The Best Decade Was The 1970s

Why do i think the 1970s was the best decade, well simple really, they were the best years of my life, yes parts of it were tough, it was the decade of the strikes after all, but when we think back we mostly remember the good times, the bad fade away. These were the days before credit, if you wanted, well usually needed something new, you worked until the money was saved to pay in cash. The world really was a better place back there in my memory.
They were innocent times, growing up was fun, we had real summers that lasted all through the school holidays, spending hours looking for tadpoles so i could grow my very own frog, searching trees for caterpillers, swimming at the outdoor baths, shooting everything with my spud gun, making our own go-carts, we were street kids and loved every moment of the adventure we lived. The rag and bone man, the coal man and searching everywhere for Corona bottles so we could claim the deposits. Scrumping and playing nick knock.
Simple things would mean so much.
Fashion
Flared trousers, kipper ties, hot pants ( mine were pink ) and made out of crimplene, american tan tights, bellbottom trousers, cheesecloth shirts, halter neck tops, patches, these were pieces of material we would sew all over our clothes and thought we looked wonderful, punk clothing also came in around this time and was lots of leather, tartan, shains and safety pins. tank tops, and thanks to the Bay City Rollers we all had to wear some tartan, trousers, jackets, socks and scaves. Wide collared shirts, like Harry Hill still wears. How did i almost forget the footwear, has to be the ankle breaking platform shoes.
Cars
Without doubt only one comes to mind. The Ford Capri, sexy and sleek. You had really made it if your family had one.
Music
Top of the Pops was huge in those days, it was the nearest most of us got to our idols, the music has never been so good, The Osmonds, David Essex, Queen, Blondie, Wizzard, T Rex, i cried when he died. Bay City Rollers, David Cassidy, The Jackson Five, Slade especially at Christmas, the list is endless. Rushing home on Sunday nights to tape the Top Twenty off the radio. Once a week going to the local disco dressed in our tartan and doing The Bump.
Food Drink Sweets
70s sweets were fantastic, not as much choice as today but better, Milk Tray Bar, Toffee Buttons, Spangles, Salt and Shake Crisps, Burtons Puffs, Nuttals Mintoes, Mighty Imps, Tiger Tots, Teddy Tots, Pacers, Strawberry Aero, Super Mousse, Toffee Cup.
Party drinks for the ladies would be Babycham or Blue Nun and Party Seven for the men, party food had to be prawn cocktail, pineapple on sticks, sausages on sticks, sherry trifle, tinned fruit cocktail with carnation milk, sausage rolls.
TV Programs
Not so many channels and no video or many other gadgets, but TV was great, Magpie or Blue Peter ( never both) The Waltons, The Beverley Hillbillies, Little House on the Prairie, Starsky and Hutch, Kojak, he started a lollipop craze, Columbo, On the Buses, Alf Garnett, Love Thy Neighbour. Play School, Magic Roundabout, Swapshop, Tizwas, Its a Knockout, im sure you can think of many more.
Toys and Games
Clackers, these were banned because they were breaking childrens wrists, but still great fun. Tiny Tears Dolls, Action Man, Shaker Maker, Painting by Numbers, Chopper Bikes ( mine was blue ) Airfix Kits, Meccano, Etch a Sketch, Evil Knievel, Gollywogs, Compendium of Games, Enid Blyton Books.
So we had The Queens Jubilee, Marc Bolan died, a sugar ration, power cuts, school dinners cost 10p, i had my first........ kiss and i made some of the best friends in my whole life.