Please help me ID this American TV show/special/variety hour from the '70s featuring life-sized female puppets/marionettes - or prove to me that I am indeed halluciremembering. [more inside]
posted by tristeza on Nov 21, 2009 - 5 answers

A friend owns one of these antique (?) clear-plastic, free-standing, quasi-lite-bright type hobby-kit devices. The label/signature can be seen here. Just what the hell is it? (besides the obvious trip-toy type device). Bonus = it still works.
posted by jmnugent on Nov 15, 2009 - 5 answers

Could you point me to pictures of musicians in the 1970s with mustaches? Lots of pictures, please.
posted by Pants! on Sep 18, 2009 - 27 answers

What would you call that sweater-loving, Volvo-driving, PBS-donating late 1970s-mid 1980s American culture? [more inside]
posted by oinopaponton on Aug 17, 2009 - 80 answers

In which you help me to compile the greatest Sunny 70s AM Radio Playlist The World Has Ever Known. [more inside]
posted by Senor Cardgage on May 12, 2009 - 55 answers

Does anyone remember Hoffy papers? Obscure elementary-school learning machine memory (pre-1980 edition) ... [more inside]
posted by rikschell on Apr 30, 2009 - 2 answers

Im sort of a 70's nostalgia head, and as such would love to find some audio (format not important) of 70s radio broadcasts, commericals and all. [more inside]
posted by Senor Cardgage on Apr 25, 2009 - 6 answers

I really enjoyed the "You're as Cold as Ice" segment of This American Life's "Mistakes Were Made" show - can anyone recommend other documentaries / books / articles about the creepy / gothic side of California counterculture and technofuturism in the 60s and 70s?
posted by ryanshepard on Apr 23, 2009 - 9 answers

Where is this picture from? [more inside]
posted by tozturk on Apr 23, 2009 - 5 answers

Where can I find out what life was like in the 1960s and 1970s? [more inside]
posted by gadha on Mar 26, 2009 - 19 answers

Hive mind, please help: I'm thinking of a short ballet film that came out in the 1970's (1975?). There is no plot -- it's basically a pas de deux, set to Pachelbel's Canon in D. [more inside]
posted by Araucaria on Feb 26, 2009 - 5 answers

Can anyone help me with the title of this film??? It's a 1970s US film where some Airmen are trapped in a bunker by a machine gun firing robot (I think). I thought it starred Richard Baseheart, but i've Googled him and I can't find any film he made that is similar!!!! Can anyone help, please.....(It's driving me mad)
posted by maxmix on Jan 28, 2009 - 4 answers

Can you remember the 1970s disco songs that start with sound effects such as machine gun fire, door opening slowly , and a man laughing ominously? [more inside]
posted by cluelessguru on Dec 22, 2008 - 5 answers

Does anyone else that grew up in the 70s/early 80s remember the animatronic Grinch Christmas exhibit thing? [more inside]
posted by Senor Cardgage on Dec 2, 2008 - 3 answers

Can anyone help me ID a series of savings and loan commercials that aired during the 1970s? They featured a gaunt-looking fellow holding a chicken; the actor also appeared in Blazing Saddles as a naked guy covered in soap. I saw the spots growing up in Southern California so they may have been regional. I just can't remember the name of the S&L. Thanks in advance!
posted by Tim McDonough on Dec 1, 2008 - 7 answers

What are some good novels set in the US of the mid-late seventies? [more inside]
posted by Potomac Avenue on Oct 21, 2008 - 17 answers

I am looking for photos of the Cambridge, MA area taken between 1950 and 1999. I am especially interested in the commercial areas along the current Red Line route (Porter/Harvard/Central/Kendall), and the industrial areas southeast of Central Square. If you happen to know of any repositories of offline photos, that would be cool too. Thanks!
posted by rxrfrx on Sep 9, 2008 - 10 answers

When I was a kid (in the early 70s), this baffling "riddle" was all the rage in the schoolyard: A: "Guess what?" B: "What?" A: "THAT'S what!" I thought this was a quirky but of Southern Indiana nonsense, but my wife -- who hails from Alabama -- also remembers it from her youth. What does it mean? What's its origin? [more inside]
posted by grumblebee on Sep 9, 2008 - 53 answers

Can you identify this 1970s pop/disco/r&b song? [more inside]
posted by droplet on Sep 4, 2008 - 5 answers

Please help identify buildings in two photographs depicting the area around Toronto's CN Tower, in 1976 and 2008. [more inside]
posted by pseudostrabismus on Jun 2, 2008 - 11 answers

Vaguely remembered movie from the early-to-mid 70s...any ideas? [more inside]
posted by maxwelton on Apr 7, 2008 - 3 answers

