Things We Collected in the 1970s
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All of us find various things to collect over the years. Some may be useful in some way, while others are just plain weird. The 1970s especially offered up some pretty unique collections for both kids and adults that you probably haven’t thought about in years. So, let’s rewind the clock and revisit some of these popular collectables from the 1970s.
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As a kid in the 70s, I collected Matchbox cars, but they weren't collectibles, I played the hell out of them.
I was just thinking the same thing! What would life in the 70’s be without our Matchbox and Hotwheels cars?
Yeah, but them orange track strips in the hands of an angry mom....
The drug store in a little town in Upstate NY sold them . They had the display and the stacks of boxes with the ones they had in stock. I loved going there.
Yep me too
We started off with Hot Wheels cars, but after awhile moved on to AFX and Tyco slot cars sometimes raced on converted ping pong tables.
Somewhere around 1975 I found a large box of Playboys from the late 1950s-early 1960s in a box next to a dumpster by a furniture store near our house. I took them home and showed them to my Dad. They were all in good shape. I hauled them downtown to a large magazine store thinking maybe I'd get $10 for the box. They gave me $3 each for the 50s and $2 each for the 60s. I thought I'd really hit the jackpot.
but if you had held onto them for another 20 years, a collector wouldve given you much more
@@thewkovacs316LOL 😂, they would have been worn out by then and the pages would be sticking together. 😂😂😂😂
@@Pea-bj2qv I can relate.
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You probably got $3 for the Monroe issue which is the most collectable of the 1950s Playboy's. You got screwed.
Have you enjoyed any "trans" centerfolds lately?
My mum always bought the cloth calender, but when the year was up , we used 'em to dry dishes 😀
Should have saved them. They were accurate again in 5-7 years
Wow, I completely forgot about cloth calendars.
Born in '60.
Same (dish drying).
@@charlesbaldo Except for the year.
I have a few. They are faded. Memories!
I remember Tiger Beat magazines in the early 70s. With the the teenage actors and child actors.
And don't forget '16' magazine :)
My cousin had a huge stack of those magazines. Her bedroom walls were papered from top to bottom with Donny Osmond posters.
I had all the Herb Alpert albums from The Lonely Bull to The Greatest Hits. I still like him to this day even though I don’t have any record albums. He is still recording at the age of 86!
I saved my parents Herb Alpert album called Whipped Cream and Other Delights. Not sure why...oh yes I am.
The cool guys who had their own cars had an AM/FM radio, an 8-Track player and a CB radio!
My first car was a 1982 Cadillac sedan DeVille. White with red velour interior that I got when I was 18 years old back in 98.. it had an 8-track that still worked, and I found a bob segar tape between the seats when I took it home and cleaned it up. I played that tape for like six months before I finally broke down in installed a CD player. I loved that car!
My first car, a 1974 Chevy Nova, didn't have an 8-track player, so I removed its ashtray and hooked one up to the cigarette lighter wires.
My boyfriend had a rust colored Nova in the mid 70’s. Large tires and Cragar rims. Three on the floor. Had dice hanging from the rear view mirror. Tachometer on the dash. Eight track, radio and cb radio. Driving around talking to the public with the speaker on the cb radio. Our family room had the itchy throw. Cloth calendars on the wall. Pyrex lasted forever!
@@footballlvnlady Our dog jumped against my mother causing her to drop her Pyrex baking pan. It didn't break and the dog got to eat a whole lasagna.
My older sister was the one with the cool car - we used to get on the CBs and play hide-and-seek around the neighborhood, using the meter/signal strength to point us in a direction. LOL, one of my brothers suggested hiding in the garage. We could hear the other cars going up and down the alley, looking for us.
Thimbles. My mother had no spoon collections on the walls, but instead small thimbles that were also displayed on wooden shelves and were her pride and you. To this day she still owns them and I don't see her ever parting with them.
How many times did you hear a man say "I read playboy for the articles"?
While that was the joke, Playboy actually had interesting articles by leading authors and journalists, as did many magazines of that time. Now, we just have vlogs from people who can neither read, write or speak.
Spank you very much😂
Yes...the articles... were well... staged.
I read every issue cover to cover. The best women, the best fiction, the best news, the best jokes, the best cartoons. Only 1 dimensional morons considered it just a nudie mag....
Some of the articles were worth reading.
I'd forgotten all about the Whacky Packages. Seeing them again was stirring. I could literally smell the hard gum again and I even remembered that I covered the dresser in my room with the stickers. - I love these videos.
