1970s Consumer Products

fragrance Charlie Love's Baby Soft Aviance Sweet Honesty Heaven Scent Jontue Aqua Velva Hot Pants Rive Gauche Cachet Avon Tabu Emeraude Enjoli Windsong Jean Nate Skinny Dip Old Spice Collectible Avon Bottles Vintage Avon Perfumes Avon perfume bottles were very cute and creative ======================================== ========================================	-----	shampoo Short & Sassy Long & Silky Body On Tap Gee, Your Hair Smells Terrific! Breck Agree Prell Farrah Fawcett Shampoo Faberge Organics Wella Balsam Herbal Essence --- ======================================== ========================================
beauty products makeup Aziza eyeshadow Kissing Gloss Maybelline Cover Girl Lip Quencher Merle Norman skin care Clearasil Stridex Pads Ten-O-Six Propa-PH Rosemilk Porcelana razors Daisy Flicker Gillette Vanity Treasures ======================================== ======================================== hair care Tame cream rinse blow dryers curling irons Adorn hairspray White Rain hairspray Afro-Sheen styling dryers with attachments Loving Care hair coloring ======================================== ========================================		health & hygiene deodorants Sure Tickle Secret feminine needs Stayfree New Freedom hygiene Shower-To-Shower Dial soap electric toothbrush toothpaste Ultra-Brite Close-Up Pearl Drops Crest Colgate Gleem health Geritol Bufferin Ayds weight-reducing candy Pepto-Bismal Flintstones Vitamins Bayer NyQuil Anacin ======================================== ======================================== You can see more cool 1970s products at my Advertising page! ======================================== ========================================
Visit my Home page to see all sorts of household items! ======================================== ======================================== beverages Sanka Tab Kool-Aid Fresca Quik 7-UP Shasta Funny Face Drink Mix Hi-C fruit drink Hawaiian Punch Nestea iced tea Country Time Lemonade Sunkist orange soda (1978) Museum Of Beverage Containers Soda Museum		other products Habitrail Pet Systems Trapper Keepers Dow Scrubbing Bubbles Tarn-X S.O.S. soap pads Fab detergent Playtex Nurser baby bottles Niagara spray starch Bic Banana Ink Crayons Playtex Living Gloves Water Pik ======================================== ======================================== some typical prices Litton microwave oven................................$439 Breck shampoo............................................99c 1 can Hi-C fruit drink...................................40c G.E. styling hair dryer -------with attachments..............................$15.99 battery-powered Snoopy toothbrush..............$7.33 portable cassette recorder...........................$29.88 G.E. pocket radio (AM only)........................$4.99 Polaroid SX-70 instant camera.....................$180 45 rpm record.............................................$1.00 vinyl LP.......................................................$5.00 Zenith stereo (AM/FM tuner, turntable, --------8-track or cassette player, ------- 2 speakers).........................................$270
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meals & snacks Hunt's Manwich Sauce Hamburger Helper (1971) pizza tacos Pringles Newfangled Potato Chips Fritos Corn Chips Dannon yogurt Space Food Sticks Jiffy-Pop popcorn Yoplait yogurt (1977) Skippy peanut butter Carnation Breakfast Squares Pizza Spins Jif peanut butter Hostess Snacks How Do Pop Rocks Work? Gum Archive Old Time Candy Candy Wrapper Museum Topher's Breakfast Cereal Character Guide Cereal Toy Premiums desserts Hostess Twinkies Hostess Ding-Dongs Snack-Pack pudding Dolly Madison Zingers Hostess Ho-Ho's Bundt cake (1972) Chips Ahoy! Little Debbie snack cakes Hostess Devil Dogs Royal Gelatin candy Bottle Caps Dynamints Pez Pop Rocks Pixie Stix Milk Duds Chuckles Tic Tacs Starburst Fruit Chews Fruit-Stripe gum Reese's Peanut Butter Cups Good & Fruity Necco wafers Good & Plenty		staples & condiments Mazola corn oil Ac'cent for cooking Crisco Lawry's Seasoned Salt cereal Frankenberry Boo Berry Count Chocula Quisp Freakies Frosted Flakes Wheaties Fruity Pebbles Life Lucky Charms Trix Honeycombs Cap'n Crunch Shredded Wheat Froot Loops Cocoa Pebbles The sweeter, the better! chocolate bars Choco'Lite Nestle Hershey Chunky Nestle's $100,000 Bar Reggie! Marathon Mounds Almond Joy

