@WYH, are you still in glasgow?
my seventies were in Bristol, where my dad, a junior professional on the bottom of the ladder was surprised to move from a flat in london to a nice big house in a good street in a nice neighbourhood. We weren't in poverty (though we did play on the bombsites) but there was a material poverty that's hard to relate to now, almost no electronics or plastic, nothing disposable, a more reliable and solid materialism
and no mass media smog in every crevice, so no current affairs cult or celebrity sacrifice rituals infiltrating every home
cultural forms that existed had mostly existed for centuries, not ephemera
i've been reading some Bristol novels from that era, they feel like they are right on the cusp of this explosion into our current hypermodernity - people's consciousness was not so different - ideologies and identities were similar to now, but our way of life seems to have changed a lot
if it was a grim time, i wonder if we see it more positively now than when this thread was started