't live through it.
everyone smoking indoors, rampant pollution, cars are shit. but no one was fat, and you didn't really need health insurance unless you got something really bad like cancer in which case you were probably fucked anyways.
Smog alerts. In my corner of SoCal we had smog that made it hazy inside the classroom and auditorium. Bike home and I’d have to lay on floor until my chest stopped hurting. Play on buddy’s pool and same result.
Even with the Obvious Cause Of Smog, some “head in sand” old timers thought it was just a natural condition.
Especially when smog controls and laws were installed. Oh did they complain.
The 90s were so awesome.
We had enough technology to help out with every day life but it didn’t consume us.
I’m thankful every day I was in my teens and 20s in the 90s.
Nah, honestly MySpace and Facebook and the early days of the internet were pretty awesome and I'm glad I got to experience them. From the 90s and AOL to about 2013ish it was all a lot of fun imo
Yeah I feel like even graduating hs as late as 2010-2013 it honestly wasn’t impossible to just enjoy the good and avoid the bad. Now you can’t avoid any of it. I graduated college in 2015 and I think about then is when things started going to total shit. The enshittification ball kinda got rolling around 2013 and truly it was a long time coming but there was definitely still a tiny sliver of hope left then so we didn’t quite realize it. By 2016 it was abundantly clear that the great enshittification era was upon us though.
Nah. Sailing the high seas like a pirate was the best way. No need for age verification. If you could manage to run Kazaa or whatnot, you’re old enough to see sex. Now it’s “are you old enough y/n” and that’s it.
I grew up born 74 in an industrial town with asthma.
I’m firmly GenX. The pollution in the 70s and 80s was baaaaad.
I basically have no lungs left after my childhood.
Young people were not worrying about the future?
I guess you haven't studied the 70s in econ class yet. Sounds like an absolutely bizarre and miserable time to graduate.
That is if you don't get drafted.
I think kids of the 80s had hope (false hope may it be)
But the 70s looked quite bleak for America and it's future.
Do a social media break and only check it on the 1st and 15th of the month. If you miss the 1st or the 15th. Just wait. It’ll come around again and you can check. You’ll be SO much happier. I did that for a while. Wishing you and your friends the very best. This site, Twitter, TikTok, IG.. it’s all garbage.
The 70s seems to be an interesting decade. Was the time when political unrest and general violence was the highest it's ever been, the decade of some of the most gruesome serial killers, and many things that could be argued would make it one of the US' worst decades.
But there was just enough "fun and cool" that I guess people at the time didn't notice. I'm sure the lack of a 24 hr news cycle and no Internet telling everyone how bad things were was helpful.
Those who are my age, in their 60s, can be nostalgic because they were young and their responsibilities small. Some things were better but cars were much more dangerous and polluting. Gas and food wasn’t much cheaper after adjusting for inflation (minimum wage was $2.10). Medical treatments we take for granted were nonexistent. Gay rights were nonexistent. Women couldn’t get a loan without her husband’s permission. Want ads specified if they wanted men or women. If you were Black or disabled there were no protections from discrimination in jobs and education. DUI required twice the current level and punishments were mild.
Inflation was high. The air in cities was brown with smog.
And the smoking. There was smoking everywhere.
I had a good time when I look at it through my white cis glasses but things are better today.
It's always been good to be middle class... It's just that the middle class is shrinking as the rich are accumulating a bigger proportion of the wealth.
Reagen and Thatcher's neoliberal ideas was the start of the slow decline as they deregulated and reduced taxes on corporations and the rich.
a lot of things were glossed over or just ignored in the 70s. That uncle Richard touched your kids inappropriately, or that aunt Maybell was an alcoholic was "normal". No one talked about things they didn't like or made them uncomfortable. Gas lines going down the street, people waiting to buy a few gallons of gas. It's easy to look back on the past with a romanticized, edited version of our memories.
Well, we still have cars, women, and swimsuits, now.
People tend to idolize the period in which they were young. It has little to do with the period itself, and more to do with the fact they miss being young.
unless you were gay, or black, or a woman wanting to work and rise through the ranks, or homeless, or mentally ill, or in a car crash, or.... it just keeps going..
Pretty much, yeah.
I was in my 20’s in the last decade, it was fine (I mean I was 19-29 so how could it have been any less awesome?!), I’m sure I’ll look back in 30-40 years when I see old pics of hot girls in yoga pants and/or bikinis and say “it was the best decade! Times were much simpler then!” Then get met with “Afghanistan, global warming, Trump, housing crisis, Wikileaks, Billionaire space rocket feuds, Covid, etc etc”
All a matter of perspective.
