Living in the 70s
Now for all you researchers, nostalgia lovrs or just plain curious I have found some excellent books all about growing up in the 70s. Now if you have a read through some of these it may just give you a taste of what growing up in the 70s was really like.

TV's Grooviest Variety Shows (of the ' 60 and ' 70s) 'TV's Grooviest Variety Shows (of the '60s and '70s)' is an irresistible page-turning account of TV's greatest and goofiest variety shows of the psychedelic 1960s and '70s. Designed to be browser-friendly, the book covers the main shows of the era?Ed Sullivan, Lawrence Welk, Dean Martin, the Smothers Brothers, 'Laugh-In, ' Flip Wilson, 'Sonny and Cher, ' 'Midnight Special, ' classic 'Saturday Night Live' (1975-80), 'SCTV, ' and 'The Muppets.' Each of these key chapters is fast-moving and fun, with quick, easy-to-skim sidebars like Memorable Moments, Quotable Quotes, and Bloopers & Breakups, plus a brisk narrative of the show's behind-the-scenes dramas, cast, and history.

Checkered Past: A Visual Diary of the 60s and 70s Peter Schlesinger's first-hand account of his life in London in the late 60s and 70s with David Hockney and his eclectic, fascinating circle of friends - W.H.Auden, Christopher Isherwood, Paloma Picasso, Twiggy, Robert Mapplethorpe, Amanda Lear, Yves St. Laurent, Rudolf Nureyev, and many others - all photographed by Schlesinger and presented here with extended witty and gossipy captions, recounting their foibles and outrageous behavior.

The 70s 20th Century Pop Culture takes a trip down memory lane with its colorful, entertaining, and educational look at the trends that have gripped popular culture throughout the past 100 years.

Fashionable Clothing from the Sears Catalogs: Late '70s Fashionable Clothing from the Sears Catalogs: Late '70s

Rac Rally Action!: From the 60s, 70s and 80s Starting at the time rallying was becoming more and more competitive, when it moved into having forest stages, this detailed review takes the reader into the heart of this thrilling event. All aspects of these events are covered using rare photos from manufacturers' archives plus the author's own. Rally documents, including regulations, programs, road books, crew notes, and a full color cutaway illustration of a famous winning car make this book one of the most detailed in its genre. This publication has full approval of the Royal Automobile Club and the Motor Sports Association.

The Fabulous Sylvester: The Legend, the Music, the 70s in San Francisco A journey back through the music, madness, and unparalleled freedom of an era of change--the '70s--as told through the life of a pied piper singing in a dazzling falsetto, wearing glittering sequins, and leading the young people of the nation to San Francisco.

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Retro Desserts: Totally Hip, Undated Classic Desserts from the '40s, '50s, '60s, and '70s With this totally hip cookbook, readers will be able to re-create those fun desserts they remember from their childhood: Chocolate Blackout Cake, Chocolate-Dipped Frozen Banana Bon Bons, Rum and Cherry Cola Marble Cake, and Caramel Apple Chiffon Cupcakes, to name a few. Retro-style, full-color photos. From the Publisher Ever find yourself dreaming about a big fluffy coconut layer cake like the one Mom might make if you lived in Leave It to Beaver land? Or Cream-Filled Devil's Food Cupcakes that don't taste like the plastic and cardboard they are wrapped in? Well, now you can bake these cakes and eat them, too. Wayne Brachman, executive pastry chef for Bobby Flay's popular New York restaurants, presents this totally hip collection of recipes, Retro Desserts. Inspired by classics from the '40s, '50s, '60s, and '70s, these fabulous desserts look just as great as you remember, and taste even better. It's a trip down to memory lane bakery, where kitsch desserts of yesterday have been revamped for the sophisticated kitchen of today. Updated classics include Chocolate Blackout Cake, Checkerboard Cake, Baked Alaska, and Cherries Jubilee. Other recipes include wild creations based on old-fashioned flavors, like Chocolate-Dipped Frozen Banana Bon Bons, Rum and Cherry Cola Marble Cake, and Caramel Apple Chiffon Cupcakes. Showcased by retro-style full-color photography and artwork, headlines and excerpts taken from vintage magazines and cookbooks, these are well-tested, seriously fun desserts that really work in your home kitchen, making Retro Desserts a valuable addition to every home baker's cookbook collection.

70s Fashion Fiascos If a generation is defined by what it wears, what does the “ I’ m With Stupid” T-shirt craze say about the 1970s? Nothing, Maureen Valdes Marsh explains, that wasn’ t already hinted at by palazzo pants and topstitched leisure suits. In this picture-packed book, she examines these and other fashion imponderables of the decade. Through text, photos, and trivia, the book leads readers through the closets of an era that took a great leap forward, fashion-wise. Style disassociated itself from the past as self-expression took hold. Women, entering the work force in droves, exchanged their mothers’ housecoats for pants suits and maxi dresses. And men, determined to keep up, stepped out in vivid Quiana dress shirts and ties of incomprehensible width. 70s Fashion Fiascos documents it all — from thankfully brief fads like roller disco and feathered hair to styles that endured such as graphic tee’ s — and does it with wit and affection.

