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Life in the 1970s 🧵

1. San Francisco's Lombard Street, 1975

2. This is what beachgoers looked like in '70s

3. Bottom pinching experiment

A female BBC reporter pinches the bottoms of unsuspecting men on the street in 1971.

4. A young boy that had just stolen his father’s car and crashed it, takes one last puff on his cigarette before facing the consequences, 1974.

5. Australia changes to color television live on broadcast in 1975

6. Summer Solstice Celebration, Stockholm, Sweden, 1970

7. Gas prices in the 70s

8. First class dining on the main deck, late 70s

9. These 70s "conversation pits" need to be brought back

10. Woman cutting a birthday cake in Iran, 1971

11. Footage from the 1970 World Cup Final

12. The World Trade Center under construction, 1970

13. In 1972, Italian singer Adriano Celentano released a song titled Prisencolinensinainciusol, featuring nonsensical lyrics designed to mimic the sound of English.

The song was created to prove that Italians would love any American song.

It was a hit.

14. A summer lunch in Capri, Italy

15. Canadian photographer Blake W. Smith captured life on the beaches of Leblon, Ipanema, and Copacabana in Rio de Janeiro in 1978.

16. American soldiers smoking marijuana out of the barrel of a shotgun in Vietnam, 1970

17. A family enjoys a picnic at 12th Street Beach on Lake Michigan, August 1973

18. Michael Jackson doing the robot on the Cher Show, 1975

19. Safety standards in the 70s

20. A California teacher teaching the physics of surfing, 1970

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Here’s Lombard Street in 1975 and a more recent view of the same spot. Both photos were taken by photographer Mike Fitzpatrick.