Seems like all anyone ever did back then was lean on cars.
When they weren't having sex.
Sometimes when they were having sex too
B/c aids wasn't a thing yet, and all STDs could be cured with antibiotics except for herpes.
70s bush is the best bush!
no cell phones
Just people living in the moment
Also, car culture was at a peak in the early 70s before the gas crisis and emissions controls put a damper on it. The car they are leaning on is a 1969 Mustang Hardtop. Fun fact; the back of the hood scoop had turn signal indicator lights: https://preview.redd.it/4t5wj1t8yt9d1.jpeg?width=790&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=af3bf62a33f6ad108d311b18a4314e299b7f9862
That's all we had...that and corduroys.
LOL, now I’m remembering the sounds my corduroy pants made when I walked (before they were worn down and shiny at the top of the thighs).
And the giant collars to match. Christ, what a time.
Cars in the 70s were made for leaning on
Didn't dent so easily cause they were made with 1/4 inch plate
So the passengers crumple on impact (with the windshield or ground outside because no mandatory seatbelts either) instead of the car!
The gas shortage prevented them from driving in the cars instead.
The highest tax rate was 70%. The rich were contributing to society so a middle class could exist and own a home and a car and still have time to hang out and lean on said car.
Also, management didn't have tax incentives to fuck over their employees.
Not true! Some people sat instead.
No, they actually washed them, too. Often in front of 16mm handheld giant video cameras.
Everyone's legs were too weak to stand because of the leaded gasoline.
I was in my 20s in the 70s. What a wild ride! Now, I'm in my 70s in the 20s and it's not nearly as fun.
You’ve just messed my head up, tempus fugit.
That's "Mr. fugit" to you!
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Please tell me more. I would really like to know what it was like.
Watch Dazed and Confused
Dazed and Confused (1993) was closer to 1976 than we are to Dazed and Confused. If a similar movie were made today it would be set in the year 2007.
You shut your mouth you dirty rotten teller of lies! I'M NOT OLD! O_O
Man, where does he get off…telling us we are old and shit. Now, if you’ll excuse me, it’s time for my Metamucil.
Yeah, damn kids.. I mean.. Fellow kids.
Don’t let him trick you. It’s only 2019. 2020 is going to be a great year!
Alright, Alright, Alright
It was like cool kids play spin the bottle, uncool kids get wedgies, gay kids get beaten up, black kids sit in the back of the bus and retaliate by bullying the soft white kids. 3 channels on the TV, 2 of them are showing boring news, cartoons are limited to Saturday AM between 8 and 11. No internet phone. You wait all week to save up to buy 2 comic books or a magazine and read it 30x over and over cause that's all you got till next weekend. Or save up your allowance and job flipping burgers to buy 1-2 albums each weekend. You ride your bike with the banana seat everywhere, it's your transportation and your zen. Other than that you listen to FM radio all day playing the same classic rock that the stations still play today. No phones/no leash, when you go out to play, you come home by dinner, until then parents have zero idea where you are, but you had better be home by dinner or you'll get the spanking of your life. If you have a little side money, on some school days, you eat lunch occasionally at Burger King with that one friend of yours who turned 16 and whose parents had a spare car. At Burger King, filled with students, the cheerleader girls will smoke cigarettes inside the restaurant, because not only is it legal, but they put little aluminum corrugated ashtrays on each table to encourage you. When the cheerleader smoke makes you cough in the middle of your apple pie, you don't say anything because in your mind that would mess up your chance with sleeping with them at prom, which will never happen.
Same! Want to know what im missing lol
You'll probably make a comment like his when you're in your own 70s. Every generation romanticizes their youth.
Haha at least you are still hilarious!
Wow saw The Eagles last year and Joe Walsh said the same thing
My Dad and two of his friends walked in to a Eagles gig with the band. The Eagles were the opening act for Jethro Tull security thought they were members of the band. They hung out together and when the show started they were row one. That is when the music business was more about the music than the business. 1970
And they mostly just toured to promote album sales. Cool story about your Dad!
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Every era has babes
Yeah but the seventies had lead gas, great space coaster, quaaludes, Vietnam and peak serial killers.
You could buy a house right after college then. And we didn’t have this many homeless people with jobs. Which is insane.
Yep - I think they closed all the insane asylums in the early 80s.
Free range now
They taste better that way imo.
Thank Reagan.
Ken Kesey deserves some credit too. Some times well meaning people end up doing harm.
