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Post by ChrisB on Sept 20, 2015 23:15:44 GMT
Folks tend only to recall the good memories.
There are some exceptions (see my contribution re. prawn cocktail, brown and orange sofas, etc!)
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Post by stanleyb on Sept 21, 2015 6:26:58 GMT
I don't understand this love of nostalgia and certainly wouldn't want to return to the 70's! It all depends on one's personal experiences. I had some great times in that period amongst many bad and dangerous ones as well. But the good ones were worth living for. The most memorable one was when my classmates decided to organize an orgy for me as a birthday party. I still have a grin on my face about that one all these decades later. |
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Post by julesd68 on Sept 21, 2015 8:45:24 GMT
Folks tend only to recall the good memories. There are some exceptions (see my contribution re. prawn cocktail, brown and orange sofas, etc!) Prawn cocktail with marie-rose sauce is still a firm favourite in our house! I consider it to be one of the culinary triumphs of the 70's, along with Boeuf Bourguignon, Coq au Vin, Turbot with Hollandaise sauce and Creme Brulee... I used to go to a restaurant in Rye that only served old-school classics like this, in equally retro surroundings... They even did Chateaubriand and flambe dessert by your table. Sadly the restaurant is no more but many happy memories... |
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Post by stanleyb on Sept 21, 2015 9:31:25 GMT
No doubt washed down with some Blue Nun.
I still remember the actress who starred in those commercials, who sadly committed suicide at a very young age.
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Post by Slinger on Sept 21, 2015 17:00:10 GMT
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Post by julesd68 on Sept 21, 2015 18:29:08 GMT
No doubt washed down with some Blue Nun. No chance, the wine list was more contemporary thankfully ... |
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Post by speedysteve on Sept 22, 2015 6:14:50 GMT
I don't understand this love of nostalgia and certainly wouldn't want to return to the 70's! For me, it's more looking back and shaking ones head at how rubbish everything seemed back then. Must be the same for every generation that has ever lived. Perhaps the pace of technology and speed of fashion changes - like decor - wood chip, brown and oranges and bathroom suite colours, make it all the more vivid for us? Here's one for you - Evel Knievel  |
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Post by ynwan on Sept 22, 2015 6:22:33 GMT
I don't have any issues with the 70's, I remember them well. I just don't have any inclination to revisit the past (or reinvent it in my mind as some kind of golden Utopia).
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Post by ChrisB on Sept 22, 2015 7:40:24 GMT
It was the experiences I had in the 70s which have been most memorable for me rather than the things around me or the sometimes somewhat remote seeming events in the world beyond my immediate vicinity.
I spent a few years in the middle of the decade living in a fairly remote community in Central Africa - no phones, no TV, make your own entertainment, short school hours (finish at midday!), swimming pool for most of the afternoon. Sundowners at someone's house most nights with the most incredible sunsets over Lake Kariba and a braai (barbecue) two or three times a week. Disappearing off into the bush with friends for hours on end - great fun for us and probably terrifying for our parents! Fishing for Tiger Fish in the Zambezi on Sunday mornings, going to work with my dad on Saturday mornings to see a how a huge hydro electric scheme had moved on since last week.
Good times for a kid!
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Post by MartinT on Sept 23, 2015 11:08:41 GMT
My biggest experience and one which stays with me was going by ship (M/V Fairsky) via Africa to Australia, living and going to school in Oakleigh, Melbourne, then returning later that year via Panama on another ship, the RHMS Ellinis. My parents had intended to stay but my father couldn't get work. What a fantastic year that was for me!
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Post by MikeMusic on Sept 23, 2015 11:58:16 GMT
Their loss was our gain I think |
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Post by MartinT on Sept 23, 2015 12:42:58 GMT
Hah! Not everyone would agree with you...
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Post by MartinT on Sept 23, 2015 12:53:37 GMT
My biggest experience and one which stays with me was going by ship (M/V Fairsky) via Africa to Australia, living and going to school in Oakleigh, Melbourne, then returning later that year via Panama on another ship, the RHMS Ellinis. My parents had intended to stay but my father couldn't get work. What a fantastic year that was for me! (12,500 tonnes)  RHMS Ellinis (18,100 tonnes)  These two proper ocean liners gave me my lifelong love of beautiful ships plying scheduled services from Southampton (but not the hideous cruise liners of nowadays). How I wish I could travel them again, but they are long gone. |
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Post by MikeMusic on Sept 23, 2015 14:16:48 GMT
If my memory was better I'd remember the one we came back from Malaya on
Scrapped decades ago I bet
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Post by Deleted on Sept 23, 2015 15:28:02 GMT
Most blokes im guessing are in their late 40's/Early 50's so are most likley to remember the good things about the 70's totally oblivious to the crap mum & dad's were living thru.
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Post by MartinT on Sept 23, 2015 15:30:09 GMT
I was young, Andr'e, but I don't remember the 1970s through rose tinted specs. They were mostly crap.
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Post by shane on Sept 23, 2015 21:29:37 GMT
Two reasons to go back. Firstly to stump up the £850 that my brtother's mate wanted for his E-Type, which for some reason we stored in our garage for a year or so:  Secondly to see all the bands I missed at the Van Dike in Plymouth. Imagine a medium sized church hall in the back end of Devonport, with a bar at one end and a small stage in the other, capacity probably about 300 hippie types. Every month or so they handede out flyers listing forthcoming attractions. Read these and weep: www.thepippin.plus.com/Van%20Dike%20handbills/ |
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Post by Slinger on Sept 23, 2015 22:09:29 GMT
The seventies took me from 16 years of age to 25. They were good years for me.
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Post by MartinT on Sept 24, 2015 10:30:34 GMT
Wow, I just read the first one. Bloody hell! |
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Post by ChrisB on Sept 24, 2015 10:57:50 GMT
Yes, makes you sick!
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