Do you remember 1971 and 1972? (greatest, revolutionary, compare, best)
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On the Road: Sorry about the hi-jacking. I am new at this stuff. But what I said was true. That was what I was doing in 1971-2. My daughter was married that year and my son entered UMass that year. I had been a young bride and became a young college Mom and Mother in law. The war in Vietnam was about over. Nixon became President. Spiro Agnew, his V.P. told the press off and was by husband's hero. When my new son in law first came dating, he was wearing long hair and was home from Boston College law school because of a demonstration against the war taking place. My husband said to him, "I hope you are not one of those crazy kids demonstrating and wasting your parents hard earned money." And the young man replied." Someone has to get rid of that jerk Agnew!" My husband flew of the chair and said, No crazy liberal kid is going to marry my daughter and that's it." Well, here we are today with two grandchildren, one a graduate of Princeton, the other a graduate of University of Vermont, both successful in their chosen careers, three great grandchildren later and we all laugh at Gramps and Spiro Agnew story. You see, all politics is not bad, you can get a laugh out of it. That is my 1971-2 story.
I remember my dad had a 65 Stingray Corvette then bought a 59 Corvette also. He had them both for awhile then sold the 65. Several years later he sold the 59 also. 71-72 was a good year for him for cars. He sure wishes he just had one of them today.Probably a good thing he got rid of them before I could drive though
Do people really think they would play a cut like The Doors "The End" or some of The Airplane's songs (with Grace Slick singing 'tear down the walls m*** f***ers') .
I still can't get AFN to play the Door's "Five in One" even today.
I was in Vietnam all of '71; I remember the announcement on AFN that Morrison had died and Rod Stewart singing "Maggie Mae", Cat Stevens and "Wild World", CSNY and "Ohio". In '72 I went to Germany. It was the year of the Black September Munich massacre of the Israelis, the beginnings of Watergate (I was the only one among us that thought it could cause real trouble for Nixon) and the Germans played "Smoke on the Water" so much I thought it was the German National Anthem. At the end of '72 I went back to Vietnam for the last time. It was an odd time.
My mother and I arrived in Los Angeles in February of 1971 from Spain, where I was born. My dad had been wounded in Vietnam and received a purple heart, and medically discharged. I remember vividly my father wearing his uniform when he went to pick us up at the airport; and I remember my father being beaten and having his uniform ripped off of him right there at the airport, in front of his wife and three young children. That was a Monday; the following day the Sylmar earthquake hit and we had to leave our home of one day due to damage sustained in the quake.
The VA found us living quarters - in the Mar Vista Gardens housing projects which was supposedly it's own little hell. I don't remember it that way, I remember walking to school (I was 6!) alone and the worst thing that ever happened to me was I would have to give this 1st grader a kiss on the cheek so I could cross the street. I remember all the kids getting together to play tag, hopscotch literally all day with little parental supervision. Not that we had bad parents, but it was just a different mindset back then.
I remember wearing a lot of polyester and the men wearing these funky white shoes with huge platform heels, and my father shaking his head and saying "It's just not right when a man puts on high heels" lol.
Oddly enough, even though we lived in a housing project and I went to one of the most dangerous schools in the nation, what I most remember is how safe and carefree it all was back then. We stayed in the projects for three years, long enough to save up to buy our first house in San Fernando, which we paid a whopping $12,000 for. It took my dad 3 years to save up the $3000 down payment. Odder still, it was only after we left the projects that I realized that we had been poor! People weren't so materialistic back then.
With a few exceptions, that was a very good year to 6 years old in Los Angeles, even in the projects!
1971 or 1972 ....well the first thing I want to say is it was possibly the best time ever .....nobody knew it at the time but everything peaked then
TV Shows ......"All in the Family" ..."Mary Tyler Moore" ....MASH .....Flip Wilson Show ....Carol Burnett Show ....the list goes on and on ......
Movies ..... "The God Father" ....."Dirty Harry" ...."Straw Dogs" ...Deliverence" ....I could go on and on
Music ......"Who's Next" .....Led Zeppelin's Fourth Album .....