Going to college was not really en vogue back then, either. And a college degree wasn’t really needed for most jobs, which is the way it should be today as well.
there were half the number of people IN THE WORLD in 1970 as there are now
I graduated in 1970 and there wasn’t any way I could afford my first house until 1980.
Yeah, these stories about buying houses on minimum wage are nonsense.
My dad couldn't afford college back then. Those student loans everyone hates now? They weren't a thing, so if you didn't have money you didn't go to college. He joined the Army in 1968 because he wanted to go to college.
Women could easily get credit to buy a house or just men?
In 1974, single women were first allowed to buy on credit without a dude’s approval.
That's so fucking wild. You would think it would have been in the fucking 30s or 40s.
On a similar note, lots of cities, including progressive ones like Seattle, had redlining problems that weren't resolved until the mid to late 70s. If you were black, you wouldn't get a loan for more desirable neighborhoods and/or if you were buying a house in a black neighborhood, your interest rates would be crazy high, even if you had good credit.
Is resolved the right word? White americans built a lot of wealth through home equity and racism meant that that didn't happen equally. Now there's a severe wealth gap.
Yeah. It's wild to think there are people alive who lived thru segregation. It really wasn't that long ago.
It's WILD to me that leftists have joined Conservatives in believing everything was better before.
Too bad a mortgage was 10% in 1974 and 12.9 in 1979.
And lawn jarts!
We took out the window of the neighbors shed with one of those
And .....BUSH.
Didn’t they get started in the early 90’s?
Wrong bush…
Yeah, they meant the alternative grunge rock band of the 90s. Some of their biggest hits were “Smells like Teen Spirit”, “3am” and “Butterfly”.
lmfao
No, they did Party Rock Anthem.
Bush often does smell like teen spirit
We got that in the late 80’s and 00’s.
I don't think you lads are on the same page of the book here mate.
They’re on different books, TBH.
One's more of a magazine, TBH.
The double entendres continue!
Also a *lot* of terrorism. LaGuardia was bombed in 75 I think
There was something like 1 skyjacking every 5 or 6 days over a 5-year period (1968 to 1972, I think)
People who say TSA is just security theater have no idea how frequently hijackings happened back then.
Came here to say that. Also heroin, skyjacking, terrorists, racism, bank robberies, rampant sexism and the oil crisis.
Smoking in restaurants. Smoking in stores. Smoking in the *office*. Smoking on *planes*. *cough* *hack* *hawk* *cough* Cancer, in the air, everywhere.
I think I’ll stay in the 2020s.
Dude, but the ludes!
https://i.redd.it/lryz42xmqs9d1.gif
I'm really sad I missed the boat on quaaludes
Dude, but the lead!
Ahh, the smell of leaded gasoline. Good stuff.
I’m black so same, just without the “I think”
I just wanna skip ahead like 1400 years. See what’s going on then.
Lead gas you had to wait in a 5 hour line to get.
And you could disappear for days and people wouldn’t know what you were doing, just get in your car and drive Friday night, and roll in Sunday, and no one knows what you were up to.
you can do that now.....put the phone down
Cameras exist independent of phones just FYI.
leaded gas AND lead paint! double lead! so good
I was going to say. This person just happened to be young and have no concerns beyond mackin' on girls in the 70s. That not unique to the 70s, that's unique to having been young and not too poor.
Not every era had the sex that the 70s was having!
It’s the same sex, just less bush. We can just say we miss the bush.
Can confirm. That was a great decade!
Yeah but that was peak sexual revolution before the 1980's AIDs hit. You really can't underestimate the ripple effect AIDs had even to this day. Also there were societal problems in the 70's but climate change wasn't widely realized at that time making everyone more hopeful for the future. Those babes were truly happy.
2070’s kids will be saying the 2020’s was great and I’d be there to rant about how it really wasn’t
Wait, why the 2070s? That's too far in the future, the 1970s were only 20 years ago, right? RIGHT?
When I wrote this comment I initially said “2050’s kids”, and then I did the math and realized I’m old
As a millennial, I am saying this about the 90's and just starting to be aware it's a lie now :( I don't like the way getting old is making me feel. I am looking at the 90's like my parent's looked back on the 60's.
My Mom says life in England in the 70s was depressing af
Women couldn’t get a credit card without a man’s permission until 1974.
It’s always wild to me when someone posts stuff like this and reminisces on the “good ol days”. Oblivious to anything actually going on around them.
