If 70’s mom’s had blogs!
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This is totally great stuff and well written. I wanted to copy and paste a paragraph but they have it protected so I can’t but go here and enjoy the flashback if you grew up in the 70’s! So many product references!
http://widelawns.blogspot.com/2014/03/if-70s-moms-had-blogs.html
Remember station wagon road trips??
http://widelawns.blogspot.com/2014/03/70s-mom-goes-on-roadtrip.html
Super Duper Alice Cooper ~ Movie Trailer !!
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I can’t wait for this to come out. Alice freaking Cooper like KISS Ruled the world in the 70’s for me! Who caught the chicken???
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What’s your favorite Christmas memory? Here are my few
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and far in between ones..
Dressing us as twins was soooo wrong….
I have very few Christmas memories and I really don’t know why. There are photographs that prove we really had them and there were always a lot of toys but the memories are buried somewhere in my brain…I still have a few of the toys we got as little kids. The stuffed turtle I still have and the little metal guitar is another one that I have…
But the fond Christmas memories? Where are they at? I remember the cardboard fireplace and the colored wheel that was set up every year. I remember “mom” laying in bed at night and not going to sleep. I also remember hearing the car trunk slam on her car.
Here are a few of mine that I can recall…
One Christmas I do remember clearly was our Uncle Abe and his wife Tina where staying with us. Abe had a thing for guard dogs and he had 2 Doberman pinscher’s always with him. Well, Uncle Abe’s bed was in the front guest room where the Christmas tree was. Christmas morning, we couldn’t go in there to see what we got because Abe was still in bed and the dogs would raise up and start growing at us..So Christmas was put on hold until he decided it was time to get up. Once he got up and the all clear was given to us to inspect our toys from Santa we found that during the night the Doberman pinschers had got down and chewed up some of the toys… One of them being my incredible hulk action figure and the kick stand that came with the football…Those damn dogs…. No apologies or nothing either from the 
Uncle..Uncle Abe was one tough Son of Bitch though. He grew up in a different era. His philosophy was this, “If you car has a half of tank of gas, fill it back up”…A few years later his precious attack dogs turned on him and his wife. They were ok but the dogs had to go. Years later when Uncle Abe was actually dying I was there…He told the paramedics to “Let me go goddammit!!”well, he got his wish…I miss the old guy…Hell, he may have only been 52 when he died but lived a lifetime in that short time..
David rocking the hand made cowboy outfit, I still have those and that guitar
When my brother David and I were real little, we had to go to Alabama for a trip to visit some relatives. You know, looking back it may have been Missouri but for some reason Alabama is stuck in my mind. I can see us playing on the sidewalk out in front of the house we were staying …Anyway, it was Christmas time. We worried and worried that Santa wouldn’t be able to find us since we weren’t home for Christmas. We didn’t have to worry. He found us. My brother David and I got a play doh fire truck each. That was all Santa brought.. I would have fared better if it had been a secret decoder ring,Lol. No explanations where given. And nothing was made up for it…A firetruck a piece…
One time for Christmas we received two chopper chain driven big wheel type riding toys. These things were super cool. Big green choppers we could ride. But they were defective. The pedals weren’t welded to the sprocket so neither one of them worked. Santa had let us down… So our Grandpa Buzz took them to where ever you take Santa’s toys back for repairs…And we waited and we waited. We asked where were the cool choppers… No reply…And then they returned…They were under the tree the next Christmas!! Re-gifts! By then we had outgrown them. Can you believe that? They were repaired and kept somewhere until the following Christmas…
David always went first…
About the last Christmas I remember while I was still at home was 1982. I received a Spark-o-matic 8 track tape player for my car! What a great gift! Loved it even though in 1982 8 track tapes were already being phased out to cassettes!
Anyway, there are a few of mine. What about yours?
WOW! Karen Carpenter’s isolated vocal tracks!
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So tragic but her vocals are like the breath of God.Incredible and definitely didn’t need any electronic pitch help…Her and her brother Richard helped define the 70′ sound…
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Gene Simmons banging Grandmothers?
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Well, apparently he did when she was around 30 years old or so back in 1975 during the drum solo…
Read on my friends and weep along side me. I’m sure at 70 plus years old this grandmother that Gene shagged now has leather 
“interior” and waist high? boobs but at one time probably had a rock hard groupie body…It’s hard to believe that the babes of today will someday look like E.T. 🙁 So the next time you are checking out the hot babes in the videos or magazines (do they still make print magazines?) Just remember, its all headed south. There should be some “eternal law of tits and ass” that says that the girls of “jackage” aren’t allowed to age at all. Every time I see that famous 70’s poster of Farah Fawcett I have two thoughts. One good one about those perky nipples sticking though her swimsuit and the second and the sad one is she is in the dirt now:( Or as my friend Tim says “Completely Dead”…
Now how freaking depressing is that?
chuck
chuck@kickacts.com
Here’s the story from VVNMusic.
“We are now celebrating our 40th year since the first tour and Paul [Stanley] and I were in a Los Angeles airport and a senior woman – who I would say was in her 70s – came over with a cane and she said, ‘Oh, Gene Simmons, how are you? I haven’t seen you in forever,” he recalled to Australian radio show hosts Kyle and Jackie O.
