Your Favorite Seventies Memories?

[nathan_slatter]

As a kid I think we had a Teddy Huffam and the Gems 8 track -- maybe even a Mighty Clouds of Joy 8 track. We definitely had some Jerry Clower 8 track.

[rgcraig]

We had our wedding recorded on 8-track because I didn't trust the new fangled cassett tapes.

Years later, I wanted to transfer the ceremony to a cassett and couldn't find an 8-track player to make that happen.

[Nahum]

Originally Posted by nathan_slatter

As a kid I think we had a Teddy Huffam and the Gems 8 track -- maybe even a Mighty Clouds of Joy 8 track. We definitely had some Jerry Clower 8 track.

I loved them! Haven't heard any of their music in years.

[Nahum]

I remember when the Imperials were considered to "rocky" for we Pentecostal kids. We bought a record of them on the black market. That was great stuff!

[rgcraig]

Originally Posted by Pastor Poster

I remember when the Imperials were considered to "rocky" for we Pentecostal kids. We bought a record of them on the black market. That was great stuff!

Oh, yea had their 8-tracks too!

And the Gatlin Brothers....not sure why I had them, but I like them.

[nathan_slatter]

Originally Posted by Pastor Poster

I loved them! Haven't heard any of their music in years.

I cut my teeth on them and Mighty Clouds of Joy. Oh -- and Barnes and Brown.

[tbpew]

Asteroids software simulation was a fabulous visual demonstration of the foundational physical law...."every action having an equal an opposite reaction" and the principles of conservation of momentum were also made readily apparent! I think I actually appreciated physics in college so much more because of my enjoyment of Asteroids (including that sweet, low frequency sound when you fired your thrusters).

Ah yes....
many a quarter was given in support of shooting white dots in an effort to explode other jagged dots, all the while dodging those pesky little space ships that just kept getting smaller and faster.


My best seventies memory was the culmination of the build-up to the bi-centenial celebration in Philly. As area residents, me and my friends walked across the Ben Franklin Bridge on July 4th, 1976 (NJ toward Philly) in some imagined reliving of coming to Philadelphia for the signing.

[nathan_slatter]

Originally Posted by tbpew

Asteroids software simulation was a fabulous visual demonstration of the foundational physical law...."every action having an equal an opposite reaction" and the principles of conservation of momentum were also made readily apparent! I think I actually appreciated physics in college so much more because of my enjoyment of Asteroids (including that sweet, low frequency sound when you fired your thrusters).

Ah yes....
many a quarter was given in support of shooting white dots in an effort to explode other jagged dots, all the while dodging those pesky little space ships that just kept getting smaller and faster.


My best seventies memory was the culmination of the build-up to the bi-centenial celebration in Philly. As area residents, me and my friends walked across the Ben Franklin Bridge on July 4th, 1976 (NJ toward Philly) in some imagined reliving of coming to Philadelphia for the signing.

This reminds me: My grandfather bought one of those console games with Pong. Now that is a good memory. One that I hadn't thought of in years -- thanks, TBP.

[Nahum]

Hey tbpew, do you remember that racing game called "Pole Position"?

The car stayed in one place, and the whole screen moved around it.

[nathan_slatter]

Originally Posted by Pastor Poster

Hey tbpew, do you remember that racing game called "Pole Position"?

The car stayed in one place, and the whole screen moved around it.

OH -- Wow, I had forgotten about that one too....