It’s true that when you’re young you live more ‘in the moment’, making it very difficult to see the road ahead. Today, we tell the kids “you have to save, you have to plan for the future, etc”, while at the same time trying as hell to live more like them, more ‘in the moment’. […]

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The “loser decade” that at first seemed nothing more than a breathing space between the high drama of the 1960s and whatever was coming next is beginning to reveal itself as a bigger time than we thought
by Nicholas Lemann
That’s it,” Daniel Patrick Moynihan, then U.S. ambassador to India, wrote to a colleague on the White […]

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My best friend during the 70s was my cousin Carlos ‘el Enano’ Peral. We had a great many times together. Our families were very close and we spent much time hanging out. It’s a shame that I’ve not kept up with him, or he with me. We men are lousy at maintaining relationships, and it’s […]

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From their heyday in the 50s to their closing in the 70s, drive-ins were a great way to watch a movie, or hang out with friends.
Tell us your drive-in story!

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I liked some shows you’ve probably never heard of:
Sea Hunt with Lloyd Bridges, The Time Tunnel, Land of Giants, The Invaders,
Sir Francis Drake, Mannix, Robin Hood, The Rockford Files, McCloud,
Mod Squad, and The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

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“Major trends in the 70s included a growing disillusionment of government, advances in civil rights, increased influence of the women’s movement, a heightened concern for the environment, and increased space exploration. Many of the “radical” ideas of the 60’s gained wider acceptance in the new decade, and were mainstreamed into American life and culture. […]

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I was so cool!! In the early 70s, I had long, curly hair, wore wild, loud, polyester shirts with tight-as-can-be bell bottoms, sometimes a nehru jacket, 2″ mail-order raisers inside my zippered boots, and a Hercules wristband.

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