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A very 70s Christmas

Click on picture for a better look Jarrod from The Monroe County Historical Sociiety sent me photos of an awesome display they’ve set up for the Holiday season. It’s a complete 1970s living room complete with vintage furniture shag carpeting, a tree with original 70s ornaments and enough toys to make ten awesome 70s Christmases.  […]

Wishbook-A-Rama!

Seeing as it’s December (which I’m actually surprised about, seriously where the hell did November go?) and this site is about catalogs, I am launching “Wishbook-A-Rama”. Each week I’ll post different Christmas catalog spreads, some you’ve seen, some you haven’t and we can all make our respective wish lists. This will be combined with the […]

How Do You Do Lord Vader?

David after getting chomped on by Cookie Monster also sent in this fun shot of him shaking hands with the dark lord of the Sith in ’77. We have another reader submission to the “Christmas in the 1970s” contest we’re running all December. Adam has sent in tale from 1978 which deals with the important […]

Glamour Dressing for Memorable Holidays

Memorable in the context of “Remember when mom got dressed up like a gigantic red ornament and drank an entire box of wine?” Speaking of the Holidays we have the first reader submission to the “Christmas in the 1970s” contest we’re running all December. Derek from the UK has sent us in a vintage picture […]

Christmas in the 1970s Contest!

For the month of December, I’m running a contest for submissions to theupcoming book “Christmas in the 1970s” send us your best vintage snapshot/Polaroid of the day along with the date and location and anythingspecial about it (Cool present, you got in a fight with your sister, greatfamily memory etc) and we’ll add it to […]

Clown College Co-Eds?

I’m trying to guess where else an outfit like this would fly, it’s either an assistant to a magician or a regional Romper Room host. If I had to guess though, I think there’s play-doh and balloons in those pockets…. Christmas in the 70s Update! Still working on the upcoming photo essay book, Christmas in […]

Christmas in the 70’s Update : Santa Terror!

I know it’s Halloween week and all but I wanted to mention that there is a new entry on the Christmas in the ’70s Book Blog. This week Betsy shares a very memorable encounter with a mall Santa. Please read “The Flood” here. If you’d like to share a memorable photo — and a story […]

Christmas in the 70ʼs book project

Iʼm pleased to announce a new and fun project Iʼve become involved with that could really use input from any child/survivor of the seventies. “Christmas in the ’70s” is a planned photo-essay book about, yes,Christmas in the ’70s, as told through the yellowed snapshots of Instamatics past. Christmas in the 70’s will be a photo-essay […]