My Catch-up List - 1970s/ early 80s

Cultural Connections

I'm always intrigued by life before I was born, especially in my parents era. These people that I've known my whole life had 30+ years of life before me that I don't know much about and it's kinda weird to think about. I created a cultural catch-up list from their era, the 1970s. I asked my parents specifically what they remembered about growing up, but also resorted to the internet to fill in any gaps. Here's what I got caught up on:

MOVIES:

- Cheech and Chong

- Benji

- Rambo

- Animal house

- Caddyshack

- National lampoons vacation

- Monty python

- Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

- Jaws

- Star wars

- Grease

TV:

- Carol Burnette

- Brady bunch

- Gilligan's Island

- Love boat

- Gun smoke

- Little house on the prairie

- The Walton's

- All in the family

- Charlie's Angels

BOOKS:

- Charlotte's Web

- Little House on the Prairie

- Stephen King wrote first book

MUSIC:

- Bee Gees

- Village people

- Elton John

- REO Speedwagon

- Journey

- Styx’s - Bob Seger

- Tom petty and the Heartbreakers

- Rolling Stones

- Marvin Gaye

- The Beatles broke up

- Fleetwood Mac

- David Bowie

- Elvis presley dies

HISTORY

- Americans protested Vietnam War

- Women/Blacks/Gay/Lesbians fighting for equality

- Watergate Scandal

- Richard Nixon impeachment

SPORTS/ACTIVITIES

- Yoga

- Raquetball

- Roller disco parties

- Waiting for the phone that was attached to the wall

- Playing Simon

- Waiting for Saturday morning cartoons

- Bruce Jenner became Olympic icon

- Carrying metal lunchboxes

STYLE

- short shorts and tube socks

- bowl hair cuts

- bell bottom pants

- tie dye

- bandanas and whatever type of necklaces these are? (Please enjoy this photo of my dad on the left at a Grateful Dead concert)

AUTOMOBILES

- Apparently cars that looked like this (taken from my mom's Instagram)

- Station wagons with wood trim

TECHNOLOGY

- Wall phones

- Type writers

- Polaroids

NEWS:

- Ted Bundy first arrest

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Now that I've had some conversations and created this list, I feel a little more culturally aware of what life was like when my parents were my age!