I collected Wacky Packages from 1972-1976. Put them all over my clothes dresser in my bedroom along with my clothes closet - much to my mother's consternation.
My sister and I shared a room for a time and used our collection to plaster all over our bedroom closet. My mom was really upset.
I had them all over my dresser.
Character drinking glasses from fast food chains. They were all real glass too. Marbles were a big thing with kids. Aside from everything being mushrooms, there was also the yellow smiley face. I swear those were everywhere.
My Mom crocheted all the time and I treasure the blankets and doily's that I still have 💞
Remember when everybody had the crocheted dolls, that would go over the toilet paper roll.
My first job out of high school, I worked with a bunch of older ladies and one of them taught me to crochet. The first thing she taught me was a granny square. LOL, I just changed colors and kept going until it was the size of an afghan. I gave it to my grandma, and when she passed it came back to me. Still have it.
Mine did too. Still have a couple afgan blankets
So did mine. Then she switched to needlepoint and finally to macramé.
My mom made that zig zag pattern blanket, exact same colors!
I just shipped my mothers household goods stateside. She had a huge collection of 45s and albums that we are still going through.
I remember back in the 70's finding a huge stack of Playboy magazines at my friend's older brother's "man cave". He lived underneath the garage behind the house in a small cramped space which was so 70's from the carpeting to posters of hot girls and cars on the wall. As a 12-year old kid my eyes were popping out of my head as well as other things bulging. I love the 70's.
I would take my dad's old Playboy and Hustler magazines and tear out the pictures. Take them to school and sell them. 25 cents for a page and 50 cents for the centerfold. For a 10 year old kid in the 70's, I felt like I was making a lot of money.
My dad finally noticed his old magazines were missing and wanted to know what happened to them. I was honest with him and told him what I was doing and he just laughed about it but told me I should stop doing that. I miss him.
My late father once had a huge stash of Penthouse & Hustler magazines. Me & my big brother got in trouble when my father caught us with his stash.
We got yelled at for our transgression. As for the magazines, they somehow mysteriously disappeared soon after.
Have you enjoyed any "trans" centerfolds lately?
👏👏Yay, 1970’s was the best I was a teen, I collected bell bottom jeans, quarters to buy beer and music, music, music!! 🤭
You needed 2 of them for a 40 ounce or 4 for a 6 pack 😅
@@ConnerKirk433 yes, and sometimes if there was a keg everybody threw in a few.
Wasn’t it all glorious???😌❤️
@@Thelake9667 it was, and then some!
Beer can collecting and trading with friends was popular in my area in the late 70's. There would be beer can shows where people would show their collections. Also remember riding bikes with friends to the Village Pantry to buy the wacky packages gum and candy cigarettes.
Owls and macramé… were big
Colors
Avocado green, harvest, gold,
Paprika, common colors for appliances .
Curly hair Perms were big along with paisley print shirts
I was going to say, he forgot about owls
I had stacks of records, model kits ( cars, airplanes, space ships ans so) , comic books, HO electric trains and slot cars, base ball cards and wackey pack cards, movie and black light posters and anything unusual things for my bedroom for decorations. As a teen in the 70s and early 80s was a really cool time.
I remember doing latch hook stuff as a kid...
I had all of the Star Wars toys and wish I still did. I also collected matchbooks, ashtrays and hotel room keys. Still have a few left, and my Dad had a big collection of cocktail stirrers, including about a dozen or so from the Playboy Club that I inherited. And whenever I find an old Playboy, I buy it.
I so liked the colonial furniture! I still have some wooden chair that I use to sit at my computer, they are sturdy and lasted a long time!
I have a rock maple dresser from that period, and it’s the heaviest piece of furniture in the entire universe!
I miss my troll dolls wish I kept them. Thanks for the memories. ❤😊
Were they designed to look like blks?
Lol I’m watching while crocheting a flower blanket. It’s not scratchy!
Honestly, I would love all that mushroom decor😂! Crocheting is back in style and so are the granny squares ☺️!
Look at estate sales. I see those mushroom canisters alllll the time. We had them too growing up. Majority of estate sales now are for our parents generation as I see tons of childhood memories at them.
@@mrssilencedogood4825 Thanks for the info! I’m actually an 80’s baby, but I’m so into vintage stuff! ☺️
Mushroom 🍄 are in style again I see mushroom 🍄 things everywhere. I believe do to the Mario bros movie mushrooms 🍄 are back in style.
Velvet blacklight posters, stretched out soda bottles filled with colored water. Collecting Frito Lay pencil eraser figures. Collecting the see through swappable lead pencils with the stacked plastic inserts.
