This is how I remember the '70s

So your friend needed war in order not to be bored @Rakaia. Interesting. Why didn't he just go to Vietnam? I can think of loads of other ways to pass the time.
 
Actually, except in very limited social groups like at communes, rock music circles, and some universities, per video, few counterculture males here in California had such shoulder length long hair until the late 70s into the 80s because such would have affected their working employment. There were always a few people that were in a constant drug stupor like the mumbler in the video one can barely understand. And most of those mixed drugs A to Z with alcohol.

Never been a fan of the significant numbers of people that have little self control with substance abuse, especially alcohol. So my memory of the 70s as a working person at ground zero here in the SFBA has very different views of those years while being aware there were some groups where the person in the video was common.
 
Met my wife and fell in love. Got married. Had the first 2 or our 4 daughters. Bought one house, then sold it and moved to one more out in the country (although civilization quickly caught up and passed us in the following decades). The first house doubled in price from when we bought it in 1973 for $45k, and sold it in 1979 for $90k. Interest rate on our first house mortgage was 7 3/4 percent; 9 1/2 percent on the second house mortgage.
 
David777 said:
Actually, except in very limited social groups like at communes, rock music circles, and some universities, per video, few counterculture males here in California had such shoulder length long hair until the late 70s into the 80s because such would have affected their working employment. There were always a few people that were in a constant drug stupor like the mumbler in the video one can barely understand. And most of those mixed drugs A to Z with alcohol.

Never been a fan of the significant numbers of people that have little self control with substance abuse, especially alcohol. So my memory of the 70s as a working person at ground zero here in the SFBA has very different views of those years while being aware there were some groups where the person in the video was common.
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I never knew anyone..and believe me I knew a lot of people and had a lot of friends.. but I never knew anyone in the 70's who took drugs, in fact barely anyone who drunk to excess.
 
Pepper said:
So your friend needed war in order not to be bored @Rakaia. Interesting. Why didn't he just go to Vietnam? I can think of loads of other ways to pass the time.
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He did go to Vietnam as an RAF observer, he had a few 'back seat' flights too. The UK was not involved in that war.
He later worked in Washington DC, his former office suffered damage on 9-11. 🤐
 
The 70's was the first decade that l never had to move again having been born into a military family'. Lived in five foreign countries and five U.S. States. I loved the feeling of belonging somewhere at last and having friends to keep. I also loved to dance Disco and to watch Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman when l wasn't teaching women's self defense or practicing Karate.
The 70's was a really good decade for me come to think of it.
 

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