Popular Nostalgia

Popular Nostalgia from the 1970s. Memories of events and items from popular culture recorded in words and pictures on the internet. Share, remember and get wonderfully sentimental…

Happy Days was nostalgic in its own right, being set in the 1950’s but first aired in the 1970’s. Howard, Marion, Richie, Joanie, and Chuck are the Cunningham family. Richie gets up to tricks with his friends Potsie and Arthur “Fonzie” Fonzarelli. The Fonz was originally a dropout but became a huge hit with viewers. […]

Robin Williams was Mork, an alien who came to Earth from the planet Ork in a large egg-shaped space ship, and Pam Dawber was Mindy McConnell, his human friend, roommate, and wife after they married in the final season. The series was a spinoff of the sitcom Happy Days. The character of Mork first appeared […]

Mike Brady (Robert Reed), has three sons; Greg (Barry Williams), Peter (Christopher Knight) and Bobby (Mike Lookinland). He marries Carol Martin (Florence Henderson), who has daughters; Marcia (Maureen McCormick), Jan (Eve Plumb) and Cindy (Susan Olsen). Carols daughters take the Brady surname like their mum. Mike brings a live-in housekeeper Alice (Ann B. Davis) to […]

Before Ben Elton made the hit musical We Will Rock You about a band called Queen, a band called Queen made the song We Will Rock You as one of their most popular track of many great tracks. With their ebulient frontman, Freddie Mercury, Queen really were a phenomenon for many years – bridging the […]

Jaws was one of the funniest villains in the James Bond film series along with Oddjob in “Goldfinger” and Irma Bunt out of “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service”. He starred in “The Spy Who Loved Me” (1977) and “Moonraker” (1979). He was played by Richard Kiel who, at 7ft 2 inches, towers over all the […]

The sound quality isn’t the best on this video, but I chose it because it showcases the best of sixties and seventies style. How did she get her hair so big? And check out the guy twisting around in the stripy tank top. Are those chops I spot? The flares and the silly dancing are […]

896 ATHENS, Greece Dates: from 6 to 15 April 1896. Participants: 14 National Olympic Committees (NOCs), 43 events, 241 athletes (men only). Officially opened by: King George I. The Games of the Olympiad in Athens were financed by a donation of approximately one million drachmas from a rich businessman, Georges Averof, and by the sale […]

Abba hit the international scene at the Eurovision song contest in 1974 with ‘ Waterloo’. At the finals in Brighton, England, on April 6, they won over the international juriesand went on to the Number One spot all over Europe, and even reached the US Top Ten. Being winners of the Eurovision Song Contest made […]

It was Queen Anne who first saw the potential for a racecourse at Ascot, which in those days was called East Cote. Whilst out riding in 1711, she came upon an area of open heath, not far from Windsor Castle, that looked an ideal place for “horses to gallop at full stretch.” The first race […]

The Queen’s involvement with racing stretches back to before she came to the throne in 1952, with her first winner, owned jointly with her mother, the late Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, being Monaveen in a National Hunt race at Fontwell. On the death of her father, King George VI, the Queen inherited the Royal […]

1780 Diomed, owned by Sir Charles Bunbury, wins the inaugural running of the Derby on Thursday, May 4. 1784 The distance increases from a mile to a mile and a half which still prevails today, though from 1991 the offi cial distance has been one mile, four furlongs and 10 yards. 1794 The smallest fi […]

The Derby has been run on the Downs near Epsom since 1780 and is named after Edward Smith Stanley, the 12th Earl of Derby. The original race was The Oaks, named after Derby’s estate, and was exclusively for three-year-old fillies. The race became so successful that The Derby was created to find the best colts […]

Remember getting spokies in your Frosties? Remember trying to out-do your friends with the number you could fit on your bike? It used to make a racket but we loved spokies. They’re still widely available – especially the Disney ones. Some clever people used to get flashing ones or spokies that made a noise – […]

I’m not sure precisely when, but at some stage in (I think) the 1970s, some genius came up with the incredible “Spacehopper”. What was, presumably, one small step for a man, became a giant leap for under 10s the world over, as they bounced around aimlessly for hours upon end. Spacehoppers were quite possibly the […]

Concorde quickly became a symbol of technological advance and British pride despite being a joint enterprise with the French government. More than 2.5 million passengers flew supersonically on British Airways’ Concorde since she entered commercial service in 1976. The most frequent passenger, an oil company executive, clocked up almost 70 round trip transatlantic crossings a […]