If you were a little girl in the 70's

Dymphna

Loyalty, Friendship, Love
If you were a little girl in the 70's...
  1. You had that Fisher Price Doctor's Kit with a stethoscope that actually worked.
  2. You owned a bicycle with a banana seat and a plastic basket with flowers on it.
  3. You learned to skate with actual skates (not roller blades) that had metal wheels.
  4. You thought Gopher from Love Boat was cute (admit it!)
  5. You had nightmares after watching Fantasy Island .
  6. You had either a 'bowl cut' or 'pixie', not to mention the 'Dorothy Hamill'. People sometimes thought you were a boy.
  7. You had rubber boots for rainy days and Moon boots for snowy days.
  8. YEAH! You owned a 'Slip-n-Slide', on which you injured yourself on a sprinkler head more than once.
  9. You owned 'Klick-Klacks' and smacked yourself in the face more than once!
  10. Your Holly Hobbie sleeping bag was your most prized possession.
  11. You wore a poncho, gauchos, and knickers.
  12. You begged Santa for the electronic game, Simon.
  13. You had the Donnie and Marie dolls with those pink and purple satiny shredded outfits, or the sunshine family
  14. You spent hours in your backyard on your metal swing set with the trapeze. The swing set tipped over at least once.
  15. You had homemade ribbon barrettes in every imaginable color. (Oh yeah!)
  16. 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.
  17. 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 Oleson!
  18. You wanted your first kiss to be at a roller rink! ---- yes it was!
  19. PONG! ('video tennis' ) was the most remarkable futuristic game you've ever heard of !
  20. Your hairstyle was described as having 'wings' or 'feathers' and you kept it 'pretty' with the comb you kept in your back pocket. When you walked, the 'wings' flapped up and down, looked like you were gonna 'take off' .
  21. You know who Strawberry Shortcake is, as well as her friends, Blueberry Muffin and Huckleberry Pie.
  22. You carried a Muppets lunch box to school and it was metal, not plastic. With the thermos inside some were glass inside and broke the first time you dropped them.
  23. You and your girlfriends would fight over which of the Dukes of Hazzard was your boyfriend.
  24. YOU had Star Wars action figures, too!
  25. 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!
  26. You often asked your Magic-8 ball the question: 'Who will I marry. Shaun Cassidy, Leif Garrett, or David Cassidy?'
  27. You completely wore out your Grease, Saturday Night Fever, and Fame soundtrack record album.
  28. 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.
  29. You made Shrinky-Dinks and put iron-on kittens on your t-shirts!
  30. You used to tape record songs off the radio by holding your portable tape player up to the speaker.
  31. You had subscriptions to Dynamite and Tiger Beat.
  32. You learned everything you needed to know about girl issues from Judy Blume books. (Are you there God, It's me, Margaret.)
  33. You thought Olivia Newton John's song 'Physical' was about aerobics. (?? its not??)
  34. You wore friendship pins on your tennis shoes, or shoelaces with heart or rainbowdesigns.
  35. You wanted to be a Solid Gold dancer.
  36. You drowned yourself in Love's Baby Soft - which was the first 'real' perfume you ever owned.
  37. You glopped your lips in Strawberry Roll-on lip-gloss till it almost dripped off.
This list hit home....
I'm guilty of about 25 of these things and another 4-5 I wanted to do, but wasn't allowed. AND what doesn't describe me, I know someone else it did.

And for the record, I had the Donnie & Marie dolls AND the Sunshine Family, so there.
 

Pete

Repete
Andy and Johnny are going to be mad and feel left out unless you do a "If you were a little girl in the 2000's" tread.
 

RareBreed

Throwing the deuces
Yep, I'm guilty of most of those too and was envious of the girls who were guilty of the rest. :lol:

I had a Donnie Osmond shirt that I wore every day until it literally fell apart.
 

Dymphna

Loyalty, Friendship, Love
You forgot Baby Alive and Chatty Cathy, and the Easy Bake Oven.

Those were the days.
Chatty Cathy was a little earlier. They probably still made them, but they weren't new and popular....I wanted a Baby Alive, but my mother wouldn't get one....I did get the easy bake oven....and you could get burned on that sucker too.
 

Bay_Kat

Tropical
Our swing set seemed to be the only one on the block, so that's where most of the kids ended up, it tipped over so many times, my dad cemented it into the ground.
 
  1. You completely wore out your Grease, Saturday Night Fever, and Fame soundtrack record album.
Grease didn't come out until '78, Saturday Night Fever 1977 Fame not until '80 ( tv 1982 ) ... I don't count this

but I'm guilty of pretty much everything else!
 

RareBreed

Throwing the deuces
Our swing set seemed to be the only one on the block, so that's where most of the kids ended up, it tipped over so many times, my dad cemented it into the ground.

My swing set had the bolts sticking out at the top. You'd go to do a somersault over the bar where the swing hooked up and get your shorts caught. You made the executive decision to either scream for my mom or wiggle out of your shorts and show everyone your undies.
 

wineo

loving life
Did anyone have a close and play record player, I loved that thing. I still have my Uncle Sam Bank, blue and still works.
 
I was born in 77 and had all of those things in the 80's. However, I didn't think Gopher was cute. :lol:

I'm a 76 baby myself. Have an older sister who had alot of those things on the list.Of course what was hers was also mine... No, Gopher was kinda cute but i just LOVED me some Bowzer from Sha-na-na :drool: :love: :killingme
 

sockgirl77

Well-Known Member
I'm a 76 baby myself. Have an older sister who had alot of those things on the list.Of course what was hers was also mine... No, Gopher was kinda cute but i just LOVED me some Bowzer from Sha-na-na :drool: :love: :killingme

I hated the white shorts on the Love Boat. I was in love with Ricky Shroeder. :drool:
 
I hated the white shorts on the Love Boat. I was in love with Ricky Shroeder. :drool:

O M G i wanted to be his girlfriend soooo bad. I wanted to go to his house so i could play with all those toys and ride that d@mn train in his living room on that show.... um um crap i cant think of it right now..:cds:

IT was Silver Spoons.......
 
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mamissa3

New Member
I was born in 77 as well and had alot of those things!! And i did think Physical was about aroebics lol. that was my favorite song!
 
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