Historical novels (even one as tongue-in-cheek as
The Wrong Sword) rely on telling details to convey a sense of time and place. The best source of these details are
primary sources - documents and other items from then and there. For my friends obsessed with mid-20th century America, here is my favorite visual primary source for the 1970s (besides having lived through it):
Columbo.
Columbo was a long-running detective TV series in which the wonderful character actor Peter Falk played a disheveled
schlemiel of a police lieutenant who put (usually) wealthy and arrogant malefactors behind bars, after passive-aggressively
nudzhing them for 45 minutes. It may also be the most
70's-looking show ever.
So if you're looking for visual cues between 1970 and 1980...
Dig it.
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| Dig that high tech office! |
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| Classy |
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| Murder, 70s style |
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| Los Angeles |
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| What Shatners looked like in 1973 |
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