I had a Mickey Mouse as a Matador black velvet painting, when I was 4 in 1975 or thereabouts.
My uncle used to work in a 7-Up plant, and he gave me and my brother some of the weird stretched out bottles.
My stretched out Coke bottle had a big paper flower in it.
Love those blacklight posters!!
@@Emily-Whitfield I had a Peter Max black light poster. Years later, I discovered that gin and tonics and a certain bodily fluid also glowed under those lights.
Old calendars are also useful every 6-7 years they are correct again.
My home town went crazy in 1976 and painted everything from parking meters to fire hydrants red, white and blue.
Same in my tiny hometown.
Yes, Spirit of 76 was everywere in Ft. Lauderdale.
@@willhorting5317 Mine had a population of 5000. Yours?
@@DavidLS1 approximately 300 people at the time. Today there's about 225.
@@willhorting5317 That is small. Mine is still about 5000, although I haven't been back there since I went away to college.
I did collect music and did have an 8 track, but the portable one. I have records, cassettes, CD and DVD for movies and still have many of these.
Same here 👍
What great memories from the mid 70s in my High School days. 8-track tape player in my Mustang playing Blue Oyster Cult, Supertramp and Ted Nugent. Cheech&Chong for laughs.
Hell yeah man....'70's beer can collections.
I loved the 70 s remember all these crazy collectables.
Beer can collecting was big in the 1970s. I had about 1,500 cans.
Yeah, I used to buy Playboy's because I was an avid reader! Great articles! 😁
Yes, lots of well-rounded articles in Playboy....
Girls/women enjoyed them too! One reason of many, there's a le sb i n epidemic today.
I like the pictures !
I, too, enjoyed mushrooms in the 1970s.
😂😂
Hilarious 😊
Myself? I 'collected cactus' buttons. Only because I heard that mushrooms grew on cow poop. Something about that just turned me off from trying them.
Macrame was pretty big in the 70's. My Mom did it all the time. My siblings and I all had macrame belts with big buckles. I collected baseball cards that I don't know what happened to them. I also had a beer can collection that everyone was collecting back then. Looking through old junk piles in the woods for cone tops and other old cans was like looking for treasure. I still have most of my beer can collection. I also still have my Playboy and Penthouse magazines but they are from the early 80s.
You missed everything I collected back then. Plastic model airplanes, cars, and trucks. Electric trains. HO slot cars. Hot Wheels, Matchbox, and Johnny lightning cars. Balsa wood gliders. Marbles. Baseball cards, football cards. GI Joe, and his accessories. Record albums, and 45's. (vinyl) Bugs. (Yes I had a Bug collection. Amazing way to learn about insects.) Pennies. Bottles. Beer cans.
0:32 I had eight tracks, then cassettes, then CD’s and now nothing at all 🚫
2:03 I just took ones like these from my mom’s kitchen drawer. She was using them as dish towels. Now they are safe in my home and I bought her new dish towels. 😁
2:43 I had Wacky Packages plastered all over my room. Recently I bought an entire collection of them. 👍🏻
4:20 My uncle had a big stack of them, some of which somehow ended up under my bed. 😉
5:41 My job as a little boy was putting the green stamps in the books.
6:28 Yup, had several knitters in the family.
So many things hit home with me in this video.
I’ve still got all the Wacky Packages my brother and i collected as kids. Still as funny as ever!
Something I posted on another website, is about the Welches grape jelly jars which were drinking glasses once you used the jelly. They had the Flintston’s printed on the glass jelly jars/glasses
My mom used to make "dough art" mushrooms and glue them to wood plaques to hang in the kitchen.
I made some from the first polymer clay they made back then. No colors. It only came in white that you could paint yourself. I made some of the mushrooms. and little animals.
For years my father wagged me to the bowling alley on Blue Chip stamp night. I think most of our camping equipment came from the Blue Chip stamp store. I remember when they were closing we cashed out and that was the end of that.
Wacky Packages! Oh yeah.
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amen to that!
My sister still has a sunburst yellow corningware mixing bowl my mom used when we were kids. Oddly, we had the mismatching avocado green appliances in the kitchen. 🤔😂
Ticket stubs from movies, concerts and sporting events were among some of our most cherished possessions.
I had every KISS tape from the self named album to Love Gun. I didn't want Alive 2 or anything after. I had grown up and valued my hearing a little more. I had moved on the another band you mentioned, Pink Floyd and of course Zeppelin. New wave hit in 1979-80 and I was young enough to like it. Rush did Permanent Waves, The Cars and The Police were on the rise and Supertramp ruled the airwaves. By that time, I was in the service and collecting cassettes instead of 8 tracks.
