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The Collectible '70s: A Price Guide to the Polyester Decade
A funkadelic trip to the not-so-distant past…Disco, Smiley Faces, 8-tracks and platform shoes - retro is in and '70s rule! The Collectible '70s is a pop-culture history and price guide to treasures of this unforgettable decade. Covering everything from leisure suits to Pet Rocks, Saturday Night Fever to Punk Rock, this full-color guide will take you back to your fads, foibles and fashions of the polyester years.This book is an essential reference for Baby Boomers and their younger siblings gathering the artifacts and memories of their of listings in over 20 categoriesUp-to-date market pricesInformative and extremely entertaining background histories
201 pages, Paperback
First published May 14, 2001
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July 1, 2012
Insightful look at 70's Collectibles, Pop Culture, Kitsch, High Camp et cetera. Not exactly a great price-guide (although the book was published turn-of-the-century & could use an expanded update/new edition..) especially if you already have a general interest in or are knowledgeable about antique collectibles memorabilia et cetera. Doubtful to be anything more than a trip-down-memory-lane to anyone that actually experienced/"endured" the sad and sinster 70's. Some interesting theories too about how the 70's appropriated/co-opted/overcommercialized many underground movements of the decade and of decades past and is especially detailed re: the decade-spillover/post-60's outlook that the decade had.
I suppose my main beef w/ this book is that i did not like the layout/design & i felt it ignored some aspects completely (e.g. 70's cars) was too broad in some respects and not broad enough in others i.e. the book starts off w/ very broad topics then ends w/ whole chapters devoted to sub-genres of music and certain movies w/ just included that into one whole comprehensive chapter. I really wish there was a whole chapter about Design & more written about 70's cooking.
If you were not born in the 70's or born late in decade like i was & are too young to have consciously experienced what is generally referred at the worst decade in American history, a time that people would more or less like to forget about than remember, this book should be a decent beginning for 70's research. It is somewhat odd to see this decade thru the lens of Pop Culture than the cold generalized view of History. & certain aspects of the 70's never really were abandoned just stripped down & re-imagined in subsequent decades. There were actually good things (& perhaps many great things...) that came out of or was born in this decade.
I suppose my main beef w/ this book is that i did not like the layout/design & i felt it ignored some aspects completely (e.g. 70's cars) was too broad in some respects and not broad enough in others i.e. the book starts off w/ very broad topics then ends w/ whole chapters devoted to sub-genres of music and certain movies w/ just included that into one whole comprehensive chapter. I really wish there was a whole chapter about Design & more written about 70's cooking.
If you were not born in the 70's or born late in decade like i was & are too young to have consciously experienced what is generally referred at the worst decade in American history, a time that people would more or less like to forget about than remember, this book should be a decent beginning for 70's research. It is somewhat odd to see this decade thru the lens of Pop Culture than the cold generalized view of History. & certain aspects of the 70's never really were abandoned just stripped down & re-imagined in subsequent decades. There were actually good things (& perhaps many great things...) that came out of or was born in this decade.
March 4, 2009
Hillarious trip down memory lane. Why was everything so damn ugly? And what was up with all the owls?
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