If You Were A Little Girl in the 70's....

My husband's cousin just emailed the below 1970's Girl's Stuff to me and I really liked it, so true...so if you know the original source, comment here and I'll link back to it and give credit where credit is due! They made me think about some things that happened recently. I opened my "time capsule" recently. No, it's not really a time capsule, but the giant box I have had since the 1970's, adding to it through college. It has mementos, letters, diaries (gasp! I love Jimmy Flack circa 1974), photos, and lots of junk.

The kids have recently been badgering me (ok, asking Santa) for the new American Girl dolls who are (ta-da) the ancient 1974 girls! They have accessories like the Puppy Love poster and the Brady Bunch lunch box! Am I the only one who feels really old when you find out American Girl has come out with dolls from your childhood! I had those clothes, I had that furniture (including the bright yellow plastic parsons table).

Anyway, in the time capsule, I found my Puppy Love poster. Yes, I had loved it so much that I put it in there and now it has come out again to see the light of day in 2007! I believe I put it on my hot pink bedroom wall in 1970? The windows had daisy curtains in pink, lime green and white, the carpet was green shag. God, I'm old. The good thing is my kids love everything from the 1970's now - so I guess we have a lot in common...although, I don't love the 1970's fashions anymore!

Check out these memories that were emailed to me and see if you can't relate.
If you were a little girl in the 70's...

You had that Fisher Price Doctor's Kit with a stethoscope that actually worked.












You owned a bicycle with a banana seat and a plastic basket with flowers on it.












You learned to skate with actual skates (not roller blades) that had metal wheels.











You thought Gopher from Love Boat was cute (admit it!)













You had nightmares after watching Fantasy Island.
















You had either a "bowl cut" or "pixie", not to mention the "Dorothy Hamill". People sometimes thought you were a boy.













You had rubber boots for rainy days and Moon boots for snowy days.
















YEAH! You owned a "Slip-n-Slide", on which you injured yourself on a sprinkler head more than once.












You owned "Klick-Klacks" and smacked yourself in the face more than once !










Your Holly Hobbie sleeping bag was your most prized possession.














You wore a poncho, gauchos, and knickers.














You begged Santa for the electronic game, Simon.













You had the Donnie and Marie dolls with those pink and purple satiny shredded outfits, or the sunshine family.

You spent hours in your backyard on your metal swing set with the trapeze. The swing set tipped over at least once.

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.

You wanted to be Laura Ingalls Wilder really bad; you wore that Little House on the Prairie inspired plaid, ruffled shirt with the high neck in at least one school picture; and you despised Nellie Oleson!

You wanted your first kiss to be at a roller rink! ---- yes it was!

PONG! ("video tennis" ) was the most remarkable futuristic game you've ever heard of!

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".

You know who Strawberry Shortcake is, as well as her friends, Blueberry Muffin and Huckleberry Pie.


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.

You and your girlfriends would fight over which of the Dukes of Hazzard was your boyfriend - Bo or Luke?

YOU had Star Wars action figures, too!

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!

You often asked your Magic-8 ball the question: "Who will I marry. Shaun Cassidy, Leif Garrett, or David Cassidy?"

You completely wore out your Grease, Saturday Night Fever, and Fame soundtrack record albums.

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.

You made Shrinky-Dinks and put iron-on kittens on your t-shirts!

You used to tape record songs off the radio by holding your portable tape player up to the speaker.

You had subscriptions to Dynamite and Tiger Beat.

You learned everything you needed to know about girl issues from Judy Blume books. (Are you there God, It's me, Margaret.)














You thought Olivia Newton John's song "Physical" was about aerobics. (?? its not??)

You wore friendship pins on your tennis shoes, or shoelaces with heart or rainbow designs.





You wanted to be a Solid Gold dancer.

You drowned yourself in Love's Baby Soft - which was the first "real" perfume you ever owned.

You glopped your lips in Strawberry Roll-on lipgloss till it almost dripped off.

My personal notes - I had strap-on metal skates, not shoeskates (we wuz poor, I guess), I had a rainbow bike with that banana seat and basket, I think Muppet Movie was after my metal lunch box phase, probably had The Monkees, and my cousin had the Click/Clacks - we weren't allowed to try to hit ourselves in the head, but we sure liked hers when we were at her house :), We still own a slip 'n slide and kill ourselves in the summer too! And my girls now own ponchos, recently made a godseye and like to disco!