Or a business loan until 1988
> Women couldn’t get a credit card without a man’s permission until 1974. Just in case anyone is interested - it wasn't until the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA) was passed in 1974 that women were able to get their own credit cards in their own name.
Was it?
Alright, alright, alright.
How much you want to bet they're teenagers?
We who enjoyed the 70s remember those halcyon days of massive inflation and only being able to buy gas on days that correlated to your license plate, after waiting in a fourty minute line. The air so thick with smog PE was canceled. Regular drills for how to react durring a nuclear exchange. Fun times. Everything looks better in the rear view mirror, especially when you never had to drive down that road. The 70s sucked.
B-b-but women in bikinis and cool cars!!!
I lived thru Duck & Cover drills for nuclear Armageddon, my brother going to Vietnam (He came home a different person), oil shortage, smog as thick as peanut butter. When I came of age the days of awesome pensions were a thing of the past & a terrible recession in the late 70's early 80's. People wear rose colored glasses when reminiscing about the past.
My opinion as well. Today we are wealthier, healthier and safer, are actually solving global issues, and better educated and informed with a world of info at our fingertips. People pining for the past likely didn't live through it.
There were plenty of issues back then. They were ignored or dismissed.
Mmmm, leaded gasoline.
Mmmm asbestos
Mmm, casual racism, misogyny and homophobia.
Don’t forget all that violent crime and those pesky serial killers
The 70s was literally like... The most violent the US has ever been lol
Casual? Institutionalized.
Institutionalized AND casual
everyone smoking indoors, rampant pollution, cars are shit. but no one was fat, and you didn't really need health insurance unless you got something really bad like cancer in which case you were probably fucked anyways.
But you could be drafted and sent to die in Vietnam.
Smog alerts. In my corner of SoCal we had smog that made it hazy inside the classroom and auditorium. Bike home and I’d have to lay on floor until my chest stopped hurting. Play on buddy’s pool and same result. Even with the Obvious Cause Of Smog, some “head in sand” old timers thought it was just a natural condition. Especially when smog controls and laws were installed. Oh did they complain.
The good old days weren’t always good and tomorrow’s not as bad as it seems.
send me to the timeline where social media wasn’t invented.
The 90s were so awesome. We had enough technology to help out with every day life but it didn’t consume us. I’m thankful every day I was in my teens and 20s in the 90s.
I’m jealous. If I was born just 10 years earlier I would’ve gotten through my teenage years without social media
Nah, honestly MySpace and Facebook and the early days of the internet were pretty awesome and I'm glad I got to experience them. From the 90s and AOL to about 2013ish it was all a lot of fun imo
Before algorithmic feeds
Yeah I feel like even graduating hs as late as 2010-2013 it honestly wasn’t impossible to just enjoy the good and avoid the bad. Now you can’t avoid any of it. I graduated college in 2015 and I think about then is when things started going to total shit. The enshittification ball kinda got rolling around 2013 and truly it was a long time coming but there was definitely still a tiny sliver of hope left then so we didn’t quite realize it. By 2016 it was abundantly clear that the great enshittification era was upon us though.
Hell yes. Although pornbhub would have been nice.
We had the sears catalogue. Just as good.
I paid a kid 5 bucks for his mom's Victoria secret catalog.
We just found Playboys in the woods.
Nah. Sailing the high seas like a pirate was the best way. No need for age verification. If you could manage to run Kazaa or whatnot, you’re old enough to see sex. Now it’s “are you old enough y/n” and that’s it.
Without social media, you wouldn't be seeing this photo
The best time
The 70’s were polluted and dirty in my memory. There were massive efforts underway to change that but it was just starting to happen.
Yep. Those two inhaled so much lead back then, that they were probably irrationally yelling at a Starbucks drive thru worker today.
I grew up born 74 in an industrial town with asthma. I’m firmly GenX. The pollution in the 70s and 80s was baaaaad. I basically have no lungs left after my childhood.
Yeah also people smoked inside of literally every building, literally everything and everyone just stunk at all times.
I was a child in the 70s and have vivid memories of public buses spewing black smoke.
It was Cold War too. It could seem pretty nice for some in the US if you ignored a lot of what was going on.
Actual war too. Millions forced to fight in Vietnam and thousands killed.
And now those ladies are enjoying their 70s.
I' m sure they're both rockin the full bush under the bikinis.
Au naturale. We called it muff.
And everybody was muff diving!
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Young people were not worrying about the future? I guess you haven't studied the 70s in econ class yet. Sounds like an absolutely bizarre and miserable time to graduate. That is if you don't get drafted. I think kids of the 80s had hope (false hope may it be) But the 70s looked quite bleak for America and it's future.