New Art in the 60s and 70s: Redefining Reality By the end of the 1960s a revolution had taken place in the perception and practice of art in Europe and North America. This book, the first detailed account of developments centered around the conceptual art movement, highlights the main issues underlying visually disparate works dating from the second half of the 1960s to the end of the 1970s. These works questioned the accepted categories of painting and sculpture by embracing a wealth of alternative media and procedures. Traditional two- and three-dimensional representations were supplanted by a variety of linguistic and photographic means, as well as installations that brought into play the importance of presentation and site. Through close examination of individual works and artists, Anne Rorimer demonstrates the pervading desire to redefine the characteristics of what was once accepted as truly visual in order to dispel earlier assumptions and offer other criteria for seeing. Artists whose work is discussed in depth include Robert Ryman, Gerhard Richter, Joseph Kosuth, Lawrence Weiner, Eleanor Antin, John Baldessari, Gilbert & George, Sol LeWitt, Adrian Piper, Bruce Nauman, Vito Acconci, Marcel Broodthaers, Robert Smithson, Daniel Buren, and Michael Asher. Forerunners of the period such as Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol, Frank Stella, Piero Manzoni, Joseph Beuys, Allan Kaprow, and Fluxus are also included.

American Films of the 70s: Conflicting Visions While the anti-establishment rebels of 1969's Easy Rider were morphing into the nostalgic yuppies of 1983's The Big Chill, Seventies movies brought us everything from killer sharks, blaxploitation, and teen comedies to haunting views of a divided America at war. Indeed, as Peter Lev Persuasively argues in this book, the films of the 1970s constitute a kind of conversation about what American society is and should be -- open, diverse, and egalitarian, or stubbornly resistant to change.Examining forty films thematically, Lev explores the conflicting visions presented within ten different film genres or subjects: -- Hippies (Easy Rider, Alice's Restaurant)-- Cops (The French Connection, Dirty Harry)-- Disasters and Conspiracies (Jaws, Chinatown)-- End of the Sixties (Nashville, The Big Chill)-- Art, Sex, and Hollywood (Last Tango in Paris)-- Teens (American Graffiti, Animal House)-- War (Patton, Apocalypse Now)-- African-Americans (Shaft, Superfly)-- Feminisms (An Unmarried Woman, The China Syndrome)-- Future Visions (Star Wars, Blade Runner)As accessible to ordinary moviegoers as to film scholars, Lev's book is an essential companion to these familiar, well-loved movies.

Precious and Few: Pop Music of the Early '70s Here is a lively and nostalgic look back at the forgotten era that gave us Hooked on a Feeling, Dancing in the Moonlight, I Am Woman, Seasons in the Sun, and more. The early '70s brought a Convoy of popular music--everything from the cheesy to the classic. The authors, true-blue '70s fanatics, have put together this irresistably readable book to transport readers back to a time when people wore smiley-face buttons, went to singles bars, and heartily sang along with Mac Davis. Illustrations throughout.

On a Revolution: My Estrus Escapades in the Sexual '70s Self-discovery in the sex-crazed '70s-One female's true story of obsession, sex, and survival when self-esteem was not tied to gender-based societal rules of self-control. Revealing and titillating, On a Revolution is written by a self-proclaimed 'guy's girl who is as passionate about football as sexual discourse, declaring it time for females to 'cast off the sugar-cubed facade of sweet 16. No longer can a mere dozen roses stem the pulsing feminine quest for flesh on flesh. It's about knowing who you are and what you want, and exploring the presumptive male entitlement of pervasive and perverse physical hunger. It's about daring to embrace, enjoy, and reveal one's sexuality beyond a societal vanilla-bland mindset. An erotic odyssey of sexual revolution.

Film Posters of the '70s: Essential Movies of the Decade Following the acclaimed Film Posters of the '60s, internationally renowned poster archivists Tony Nourmand and Graham Marsh of the Reel Poster Gallery now present the best of the '70s film posters from their coveted collection of rare and graphically exciting originals.Reflecting the anxieties and escapism of this angst-ridden decade was the bleak realism of Taxi Driver and the political paranoia of All the President's Men. In the '70s, blaxploitation films made their first appearance, while Last Tango in Paris and Emmanuelle edged porno-chic into the mainstream and Apocalypse Now and Dirty Harry defined a new kind of anti-hero. American directors arriving on the scene in the '70s include Scorsese, Coppola, Spielberg, Lucas, Bogdanovich, and Woody Allen; internationally, directors like Bertolucci, Fassbinder, Wenders, and Ken Russell made their marks. With over 250 full-color posters from around the world, Film Posters of the '70s is a knock-out showcase for film fans, and anyone interested in graphic design and advertising.

How We Got Here: The '70s: The Decade That Brought You Modern Life--For Better or Worse In this first, thematic popular history of the decade, David Frum argues that it was the 1970s, not the 1960s, that created modern America and altered the American personality forever. An original, big witty pudding of a book .-- Wall Street Journal .