Tag: 1970s
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June 10, 2008 08:43 AM EDT --
My son got a magazine here today and there was an article in it about the Village People. I decided not to read it, but to use it as my muse for my own article. I really never . . . more
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February 21, 2008 03:35 PM EST --
One of my co-workers is great about sending me links to websites she thinks I will find amusing. This one was immensely hilarious.
If you lived through the 70s, you'll probably be more amused . . . more
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May 05, 2007 12:37 PM EDT --
This song originally came out in 1945 and was sold under the counter. It made the Billboard charts in 1975. I heard it today on XM Radio for the first time. Doing research, you are able to find a . . . more
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December 30, 2006 06:23 PM EST --
It was news to me to find out that C.W. McCall does not exist. He was an advertisement for Old Home Bread. The advertisements told stories of a truck driver named C.W. McCall, his dog Sloan, and a truck . . . more
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January 08, 2007 12:22 PM EST --
Here are a dozen Questions about music from the 70s. Are you old enough to answer ten correctly? Answers are at the bottom of the article.
1. Q: What former star of the TV show "Starsky . . . more
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July 04, 2007 02:23 AM EDT --
OMG I still have most of these.
Seems like yesterday. I was 11. Summer Days were spent up at the river, everyone toting portable cassette players the size of small Volkswagens. Remember? . . . more
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August 01, 2006 10:35 PM EDT --
With Viet Nam and the draft hanging over our heads like a bad moon rising, we feared and partied with equal fervor, sometimes doing one . . . more
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May 10, 2007 05:33 PM EDT --
I am a second-wave feminist (think 60-70s) although when forced to classify myself I always say, "humanist, feminist..." because that's what I consider myself.
I have a 59¢ button and . . . more
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October 05, 2006 08:27 PM EDT --
Note: This article, in edited form, will be included in an upcoming book edited by G. Brown, about the history of Denver's Red Rocks Amphitheatre.
I can point to several reasons for why I became . . . more
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March 04, 2007 08:30 PM EST --
There were many teen movies (comedy, horror, teen issues) that came out in the 70's and 80's. Can you remember a few of your favorites? Some of the Brat Pack actors are still . . . more
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December 09, 2006 10:06 PM EST --
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! There are so many new members of the Old Hippie’s Corner (OHC); I thought it might be fun to compile Colonel Possum’s ramblings and tall tales from 2006. . . . more
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April 25, 2007 01:00 PM EDT --
Thanks to everyone for welcoming me to Gather... Over the last 45 years of being in show business, I’ve had some really cool memories from performing with so many different artists, past and present. . . . more
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August 07, 2008 06:02 PM EDT --
Do you love the 70s? Gather wants to help you reminisce by giving away five DVDs of the movie Starsky and Hutch. This tongue-in cheek action comedy, starring Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson in the . . . more
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June 28, 2007 03:24 PM EDT --
My husband and I will at times reminisce about the "good ol' days" when we were in school. (My husband has some especially colorful stories concerning escapades he and his friends had during . . . more
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August 02, 2006 01:45 PM EDT --
The best thing I can say about John Fogerty: The Long Road Home on DVD is that it recorded a concert I'm sorry to have missed. From the first notes, it's a high energy, exciting rock 'n . . . more
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December 17, 2007 11:23 PM EST --
The following is the last in a series from ColonelPossum's Tall Tales from the Sixties now reposted to Tom Brokaw's newgroup Boom!
Part VII to a Multi-Part Series, "Weekend in San . . . more
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March 11, 2007 04:26 PM EDT --
Click here to check out a video my brother sent me via e-mail. It a version of Billy Joel's "We didn't start the fire." and I think anyone over 20 could appreciate it and . . . more
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June 02, 2008 12:38 PM EDT --
My husband and I are somewhat "retrophiles". We love vintage cars (don't own any) and music from the 50s and 60s (own a lot). We also live in a 1952 brick ranch house and couldn't love . . . more
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August 02, 2007 09:31 AM EDT --
The Siege of La Rochelle
If my memory serves me faithfully, some weeks after returning from the Ocean Youth Club trip to the Baltic in the summer of 1975, I sailed with the RNR to La Rochelle on the Atlantic . . . more
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August 17, 2006 01:42 AM EDT --
I was rummaging around the OHC archives the other day and ran into a lunchbox of black & white photos. The photos are of Sage and me in some of our early adventures in Monterey's Cannery Row. They . . . more
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