This is good book to start with to reacquaint yourself with the 70s. Like all of Time-Life's "Our American Century" series, this book is choked with provocative photos and succinct summaries of everything from Nixon's downfall to the end of Vietnam, to how mainstream music "went wild." As summarized by Dick Cavet on the book's jacket:

"There were the 'Roaring Twenties' and the 'Fabulous Fifties,' but no such neat phrase encompasses this astounding decade--unless maybe the "Preposterous Seventies." If a writer crammed even half of its events into an invented decade, he'd be accused of overdoing it."

Be the sharpest dresser at the next reunion by getting those original 70s duds at rustyzipper.com. Disco shirts, leisure suits, bell-bottoms, velour shirts, disco dresses, cardigan sweaters, and knits galore! Polyester city baby!

Or just get one of those vintage iron-ons and slap it on a T-shirt for the Sunday picnic.

Here's a more lighthearted look at the 70s. Review:

"Back when irony was just a literary device and people wore bell-bottoms for their own sake, Western civilization reached its zenith and nadir simultaneously. Jonathan Vankin's Big Book of the '70s looks in surprising depth at the trends and the notable figures of that decade, using illustrations from dozens of excellent comics artists like Shary Flenniken and Terry Laban. Richard Nixon, Jane Fonda, Burt Reynolds, and Jimmy Carter all get the Big Book treatment in a delicious combination of behind-the-scenes peeks and easily digested history lessons. Fads and phenomena like disco, running, and the rise of the women's movement are also explained and, in some cases, followed up through modern times. The writing is clear and snappy, the illustration is consistently well-done, and the topics chosen are a thorough, comprehensive mix of lightweight (pet rocks) and serious (Vietnam). --Rob Lightner"

The Learning Network gives fast facts about any year in the 20th century. Categories include:

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Jaws. Rocky. American Graffiti. Taxi Driver. Dirty Harry. A Clockwork Orange. The Godfather. Deliverance. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. The Exorcist. Star Wars. Blazing Saddles. Chinatown. Tommy. Dog Day Afternoon. Marathon Man. Network. Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Halloween. Heaven Can Wait. Apocalypse Now. Alien.

Was there ever a wilder, more diverse decade of movies? I think not.

The movies were great, but the TV was.....well.....take a look for yourself at the evening schedules for any year in the 70s. The Tony Orlando and Dawn Show? Charlie's Angels? Starsky and Hutch? Love American Style? Geeezzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz what a wasteland.

At least we also had Saturday Night Live, All in the Family, Night Gallery, Bonanza and M*A*S*H.

There are many things we did as teenagers we'd just as soon forget. Want to know why you acted so stupid most of the time? It was your brain silly! It was not close to being fully developed. Read all about it in this U.S. News article from 1999: Inside the Teen Brain

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This looks like an expanding site for our nostalgia. And they're looking for contributions to their content:

"Do you remember the Bee Gees, John Travolta, Saturday Night Fever, Kent State and the end of the Vietnam War, Pop Rocks, the Pet Rock, the Mood Ring and the Lava Lamp, Nixon and Agnew, Jaws and Rocky, Elton John, Peter Frampton and The Eagles, Farrah Fawcett & Charlie's Angels, Watergate, the Bermuda Triangle, Three Mile Island and the Disappearance of D.B. Cooper, OPEC, the Iranian Hostage Crisis and the Misery Index? Then this site is FOR YOU!"