Here’s a few links.
OK, 78, not 75.
Still…
http://www.w-files.com/files/Kangaroos/Waukesha_County/Kangaroo_Waukesha_4-13-1978.htm
Very early 70’s:
3rd graders get politically active! Half of Madison WI classroom marches around playground yelling “Mr. McGovern is our man! Throw Mr. Nixon in the garbage can!”
while the other half commandeers an older slogan and yells, “McGovern’s in the garbage can lying on his belly/Nixon’s in the Whitehouse eating bread and jelly!”*
One third grade wit says that Daddy told him “Democrats are dumbocrats. Republicans respect our country and …are nice.”
Slightly later 70’s: Scooby Doo and Josie and the Pussycats are popular amongst the pre ads. Scooby is a great teacher of skepticism–thanks to him we all know that ghosts are caused by evil land barons trying to drive widows and orphans out of their homes so that they can build condos for rich people. But our lessons in skepticism are preempted by the WATERGATE HEARINGS, leaving us vulnerable to:
Early mid 70’s: Devil movies. These aren’t your momma’s horror movies, with creatures from black lagoons or psychos waiting to lunge at you in the shower. This time the evil is in you or your kids! Demonic possession and all its grotesque side effects are on display at your local theater, prompting your 4th grade teacher to lament how graphic movies have become. She says of The Exorcist “Grown men lost their lunch,” while a fellow student reports that his mother went to see it and returned white with shock.
Yes, the dreaded OCK ult. For many it was occult lite–your college educated parents practicing telepathy experiments with their friends (well, mine did, anyway) while you read books about the Bermuda Triangle or UFO’s. Sometimes you or your parents talked to your houseplants. Not to worry, by the time you realized how lame these activities were you’d be into Led Zep, Osbourne, and Aliester Crowley.
Random snatches of memory from my 70’s childhood in KY: Desegragation. Another student saying “Ya’ll, the music teacher’s colored!”
4th graders arguing over which group was better, the Jackson 5 or The Osmonds.
6th graders playing a song which went “Play that funky music white boy!” and which you interpreted as “Play that f*****g music right, boy!”
Nature obsession–not bad in and of itself, I mean it taught you to put out food for the birdies and to try to conserve wild places, but if in the 1970’s you were brought up to believe that coyotes really were an endangered species, then when you moved to New Mexico in the 80’s you were in for a shock.
I suppose I should add that as young democrats we were taught that Nixon did not consume bread and jelly, but rather cottage cheese and ketchup, and that this was further proof that he was a mutant alien.
My older sister, a high school senior in 1973, acquired a copy, and I (three years younger than she) was absolutely dumbstruck by it.
I’d gotten my hands on Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex*, published in 1969, and Xaviera Hollander’s The Happy Hooker, published in 1971.
Our Bodies, Ourselves, by comparison, was truly liberating.
Yes! I remember them (it?) so well that I remember the parody we used to sing:
Down, down with people!
You meet’em wherever you go.
Down, down with people,
'Cuz most of them have B.O.
“Keep on Truckin” posters by R. Crumb.
Beanbag chairs
In the early 70s, you could get Apollo/moon related stuff in cereal boxes…cut a model out of the back of the box, etc.
Walter Cronkite was the news.
Records, and record players. 78, 45, 33 1/3.
Muhammad Ali
[ul][li]Give a Hoot – Don’t Pollute![/li][li]The AMC Gremlin[/li][li]The AMC Pacer[/li][li]Love Will Keep Us Together – The Captain and Tennille[/li][li]Afternoon Delight – Starland Vocal Band[/li][/ul]
Bosda Di’Chi of Tricor thanks for those links.
I lived in Waukesha County, back then.
Darn strange, having that in your neighborhood.
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[ul][li]Give a Hoot – Don’t Pollute![/ul][/li][/QUOTE]
From 1977: Give a hoot, don’t pollute
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From about 1974: Freakies cereal commercial collection
The 1972 Miami Dolphins went 17-0, and remain the only undefeated Super Bowl Champion in NFL history.