Do you remember the year 1970 . . . .

The price of a NEW home was $23,400
Average income per year was $9,350
A gallon of gas was 36 cents
A DATSUN 210 was $3,869
A car 8 track stereo player $38.99
A CB radio $147
A king size Bean Bag Chair $19.99

A country ranch home with 3 bedrooms, a large barn and 10 acres of land with fruit and oak trees in Vallejo California $59,200


Billboard's Top 100 1970

1.Simon and Garfunkel . . . Bridge Over Trouble Water
2. Carpenters . . . Close To You
3. Guess Who . . . American Woman/No Sugar Tonight


Top TV Shows


1. Marcus Welby
2. Flip Wilson Show
3. Here's Lucy


Ohhhhhhh how I remember those days.  I was all of 5 years old! 
 

Later
Kev

Yes..............

1970 was the beginning of several bad medical years for me................and my parents.  Or great years depending on what you take from it?

In 1970 was diagnosed with Congenital Aortic Stenosis.

So, in 1970, I had one of the very early and successful, Co-arctation of the Aorta procedure's performed at University of Washington Hospital. ..................Seattle,WA

In a nut shell most Aortic stenosis  diagnosis in small children (and still in some adults)
 are repaired using either pig or baboon parts and tissue.

In my case , they cut the stenosis out and stretched my own Aorta far enough to sew the ends back together.

In that era most  Cardiologist and surgeons had no experience and little applicable data  to that procedure ,and its long term results.

The hope was the patient would only need 1 surgery not the 2-3 that could be required using animal tissue.

So.......................my friend.

I remember 1970 well,

.....................................I've been on borrowed time ever since.............

  

Was a great year for me. Rode around in my buddy's Volkswagen van with my long hair, tie-died shirt and bell bottom blue jeans. Flashed the peace sign to everyone I knew. Listened mostly to Hendrix and Led Zepplin with Grand Funk, Blood Rock and Trapeze thrown in. Had many girlfriends and they were very friendly. I hardly ever stayed home and lived with my grandparents. My Dad was in Viet Nam with the Marine Corps and my mother was in the hospital most of the time with bone cancer. 

Girls of my own age seemed much younger then.

slartabartfast

The price of a NEW home was $23,400 Average income per year was $9,350 A gallon of gas was 36 cents A DATSUN 210 was $3,869 A car 8 track stereo player $38.99 A CB radio $147 A king size Bean Bag Chair $19.99

 
I liked the music. Hated the TV shows.
 
the money is an interesting issue.
 
I assume your figures are from http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/1970s.html
 
The "average" in the income is apparently a median i.e. the point at which half of all earners make more and half less.  Other sources give the 1970 mean income as about $38,000 (the very rich pull up the mean without raising the median all that much). That is what I call the Bill-Gates-on-a-bus fallacy. Bill Gates gets on a bus on third street, and the "average" (mean) rider on the bus is a multimillionare. Wheh he gets off on 25th street the average rider still can't afford a car. The mean aka per capita income makes us all look richer than most of us are. Inflation adjustment brings the median income of $9350 to $54000-55000. In 2010 census median houshold income was $49445. Do you feel richer today?
 
 
A CB radio costing $147 in 1970 comes to an inflation adjusted cost today of about $862. But you can buy one for about $30. The reason the real (inflation adjusted) cost has dropped so astronomically is that technological advancement has made the product cheap to produce. That is an example of what I call the Louis the XIV fallacy much beloved by conservative pundits. Louis XIV did not own a TV. Since most poor people in the US own a TV, then every poor person in the US is richer than Louis XIV.

+1

All I remember of 1970 was sitting in Grade 1, at my desk, as the teacher brought in a TV. We watched the moon landings. It was incredible.

Junior in high school... the year I discovered music theory and classical music... started to bring about major musical changes.  Most of ya'all drove your parents nuts listening to various forms of loud rock.  I ended up driving my mom (dad was deceased) nuts listening to classical music, with other relatives more or less wondering what had gotten into that kid.  Prior to that, I had been listening to some of the heavier groups of the day (along with some folk-the folk side stayed).  The common point is driving the parents nuts.  Based on what I learned in music theory that year, I eventually decided to become a music major (yeah, not exactly a normal motivation/reason).

