I loved growing up in the 70’s! It is by far my favorite decade. I was raised by a single mother living in a small town in northwest Oklahoma.
Much of the time my sister and I had a huge amount of freedom. My friends and I would ride bikes all over town with not one parent knowing where we were. We’d skip meals just to hang out longer.
Most of the time you headed home when the street lights came on but as we grew older that’s when things got started. We definitely spent most of our time outdoors running and playing games.
Spending the night with friends was always an adventure. Whether we were sneaking out or just doing goofy stuff it was always fun. In the summer we’d go a week in a row spending the night at different houses.
Here my favorite memories of growing up in the 1970’s. These did not take long to come up with so I might add to the list later. If you grew up in the 70s let me know what your favorite memories are.
FAVORITE 70s MEMORIES
1. Jumping on my best friends trampoline
2. Catching tadpoles in Boggy Creek
3. Watching Saturday morning cartoons
4. Sneaking Space Food Sticks between meals
5. Dodgeball! Anytime, anywhere.
6. Recording Dr. Demento on Sunday night
7. Walking down the railroad tracks on the rails
8. Shopping pawn shops for comic books
9. Riding bikes across town without parents knowing
10. Going to see Disney movies in the afternoon
11. Buying Sixlets and Jolly Ranchers
12. Sliding down hills on cardboard boxes
13. Riding skateboards over wooden ramps
14. Playing hide-n-go-seek games after dark
15. Recording goofy skits on cassette tapes
16. Drinking cold water out of the garden hose
17. Stopping for a Dr. Pepper with good ice
18. Building scary box mazes at Halloween
19. Catching box turtles and racing them
20. Watching Charlie Brown holiday specials
21. Creating marble roller coasters out of Hot Wheels track
22. Chewing Bazooka gum and reading the comic
23. Listening to the Fleetwood Mac Rumours album
24. Watching Happy Days sitcom on TV
25. Collecting Farrah Fawcett posters and pictures
26. Trading and selling comic books with friends
27. Learning tricks and putting on magic shows
28. Doing wheelies on banana seat bikes
29. Exploring drainage tunnels under the neighborhood
30. Seeing Phantasm for the first time
31. Listening to Kansas albums with headphones on
32. Getting to see Evel Knievel jumps on TV
33. Muhammed Ali boxing matches on TV
34. Taking trips to Six Flags in TX and MO
35. Staying up to watch Monty Python on Saturday nights
36. Catching pennies dropped from our elbow
37. Wearing cut off shorts, tube socks and a half shirt
38. Reading the Sunday funnies in the newspaper
39. Playing Murder In The Dark in a basement
40. Sewing my own puppets to perform puppet shows
41. Getting a new pair of Tracks running shoes
42. Spending the night with friends and not sleeping
43. Watching Saturday Night Live and reciting funny lines
44. Building HO scale train sets in my walk-in closet
45. Sticking my head out of the car window
46. Reading Mad Magazine and folding the back page
47. Clunking Clackers and smashing fingers
48. Playing in the sprinkler in the grass
49. Torturing our GI Joes
50. Hanging black light posters in my room
51. Listening to cicadas in the hot summer
52. Catching fire flies and putting them in jars
53. Spending an afternoon on a roof then jumping off
54. Making goofy movies with an 8mm camera
55. Making homemade rice crispy treats
56. Watching Elvis movies late on the weekends
57. Feathering my bangs and parting my hair
58. Sleeping with a box fan in the window
59. Making paper airplanes and keeping them in the air
60. Taking trip and sleeping on the hump in the car
61. Eating Zingers while watching the Banana Splits
62. Watching TV all day when home from school sick
63. Playing Kill The Man With The Ball
64. Shopping with Green Stamps after licking them
65. Decorating the Christmas tree with icicles
66. Shooting Roman Candles at each other
67. Eating 4-6 bowls of cereal a day out of butter bowls
68. Digging in a cereal box for the prize
69. Eating at the kid table at Thanksgiving
70. Calling into the Boogie Check radio show
71. Building snow forts and throwing snowballs
72. Talking on the phone with girls for hours
73. Pulling pranks on my sister and her friends
74. Raising mice, gerbils, hamsters and guinea pigs
75. Building blanket forts all over the house
76. Running around the neighborhood barefooted
77. Picking out 45 records at Woolco
78. Eating buckets of KFC chicken with family
79. Throwing water balloons at cars
80. Popping Jiffy Pop popcorn on the stove
81. Swinging in a porch swing on a huge porch
82. Spinning friends really fast on the merry-go-round
83. Choosing 11 records and tapes for a penny
84. Telling ghost stories under the street light
85. Collecting pull tabs to make chains
86. Reading The Hobbit and writing a book report
87. Having pine cone and crab apple fights
88. Sitting around a campfire and sleeping in a tent
89. Hiding in the bathroom during tornado warnings
90. Taking trips to the Great Salt Plains
91. Drinking cold pop out of a bottle
92. Playing Frisbee at the park
93. Trick-or-Treating for hours in our neighborhood
94. Sticking my face in the water cooler to cool off
95. Doing can openers off the diving board
96. Standing over the floor furnace to keep warm
97. Finding a random horny toad in a field
98. Eating frozen mini candy bars
99. Going to the park to watch the July 4th fireworks
100. Watching Sonny and Cher on moms bowling night
Living in the 70s. That’s me on the right around 1976-77.
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