I got to thinking about something today and two things happened to make me realize this might make an interesting thread.
As everyone knows, CATM was filmed back in the early to mid seventies. I was watching it this weekend and it always cracked me up when they complain about the price of gas, and then people are only buying a dollar or two of gas. Tonight I was putting $10 worth in my tank and it wasn't even half a tank (I have a 20 gallon tank on my van). Then the thread was started about HS pictures and I went to HS when CATM was filmed. So I was wondering, what do YOU remember about the seventies that seems so weird or strange or different today, like the thing with the gas prices?

One thing that has always struck me, (once I got to watch CATM as an adult), is that there are alot more risque humor than I remember. During the time the show was on, that stuff must have sailed right over my head!
When a joke is made on the show about a current event at the time, such as Watergate, I can "get" the joke--my 10 yr old, on the other hand will say "I don't get it"!
The clothes, too,seem kind of strange (like Louie's leisure outfits or Chico's goofy denim hat! LOL!)

My daughter who is 18 says the same thing about the humor being dated. Oh well, at least we get the joke. And you are very right about the risque stuff. I never realized it at the time either, or old age has really set in and I just don't remember it.
The clothes are really funky, aren't they. I especially love the facelift one for the funky styles! LOL

OMG even on Freddie that hat was the ugliest damn thing he ever wore!

Shows such as "All in the Family", "Good Times" and "One Day at a Time" addressed issues of family, race, drugs, and sexuality that had not been explicitly mentioned on TV before. Of course these days any topic is fair game for a sitcom, but shows like these KICKED the door down!

What I remember most on a personal level is the trauma of having to begin wearing glasses when I was 8--the eyeglass frames available to me were soooo ugly, and I was geeky-looking enough without them!

Also, I went to a private school that required the girls to wear skirts (though not uniforms), and trying to find dresses long enough to meet the length requirement in the first age of mini-skirts was nearly impossible!

I also remember the gas price wars--the intersection up the street from my house in CA boasted a gas station on each corner.

The one thing I don't seem to be able to remember from the 70's is the original run of CATM. I am told my family watched it together, but I can't recall that. Granted, I was only just getting interested in the opposite sex at the time, but I had a lot of other celebrity crushes. However, I was not into Freddie then. Dunno why not......

Originally posted by MariposaLKB
OMG even on Freddie that hat was the ugliest damn thing he ever wore!


I agree!!! :rotflmao: :rotflmao:

I remember the gas problems & Vietnam etc I went to grade school at a private school that made ya wear dresses & skirts so I compensated by wearing mini-skirts lol! Jr High & high school I went to another private school one that let ya wear jeans so I jean girl I was. I did publkic school for 8th grade & got to wear jeans then too.

I noticed that what Freddie wore on CATM & in real life wasn't really goofy. He escaped the goofy clothes syndrome & always looked nice. I do agree that hat was goofy looking. I read somewhere he loved to wear those kind of hats. What was goofy was plaid bell bottom pants. I admit I had a pair LOL! & Mike wore a pair on a date with me once LOL! I told him he got them from a dead golfer LOL! & that date was in the 80's LOL! Actually I loved bellbottoms & still do except for the plaid ones LOL! I love wearing 60's & 70's type clothes & still wear flared pants & jeans & mini-skirts etc.

I was kinda like Mariposa when it came to Freddie. I watched the show back then & enjoyed it but wasn't into him & never thought of him as cute or not cute. He just was. Then the TVLAND re-runs came on & I saw the marthon & then watched the epsiodes & soon fell for Freddie & found these boards & my love for him grew even more. & I now wonder where was I back in the 70's that I didn't fall for him then????

I remember the funky clothes too. I went to a catholic girls HS and we had uniforms, but when it came to the off hours, OMG I was in the latest stuff. The bellbottom jeans and platform shoes were big. I remember wearing a pair of platform shoes to school my junior year and when I stepped off the bus I fell, twisting my ankle really bad. Those things were dangerous. What is funny about all of this is that these things are back in style. I tease my teenage daughters about my clothes and tell them I wish I had saved some of them for them to use. I remember the jeans came in funky colors too, not just blue. And the designers! OMG remember Jordash and Sergio Valente! We were a hoot back then. I also remember embrodering on the jeans was big, I did a lot of that on my own jeans. My grandmother taught me how. I would have loved to embroider on Freddie's jeans. Cause I would have to have him take them off to do it, and he would have to sit around in his underwear while I did it! LOL Hummmm think of the possibilities...... :D

I can just picture him sitting there in his underwear while you embroider his jeans! OMG! You casually stritching each thread into his jeans as he sits there tapping his fingers on his chilly legs saying " Hurry up Mamma it's getting breezing in here!"
LMAO!


