I was born in 1959. I spent my most impressionable childhood years in the seventies - from ages 11 - 21. I love the music of the seventies, the fads, the foods, the fashion, the cars, the lifestyle ... just about everything. There were many milestones I covered in this decade: first love (and second, third, fourth to infinity), alcohol and drugs, marriage, heartache, Myrtle Beach, SC, high school and college. Throughout this blog I hope to bring some memories back, as well as share my musings with you.



I like to collect things (cookbooks, hearts, lava lights, etc), visit antique and thrift stores, scour yard sales, bake and cook, write, read, and even get creative sometimes.

I loved lava lamps. I was given a greenish blue one for Christmas when I was in the seventh grade and it almost never got unplugged. The glow it cast in the room was perfect as a night light and whenever I was stressed, I would just sit, mesmerized by its floating globs.

I also got one of these that same year.  It was yellow, just like this, and vinyl and stuck to you in hot weather. I spent many hours sitting in this, listening to my eight track tapes, or phonograph.

 

Here are some pictures of old records (45s) and eight track tapes. 

My parent's console record player/AM FM radio looked like this. I would play show tune albums on this and dance in the living room.

 My record player actually looked a lot like this. 

I remember that the American Top 100 would come on at the end of every year, and I would record it on a reel to reel tape recorder, and then move it to cassette tapes. Wow, talk about time consuming. The program itself lasted 5 hours. Then, I would have to move the songs onto the cassettes.