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Twenty-six years is a long time
-- and yet the years seem to have flown by. School, jobs, and families
have kept us busy. What has happened on the global, national and local
scenes? What where your favorite movies, songs and television shows?
Take a virtual trip twenty six years into the past:
The Year 1977:
President: James Earl Carter, Jr.
Vice President: Walter F. Mondale
Population: 220,239,425
Life expectancy: 73.3 years
Violent Crime Rate (per 1,000): 50.8
Property Crime Rate (per 1,000): 46.0
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Economics of 1977 |
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Cost of
a new home: |
$54,200.00 |
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Median
Household Income: |
$13,572.00 |
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Cost of
a first-class stamp: |
$0.13 |
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Cost of
a gallon of regular gas: |
$0.62 |
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Cost of
a dozen eggs: |
$0.82 |
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Cost of
a gallon of Milk: |
$1.68 |
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Popular Movies in 1977 |
1. Star Wars
2. Rocky
3. Smokey and the Bandit
4. A Star Is Born
5. King Kong
6. The Deep
7. Silver Streak
8. The Enforcer
9. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
10. In Search of Noah's Ark |
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#1
Music Hits in 1977 |
"You Light Up My Life" -
Debby Boone
"I Just Want To Be Your Everything" - Andy Gibb
"Evergreen" - Barbra Streisand
"Undercover Angel" - Alan O'Day
"Dancing Queen" - Abba
"Torn Between Two Lovers" - Mary MacGregor
"Best Of My Love" - The Emotions
"Southern Nights" - Glen Campbell
"Don't Leave Me This Way" - Thelma Houston
"I'm Your Boogie Man" - K.C. & the Sunshine Band
"When I Need You" - Leo Sayer
"Rich Girl" - Hall and Oates
"Star Wars" - Meco
"Rocky (Gonna Fly Now)" - Bill Conti
"Hotel California" - Eagles
"You Make Me Feel Like Dancing" - Leo Sayer
"Sir Duke" - Stevie Wonder
"Got To Give It Up" - Marvin Gaye
"Dreams" - Fleetwood Mac
"Carry On Wayward Son" - Kansas
"Car Wash" - Rose Royce
"Don't Give Up On Us" - David Soul |
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Popular TV Shows in 1977 |
1. Laverne &
Shirley (ABC)
2. Happy Days (ABC)
3. Three's Company (ABC)
4. 60 Minutes (CBS)
5. Charlie's Angels (ABC)
6. All in the Family (CBS)
7. Little House on the Prairie (NBC)
8. Alice (CBS)
9. M*A*S*H (CBS)
10. One Day at a Time (CBS)
| You’re
lost between baby boomer and Generation X if: |
- You
remember when Jordache jeans with a flat-handle comb in
the back pocket were cool.
- A
photograph shows you wearing an Izod shirt with the collar
turned up.
- You
know any Weird Al Yankovic song by heart.
- You’ve
ever rung someone’s doorbell and shouted, “Landshark!”
- You
once were bowled over by the technological excellence of
Atari, Coleco, TelStar and Intellivision.
- You
remember the premiere of MTV. Worse yet, you remember its
predecessor, Friday Night Videos.
- A
predominant color in your childhood colors is plaid.
- You
took family trips BEFORE the invention of the minivan.
- You
rode in the back of the station wagon, facing the cars
behind you.
- You’ve
recently horrified yourself by using any one of the
following phrases:
- “You
know, back when…,” When I was our age…” or “When
I was younger…”
- Schoolhouse
Rock played a huge part in how you learned grammar, math
and history. You also learned to recite the preamble to
the Constitution by singing it.
- The
question, “Where’s the beef?” still makes you laugh.
- You
remember when movie critics raved that no movie could ever
surpass the special effects in Tron.
- You
had a crush on Ted the photographer in Love Boat, Gage
from Emergency or Ponch from C.H.I.P.S.
- You
remember trying to guess which episode of The Brady Bunch
it was by the first scene.
- You
know who shot J.R.
- You
remember when Love’s Baby Soft was in every girl’s
Christmas stocking.
- You
recognize this line: “My name is Charlie and they work
for me.”
- You’ve
ever had a Dorothy Hamill haircut.
- You
owned a pair of rainbow suspenders like the ones Mork
wore.
- You
remember when your cable TV box had a sliding selector
switch and was attached to your TV by a wire.
- You
actually believed that Mikey, the Life cereal kid, died
after eating Pop Rocks and drinking a Coke.
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