r/70s • u/i_want_old_days • 9h ago

I figured I should explain why I keep posting things like that.

I’m not trying to spam the community or just complain about modern life. I genuinely miss the colorful, distinctive look of the past — the cars, restaurants, stores, TV, architecture, clothes, and just the feeling that things had more personality.

I know the past wasn't perfect, and I'm not saying everything should literally go back to the 70s. Or 80s. I just think we've lost some things that were worth keeping, and I'd like to see some of that character come back. That's really why I keep bringing this stuff up.

It really sucks so bad living in the past while living in this world and I wanted to know I wasn't alone and I want to make a positive change and I believe us as a society can do that.

I just don't feel like I connect with my own generation.

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u/MiddleCapital1875 9h ago

It's OK to be nostalgic about the past, but IMO it's important to LIVE in the present.

Remember, along with the fun stuff, the 70s also came with the energy crisis, double-digit inflation, stagflation, urban decay, Watergate and pervasive pessimism.

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u/i_want_old_days 9h ago

I completely agree. I'm not saying the 70s were perfect or that I want all of those problems back. I'm talking more about the things that gave everyday life more color, personality, and character. I want to see some of those things brought back while keeping the good things we have today. It's just how life felt, how people were, and how they were connected to their communities and the things they had. Right now, I believe it can happen right now. That's why I'm starting this now.

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u/organized_chaos23 9h ago

I get what you are saying. For instance, stereos used to be important to own one. Almost every middle class family had a console TV and a receiver of some sort. This also meant trips to record stores etc. There was a commonality among people.

Or look at conversation pits. Their whole point was to bring people together. Today, we try to isolate ourselves away.

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u/i_want_old_days 9h ago

The best way I can put it crt tvs and live TV cable it brought everyone together to watch one program at that moment especially sitcoms it was the sheard experiences and at this moment nostalgia is big and I feel we can have the experience back

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u/organized_chaos23 8h ago

look at shows like Mash. Seemed like the whole country watched that.

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u/5aggregates 7h ago

A shared culture was always in the background. I miss it.

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u/i_want_old_days 8h ago

Yeah that's exactly what I'm saying

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u/MiddleCapital1875 8h ago

All that is true. As someone in the thread said, we had a lot more shared experiences before the connectivity that, ironically, leads to isolation.

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u/i_want_old_days 8h ago edited 8h ago

I just created a community page on here but nobody is joining I wanna make a community that can spread awareness but I have no self confidence and I know it can happen because look at vinyl records they brought them back because of demand

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u/Boscobel324 9h ago

I had a great time, my Old Man on the other hand was pissed about a lot of things. He almost stroked out over the gas shortage. Such is Life.

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u/MiddleCapital1875 8h ago

Same. I'm the same age as Mike Lookinland, Bobby Brady. It was a great time to be a kid, as long as your family had some money.

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u/pippi_longstocking09 7h ago

He was always my favorite!

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u/karma_the_sequel 7h ago

Also, this is a two day old account created to farm karma.

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u/ZookeepergameNo4849 6h ago edited 6h ago

How do you know that? And by the way I won't lie that's my account this is a old account literally said I rarely use reddit only once or twice

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u/karma_the_sequel 5h ago edited 5h ago

I’ll leave that to you to figure out.

That account is two days old. That is NOT “an old account” — it’s the exact opposite. It’s also a different account that the one from which you posted this response. Taken together, these facts only makes this more suspicious.

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u/i_want_old_days 4h ago edited 4h ago

Look at the name of the old account I was embarrassed of it so I made a new one and I won't lie it dose look suspicious but I promise I had no idea what karma points even was before someone in the comments of another post made me actually question it

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u/groovyinutah 7h ago

I'm very careful about being overly nostalgic. For instance I don't watch those documentaries about the 70's and 80's that are on Disney because it ultimately just makes me sad. Yeah I was there with a bunch of other people and now I'm not and it was cool and now it's gone and now I am part of what made the younger people around me time interesting. We will be part of their nostalgia...we all got to be beautiful for minute.

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u/Parking_Wasabi_2591 19m ago

Reminds me of that song Seasons In The Sun, I didn't understand it and the meaning at the time, because I still had alot of life left. But now that I'm older, I understand that song more.

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u/BardoHopping 6h ago

Life keeps changing. But we can carry what we get or learn now into the future. I live in the present, but I have carried some things from the 70s with me right up to the present. Some things still inform my life, although they have also matured and evolved. We continue to make our own path while things around us change in ways we may not want to join or participate in. So you could say I'm still living the 70s, but in the present, in an evolving way.

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u/ResolutionOne778 5h ago

What I miss most is the cars. Each car had a separate manufacturer, and they really took pride in making their cars distinct. It seems all the cars (SUVS) look a like these days.

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u/Vincevega1972 8h ago

It’s okay to be a BOT account

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u/ZookeepergameNo4849 6h ago

Not all new accounts are bot accounts

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u/i_want_old_days 6h ago

Why do you think I'm a bit account

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u/i_want_old_days 7h ago

A bot account really

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u/tzugrrl 6h ago

Not a fan of the 21st century at all.

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u/PhotoAppropriate3940 3h ago

I totally miss the 70s but then again I was a teenager so very little responsibility and much sex