First thing that comes to mind when you think of the 1970s

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A lot of struggling times not knowing who I was and why or how much I was different

Watergate,Watergate,Watergate

Good rock music and bad pop music and fashion.

That born 5 or 10 years too late feeling. We got the hangover without experiencing the high or drunk feeling that caused it.

The declining economy

Led Zeppelin and that's it.

My uncle's patterned shirts and bell bottoms. I swear he was wearing them into the nineties.

It depends whether it's early or late 70s. Two very different times.

Early 70's: Bellbottoms, tie-dye, hard, acid, and singer-songwriter type rock, hippies, Hare Krishnas, etc.

Late 70's: Bellbottoms---but the nature of them was different, leisure suits, singles' bars, materialistic disco culture, Arena Rock, the advent of the "me" generation of the 1980s, punk rock, New Wave, The Son of Sam murders, etc.

Yep....there certainly was.

In the rural parts of the United States, the "early 70's" didn't start until the mid-late 70's. I've seen videos of dance shows from the late 1960s. In the Midwest, people still looked like they were living in the 1950's; whereas people on Bandstand (which was in Los Angeles) looked "hipper."

Did you grow up in a rural part of Sweden during the late 1970s?

Star Wars and Sesame Street. I was little back than. Oh yes, and Saturday Night Fever.

Odd hairstyles with moustaches and long sideburns.

Bright colours.

Bright suits in a range of hues for more formal menswear, but bright skimpy satiny shorts for the beach. Bright bikinis for the ladies.

Smoking indoors - you could hardly see through the wafting smoke in some places...

Taxi TV Series

Even in the 2010's, people still smoke indoors in at least some restaurants in the UK

Studio 54

Soul Train

M*A*S*H also ended in the 1980s. Though it really is a 70s show in its essence.

Soul Train lasted until 2006.

Where I went to high school (from 1976-1979), out of about 100 students, about 15 used to wear punk fashions.