I loved Wacky Packages!!! I would walk to 7-11 and when they had the new series it was like discovering gold!!! I never stuck mine I kept them. I once bought a whole box of series 4 for my birthday. I was just going to never open it, but alas I could not do it. I still have my collection and every once in awhile I get it out. Brings back such memories of childhood in the 70's....
I had a huge collection of Wacky Packages in the 1970s. They can still be found online through Topps and I found a ton at a Dollar Tree years ago.
I collected comic books, sci fi and horror magazines, and superhero action figures!! Yes, back then I was a nerd❤❤❤❤❤
Mad magazine and Crazy magazine!
Ahhh! The 70's Gravesend Bklyn, Yamaha mini bikes, Great Food, Hottt 🔥 Lookin Girls! & Rock & Roll! Scored Zeppelin tickets that Summer Before High School! Lord How I Miss that time! Fond Memories 4 ever. God Bless 😊
I got many things with Green Stamps. We called those spoons, Travel Spoons.
My mother collected Tupperware like there was no tomorrow.
Ahhh, the things that still make you smile 😊
Our gang use to collect on weekend evenings at the home of a girl whose parents were never erver around but her father had a huge collection of Play Boy Mags. What an eduation for 14 year-olds boys. Gave us ideas and inspirational goals. Made us realize just how fascinating girls could be. Sodomy wasn't celebrated back then . . . Times have changed.
I'm a hetero guy who never wanted to look at Playboy centerfolds; too explicit for me. Plus I worried sometimes the women did not want to do them but only needed the money. "Sodomy" has been used to mean various things. Certainly I don't have positive thoughts about some of them, but nothing's wrong with being gay.
Earth tones 👍🌎
I had kisses first album AND dark side of the moon on 8 track . In fact I STILL have them lol
Oh my gosh, I remember so many of these things! I distinctly remember collecting green stamps with my Grandma, who used them to buy all sorts of things, including a whole set of cranberry (?) glassware. I also remember the checkers at the grocery store with their cumbersome registers!
I have a whole box of those crochet blankets and other goodies.
I still have my original Star Wars Action Figures. They all have their blasters and light sabers (the telescoping ones). The hardest one to get was the Jawa.
In addition to the Star Wars toys I had Battlestar Galactica, Space 1999 and Buck Rogers action figures. Man, I wish I still had them. It never crossed my mind how valuable those things would become.
I can't believe that no one has said anything about black light posters and rock posters all over our walls. They were the best! Almost forgot about the trick shops stuff too. ❤
Charm bracelet charms. I always got these for Christmas and my birthday. Still have my bracelet.
We had a giant ceramic mushroom cookie jar always filled with Mom's homemade cookies.
I also remember the pure thrill a good friend and I experienced when we found a stash of Playboys in an older kids' hideout in the woods. Good times!
I sold my Peter Max, “LOVE” buckled belt recently, for a nice chunk of change. Got it in 1970ish.
The fabric calendars became tea towels when the year was over. I bought one for each of my children's birth years. When they're over, they see their towel on the holder and get squishy and sentimental.
I have a lot of pyrex and use it almost every day.
I was heavily into cb radio back then and bought anything and everything to do with cb radio but I sold it all when I got into ham radio in 1986. Ive started to collect old cb radio items again in the last few years, some of the old stuff is worth serious money to collectors of cb radio items.
I have a dish towel collection. Some are from Europe flea markets and some are from the states. I have the calendar calenders. I use all of them including my french linen ones.
The linen calendars were my go to for Mum's birthday in December. After being hung up for a year, it was used as a tea towel to dry the dishes. Mum kept using them like this until they wore out. Pity I have not seen these calendars for a long time.
I loved those Wacky Packages!
I had 3-ring binders that were covered in the stickers.
My parents and teachers hated them.
Thanks. That brought up a lot of great memories ❤ I'm very proud of my Johnny West collection. I have 9 horses, all of the family figures, Black Bart, the Indian & the covered wagon. They were my basement family. That's why I love your stories.
My mom bought me and my sister the horses for our Barbies 😅
I have a sock full of bicentennial quarters. Not worth much but they were fun to collect and I had big dreams.
Thank you for the fun blast from the past
I was born in March 1963 and I was glad to of been part of that great era. I was in a Children's Home from 1976 to 1979 in Cheltenham Gloucestershire England and me and my friend Stephen used to collect the Look In TV guide for youngsters and in the middle each week there was a poster of a pop star. We would cut the posters out and put them on our dormatory wall. In the end we had over 75 posters on our wall.