The Rolling Stones "Sticky Fingers" ....Alice Cooper's "Killer"
....Jethro Tull's "Aqualung" .....again the list is almost endless
Cars ....Camaro Z-28 .....Firebird Trans Am ....Dodge Challenger
Plymouth Barracuda ....Ford Mustang Mach-1 ....last days of the muscle car
everything changed after 1972 .....Watergate ....a new cynical age dawned
...energy crisis of late 1973 ....things were never the same
Prices started rising dramatically too ....a candy bar was only 10 cents in 1971 .....small ice cream cone 10 cents too ....Big Mac 85 cents
Nice new house $ 25,000 ....that's what my parents paid in 1971
...that same house is now $ 250,000
Wages were alot less but the ratio of pay to cost of goods was better
We had only 2 bathrooms ....1 rotary phone ...single garage .....
nobody owned a personal computer ....only large companies had them and they took up an entire floor
OhYeah, I almost forgot it was great to be a kid then ....
we'd play outside all day long
Only downer was there was a drug problem back then,a legacy of the 1960's that we still live with today ....however no crack ...crystal meth problems ...that came much later
What a great question posed by the OP!
Ah, 1971-72...salad days! I was a sophomore in college, and my boyfriend had just transferred to my school. He joined a fraternity later that school year and we enjoyed some wild parties! Actually, pretty tame...alcohol, no drugs. After all, I was a nice Southern sorority girl!
We drove junker cars...paid 35 cents a gallon for gas. Prices had gone up at the movies. $1.50 to get in and 15 or 25 cents for the popcorn (you got butter for the quarter) and 15 cents for a small Coke...and the small coke was a 7-ounce cup with ice!
The university did not serve food on Sunday night. If I was loaded, I might order a wine pizza for $3.50, delivered. If I was broke, I'd get a can of Coke and a bag of cheese curls from the vending machine - 15 cents for the Coke and 10 cents for the cheese curls.
We attended a couple of concerts that year in the university's coliseum...the Who, I believe...maybe the Rolling Stones was another. They were expensive, though - TEN WHOLE DOLLARS for students!
Varsity basketball games were free for students. There were no women's sports teams unless you counted cheerleaders. Home football games were also free, and $3 for a student guest ticket.
Tuition was $250 a semester...all my books might run $100 (total, not each) if I bought all new books. But you could usually find used ones for $5 or maybe $10 each!
Great days!
I pasted the top 20 music hits from 1971: Ahhhh, the hip revolutionary music of, ummm, whaaa...The Osmonds, The BeeGees, Tony Orlando and Dawn, Cher, and the Jackson 5. Rounding out the top 40 was the dangerous drug-fueled music of The Carpenters, Tom Jones, and John Denver. Oh well so much for peoples melodramatic memory of "the air was awash with the scent of marijuana..."
In 1969 the #2 hit of the year was The Archies "Sugar, Sugar".
1
Joy To The World
Three Dog Night
2
Maggie May
Rod Stewart
3
It's Too Late
Carole King
4
One Bad Apple
Osmonds
5
How Can You Mend A Broken Heart
Bee Gees
6
Knock Three Times
Dawn
7
Brand New Key
Melanie
8
Go Away Little Girl
Donny Osmond
9
Family Affair
Sly & Family Stone
10
Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves
Cher
11
Just My Imagination
Temptations
12
Theme From Shaft
Issac Hayes
13
Me And Bobby McGee
Janis Joplin
14
Brown Sugar
Rolling Stones
15
Indian Reservation
Raiders
16
Want Ads
Honey Cone
17
You've Got A Friend
James Taylor
18
Uncle Albert
Paul McCartney
19
What's Going On
Marvin Gaye
20
Never Can Say Goodbye
Jackson 5
You posted the top 10 SINGLES from 1971. All the pot smokers were buying albums so your sarcasm is amiss!!
I was a pot smoking, hippie, Vietnam vet, college student, political activist, and I never bought an album and very rarely listened to "commercial" music.
Not only could we not afford to spend money that way, we considered it just another part of the system's consumer based materialism.
Certainly there were some musicians who's music caught the ideas and ideals of the times, but by the time they were made into albums, or played on the radio, they had become consumer products that were part of the same system of greed and profit that we were fighting against.
We preferred to make our own music and follow our own drummers, not those who the music industry and the mass media promoted and profited from.
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. He sure wishes he just had one of them today.Probably a good thing he got rid of them before I could drive though
1971-72