Originally posted by Luckymama58

I remember the funky clothes too. I went to a catholic girls HS and we had uniforms, but when it came to the off hours, OMG I was in the latest stuff. The bellbottom jeans and platform shoes were big. I remember wearing a pair of platform shoes to school my junior year and when I stepped off the bus I fell, twisting my ankle really bad. Those things were dangerous. What is funny about all of this is that these things are back in style. I tease my teenage daughters about my clothes and tell them I wish I had saved some of them for them to use. I remember the jeans came in funky colors too, not just blue. And the designers! OMG remember Jordash and Sergio Valente! We were a hoot back then. I also remember embrodering on the jeans was big, I did a lot of that on my own jeans. My grandmother taught me how. I would have loved to embroider on Freddie's jeans. Cause I would have to have him take them off to do it, and he would have to sit around in his underwear while I did it! LOL Hummmm think of the possibilities...... :D

Are there any pics of Freddie in his underwear out ther besides the speedo one? would lvoe to see them. I have one of Arlo in his underwear & it's from a movie he did of his song ALICES RESTUARANT...

I remember all Luckymama is talking about. Man, I used to wear the platform shoes around school with my bellbottom jeans. I can't wear the high platforms anymore, they have to have a lower platform heel now. Old age LOL! Some other crazes were; Wearing mens Levis jeans cuz they hadn't made them for women yet-- wearing mens tennis shoes cuz they only had one kind for the women back then, the Keds & wearing mens chuckka boot shoes cuz they hadn't made them for women yet, halter tops-- wearing bandanna hankerchiefs tied to your beltloop of your jeans for looks (& If you needed a hanky you had one)-- hippie style headbands-- Puka shell necklaces-- scooter skirts the wraparound skirts with shorts built in them (They still have thgese back again now).

Oh yeah old amy jackets were in. I remember my dad letting me have an old WWII one he had saved from his Army stint back then & let me have it. My mom hated me dressing like that. The hippie look was in too. & Peace sign stuff. My Mom hated all that LOL! People sya I sometime look like an old hippie cuz I wear the 60's & 70's type stuff still. It's just my era... :)

In collage (Highschool & grade school too) what was popular was to use the ladies hankies with the flowers painted on them. You wouldn't have been caught dead using the ones with lace on them cuz they were for little old ladies LOL!

Lets not forget that awful fishing hat in the bird in a cage episode with violet baines!
That was aweful too even on Freddie

I remember jean jackets being popular in the 70's. I love the jean jacket with the studs on the facelift episode as well as the ebroided one when Chico was planning to leave to be with Carlos sell cars. Yeah those hats didn't do well on him either. Somehow the hat he wore the hypnotis episode didn't help either. It flatten his hair!

I remember those wild shirts Chico wore. My hubby had a few of those too. He used to call them colors not found in nature! LOL :lol: They were pretty wild.
I did like that one shirt in the Maria episode, tho, the one that kept opening on him! MMMMM:happyface I am soooo bad. It did look like it could have been made from silk, tho. MMmm that must have felt nice to lay against dancing close to him. I am about a foot shorter than he was and I know my head would have been in just the right spot! Dancing with my head against that silky shirt, having the buttons keep opening up, feeling that smooth chest..... OMG get the ice water, is it HOT in here????? :eek: :D

Stop it! :) :) You're making me hot LOL! :) I remember the jean jackets & weird shirts. I still wear jean jackets. Freddie & Chico thankfully didn't wear too weird a shirts. I love Chico in his blue velvet suitcoat! :)

Good topic Luckymama.
The one thing I always notice is the lack of modern technology from back then. The cash register; where was Chico's smog station? LOL And nowadays Louie would be out of a job...trash collectors don't even get out of their trucks anymore.
Once I started watching the show again it just seemed strange that Chico didn't have a cell phone dangling from his hip.
The hair styles also get me laughing. And the lingo....words like groovy and "outta sight" and "far out". :crazy: :lol: :crazy: :lol:

I still use words like groovy and "outta sight" and "far out". LOL! Fortunately Freddie had a nice hairstyle & missed the goofy hairdo stuff. I noticed in later epsiodes of the show that the payphone on the show was more modern looking than the one in earlier episodes. & Both had rotary dials. Those were the good old days! :)