HOLY COW, YOU LEFT OUT HOT WHEELS .
Matchbox cars too!
The cloth calendars were the only dish towels I knew. My wacky stickers went on my dresser. We were a bluechip family. The mushroom decor is popular again.
I have two of that Pyrex and it’s so good with the tabs being able to lift out of the microwave without burning the hell out of myself
You hit 100% on this one! Damn, but I’m old!!
My parents collected both Hummel's and Royal Dalton figurines, I collected music and Star Wars stuff until my teens then it was all music, cars and girls for me. Really haven't collected anything since back then.
Although my folks had several 8-tracks, I only ever owned one... Rush's "Moving Pictures".
The other 350+ albums that I owned, were either LPs or cassettes.
(And ALL of my KISS albums were on LPs.)
I collected beer cans had some really nice ones.
Super great video. My mom had tons of those cloth calendars, she hung one on top of the other every time the year change. I had tons of wacky pack stickers cause every time we went to the dairy convenient store to pick up milk, my dad bought me a couple packs. I must of had 100's of them and stuck on my metal clothes cabinet. Love them better than baseball cards. My mom had 2 cabinets full of trolls. Unfortunately I threw them out when she passed away 8 years ago.
Had a crush on.Barbi Benton. Hugh Heffner was a lucky man. She was his GF for 7yrs and was on the cover of PB 4 times
I liked those casserole cookware and had a few of them.
Pyrex but, they don’t make just casserole dishes!
I still have a few Playboy magazines from 1965 when I was 12. I hung out with an older boy who would pilfer them from the store while I waited outside. Great memories 😃😃
My first 8 track was Closer to Home by Grand Funk Railroad...
Stamp Collections were still the rage up through the BICENTENNIAL in the early 70s
Beer can collecting was big when I was a kid. Living in the Midwest, if you had a Coor’s can you were golden
I was obsessed with the Trolls pencil toppers in the 90s & early 2000s!
Absolutely the best screen shot ever for any video. Been there done that. Brought back so many memories.
It should not be glorified. Children are banned from looking at adult magazines for. a reason.
Awesome video 👍😎. I remember everything in the video ❤️. The 70s were awesome 😎
I used Columbia House to make collections of 8 tracks, cassettes, and cds. They sure were a cheap way to get a bunch of music. We had the heavy pine furniture in the family room and you were right, it was solid and lasted a looong time even with a large family. Bought it at Sears and also got replacement cushions for it when the original ones wore out. Still have mom's pyrex bowls and casserole dishes. Stuff was really built well then.
the only thing missing i see was the gold maple leaf drinking glasses. always loved the look of them. and boy was the kitchen decorated with mushroom stuff.
As a teenager in the '70s, we lived in a trailer for a while, which was cold in winter. Lots of crocheted blankets, wall hangings, and window covers...no theme, and none were alike.
I had a 8 track recorder, and could make my own mixes, or record tv audio. Eight track used a moving head to go from track to track, and no two players moved the exact same distance, so you would get " ghosts" from time to time ( bleedover from adjacent tracks). You'd have to wedge paper under rhe tape sometimes.
I remember reading a science fiction short story in a school newspaper....at the end of the story, there was the credit" originally printed in Playboy"...the story was about a dystopian future society, and not in any way porn...
Beer can collecting was bigger than any of these. Plus, many who started collecting them back then still do today. The BCCA still has thousands of members and an annual convention.
Jim Croce's Photographs and Memories, His Greatest Hits.
I was watching a video about the plane crash yesterday. So, sad he only lived to be 30. Sounded like he wanted to get into films too.
Time in a Bottle is an emotional great song.
One of the best videos yet! Thank you 😊
Beer can collections. That's what we had .Beer cans from all over the country , and overseas.(I had an uncle who traveled for business). I also had 8 tracks, Wacky packages, Top Value Stamps, Eagle Stamps.
I wish I would have saved the beer cans
i collected beer cans, comics, and star wars trading cards. i never went too far out of my way to collect stamps and coins, but i did have a small collection of those. i don't consider toys i played with as being a collection any more than the clothes i wore, and i doubt dad considered a garage full of tools he used as a collection.
great share ..........great memories 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩thank you , for sharing🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰.....................................
I collected pretty girls. I wish I had saved some of them. I still have their old pictures. Maybe Legacy Box can bring them back to life.
I too, was fascinated by mushrooms in the ‘70’s
The 70's was a great decade! Had so much fun back then!
it was a good time