1970s COLLECTIBLES - COMPLETE ILLUSTRATED PRICE GUIDE 

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Disco, Smiley Faces, 8-Tracks, Platform Shoes - retro is in and the ’70s rule! Now there’s a price guide to the treasures of this unforgettable decade. Covering everything from Leisure Suits to Pet Rocks, Saturday Night Fever to Punk Rock, this full-color guide takes the reader back to the fads, foibles and fashions of the 1970s.

More than 30 collecting areas are covered including Music, Fashion, Disco, TV, Movies, Kitchenware and Kid’s Stuff. Background histories are included for each collecting area as well as price listings for representative collectibles in each category.

This guide provides an essential reference for Baby Boom and GenX collectors gathering up the pop-culture artifacts of their youth.

• Hundreds of listings in more than 25 categories
• Up-to-date market prices
• Informative and entertaining background histories

Chapter titles and selected featured items:

CHAPTER 1 - Around the '70s House
Record cases • Donut Phone • Zodiac Bathroom Scale • Mushrooms, Owls and Daisies • Household Magazines • Calculators • Telephones • 8-Track Players

CHAPTER 2 - Nostalgia
Betty Boop • Art Deco

CHAPTER 3 - Counterculture
R. Crumb and other underground comix • the Ungame • Firesign Theatre • the Peace sign • hippie collectibles • pinback buttons • bootleg records

CHAPTER 4 - Sex, Drugs and Collectibles
Playgirl magazine • naughty T-shirts • bongs and roach clips • High Times and Head magazines

CHAPTER 5 - Handcrafted and Homecrafted
String art • jewelry • pottery • acrylic resin • craft books and booklets

CHAPTER 6 - Fads
Martial Arts (Bruce Lee) • Running shoe roller skates (roller boogie) • CB radios • "Love Is..." • "Women's" cigarettes (Eve) • Le Car by Renault • Evel Knievel • Pet Rock • The Fuzzy Foot • The Mood Ring • Streaking

CHAPTER 7 - Sillisculpts
Hard rubbery plastic statuettes with figures and sayings across the front of the base, created by Russ Berrie

CHAPTER 8 - Smiley Face
Colectibles featuring the little happy face on the bright yellow circle that became synonymous with the '70s

CHAPTER 9 - Kliban's Cat
Collectibles featuring B. Kliban's black-and-white cat, immensely popular before being overtaken by Garfield

CHAPTER 10 - Kitchenwares
Salad bowls • canister sets • salt and pepper sets • kitchen clocks • mugs • teapots • Kitchen colllectibles with mushrooms • Kitchen colllectibles with owls • Tupperware • Pyrex

CHAPTER 11 - Cookbooks
Gourmet Food • Wok and Tempura Cookery • Natural and Health Foods • Nouvelle Cuisine • '70s appliances • list of foods that debuted in the '70s

CHAPTER 12 - Fashion
Funky ties • peacock ties • platform shoes • denim shirts • polyester shirts • the leisure suit • the pantsuit

CHAPTER 13 - Watergate
Nixon and Agnew on pinback buttons, magazines, games, books, bumper stickers, etc.

CHAPTER 14 - Bicentennial
Collectibles commemorating the 200th birthday of the USA, including mugs, trays, wall hangings, neckties, sew-on patches, etc.

CHAPTER 15 - TV Collectibles
The Brady Bunch • Grizzly Adams • All in the Family • The Bionic Woman • Three's Company • CHiPs • Charlie's Angels • The Dukes of Hazzard • Happy Days • Star Trek • Welcome Back, Kotter • The Partridge Family • The Six Million Dollar Man

CHAPTER 16 - Kids TV
Wonder Woman • Donny and Marie • The Electric Company • Sesame Street • The Flintstones • Woody Woodpecker • Hong Kong Phooey • Big Blue Marble • Schoolhouse Rock • Zoom • New Zoo Revue • The Banana Splits • The Hardy Boys • Josie and the Pussycats • Scooby-Doo • Jackson Five • Jabberjaw • Dynomutt • Underdog • Wacky Packages (Topps collecitble stickers that parodied products)

CHAPTER 17 - Krofft
H.R. Pufnstuf • Bugaloos • Lidsville • Sigmund & the Sea Monsters • Land of the Lost • The Lost Saucer • Far Out Space Nuts • Krofft Supershow

CHAPTER 18 - Muppet Show
Collectibles from the Muppet masterpiece include LPs, placemats, board games, lunch boxes, dolls, etc.

CHAPTER 19 - Holly Hobbie
The fad doll from American Greetings

CHAPTER 20 - Fisher-Price
An overview of Fisher-Price toys of the '70s, including the Fisher-Price Airport and the Fisher-Price record player

CHAPTER 21 - '70s Music
Elvis Presley • Grateful Dead • David Bowie • Deep Purple • Bad Company • Lynyrd Skynyrd • Rolling Stones

CHAPTER 22 - Disco
Saturday Night Fever • K-tel Records • The Village People • The Sylvers • The Trammps • Wild Cherry

CHAPTER 23 - Punk and New Wave
Dead Kennedys • Xray Spex • Buzzcocks • B-52s • The Clash • Blondie • Nick Lowe • Patti Smith • Zeros • recordings, posters, and pinback buttons

CHAPTER 24 - Midnite Movies
The Rocky Horror Picture Show and other cult classics