Blast from the Past

The Sixties...
Fads
Even though the 60’s were a very turbulent time, the decade of the Fall Out Shelter, Cold
War and Vietnam. It also produced some pretty groovy things!
Do you remember GO-GO boots and mini skirts along with the Fab Four and their mop top
haircuts.? Oohh Beatle boots! Paul, John, George and… Ringo!
Groovy Man
This then morphed into the Hippies and their great sense of style with the peace symbol,
and flared bottom pants to go with that groovy tie dye t-shirt. And to top it all off…. Love
Beads.
The pocket transistor radio came on the market to listen to the one or two AM radio
stations.
For the kids came GI Joe, Legos and Hot Wheels just as dad was buying the new fangled
Philishave battery operated shaver. He was also buying the Samsonite Attaché case for
work and his state of the art writing utensil... the Parker 61 of course! This ink pen
sometimes blew up in his pocket so mom with her new Viking Wringer Washer and a box
of BAB-O Institutional Power Active Cleanser Bleach went to work to get that stain out!
Mom had her new Jackie Kennedy hairstyle and a can of Aqua Net hairspray. Her hair
didn’t move for a week. This did however give her more time to bake... from scratch.
YUM!
As most moms were career housewives, after she sent her family happily on their way,
mom cleaned the house, did the laundry, bought groceries and then made time to watch
her favorite soap “ Love Is A Many Splendored Thing”.
After that she made dinner, did dishes, tucked her family into bed , wrapped her hair in
a sleep net and started all over again the next day.
Music
Ten Chart Hits
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Hey Jude - The Beatles
The Theme from a Summer Place - Percy Faith
Tossin’ and Turnin’ - Bobby Lewis
I Want to Hold Your Hand - The Beatles
I’m a Believer - The Monkees
I Heard it Through the Grapevine - Marvin Gaye
Aquarius/ Let The Sunshine In– The 5th Dimension
Are You Lonesome Tonight - Elvis Presley
In the Year 2525 - Zager & Evans
It’s Now or Never - Elvis Presley
Ten toys of the Seventies
Toys & Gadgets
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GI Joe (1964)
Easy Bake Oven (1963)
Rock ‘em Sock ‘em Robots (1964)
View master 3 D (1962)
Lego Construction Kit (1960)
Spirograph (1965)
Hot Wheels Car Racing Set (1968)
Chatty Cathy Doll (1965)
Game of Mouse Trap (1963)
Match Box Carry Case (1969)
Twister (1965)
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The Andy Griffith Show 1960-1968
Batman 1966-1968
The Munsters 1964-1966
The Addams Family 1964-1966
The Avengers 1961-1969
Gilligan’s Island 1964-1967
The Dick Van Dyke Show 1961-1966
Star Trek Original Series 1966-1969
The Flintstones 1960-1966
Man from U.N.C.L.E 1964-1968
The Fugitive 1963-1967
Petticoat Junction 1963-1970
Lost in Space 1965-1968
The Beverly Hillbillies 1962-1971
Hogan’s Heroes 1965-1971
My Three Sons 1960-1972
I Dream of Genie 1965-1970
Mission Impossible 1966-1973
Movies
Lawrence Of Arabia (1962)
Doctor Zhivago ( 1965)
West Side Story ( 1961)
Psycho (1960)
To Kill a Mockingbird ( 1962)
2001: Space Odyssey (1968)
The Music Man ( 1962)
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly ( 1966)
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang ( 1968)
The Graduate ( 1967)
Mary Poppins (1964)
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
Dr. Strangelove (1964)
Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961)
The Seventies
Fads
One of the 70s fads were Pet Rocks, which came in their own cages with a
funny little instruction book about their care and feeding.
Everyone seemed to want to analyze their mood by wearing mood rings
around class and at the arcade.
While some were wearing leisure suits, others were in their birthday suits.
Streaking was one of the big fads of the 70s, from streakers on the Academy
Awards to the high school prom.
Thanks to movies like Smokey and the Bandit, CB radios found their way into
cars and everyone seemed to be crowding the airwaves with a big “10-4 good
buddy”.
Truckers didn’t take too kindly to the invasion of their airwaves, but they did
like the “Keep On Truckin’” shirts that were a big 70s fad.
The CB craze even found its way into another 70s fad, song parodies. There was
“The Streak” by Ray Stevens, “Kung Fu Fighting and “Convoy”, the latter a nod
to CBs.
If you enjoyed music and wanted to be really hip, you had an 8-track player in
your room or your car, black light posters. If you were real lucky you also had a
lava lamp and a waterbed in your room.
Other 70s fads included the brief return of the Duncan Yo-Yo, Big Wheels, Hot
Wheels, air hockey and foosball.
