distributorcap brings us this phenomenal montage of the 1970s. Which one is your favorite? As I commented on his blog, I like that damn pet rock. I've watched it three times and each time I see something I didn't see before.
Of course, if I wanted to really "go all the way," I'd have to go back to the decade of "make love, not war".
Gremlins, the last helicopter out, and Senator Sam Erwin--these jumped out at me.
ReplyDeletemy sister had a Gremlin! I loved the 70's, both my kids were born in the 70's. Amazing stuff politically went down, the war, that electoral map was amazing, the music, the drugs, the protests. Alot was going on around the world, I guess not unlike today.
ReplyDeleteCappy did a great job on this,as he always does.
ReplyDeleteThe map was Tim Russet's creation. Agmaneur was one of my favorites but, if truth be told, I love ebey one of them.
ReplyDeleteIll check out others that Cappy has done.
"ebey" should be "every."
ReplyDeleteIs the map the actual way the election turned out? California was red, Texas was blue?? All the South was blue?? I was in my 20's, I didn't even know what the word electoral meant back then, sorry to sound so naive! LOL!
ReplyDeleteFrodo remembered that it was Arabs who grabbed Kunta Kinte. He's always wondered if Malcom X ever knew that?
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Very well done, with a great, fitting choice of music that befits the energy of that decade. Brings back a lot of memories, many of them bittersweet.
ReplyDeleteSue, California, as has often been the case in recent decades, provided a preview of what the country was in for. Ronald Reagan was governor and anti-government, anti-tax zealot Howard Jarvis and his Proposition 13 were on their way to wrecking what had been one of the world's biggest, finest and most accessible higher education systems, along with considerable damage to the state's K-12 system.
But before the Reagan revolution got under way nationally in the 1980s, Jimmy Carter, well liked across Dixie as a fellow southerner, briefly held the South for Democrats. After his one term, Republicans' cynical, retributive Southern Strategy snapped back with a vengeance, literally. Ronald Reagan chose to kick off his 1979 presidential campaign in Philadelphia, Miss., infamous as the town where three young civil rights workers from the north had been slain for messing with the locals' precious Southern way of life. Reagan's 1980 victory was accompanied by large-scale retirements and defections by southern Democrats in Congress. The electoral map was changed drastically and would stay changed for two generations and counting.
The Apollo Soyuz postage stamp.
ReplyDeleteIn 1975 bread rolls came with trading cards about space exploration. There were 20 of them in the series, and the last 6 showed Apollo Soyuz when put together. My primary school teacher confiscated half my deck for looking at them in class or something, and then promptly lost them.
I did manage to collect the whole set though. And I still have them.
l like ABBA too.
"According to The Washington Post, the terms were coined by television journalist Tim Russert during his televised coverage of the 2000 presidential election[1]; that was not the first election during which the news media used colored maps to graphically depict voter preferences in the various states, but it was the first time a standard color scheme took hold."
ReplyDeleteI just remember that this was mentioned when Russert died but as you can see from Wiki above, it wasn't the first time a colored map was used.
This is a short history:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_states_and_blue_states
Frodo: I guess I don't understand the connection since Mal. X died in the 60s about 10 yrs. before Roots was published.
Distrib: It is I who should thank you.
SW: As you know, I'm a total ditz when it comes to anything financial. Reagan's kicking off his campaign in Philadelphia, MS was about as sensitive as Heston's refusing to cancel the NRA convention in Denver right after Columbine.
Magpie: Your teacher sounds horrid. I wonder what she'd do these days.
My earliest 70's memory: dad in front of the evening news (Walter, of course) calling Nixon a nazi.
ReplyDeleteThose were the days... :)
I had a Gremlin myself, a hand-me-down after my grandfather retired. I'm not big on cars but I loved that one, it was simple and great on gas.
ReplyDeleteI try to imagine NASA engineering something like the docking adapter now like they did for Apollo/Soyuz and I just can't.
Bee: Teehee - absolutely luv it. My grandmom would say he'd sell his own mother to the
ReplyDeleteCommunists to get elected - and she was born in 1890.
Beach: I don't know much about cars except I like big (not as in SUV) and powerful.
So glad I stumbled in here this Sunday morning...errr...afternoon! Loved the vid and it reminded me how this country and the world, really have always had its monumental ups and downs. If we hang on, we should be on an upswing before too long.
ReplyDeleteI look at all those folks and imagine them looking the same, and myself as well. I got a high draft lottery number, 343 I think it was. Much of the decade was a (purple) haze, booze and acid. Sometimes I'm surprised I made it thru intact.
ReplyDeleteABBA, The Doors and The Godfather. Things that stand the test of time, for those of us not borny in the 70s.
ReplyDeleteOops, should say not born yet in the 70s.
ReplyDeleteRocky: I've missed you. I think we'll probably have a few bumps along the way and some states will get stuck in their own cesspool, but we'll get there. I cannot accept the theory that the majority of the country accepts the brain numbing stupidity of the Palins, Boehners and Bachmanns.
ReplyDeleteOso: Gosh, I'd love to look like I did back then. Amazingly I can remember more than I even care to, but oh baby, I had one hell of a good time. Did I ever tell you about the time I . . . Never mind.
LouLou: I'm just now seeing you way up there at the top. I'm sorry. The old country lawyer was quite a character and a wonderful reconnoiter. The last helicopter was one of many memorable images from Vietnam.
Jess: That's okay - Palin does it all the tme. ; )
ReplyDeleteClassic rock stations play that one all the time. It has a certain overproduction to it, that if someone had told me that ELO had recorded it, I might have believed it.
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SW said: "Ronald Reagan was governor and anti-government, anti-tax zealot Howard Jarvis and his Proposition 13 were on their way to wrecking what had been one of the world's biggest, finest and most accessible higher education systems, along with considerable damage to the state's K-12 system."
Yet, these institutions kept getting more and more money over the years. Could it be that they were poorly run and wasting money, and that was the problem, as opposed to them further impoverishing the people with excessive taxation?