What is your happiest 70's and what made you sad?

[memnoch451]

When I was a kid one of the happiest moments came in 1974 when we had a "last day of school" picnic on the front lawn of Roy Spalding grade school in Glen Ellyn. IL IT was first time in my life that I wore shorts to school as short for boys were way un cool.

I had brought a little record player that ran on Batteries(pretty cool for the time..like space travel) and we player music and ate lunch and really got to talk to the kids who when you're 11 don't know that this would be the last time you would ever see them as they moved away or went to other schools in the fall.

It was a great day and 30 some years later it still sits in my heart and I guess it kills two birds with one stone for as a kid of 11 I was crushed that I would be leaving my grade school and friends and knew even than that growing up was going to be a pain in the ass.

[Susie]

Oh my gosh! I had completely forgotten about those portable record players. I had one too, a red one. They were to us what walkmans (or the modern equivalent) is to my kids. I thought I was the coolest kid on the block to have one. I wore out my BeeGee's record on it. And scratched up my dad's Ballad of the Green Beret's record on it, due to the needle going bad.

Oh, and by the way...I live 5 miles from Glen Ellyn. Good ol' DuPage County. And I remember 1974...it was mandatory for girls to wear dresses to school. Dresses (with shorts under), knee high socks, fluffy yarn ribbons in our hair. I can remember how naughty the boys were back then...when we (the girls) would bend to get a drink of water at the water fountain, the boys would squat down and peek up our dresses. One boy picked the wrong day, wrong girl to do that to one day (I was in no mood for it) and I turned around and kicked him. And we both got paddled for it.
Oh, yes...paddled!!! Those were the days, huh?