Music
Ten Chart Hits
Garfield was born June 19, 1978, in the kitchen of Mamma
Leoni's Italian Restaurant weighing 5 lbs and 6 ounces at birth
and loved lasagna the day he was born.
Toys & Gadgets
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Dancing Queen - ABBA
Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin
Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen
Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
Barracuda - Heart
Iron Man - Black Sabbath
Imagine - John Lennon
Hotel California - Eagles
Layla - Derek & The Dominos
American Pie - Don McLean
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Ten toys of the Seventies
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Atari 2600
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Apple Computer (1976)
Nerf (1970)
Weebles (1971)
Atari (1972)
Baby Alive (1973)
Shrinky Dinks (1973)
Rubiks Cube (1974)
Growing up Skipper (1975)
Pet Rock (1975)
Stretch Armstrong (1976)
Star Wars Toys (1977)
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The Streets of San Francisco 1972 - 1977.
The Waltons 1972 - 1981.
Chips 1977 - 1983.
Ironside 1967 - 1975.
Lassie 1954 - 1973.
Starsky and Hutch 1975 - 1979.
Dukes Of Hazzard 1979 - 1985.
The Benny Hill Show 1969 - 1989.
Monty Python’s Flying Circus 1969 - 1974.
The Muppet Show 1976 - 1981.
Bonanza 1959 - 1973.
The Brady Bunch 1969 - 1974.
Dallas 1978 - 1991.
Charlie's Angels 1976 - 1981.
Little House on the Prairie 1974 - 1983.
Doctor Who 1963 - 1989.
Gunsmoke 1955 - 1975.
Columbo 1968 - 2003.
Kojak 1973 - 1978.
All In The Family 1971 - 1979.
Laverne & Shirley 1976 - 1983.
The Odd Couple 1970 - 1974.
Bewitched 1964 - 1972.
Happy Days 1974 - 1984.
Taxi 1978 - 1983.
Movies
Jaws (1975) and jaws 2 (1978)
The Godfather (1972) and The Godfather part 2 (1974)
Mad Max (1979)
Rocky (1976)
Star Wars Episode IV—A new hope (1977)
Alien (1979)
Grease (1978)
A clockwork Orange (1971)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
Deliverance (1972)
Taxi Driver (1976)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Blazing Saddles (1974)
The Eighties
Hair and Fads
Boom Boxes
This oversized radio was popular with the youth of the early and mid-eighties because they played music
so loud, you could hear them from a 100 yards away. They eventually came with dual cassette and CD
players and used 8 "D" cell batteries to power the big speakers. Some had a special Bass Boost button that
would make the boom boxes even louder and more annoying to most who could hear them. This fad is still
popular with some young people because the new boom boxes come with MP3 players.
Break Dancing
Remember the parachute pants and cardboard boxes that dancers would gyrate themselves on? Break
dancing seems so different from all other kinds of dancing that the first question people ask when they see
it is: "Where did these kids learn to dance like that?" In 1969, when James Brown was getting down with
his big hit "Get on the Good Foot" the Hustle was the big dance style of the day. When he preformed his
hit, he did the kind of dance you'd expect James Brown to do. High Energy. This eventually, evolved into
break dancing.
Goatee Beards
Goatee beards really joined the mainstream, and no longer just for bikers, wrestlers, and Satan.
The Mullet\
Business up front & Party in the back
Smurfs
Blue elflike creatures, dwelling happily in the forest. Creatures with names like Jokey, Greedy, and Brainy
Smurf. The went through adventures, sought advice from Papa Smurf and found themselves captivated by
the perky Smurfette, the only female in the clan. During Smurf Mania, they out sold Star Wars, Garfield,
Snoopy, Annie and Mickey Mouse.
Toys & Gadgets
Music
Chart Hits of the 80’s
Billy Jean—Michael Jackson
Sweet Child of Mine—Guns N Roses
Livin’ on a Prayer—Bon Jovi
Take on Me—A-ha
Beat it—Michael Jackson
Summer of ‘69—Bryan Adams
Eye of the Tiger– Survivor
I’ve Been Losing you-A-ha
Every Breath you Take-The Police
Crazy Train– Ozzy Osbourne
Popular Bands of the 80’s
Duran Duran
Queen
Bon Jovi
U2
Guns N Roses
Metallica
AC/DC
Van Halen
Journey
Tears for Fears
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Booker
MacGyver
Dukes of Hazzard
Golden Girls
Spenser: For Hire
Magnum PI
The A -Team
The Equalizer
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Knight Rider
The Cosby Show
Growing Pains
Highway to Heaven
Alf
Golden Girls
Full House
Miami Vice
Cheers
Movies
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The Empire Strikes Back
Superman II
9 to 5
Stir Crazy
Airplane
Coal Miner's Daughter
Private Benjamin
Smokey and the Bandit II
Ordinary People
The Blues Brothers