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I Love the 70's

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I was born in 1967 and my childhood was in the 70's.  I was a teenager in th 80's and a young adult in the 90's.  I HATED the 90's but the 70's and 80's bring back such fond memories for me. 

I remember living on a street where there seemed to live gazillion kids.  Next door was Elain and Barbara, Across the street Lisa K and next door to her Laura, Sherry, and Dana.  This is in just 4 houses mind you but every house on our street except maybe for two, had at least two children. 

I remember putting a band together with Lisa and Elaine and Barbara.  It was called The Four Tambourines.  I remember wearing my burgundy bellbottom pants with tennis shoes and a white button down shirt with matching Burgundy and red flowers on it and my Dorthy Hamil haircut, sitting in Elain and Barabara's basement having "band practice" and playing Twister all the while eating potato chips.  I remember all the board games.

In my home we had brown shag carpeting in our basement.  My mom was an interior designer and she painted two gorgeous and bright rainbows on our basement walls.  We had a stereo down there and my younger cousin and I used to dance disco and practice the hustle with the albums my father bought me from Corvettes.  I had a great collection. 

Our basement had four bean bags and I used to get mad at my cousin for jumping on them because it would tear them up and all the little white styrofoam balls would fall out of them.  The staircase to go down into the basement was so steep.  And on the other side of the basement my mother had her washer and dryer and an area that was  empty.

My younger brother and I would take KitKats and melt them on our heaters which were in the floor and not those tall ones.  It would melt the chocolate and we would eat them with Doritos.  We thought they were heavenly! 

I have been thinking a lot about those days.  Not sure why  I found a website that gave the most popular songs from those days.  Here is the list:

Top Twenty Songs

Top Twenty Perfomers

Top Twenty Albums

Top Twenty Perfomers

I remember these days with fondness.  Some of this music was popular during the time I left my good ol' U.S.A. for Colombia due to my parents divorce.  I was able to hear this music while there because they had Casey Kassin there.  iThis music made me feel like I was here at home, in the states even though i was an Ocean away.  I remember closing my eyes and pretending I was in my old bed in my old house in Southfield, Michigan and this whole divorce and separation from my happy life was just a dream.  

This music saved me in many ways.

Below are the Top 20 Movies of the 70's

TV Shows of the 70's

All In the Family

The Bob Newhart Show

The Brady Bunch

Chips

Good Times

Happy Days

The Jeffersons

Lavergne and Shirley

M*A*S*H

The Mary Tyler Moore Show

The Muppet Show

The Odd Couple

Love Boat

Fantasy Island

Stanford and Son

Taxi

The Waltons

Welcome Back Kotter

Soap