Soul Train: A simpler place and time

[Oralist]

Does anyone remember the TV show The Mod Squad. Really great Afro sunglasses. Can't remember his name. Had me some bell bottoms and platform shoes. The Bee Gees became the Disco Kings. Travolta spawned two fads. Disco and Western. The country went bonkers for both. I was more of a two step guy than a disco guy. No half unbuttoned shirt and gold chains for me.

[Russ38]

I gonna have to beg to differ.....Travolta didn't pioneer the disco fad.....

[boardman]

Originally Posted by Russ38

All I know is......that fucking boardman certainly got around back in the day....talk about having 9 lives.....damn.....

I learned what it meant to party like it's 1939 with Adolph but I had a much better time with Idi Amin back in the 70's. Ol' Idi loved Soul Train too.
Pol Pot could get down too but I didn't stick around very long there. He started looking at me like I was dinner.
I was a bit of a late night cat so Midnight Special and Rock Concert were more my thing.

[Russ38]

Originally Posted by GlobeSpotter

yes it was sooooo much fun.

we had:

8 track tapes
School House Rock
3 TV stations ... no need for remote control.
Huge cars with bad seat belts
Patio and Hungry Man (non p.c.) brand TV dinners
TV trays for said TV dinners, and
Lite brite.

Originally Posted by seedman55

Also
70 Charger Daytona
3 quarts of Carling Black Label for a 1$.
.30 gasoline
mooning the cops, and not getting arrested
streaking and not getting arrested
no politically correct bullshit
go to the movies for a buck or two.
watching one of the best baseball semi-dynasties the Cincinnati Reds.
watching the best football dynasty the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Being able to work on your own wheels without having to have 20 grand worth of tools.

And the list goes on. Lol

Although I was born in the early 70's, I'm more a product of the 80's like Kam was saying but even then, shit was much different than now.

For example, the high school I graduated from, just a few counties over from Harris.....the student parking lot was full of pick-up trucks with gun racks mounted in the rear window loaded down with shotguns and rifles from kids who hunted before and after school....no one thought twice about it.

Teachers and coaches wouldn't hesitate to paddle that ass if you got out of line.

If two boys were having an altercation and felt the need to "Duke it out".....many times it was allowed wearing boxing gloves under the coaches supervision. (This happened often when playing dodgeball.....remember that game?)

Heh....imagine any of that shit happening today....

[Guest051115]

Originally Posted by Russ38

If two boys were having an altercation and felt the need to "Duke it out".....many times it was allowed wearing boxing gloves under the coaches supervision. (This happened often when playing dodgeball.....remember that game?)

Heh....imagine any of that shit happening today....

Lol dodge-ball let's not forget kick-ball as well.

As for boxing I will admit my boxing game ain't what it used to be as I'm doing positive things now. However, growing up and unknown to me at the time my big brother used to send bigger guys to come fight me to toughen me up and by the time I got to high school my boxing game was on point. My freshman year some cats from 5th Ward wanted to test me. One on one I beat the living shit out of two members of their posse. I didn't have a great wrestling game but I was all about the hands and I knew as long as they didn't get me on the ground with wrestling they had NO chance. I wasn't a bad ass and certainly not the toughest but after those two encounters none of the gangstas and bad actors fucked with me all throughout high school because they knew they'd be in for a fight.

[pyramider]

Yeah the 70s ... whoop whoop. Double knot fabrics that could not allow any air flow, so the wearer was constantly dehydrated. Leisure Suits in all kinds of colors, that men really should not wear. Selective Service registration done away with, and then brought back six or seven years later. Let's not forget the scorecard the Dept of Defense came up with for the media to communicate to public. Walther Cronkite sitting there reporting the head count on Viet Cong dead/wounded and American dead/wounded.

Good things:
One use disposable needles. You will remember a shot with a dull needle or one with a slight bend.

Cassette tapes replaced the 8 tracks.

Dodge ball

Coaches were feared.

Cops were allowed to cut a retard some slack.

[Russ38]

Originally Posted by pyramider

Coaches were feared

Goddamn right they were......I still fear the ones from my school and most of them are probably dead.....

[Dorian Gray]

I remember almost ALL the male gym teachers at my high school were Vietnam veterans.

They gave zero fucks when it came to putting a kid in check

[Jack Kinghoff]

Originally Posted by Oralist

Does anyone remember the TV show The Mod Squad. Really great Afro sunglasses. Can't remember his name. Had me some bell bottoms and platform shoes. The Bee Gees became the Disco Kings. Travolta spawned two fads. Disco and Western. The country went bonkers for both. I was more of a two step guy than a disco guy. No half unbuttoned shirt and gold chains for me.

Linc Hayes

[Guest021817-2]

Originally Posted by Dorian Gray

I remember almost ALL the male gym teachers at my high school were Vietnam veterans.

They gave zero fucks when it came to putting a kid in check

Checkmate....

What's your fucking problem?

Nothing ....

Why am I talking to you then?

Dunno....

Get your ass out of here!

[kerwil62]

Yep, I was glued to the TV when Soul Train was on. Not to learn the dances but to look at all the fine bitches. Especially in the late 70's-early 80's when they were wearing those tight ass pants!

I was also a big fan of Midnight Special and Don Kirshner's Rock Concert as well.

[spear88]

THINGS, (as in stuf you buy or use) are much much better now than then. But other things (as in political correctness, assholes who get into your business, government thuggery, entitled kids, etc) are much much worse.

I even think that race relations were better in the mid to late 1970's Than they are now. At least it seems that way to me. And we didn't mind the hairy pussy so much because we didn't know any better.

[GlobeSpotter]

Originally Posted by Russ38

Although I was born in the early 70's, .....

Damn Russ. For some reason, I thought you were born in 1938.

[Russ38]

Nah.....just feel like I was sometimes.....

[Guest072624]

I was told by my mom that everyone was doing drugs and it was great. Umm ok mom. Lol.