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Back Road BearsA childhood friend just sent this to me and I had a hillarious trip down memory lane! Some of you will totally relate so here goes:
YOU WERE A LITTLE GIRL IN THE 70'S IF...
You wore a rainbow shirt that was half-sleeves, and the rainbow went up one sleeve, across your chest, and down the other.
You made baby chocolate cakes in your Easy Bake Oven and washed them down with snow cones from your Snoopy Snow Cone Machine.
You had that Fisher Price Doctor's Kit with a stethoscope that actually worked.
You owned a bicycle with a banana seat and a plastic basket with flowers on it.
You learned to skate with actual skates (not roller blades) that had metal wheels.
You thought Gopher from Love Boat was cute (admit it!)
You had nightmares after watching Fantasy Island.
You had rubber boots for rainy days and Moon boots for snowy days.
You had either a "bowl cut" or "pixie," not to mention the "Dorothy Hamill" because your Mom was sick of braiding your hair. People sometimes thought you were a boy.
Your Holly Hobbie sleeping bag was your most prized possession.
You wore a poncho, gauchos, and knickers.
You begged Santa for the electronic game, Simon.
You had the Donnie and Marie dolls with those pink and purple satiny shredded outfits.
You spent hours in your backyard on your metal swing set with the trapeze. The swing set tipped over at least once.
You had homemade ribbon barrettes in every imaginable color.
You had a pair of Doctor Scholl's sandals (the ones with hard sole & the buckle). You also had a pair of salt-water sandals.
You wanted to be Laura Ingalls Wilder really bad; you wore that Little House on the Prairie-inspired plaid, ruffle shirt with the high neck in at least one school picture; and you despised Nellie Olson!
You wanted your first kiss to be at a roller rink.
Your hairstyle was described as having "wings" or "feathers" and you kept it "pretty" with the comb you kept in your back pocket.
You know who Strawberry Shortcake is, as well as her friends, Blueberry Muffin and Huckleberry Pie.
You carried a Muppets lunch box to school and it was metal, not plastic.
You and your girlfriends would fight over which of the Dukes of Hazzard was your boyfriend.
Every now and then "It's a Hard Knock Life" from the movie, "Annie" will pop into your brain and you can't stop singing it the whole day.
YOU had Star Wars action figures, too!
It was a big event in your household each year when the "Wizard of Oz" would come on TV. Your mom would break out the popcorn and sleeping bags!
You often asked your Magic-8 ball the question: "Who will I marry. Shaun Cassidy, Leif Garrett, or Rick Springfield?"
You completely wore out your Grease, Saturday Night Fever, and Fame soundtrack record album.
You tried to do lots of arts and crafts, like yarn and Popsicle-stick God's eyes, decoupage, or those weird potholders made on a plastic loom. Pot holders - I believe they were called loom loopers".
You made Shrinky-Dinks and put iron-on kittens on your t-shirts!
You used to tape record songs off the radio by holding your portable tape player up to the speaker.
You couldn't wait to get the free animal poster that came when you ordered books from the Weekly Reader book club. Double score if it was a teddy bear dressed in clothing.
You learned everything you needed to know about girl issues from Judy Blume books (Are you there God, It's me, Margaret.)
You thought Olivia Newton John's song "Physical" was about aerobics.
You wore friendship pins on your tennis shoes, or shoelaces with heart or rainbow designs.
You wanted to be a Solid Gold dancer.
You had a Big Wheel with a brake on the side, and a Sit-n-Spin.
You had subscriptions to Dynamite and Tiger Beat.
You spent all your allowance on smurfs and stickers for your sticker album!
Posts: 3,177ha ha ha ha 
We may be on different continents Daphne but we obviously have a lot in common!
Don't forget space hoppers and dungerees too (oh lord, dungerees -biggest fashion faux pas in history, even mums wore them - yuk)
Penny - a 70's girl through and through
Cleathero CreationsHere here childhood must be universal, for me the tv programme was skippy...tck tck tck (any Australians out there)?
I was just thinking about that game Simon the other day.