“I think, ‘Oh, your daughters are fans, your granddaughters are fans…’ She said, ‘Don’t you remember? 1975 backstage, during the drum solo…’ So I did some quick arithmetic: I must have been 25 and she could have been ten, 15 years older. Oh my god, I slept with grandma!”
Read more: http://www.vintagevinylnews.com/2013/03/gene-simmons-i-slept-with-grandma.html#ixzz2MxZ0E0cV
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Bonnie Franklin R.I.P.
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I used to watch “One day at a Time” as a kid.:( For an older lady I thought you were sexy…
From LATimes.
Bonnie Franklin, the actress who created an indelible television character playing a divorced, working mother of two headstrong daughters on the long-running series “One Day at a Time,” died Friday at her home in Los Angeles. She was 69.
The cause was complications from pancreatic cancer, her family announced.
By the mid-1970s, Franklin was a theater veteran who had earned a Tony nomination for her performance in the Broadway musical “Applause” when she was offered a different kind of role, one that was not then the usual fare on network television.
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KISS “ABC in Concert” from 1974
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Anyone remember watching this?
original air date March 29th, 1974
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My Superheros’ and the people that played them…Hit or miss?
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First off, Hollywood wants to remake everything on what appears to be 15 to 20 year recycle cycles. They ran out of ideas a long time ago. But here at work we got into a discussion on who “really” played the part better in the superhero movies… There have been what, 5 different people that have played batman in the last 20 years? That’s too many and some are better than others but which one is “batman”? Christian Slater? Val Kilmer?George Clooney? Get my point? So I thought I would compile my list of characters I liked and the people who I thought played the role the best. Jump in on the conversation.
Here they are
Superman.
Christopher Reeves…Hands down. Those movies were awesome. He “became” Superman. I watched the reruns from the 50’s of George Reeves. George was too old and too heavy to be Superman. Christopher Reeves was perfect…I loved the scene were Clark was building the fire and he accidentally “burnt” his hand and Lois Lane reached for it and saw that it wasn’t burnt and realized he was Superman..
The Joker.
Cesar Romero, was the “funny” Joker. I remember growing up and enjoying watching those Batman shows on WGN. He played the perfect part for the 60’s version of batman. His character was perfect for that style. But saying that, Jack Nicholson did an ok job of revisiting the role in 1989. But having said all that. The winner goes to Heath Ledger. He took it to a whole new level. His portrayal of the Joker was over the top.”You know how I got these scars”?
The Hulk.
The recent CGI movie about the incredible Hulk was awful. I realize it was more inline with the comic book version but to me it was just too unbelievable. Way too fake. As far as I am concerned there has only been one Hulk and that Hulk is Lou Ferrigno.
Ben Grimm. (The Thing)
No doubt Michael Chiklis is Ben Grimm. There is really no comparison out there but his way of portraying the “Thing” is as great as Heath Ledger playing the Joker. He was meant for the role. “It’s Clobbering TIME!”
Spiderman.
Here we go with another movie that has been recycled a few times through. We currently have “another” Spiderman movie out. I will have to say that I thought Tobey Maquire made the best Peter Parker and Spiderman. He had that innocence about him as Peter Parker and the web slinger.
Wonder Woman.
There is no other so don’t even ask. Lynda Carter is “Wonder woman”. For a young male ( and probably some young females too) growing up in the 70’s, she did it for me. With her good looks and that outfit, well, no need to say anymore…
Iron Man.
No doubt Robert Downey Jr. is Tony Stark. He is the perfect person to play the role. AS Tony Stark, he is rich and arrogant and has the brains to back it all up.Once again, hands down. No one else is noble enough to grace that role…Agree?
Batman.
I am kinda partial to Adam West as campy as he was. Being that when we got cable at the house when I was in the 5th grade the first thing to come on the TV was batman. It really was. My grandparents were hooking up the cable box and Batman appeared! So, Adam West is Batman to me. However, Val Kilmer and Michael Keaton did a great job of playing the role. Christan Slater I think is too dull and plain. His voice is all wrong and he doesn’t animate the character well at all to me. George Clooney himself has said he single handedly almost ruined the Batman franchise with his portrayal of him.
Batgirl.
Once again I gotta go with old Skool. Yvonne Craig was hot back in the day as Commissioner Gordon’s daughter Barbara by day and Bat girl by night. It’s the same twist as Clark Kent by day and superman by night, or better yet, Librarian by day and erotic chick at night…Alicia Silverstone just didn’t rock the costume like Yvonne did in my opinion.
Robin.
Not sure about Chris O’Donnell being Robin. I remember Burt Ward but that’s going old skool. So I will this one open.
Alfred.
Alan Napier did a great job but so did Michael Caine. What about Michael Gough? Which one would you pick?
chuck@kickacts.com
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R.I.P. Horshack..:(
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I loved this show as a kid and never missed an episode..:(
chuck
from MSN
Actor Ron Palillo, who played Arnold Horshack on the 1970s television series “Welcome Back, Kotter,” died Tuesday at his home in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. He was 63.
Jacqueline Stander, an agent for Palillo, told NBC News that the actor had a heart attack and passed away in his sleep.
Palillo starred as Horshack, the goofball of the high school group known as the Sweathogs on the hit series. The show aired from 1975-79 and featured a young John Travolta as Vinny Barbarino.
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