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Searching for the seventies
« on: November 28, 2016, 08:30:50 PM »
All the good and the bad from the Google cultural institute
https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/beta/exhibit/AQfyFcoI
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Re: Searching for the seventies
« Reply #1 on: November 28, 2016, 11:09:52 PM »
An almost endless page with hundreds(?) of pics sucking empty the traffic reserves and killing the browser cache, thank you google. One of the worst pages I've ever seen.

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Re: Searching for the seventies
« Reply #2 on: November 29, 2016, 08:57:57 AM »
I share Reinhold's sentiments over the page construction but there are some great photos in there, once they eventually load  :o

As someone born in the UK in 1961, the thing that sticks with me most about the 70's is the music and the fact that I got my first SLR camera in '74, having used a Polaroid "Swinger" for a while and, on very rare occasions, been allowed to take a photo with my dad's Rollei (under his very close supervision).

The other great thing about the 70's, for me, was the emergence of heavy metal, hard rock and "prog". I managed to avoid virtually all Disco.  When Punk arrived in '76, it never really interested me other than for its energy and the sight of some of the bands and fans.
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Re: Searching for the seventies
« Reply #3 on: November 29, 2016, 03:48:32 PM »
For me it was all about the colors and the very "classy" clothes and styles...

Also, since I was pretty young in the 70's, I did love disco... I even won a disco dancing contest when I was young  ::)
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