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Origins

In the 1970s, the stiff bouffant hairstyles of the past were replaced by soft, natural hairstyles. This made squeaky-clean hair an absolute neccessity. Washing your hair became a daily ritual, and the market was flooded with new shampoo brands. Frizzies, split ends and oily hair could be eliminated with products containing natural ingredients like herbs, beer, wheat germ oil and honey. The early 1970s brought a new innovation in women's feminine hygiene: sanitary napkins with adhesive strips. Goodbye, belts and pins! The plastic 2-liter soda bottle was introduced in 1977.	-----	Aluminum soda cans with pull-tabs were introduced in 1963. Before this, cans were made of steel and were punched open with a church key can opener. Although pull-tabs were a great idea, there were some problems associated with them. Pull-tabs left a sharp edge around the opening and sometimes broke off prematurely. They also created a litter problem. In 1974, the problems created by pull-tabs were solved when the stay-on tab was introduced. The idea was controversial at first, because the procedure required inserting the metal tab into the soda, which people considered unsanitary. The public's fears were unfounded, however, and the stay-on tab was adopted by the entire soda industry. Opening instructions were printed on soda cans for the first few years.

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Smile!

When was the last time you used flash cubes?.... ....or looked at your slides in a slide viewer?	-----	The Kodak Pocket Instamatic camera and Polaroid SX-70 instant camera both came out in 1972. The Polaroid was a real ice-breaker at parties....it was fun to watch the pictures develop right before your eyes! The Polaroid One-Step was a popular version of the SX-70 released in the late 1970s. For dark shots, we used Sylvania and G.E. flash cubes. We usually waited several days to get our pictures back from the drugstore, since only camera specialty shops offered "next day" photo developing. Unfortunately for those of us with green or blue eyes, there wasn't any computerized red-eye correction, either. When the new magnetic photo albums came out, their sticky plastic-covered pages rendered photo-mounting corners obsolete. Many people still had their photos made into slides, which they could view with a projector or portable slide viewer. Polaroid SX-70 Instant Camera

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Popular Christmas Gifts in the 1970s (and some typical prices, too!) *stereo with turntable & 8-track player ($199.95) *AM radio mounted in headphones ($14.95) *Big Wheel *lava lamp ($45.00) *K-tel record albums *25-function calculator ($49.95)	-----	*CB radio ($89.95) *Inchworm riding toy *Bionic Man action figure ($6.66) *mood ring *Pitchback Baseball *Baby Thataway ($8.88) *ten-speed bike ($99.50) *Richard Nixon "I Am Not A Crook" watch *Evel Knievel stunt cycle ($9.96) *Star Wars action figures *Pong *terrariums *food kits (make your own wine, cheese, yogurt, jelly, bread) *geodes & geode display stands *ecology kits (little boxes to fill with dried beans & flowers) *hair styling heads *craft kits (bottle-cutting, decoupage, candle-making) *for men: tie pins that look like pull-tabs from beer cans

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	Transportation AMC Pacer Ford Pinto AMC Gremlin Volkswagen Beetle station wagons VW Rabbit muscle cars Chevy Nova Pontiac Firebird Ford Mustang mopeds Chevy Vega motorcycles AMC Hornet dune buggies

1973 new car prices Volkswagen Beetle........$2625 AMC Gremlin.................$2150 Chevy Vega....................$2237 Ford Pinto......................$2292 In 1973 the Oldsmobile Toronado was the first GM car to roll off the assembly line equipped with an optional airbag. 1971 Ford Pinto 1972 Plymouth station wagon	AMC Pacer The Ford Pinto Page Mopeds Online Station Wagon! Dune Buggy The AMC Gremlin Arcticboy's Gremlin Page

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