What song is this screenshot of a 1970s video taken from? [more inside]
posted by acorn1515 on Apr 4, 2008 - 3 answers

Can you help me figure out a disgusting-sounding recipe involving Pillsbury Crescent Rolls as tart shells baked with a filling of something maybe akin to egg salad? [more inside]
posted by kmennie on Mar 27, 2008 - 4 answers

My friend from grade school was just profiled on Time.com. We met in 4th grade in 1979 over an electronic learning toy in class. It was white plastic, had a smoked plexiglass cover, spherical in shape but possibly on a pedestal. Help me identifiy it so I can remind him of it!
posted by jdfan on Mar 12, 2008 - 5 answers

Does anyone remember a t-shirt from the 1970s that had a green monster on it giving the finger? [more inside]
posted by chippie on Nov 30, 2007 - 10 answers

Help me identify this cool 1970s advertising font! [more inside]
posted by evilcolonel on Nov 4, 2007 - 5 answers

NewYorkTVChannel9InThe1970sFilter: Who the hell was Jimmy Randolph from the Albert Merrill School commercials? [YouTube] [more inside]
posted by Opposite George on Dec 5, 2006 - 12 answers

Can you name these two songs from around 1971? They were taped from a campus radio station but defy all efforts at identification. Help! I've put short .mp3 excerpts here
posted by storybored on Nov 7, 2006 - 22 answers

Please help me identify a freaky 1970's (maybe 1960's) movie! Plot inside. [more inside]
posted by MaxVonCretin on Oct 20, 2006 - 5 answers

I'm trying to help my brother remember the name of a late '70s or early '80s detective(?) TV show. [more inside]
posted by rjt on Jul 23, 2006 - 10 answers

I'm looking for 1970s / 80s era stock music that may have been used in technology-related or science-themed documentaries, film-strips, commercials for tech schools, or even narrated science museum exhibits. The music sounds very dated, probably late 70s or early 80's. There is a percolating type of rhythm, and really cheesy sounding synthesizers. [more inside]
posted by BoatMeme on Apr 20, 2006 - 13 answers

In the early 70s, I saw a cartoon "short" in some movie theatres. It was about "the little people who live inside us." Does anyone remember this cartoon? What was it? Who made it? [more inside]
posted by grumblebee on Feb 21, 2006 - 9 answers

Does anyone have a link to (or a copy of) the famous 'Zulu War/Rorke's Drift' pastiche Silk Cut cigarette advert shown in British cinemas in the 1970s?
posted by timpollard on Dec 22, 2005 - 1 answer

Can anyone identify the font used on this War of the Worlds book cover? It's typically, graphically seventies, and similar to Avant Garde. This is the only sample I've got to hand, so I've had no luck on Identifont or WhatTheFont. If it's any help, I recently saw the same font on a reproduction of a poster for the book (not the film) Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (not one of Ralph Steadman's).
posted by caek on Nov 10, 2005 - 3 answers

We just bought a rambler built in 1968. The interior feels like a Mormon chapel from the 70s--pale blue carpet, paneling, hanging globe lights, clean but very dated formica counters, floor length gauzy white curtains on gold rods. Brown internal doors with gold knobs. [more inside]
posted by craniac on Sep 15, 2005 - 23 answers

What was the name of the kids' programme, possibly Canadian, that had a boy and his dad driving into the wilderness as its title sequence? [more inside]
posted by scruss on Aug 13, 2005 - 9 answers

What interesting things did people do with "big iron" computers in the late '70s and early '80s that is not generally well known, but could be useful to modern computer users? [more inside]
posted by b1tr0t on Jun 30, 2005 - 25 answers

Help Identify a Hip-Hop Sample. The artist is MF Doom, the album is MM...Food?, the track is "Kookies" (Amazon link; listen to track 15). I'm fairly sure it's from Sesame Street (or some other children's show, circa 1970s) -- if not the main theme, than an outro or something else. [more inside]
posted by kmel on Apr 30, 2005 - 12 answers

Favorite 70s/funk songs? Looking to shake up my MP3 collection.
posted by Aaorn on Jun 27, 2004 - 17 answers

I recall seeing a comedian on TV, in the 70's, that went by the stage name of 'Nick Hitler' but cannot find anything on the web. Anyone heard of him?
posted by clavdivs on Jun 13, 2004 - 6 answers

Based on this post in The Blue, I'm looking for CD recommendations on the late 70's New York CBGB's sound. I'm familiar with Lou Reed, The New York Dolls, The Velvet Underground, Television and (pre-disco) Blondie. Oh, and I'm a huge Talking Heads fan. Any suggestions?
posted by JoanArkham on Jun 7, 2004 - 29 answers