Posts: 3,177"what's that Skippy - two kids have fallen down the ridge and can't get out?"
tck tck tck. tck tck.
"Three miles north of the old broken tree?"
tck tck
"OK Skippy - i'll get Dad"
ha ha ha ha
We had Skippy here too Bronwen - i had a Yorkshire terrier called Skippy 
Bear Paws by RoxanneThis brings back sooooo many memories! Especially the Donny Osmond thing... My mom kept my Donny and Marie dolls for me, she passed away this summer, now have them. I loved him so much 
I too did sit in front of out television with my cassette recorder up against the speaker. I still have the recordings.
Penny, you mentioned
(oh lord, dungerees -biggest fashion faux pas in history, even mums wore them - yuk)
Are those also known as what we called them "goucho pants"? They came up to just below the knees and flaired like a dress but were actually pants. We usually wore them with "Stevie Nicks" boots or wooden clogs with leather uppers.
This was very fun to read. I enjoyed it very much. Thanks Daphne 
Oh what great memories that brought back Daphne. Thanks a million for sharing !!!! I still have my easy bake oven ( well , Holly Hobby oven actually and my kids think it is cool ! ), oh and Bo Duke, smurfs and roller rinks. I remember wearing those rollerskateS at the rink with my feathered hair and comb in my pocket ! What a blast :dance:
What about the show Emergency with Johnny Gage ..hubba hubba
I'm a bit too old to have been a little girl in the 70s...but I loved Skippy...though I loved the Forest Rangers best...does anyone else remember them....they were always radio-ing their Dad saying 'XMY,556 A for Apple,over..."...or something on those lines....
Oh it takes me back....
Cleathero CreationsOh Penny, That's it!!
I didn't realise Skippy had been exported.
I was only 6 at the end of the 70's but man I remeber some of it.... Holly Hobby got the doll and had it on my bed.Rollerskates yep.
OMG!!! What a blast from the past! I was SOOOO a 70's child. I'd forgotten how cool it was to grow up during that time. :dance: Thank you for the little reminder, Daphne.
Warmest hugs, :hug:
Aleta
P.S. I'm not diggin on having that Annie song stuck in my head though! 
Past Time BearsWell, I remember all of those things because my two girls grew up in the 70s . . . and it even made me nostalgic! Sesame Street, Electric Company, Three's Company, Love Boat, The Carpenters - ooooooh wish I could go back 30 years!
Back Road BearsI'm glad you all are having a fun trip down memory lane. As I read it I kept saying "Oh yeah! I remember that! I did that!" Rick Springfield and Gopher 
and roller skates, the banana bike seat and the moon boots and the Dorothy Hamill ..... I was always being called a boy. (Coulda killed my mother for that hair cut!).
I was at an antique shop a couple weeks ago looking for a Holly Hobbie lunch box like the one I used to have and though I didn't find one I found a booth full of smurfs!!! Smurfs, antiques??? Hmf!
I wondered how universal these trends were. Though I've never heard of Skippy (excpt for the brand of peanut butter we have here in the states) I'm glad most of it was wordwide!
Sue Ann - Three's Company was the nightly thing to watch in my house!!!
Apple Dumpling DesignsAlright...who found my diary?
Hysterical! I see myself in so much of that. But where is the mention of those bun-hugging pants extraordinaire, DITTOS, and their sister in fashion crime, CHEMIN DE FER, with the little train logo. We thought we were so French, and all that.
And where is the mention of Pop Rocks? Journey?
My sister, two years younger, was the Laura Ingalls wannabe/Shaun Cassidy/TIGER BEAT one in our household. Loved The Hardy Boys, that girl did. I love her lots, but... what a dork. Laughing here....
But I DID have a Dorothy Hamill, and then later (in high school, while a pom pom girl, of course!), the hugest sausage roll feathers you could want, and GREASE was one of my favorite movies and soundtracks (I still have the LP somewhere) EVER! I loved Judy Blume but was obviously more sophisticated, because I learned everything about boys and sex from her young adult novel, FOREVER, which had many a dog-eared page, and was passed around to and from every girl I knoew.
And I knew darn well Lovely Livvie was singing about something entirely other than aerobics.
