[pup55]

You Tube

Those connoisseurs of the lost art of disco dancing will appreciate this video, illustrating a step known as "the bump" which was popular in the era.

In those days, of course, this step was considered risque, because you came in contact with your partner's toosh.

This was in the days when the price of gas had escalated to the obscene level of 65 cents per gallon. Beer was cheap though.

[eastbay]

One question pup55.

The Bump.





Have you been drinking?

[pup55]

I don't know what made me think of that. Sometimes, when you reach a certain age, you think back of a period in time, and you just have to smile.

Joe Tex

[pup55]

Rick Dees and his cast of Idiots

While we're at it, we should revive this classic, which launched Rick Dees into his current gig.

[eastbay]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pup55', 'I') don't know what made me think of that. Sometimes, when you reach a certain age, you think back of a period in time, and you just have to smile.

Joe Tex

[eastbay]

While we're still on topic...

[pup55]

I just had to post this. I am much closer to my 1977 weight than Travolta is to his.

[Pops]

Rode down the sidewalk between classrooms the last day of junior year of high school in my buddies Sprite with Booker T blasting...

1974

[pup55]

Shindig? You just have to smile when you think of that show, too. As for the sprite, those were sort of impractical in the midwest, when the snow depth got to greater than a couple of inches.

Sprite

They were chick magnets from May through August though. A good friend of mine had an MG, that was almost as good.

I had one of these for awhile, during this era. It was the only car I ever had with a 4bbl and V8 in it, ridiculously overpowered for the size of the body, terrible in the snow because it was basically wider than it was long, plus front-heavy, and rusted out so badly it was marginally safe....

fun, though. That thing could move.

Link

As for the Trammps.....when you figure out what happened to the last 30 years, please let me know. I would like to go back and re-do a couple.

[Pops]

Luckily I missed buying the TR 250 by a half hour and bought a '47 Ford Super Deluxe Fourdoor instead.

It was all original, green paint, 100hp flathead mohair upholstery, big back seat and all...

Except for the 8-track with blow out speakers due to
Linda...

[cbxer55]

Personally I like The Spinners

[TheDude]

Soon to have a rebound in popularity: Le Freak - Chic. "Ahh, Freak Out!"

I notice some Doomer game geek lurking here read my posts about The end of the world being a fave EOFTWAWKI tune and is now using it in ads for Tom Clancy : END WAR!

[Pops]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('cbxer55', 'P')ersonally I like The Spinners

[pup55]

ewwww. It's a wonder you have any hearing left, blowing your speakers out with that.

Anyhow, the guy with the MG: In those days none of us had any money and that guy was working 40 plus hours a week, plus going to school, to pay for that car. When it got below about 20 degrees, which was from roughly now until maybe April, that thing would not start. One of my other friends used to give us all rides to school, and we would go by his house in the AM, literally wake him up, and he would fall out of bed, put on whatever he was wearing the night before, and get into the car with us.

This guy worked in the local taco place, and naturally, this meant he smelled like whatever taco juice he had spilled on himself the night before. Of course, the kids at school picked up on this, and they all called him "Taco Ron", because he was always at the taco place, and even if not, you thought about tacos whenever you saw him.

In retrospect, you have to wonder whether working 40-plus hours a week through high school, when you should be goofing off, to get a car which would not run half the year made too much sense, but far be it from me to judge.

He is still around, he lost a kidney a couple of years ago--he's working as a project manager up in St. Louis.

Gotta wonder--how many of the 30-something PO.com board members owe their conception to Donna Summer.

[Tanada]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pup55', 'I')n retrospect, you have to wonder whether working 40-plus hours a week through high school, when you should be goofing off, to get a car which would not run half the year made too much sense, but far be it from me to judge.

[pup55]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 's')ticking my hand out for cash was not an option

[pup55]

Sorry..this horse is way beyond dead.. but.....

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'G')otta wonder--how many of the 30-something PO.com board members owe their conception to Donna Summer.