Got a Hofner Committee (still got it) and a WEM 15watt head and accompanying 30 watt speaker cab. Made some noise !

Started in a 6th form group and decided music was much more important than lessons. Playrd first ever gig in December of that year.
Good old days .......

Cheers,
Jerry

Dropped acid, listened to Zep, Free, Hendrix and spent a lot of time in a room full of colored lights. It changed everything. I'm not proud, just a fact, it happened. And weed was $20 for a "lid", the acid was $2.

I was 8.


And not in the least bit upset that The Beatles had broken up.

bapu


I was 17. Young dumb and.... you know.

Two years away from being married.
One year away from declining to go to London with Chas Sandford.
Five years away from my son being born, seven for my daughter.
I still owned my 60's P-Bass that I got for $15 and had to rewire, because it was not working.
I finally owned a real Acoustic 360 Bass Amp


I drove a 1964 Ford Falcon 2 door, and I got ^^THAT^^ in the back seat.
Gas was $0.26 where I lived. $0.19 when they had 'gas wars'.
I made $0.65/hour and worked 20 hours per week (1/2 day in school, 1/2 day work). 

Bapu,
I played with Chas on Jimmy Messina's album "One More Mile".  Here are the credits:
 
 
1983
Jim Messina
One More Mile
(Warner Brothers 7599 - 26560 - 2)

[color=#000000 font="verdana, arial, helvetica"]Produzent / Producer: Jim Messina

Musiker / Musicians:
Jim Messina: guitar, vocals

mit / with:
Tommy Funderburk: vocals / Chuck Cochran: vocals / Jim Saad: drums / Mark Leonard: bass / Chas Sandford: guitar / Alan Pasqua: keyboards, synthesizer / Pauline Wilson: vocals / Edie Lehman: vocals / Doane Perry: drums / Robbie Buchanan: piano / Jai Winding: piano / Peter Wolf: synthesizer / Ernie Watts: saxophone / Patrick Simmons: vocals / Bridget Benenate: vocals / Michael Boddicker: synthesizer

 

SteveStrummerUK


I was 8.


And not in the least bit upset that The Beatles had broken up.

I was 7.  I had no idea the Beatles were together. 
 
I was taking piano lessons.
I remember looking at the moon after/during a moonwalk and asking my dad why I couldn't see them on the moon if they were there.
we had CB radios in both cars and a base unit.
we had 2 rotary dial telephones in the house both wall hanging units.  one was black the other was that bright yellow color.
 

jamesg1213

Beagle

we had 2 rotary dial telephones in the house both wall hanging units.  one was black the other was that bright yellow color.

I was 10, and yep, we had one of those. Our tel. number was '384'

You must have had Alexander Graham Bell-end on speed dial

My dad had one of the rotary phones on a table in the hall...when I got older I had one in my bedroom...I can still remember the races to the phone whenever my GF would call....

I was 16, my father had just passed away earlier that year. I began growing my hair long and we moved from the town we had lived in for the better part of 10+ years.  

New school, new friends, new life.  The music from that summer was freaking amazing. Creedence Clearwater was riding the top of the charts, the song "WAR" was on the radio, John Lennon, Hendrix, and Joplin all died sometime around that time.....The war in Vietnam was starting to wind to a close, and one night Judy, the girl across the street started blowing her car horn at around 9pm or so. My mom asked me to go see what her problem was. She told me the war in Vietnam was over.....  

The new house had woods behind it, and a pond out there in the woods as well as a really cool rope swing over a ravine.  We used to collect christmas trees and drag them to the pond and pile them up on the sandy shore. Later that night we would have all the neighborhood kids out there in the woods for a huge freaking bonfire.  In the winter, we'd skate on the pond, and play pickup ice hockey.

I finished my last 2 years of school in that new town. 

I used to plug my guitar into my mom's Harmon Kardon stereo and ended up blowing up the speakers.  While she was out working I was having mini concerts in the living room with the front door open. The neighborhood kids would come and hang out.  I was playing a Harmony guitar at the time. 

Paul, the guy across the street (Judy's older brother) always had good weed, and tended to hang out with the kind of folks that could easily get you into prison if you weren't careful. 

All in all, 1970 was a good year.