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Okay, so I'm working late tonight, sitting in my office with the radio on, and they are playing a salute to 1976. I was born in 1978, so I really don't remember much about that decade, but I've always loved the music. All these tunes got me to thinking about my perception of that decade, most of which comes from photos, stories, movies, and television. Were those years as "easy" as this music and those cheesy old shows I grew up with? Looking back, it almost seems like a nice lull between the 1960's and 1980's. I know the cars were crap, gas was high, and a recession was on, but I never hear folks talk badly about those years. What were you doing in the late 70's?

I was a little kid.

Learning how to ride a motorcyce and shoot rifles, I was seven.

It was fun.....I graduated from High School in 1976. You 2 three are pups!

The Carter years were rough. I preferred the 1980s.

Yeah I was born late November in '69.

I graduated 1980.

watch the movie dazed and confused it pretty well somes up what it was like growing up during the 70s. i graduated in 1981.it was a good time if you can forget about the disco crap and leasure suits

Lots of good stuff was going on for me - got commissioned at Ft. Bragg and did my OBC at Aberdeen Proving Ground MD in 1976. At APG I met a couple of other 2LT's (one from PA and one from MA) who introduced me to deer hunting and pheasant hunting - two animals I had never hunted (we were small game hunters in my family). I graduated from college and got married 1n 1977 - both very good things for me (and still are). My wife bought me my first high power rifle - a Ruger M77 in .270 WIN that I still own and hunt with. I got my first fulltime "career" job - that was good too. Bought my wife a new 1978 Chevy Monte Carlo, 305 V-8, I remember that as a very good car (I had an old 1968 C20 Chevy - tough as nails). In 1976 we had the Bicentennial - that was a great celebration - saw the Freedom Train at the Pentagon. I don't remember much about the music, except I never liked disco or leisure suits!

The down side to the late 1970's? The first idiot president - Carter, took office. Until recently I truly believed no other president could ever be as bad (until we got hung with Obama).

Graduated High School in 1970, College in 1974...It was OK, it was kind of a lull between 60s and 80s...music started to suck about 1972, but there were enough leftovers from the sexual revolution that we didnt care....lots of things were easier/ less regulated then. If we did some of the stuff now, that we did then, I'd be posting this from my cell...and I don't mean cell phone....
Ingwe

I shoulda mentioned Carter, as history doesn't shine too brightly on his administration.

They just played "Hold the Line" by Toto. Good stuff. I'll have to dig out that CD.....

Graduated from high school in 75, college in 79.......those were the days

Greg

I was born in '62. Played drums all my life and that was the schit for me. Today's music doesn't quite measure up. Bands like Zepplin, Yes, Genesis......etc. are tough to follow!!!

JPro:

Partying, mostly. It's all kind of hazy, now, but dude...

- Tom

Mr. JPro;
I turned 14 in 1976, so I recall it quite well, albeit from a rural Saskatchewan viewpoint.

As I recall inflation was pretty bad then, so the cost of goods rose steadily in that time. As you noted, North American manufactured goods were not at a high point. Interest rates were beginning to climb about then or shortly thereafter.

There was a fair bit of strife in the world via such folks as the Red Brigade, IRA and such, many of them supported by various communist governments. The cold war still felt like it was on to me.

There was no AIDs yet that I was aware of at that time.

I don�t remember it as significantly better or worse than the present, although the folks I grew up around certainly didn�t have as much �stuff� as we seem to need these days.

Hopefully my dim recollections were of some use to you.

Regards,
Dwayne

I graduated from high school in 1978. I was in love with a guy who owned a baby blue Camaro, with white interior. He was cool, but the car was cooler.

My Mom fell in love with Alice Cooper that year, she saw him on the Phil Donahue Show, said he was a sweet boy, just misunderstood.

Everyone was complaining about the price of gasoline, hamburger, cigarettes, bread and milk going up all the time.

Thinking about it now, those were really good days.

Lynn

Let's see, started the 70's in Bien Hoa, Vietnam, ended the 70's in Ramstein, Germany, and in between there was Westover AFB,MA, F.E. Warren, WY, Cape Canaveral, Patrick AFB, FL. Some of the 70's was better than others- no complaints.

I actually love the movie "Dazed and Confused" reminds me a lot of what it was like when I was growing up in the 70's. My kids bought it once upon a time, just so they could see what it was like a million years ago when Mom was "young". You know, when dinasours roamed free

Lynn

Ingwe, I recall that you are a 1974 ECU grad - what HS did you go to? Odessa

It was after the hippies started bathing and before aids. What more needs to be said...

Got laid my first time in the Summer of '76. Graduated from HS in '78.