Do you remember 1971 and 1972? (economy, China, Boston, successful)

[MotleyCrew]

I remember chocolate brown carpet was really hot, along with the olives and harvest golds. Blech! Polyester dresses.

[Capt. Dan]

Originally Posted by KevK

Does anybody remember "IGA" stores?

Yes i do!
Independant Grocers of America.
In the 50's and 60's my parents owned a grocery store that was part of a small chain called UTOTEM [we pack em you tote em]. They were bought up by IGA

[ontheroad]

And guess what, IGA still exists in many parts of the country.

Lookie here.

[Capt. Dan]

Originally Posted by Lt. Dan

I dont understand what Woodstock has to do with remembering 1971-1972. Woodstock was 1969. i was there and to be honest, quite stoned! But I'm still pretty sure it was 1969! Damn! I didnt lose 3 years somewhere did I?

August 1969 i was at Woodstock
September 1969 i was in boot camp
December 1969 i was in Nam

[Capt. Dan]

I guess I shouldn't go into what all we did at the drive in movies in the 60's and 70's!!

[Clay Lady]

Ah, the good old days. What was happening depends on where you lived in this country. I grew up in southern california so we had all the great music and all the crazy things happening - then I married and moved to south arkansas and went back twenty years in time! Girls didn't wear jeans, nor patched and embroideried clothes, and they all wore bras. My MIL told me I needed to get regular glasses since my little frameless granny glasses were not worn in this area! Oh how times has changed with the internet sharing info world wide in an instant. You were born in a great time.

[KevK]

Originally Posted by missncr

IMO kids were much more appreciative back then when they got "material" things. We didn't always get what we wanted but when we did it was a very big deal. We usually had to wait til Christmas to get anything. We usually ate for breakfast things like Corn Flakes, Cheerios, Puffed Wheat, Puffed Rice or oatmeal. But every once in awhile when it came time to get groceries my mom would ask each of us kids which cereal we wanted. Then she would buy us each the cereal of our choice. Back then that was a huge deal.

If you were lucky and your folks bought those little multi packs of cereal, you got to them before anybody else and took the Fruit Loops and Apple Jacks out for yourself and left the rest for everybody else!

[KevK]

Originally Posted by ontheroad

And guess what, IGA still exists in many parts of the country.

Lookie here.

I never would have guessed. We had IGA, Safeway and Dillions.

[KevK]

Originally Posted by BlueWillowPlate

heh
Especially on the south lawn at East High in Denver. I never messed around like that during school time, but I know a lot of kids who did.



Funny how kids think, or don't think.
The pledge was said pretty mindlessly, kids were probably either half awake or worrying about a test or their undone homework. The words carried little meaning for the average kid back then.
We actually weren't even saying it in 71 and 72, I can't remember when we stopped but I know I never said it in high school.

I went to East High in Wichita KS. It is still there.

[RDSLOTS]

1970-71, and 71-72, I would have been a sophomore and junior in HS. Brings back such mixed emotions.

Great time to be a teen in a lot of ways, but the years were full of turmoil, too. Watching older fellows, generally friends and cousins, get shipped-off to Viet Nam, many to either not return or not be who I remembered when they left.

Race riots. Leaving school out of fear of getting beat up with a baseball bat. The whole town under curfew, and seeing The Wilmington 10 on the national news.

But some good things, too. Buying Beatles' albums for roughly $5.00. Great music, real rock 'n roll. Jimi Hendrix. Janis Joplin. James Taylor on the campus of UNC. Jethro Tull in concert. Dancing the twist, the pony, the jerk, the bump. Badfinger. Santana. The Stones. Cheap, cheap gas (until the energy crunch). The psychedelic movement and the art of Peter Max. Tie-dyed shirts and fringed pocketbooks. Buffalo sandals. Two-piece swimsuits in mod patterns and with boy-legs. Jams.

It was also great feeling alive, contributing to anti-war protests, putting up small handmade posters around the HS campus, discussing politics at the supper table -- as much as I could without getting my Dad wound-up, threatening to knock the hell out of me. Voting for the first time at 18, drinking a beer, legally, and having a glass of wine at the dinner table at holiday time. Clean fun TV series like Bewitched and I Dream of Jeannie. Walter Cronkite, and Chet Huntley and David Brinkley, on the evening news. Barbara Walters, Tom Brokaw, Gloria Steinheim.

I gotta stop.