1978

By randy-johnson

Fri, 28 Sep 2018
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I want to go to a time when things were great.
I wish that I could travel back in time to 1978.
I'd like to revisit the seventies because I loved that decade.
Back then, 8 Track tapes and records were still being played.
Songs were clean back then, now they're littered with the F word.
In 1978, music meant something and vulgarity wasn't what we heard.
40 years ago, we had no smart phones and no High Definition TV.
But landline phones and standard definition are just fine with me.
Video games sucked back then but I could live with an Atari.
If I could revisit 1978, I don't think that I would be sorry.

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Submitted by HarryC on

Remember it well.  It was the year I started work.  I loved the music: The Jam, The Clash, punk.

And I especially loved the fact that we could still keep in contact with our friends and relatives by landline or letter.... and not every 30 seconds, as now seems to be the case!  We might be better connected with smart phones, but I think they've also made us more insecure.

You sum it up well in a few words.

Submitted by rask_balavoine on

And  travel was so simple back in the 70s too. When the Greeks and the Iranains wouldn't let you cross through their border posts (as theyu had the habit of in my case) you just went on down the road and crossed a field.

Rask