Thanks, Daphne, for the trip down (painful) memory lane!
PS My sons have the "new" Simon!!!; it plays on BOTH sides. Oooooooooooooooooohhhhhhhh!
Posts: 3,540 What a trip down memory lane!!! Ahhhhh...yes, I remember my Big Wheel, and how cool it was to slam on the side brake after wheeling really fast.
Yup, had the 'pixie' haircut because Mum was tired of dealing with long hair....and then the feather. Although I still love the feathered hairstyle! I'd give just about anything to have a hairstylist capable of feathering and layering my hair again...instead of the 'let's just cut your bangs straight across, cut the rest of it backwards 
I'm not kidding! and then charge you a bundle.
Mum's got prized photos somewhere's of me with my first Easy Bake Oven...oooh, and my Lite Brite's toy! And playing Mousetrap! LOL, I never really bothered with the game, just set up the trap to watch it work
Yep, those were the days!!
Posts: 2,203OMG!!!! I think I just tripped down memory lane! Hows this? You know you grew up in the70s if.. You remember "The bionic Woman" I was born in' 73
Kiprie BearsYou owned a bicycle with a banana seat and a plastic basket with flowers on it.
Hahaha
I just remembered that I had this Banana seat Bicycle !
but... some one stole from me! 
What a fun memory every one has !
Ruby Mountain BearsOkay that was a total flash back into my life.
Hey, There was nothing wrong with the movie Saturday Night Fever, I am sure I still have that album. I can still sing along with the grease album.
Had the Dorothy Hamill, Had the Farrah feathers, Had the Stevie Nicks boots, Gaucho's.
Total child of the '70's and proud of it. I loved Disco!!!!
:dance:
Those were the days,,,,Ha Ha
HUgs, kathy
Bear Paws by RoxanneHey, I have a question for y'all. This really does not pertain to being a girl, but it did to me having 4 brothers. We have talked about the bikes with the banana seats right. Did any of you have a brother that had a bike with the banana seat with the "sissy bar" on the back, and the "forked extension" front wheel? So that they were like choppers. And what about making "creepy crawlers"? 
Ruby Mountain BearsTotally, Green seat green bike with forks. It was metal flake paint sparkled in the sun. Man was it cool. :lol:
Wait Wait, remember using cards with laundry clothes pins clipped to the spokes to make noise!!!!!
Posts: 2,203I LOVED "Little House on the Prarie"
Back Road BearsI LOVED "Little House on the Prarie"
Me too, Jenn!
I STILL say how much I wish we lived in that era..... things HAD to have been so much simpler! (On the surface anyway... we don't have to analyze it as I know even then they had their own struggles.) I cried when Michael Landon died. He always played such good characters. Highway to Heaven......
Hows about tube socks... white with colored stripes on the top... came up to your knees and looked really cool with shorts! (ACK!!! )
Does anybody remember the band Air Supply? Or Asia?
I think I just tripped down memory lane! Hows this? You know you grew up in the70s if.. You remember "The bionic Woman" I was born in' 73
OMG I was born in 1972 and I remember when I was about 5 or 6 using my Christmas money to buy not a Barbie doll but a Bionic Woman doll. I loved her - with her little plug in bionic arms and all!!
Ooh Penny I had red dungaree pedal pushers and my mother liked them so much that when I grew out of them the first year she went right back and bought me another pair!! Bright tomato red...classy! Actually, I liked them, as I had to wear hand-me down clothes from the 60s when I was a child in the late 70s and early 80s - so desparately uncool.
Was the Vogart painted craze thing big in the UK/US. It was like paint in metal tubes that you painted onto tshirts. My aunt made me a blue one with a soda glass on it - that very 70s image with the glass, straw, bubbles and strawberries. I thought it was so American and so cool!
Daphne, I LOVED -- still love -- ASIA. "Heat of the Moment." I had the album. Great stuff! Wow, what a reminder!
The 70's were about platform heels, spangles to suck and the Bay City Rollers for me, here in the UK!
Cleathero CreationsWhat about the Goodies?
Goodies
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