1970s suburbia

A young teen growing up in the suburbs during the 1970s writes about her feathered hair, rebellion, boredom and chemin-de-fer and Ditto jeans.

Step back in time with these 1970s photos that say a lot about old trends, practices, and values from that decade we don't see today.

Dates: circa 1980s (above and below), 1970s (bottom) Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota Source: via City of Minneapolis Archives / Flickr What do you see here? Related VehiclesView All

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1970's: 1970's teenagers hang out in their cars in the school parking lots.

Stephen Shore, from A Road Trip Journal, 1973

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Photographs of people living in Stourbridge in the 1970s by John Myers.

Gardner Drugs & Firstours Cancun billboard, Gardner & Sunset, Hollywood, 4/7/1985. The rails of the old Pacific Electric Hollywood Blvd. line were still embedded in the pavement of the parking lot here when I took this picture. In the old days (or, older days), the PE's Laurel Canyon line diverged here from the Hollywood line to continue west along Sunset to Laurel Canyon, hence the designation of this spot as "Gardner Junction."

Last week, we took a trip — and we use that word with a certain degree of tongue-in-cheek — back to the early Seventies and the show car scene. And what’s so cool about that movement is the way it was interpreted out on the street, as it were. Panels, lace, fishscale, cobwebbing, scallops, flames,…