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Yeah I remember it, I also remember an ice-skating rink at a mall we used to go to, where disco music was played... along with Rock 'n Roll. No wonder I fell on the ice everytime a Disco song was played!! - Actually, I only skated there once. in December of 1975, or January of 1976, but I used to hear the music at the upper level of the mall, by the food court, and there was an area where you could stand and look over the clear plexi-glass banister on the top level and watch skaters below.
Livewire, Nitram, and Aksarben that was Metro Center, my favorite hang-out back in the 70's.
And oh, speaking of that clear plexi-glass banister, which was there up until the mall was remodeled in 1993, I remember a couple of my high school and early college buddies of mine, and I used to walk on the lower level of the mall, and we were able to look up and watch those young ladies, who wore those skirts, and were walking next to, or close to the banister... so we got a free show! Yeah, I know that was bad.... and the only reason I did it was because my 2 buddies, and many other teen-age boys, were doing that also.. I'm also pretty sure that was the main reason they got rid of the clear-plexi-glass banister when they remodeled the mall in 1993.
I seen Blackmore's Rainbow with Pat Travers, and Krokus in 1979 I think it was. Ya when you mentioned prices I agree with that; you might not have made as much per hour on the job but your $1 sure could buy more.
Concert tickets should have stayed at like 20 bucks...
I know in that decade, from 1970 until 1973, General Motors, AMC, Ford, and Chrysler produced some fine high performance automobiles, but from 1974 and through the rest of that decade, with a few exceptions, the automobiles that were produced by the Detroit auto makers were just horrible, and it was because Detroit was suddenly caught in a period where the OPEC nations were using oil to destroy our economy, pretty much the same thing they did recently. When gasoline went from about 30 cents a gallon in early 1973, to 70 or 80 cents a gallon in December of that year, thanks to OPEC! Auto sales plummeted, and Detroit suddenly found itself having to produce more fuel-efficient automobiles, and the quality of their products was compromised by a great deal.
I didn't start driving my own car until April of 1974 (I got my license in March of 1974) when I was 17, and my first car was a 1967 Chrysler, 4-door, with a 440 CI V8 engine - It only made about 10 miles to the gallon! My father had a 1970 Cadilac Fleetwood Brougham, which made about 7 miles to the gallon! I can't remember exactly when he got rid of it, I think it was in 1975, and he got a more economical 1973 Ford Thunderbird, which made around 14 miles per gallon!
I also remember my father getting a brand new 1978 Cadilac El Dorado after selling the Thunderbird. The El Dorado was really nice, but it didn't quite have the horsepower and the acceleration the '73 Thunderbird had, and the gas mileage wasn't any better.
One notable automobile, which I think everybody dreamed of having back in the 1970's, was the 1977 Pontiac Trans-Am, which was featured in the movie Smokey And The Bandit, and Burt Reynolds drove, along with Sally Field.
I also liked Jackie Gleason, as Sheriff Buford P. Justice, and all of his funny lines in the movie. One example is when he had his car on the side of the road, with the door wide open, and an Oriental truck driver, who was coming down the highway, sees it and goes "Bonzai!" and he hits the door and tears it right off the car. Gleason goes:
Sheriff: I saw that you sum-bitc* ! you did that on purpose! You're gonna go away 'till you're gray... I got the evidence right here!
he turns to his son and tells him to pick up the door and put it in the car, and says:
Sheriff: Put the evidence in the car
Son replies: But daddy!
Sheriff (Louder with a more emphatic tone) PUT THE EVIDENCE IN THE CAR!!!
Son complies and goes to pick up the door
Sheriff (yells at the truck driver) I gotta Barbeque yo as$ in molases!
I also saw something on the History Channel not too long ago, which mentioned that producer Hal Needham used 3 Trans-Am's to film the movie, and 2 were completely destroyed.
The 1977 Trans-Am was also the car that was chosen by Burt Reynolds.
If I remember correctly, a brand new 1977 Trans-Am, that looked exactly like the one that was in Smokey and The Bandit, cost somewhere around $8500. If you could find one today, in perfect shape, it could cost you over $25,000.
My girlfriend from 1987 until 1993 had a 1979 Trans-Am, with the 6.0 Litre engine. It was a gold color and it had the T-tops. It was a sharp car. She didn't keep it that long after I met her, I think she was having too many problems with it, so she traded it in for a new 1988 Pontiac Grand Am.
[quote=Magnum Mike;6044530]One notable automobile, which I think everybody dreamed of having back in the 1970's, was the 1977 Pontiac Trans-Am, which was featured in the movie Smokey And The Bandit, and Burt Reynolds drove, along with Sally Field.
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Yeap we did .
Along with the 77 Trans Am's and 69 Ford Mustang's i also liked the Chevy IROC-Z, Porsche 944, Nisson 300 ZX, Datsun 280Z and Mazda RX7 as some of my favorites.
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- Actually, I only skated there once. in December of 1975, or January of 1976, but I used to hear the music at the upper level of the mall, by the food court, and there was an area where you could stand and look over the clear plexi-glass banister on the top level and watch skaters below. 
and the only reason I did it was because my 2 buddies, and many other teen-age boys, were doing that also.. 
I'm also pretty sure that was the main reason they got rid of the clear-plexi-glass banister when they remodeled the mall in 1993. 
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