Lisa's Nostalgia Cafe - 1970s Consumer Products

Health & Beauty

fragrance


Charlie Love's Baby Soft Aviance Sweet Honesty Heaven Scent Jontue Aqua Velva Hot Pants Rive Gauche Babe	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

cosmetics & skin care


makeup Aziza eyeshadow Kissing Gloss Maybelline Cover Girl Lip Quencher Merle Norman Flame Glo	skin care Clearasil Stridex Pads Ten-O-Six Propa-PH Rosemilk Porcelana Nair

Vanity Treasures

health

Geritol
Bufferin
Ayds weight-reducing candy
Pepto-Bismal
Flintstones Vitamins
Bayer
NyQuil
Anacin

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

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hair care

Tame cream rinse
blow dryers
curling irons
Adorn hairspray
White Rain hairspray
Afro-Sheen
styling dryers with attachments
Loving Care hair coloring

grooming


deodorants Sure Tickle Secret razors Daisy Flicker Gillette feminine needs Stayfree New Freedom	hygiene Shower-To-Shower electric toothbrush soap Dial Tone Zest Camay toothpaste Ultra-Brite Close-Up Pearl Drops Crest Colgate Gleem


In the 1970s, the stiff bouffant hairstyles of the past were replaced by soft, natural hairstyles. This made squeaky-clean hair an absolute necessity. 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!

Food & Drink

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)

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

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
Topher's Breakfast Cereal Character Guide
Cereal Toy Premiums
Museum Of Beverage Containers
Soda Museum

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

staples & condiments
Mazola corn oil
Ac'cent for cooking
Crisco
Lawry's Seasoned Salt

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

How Do Pop Rocks Work?
Gum Archive
Old Time Candy
Candy Wrapper Museum


The plastic two-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.


Other Products
Habitrail Pet Systems Trapper Keepers Dow Scrubbing Bubbles Tarn-X S.O.S. soap pads Polaroid SX-70 Instant camera (1972) Fab detergent Playtex Nurser baby bottles Niagara spray starch Bic Banana Ink Crayons Playtex Living Gloves Water Pik Kodak Pocket Instamatic camera (1972) magnetic photo albums Stick-Up air fresheners Bounce fabric softener sheets (1972) Krazy Glue Shell No-Pest Strips		Visit my Electronics section to see more groovy products!


smile! 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. "Next day" photo processing was only offered at camera specialty shops, so we usually waited several days to get our pictures back from the drugstore. 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.		When was the last time you used flash cubes?.... ....or looked at your slides in a slide viewer?


Prices
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
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 customized vans 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. Before the 1970s, most cars had side vent windows: small triangle-shaped windows that passengers in the front seat could push open. A handful of models were designed without side vents in the 1960s. They were eliminated completely in the 1970s when automakers, in an effort to make cars more economical, removed them because they weren't aerodynamic. Customized vans were very big in the 1970s. Shag carpet and a great sound system inside, stunning artwork outside.		1971 Ford Pinto 1972 Plymouth station wagon Side vent window

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