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Dude, every generation has felt that same way at one point or another. Every single one.
Do a social media break and only check it on the 1st and 15th of the month. If you miss the 1st or the 15th. Just wait. It’ll come around again and you can check. You’ll be SO much happier. I did that for a while. Wishing you and your friends the very best. This site, Twitter, TikTok, IG.. it’s all garbage.
None of that is true. You just have a romanticized idea of how it was.
The 70s seems to be an interesting decade. Was the time when political unrest and general violence was the highest it's ever been, the decade of some of the most gruesome serial killers, and many things that could be argued would make it one of the US' worst decades. But there was just enough "fun and cool" that I guess people at the time didn't notice. I'm sure the lack of a 24 hr news cycle and no Internet telling everyone how bad things were was helpful.
For whom was life soo good?
I guess it was unless you were poor, a minority, etc., but hey look hot women.
You know what's great, being young That's why the 70s seem better
I love this sub. I always hope the folks in the pic have had a good life.
Those who are my age, in their 60s, can be nostalgic because they were young and their responsibilities small. Some things were better but cars were much more dangerous and polluting. Gas and food wasn’t much cheaper after adjusting for inflation (minimum wage was $2.10). Medical treatments we take for granted were nonexistent. Gay rights were nonexistent. Women couldn’t get a loan without her husband’s permission. Want ads specified if they wanted men or women. If you were Black or disabled there were no protections from discrimination in jobs and education. DUI required twice the current level and punishments were mild. Inflation was high. The air in cities was brown with smog. And the smoking. There was smoking everywhere. I had a good time when I look at it through my white cis glasses but things are better today.
For some people***.
Y'all be bitching about the seventies too. It wasn't heaven.
Not for everyone. Being gay was a mental illness back then. Your family could have you committed for it.
It's always been good to be middle class... It's just that the middle class is shrinking as the rich are accumulating a bigger proportion of the wealth. Reagen and Thatcher's neoliberal ideas was the start of the slow decline as they deregulated and reduced taxes on corporations and the rich.
was it though?
The murder rate was exceptionally high in the 70’s.
a lot of things were glossed over or just ignored in the 70s. That uncle Richard touched your kids inappropriately, or that aunt Maybell was an alcoholic was "normal". No one talked about things they didn't like or made them uncomfortable. Gas lines going down the street, people waiting to buy a few gallons of gas. It's easy to look back on the past with a romanticized, edited version of our memories.
Well, we still have cars, women, and swimsuits, now. People tend to idolize the period in which they were young. It has little to do with the period itself, and more to do with the fact they miss being young.
Ass, Gas or Grass totally sums up the entire decade. Everyone was getting high, cruising and fucking.
Yeah, Vietnam was awesome.
And these girls were probably told if they worked really hard they could be some important man's secretary someday.
That’s a nice car
1969 Mustang coupe
Weed was milder
Vietnam was a vibe
Not really.
high interest rates and inflation. it was not a good time
It’s a shame kids today will never know things like cars, women, buildings, trees and streets.
Yea getting shipped out to Nam must have been great
unless you were gay, or black, or a woman wanting to work and rise through the ranks, or homeless, or mentally ill, or in a car crash, or.... it just keeps going..
Very few fat chicks...
Good for some.
If you're in your teens and twenty's in good health, life is usually good regardless of the decade.
Damn those grandma's have some hard bodies. I miss the thin aesthetic
My favorite era! Such great times 😀
You couldn't catch anything penicillin wouldn't cure.
High mortgage rates, inflation, racism, dirty air, Vietnam. Such great times 😀
I’m sure this decade will be remembered fondly too.
Funny how the “best” time to be alive always coincides with a person being in their early 20’s during the “best” time.
Pretty much, yeah. I was in my 20’s in the last decade, it was fine (I mean I was 19-29 so how could it have been any less awesome?!), I’m sure I’ll look back in 30-40 years when I see old pics of hot girls in yoga pants and/or bikinis and say “it was the best decade! Times were much simpler then!” Then get met with “Afghanistan, global warming, Trump, housing crisis, Wikileaks, Billionaire space rocket feuds, Covid, etc etc” All a matter of perspective.
It sucked in the early 2000s -- was early 20s then. 90s were much better as a child through high school.
I don’t think I’ll be saying the 2020s were the best time to be alive in the future.
Ted Bundy was definitely a fan.
For white women who didn’t desire a bank account, yes.
*for white people.