# What Bicentennial crap did you have? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 11, 2001, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bicentennial-crap-did-you-have/61640 "2001-04-11T21:33:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Jet\_Jaguar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jet_jaguar/32/3562_2.png) [@Jet\_Jaguar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jet_Jaguar)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2010, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bicentennial-crap-did-you-have/61640/61 "2010-08-07T03:31:02Z")
I was all set to mention the lump of black rock with the bicentennial logo etched on the face when I noticed I already had, nine years ago. It turns out it’s likely a lump of coal. Oh, and I also have a whole mess of bicentennial quarters squirreled away in various places. I used to always save them when I was a kid. ---
**Author:** ![Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ce7236/32.png) [@Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mona_Lisa_Simpson)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2010, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bicentennial-crap-did-you-have/61640/62 "2010-08-07T05:26:37Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > I’ll check back with you in 57 years. Thanks, that made me smile. MLS, Canadian and missed our Centennial by 2 years. ---
**Author:** ![flodnak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/838e76/32.png) [@flodnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flodnak)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2010, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bicentennial-crap-did-you-have/61640/63 "2010-08-07T06:52:04Z")
Heh, Norway celebrated its centennial in 2005 and will be celebrating its bicentennial in 2014 😃 This is because Norway really has two founding, or re-founding, dates: its own constitution in 1814, and the end of its union with Sweden in 1905. The centennial in 2005 was downright low-key compared to the US in 1976. I’ve put the guys on notice though that if they start painting the fire hydrants red-white-and-blue in 2014, I’m going abroad for a while, because I’ve been there, done that 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Tethered\_Kite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a5b964/32.png) [@Tethered\_Kite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tethered_Kite)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2010, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bicentennial-crap-did-you-have/61640/64 "2010-08-07T12:59:33Z")
Your themed room sounds like fun, voguevixen. Most of my friends were working on bicentennial quilts that year and I was working on a baby boy. He and I both tried but we missed the Fourth of July by four days. I’d said that if he was born on the fourth I was going to give him the middle name of George. ---
**Author:** ![In\_Winnipeg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a8b319/32.png) [@In\_Winnipeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/In_Winnipeg)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2010, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bicentennial-crap-did-you-have/61640/65 "2010-08-09T06:15:28Z")
My suggestion is to look for the JC Penney catalogues from 1975 - 76; there’ll be tons of stuff in them to look for. Back in those days, Ben Franklin was kind of like a low-key Woolworth’s and had tons of stuff. I remember buying some three-ring binders with Bicentennial themes (I think I might actually still have them somewhere), Bicentennial pencils and pens, and I do remember seeing a square trunk with stars and stripes on it. You could also look around for one of these with the Bicentennial theme. I remember actually seeing one at a lot, and it was very pretty in real life: [http://www.carlustblog.com/2009/01/buick-free-spirit-indy-500-pace-car-replicas.html](http://www.carlustblog.com/2009/01/buick-free-spirit-indy-500-pace-car-replicas.html) ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2010, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bicentennial-crap-did-you-have/61640/66 "2010-08-09T06:54:24Z")
My parents still have a bicentennial dish set and a made-to-look-old candelabra from then. If they hadn’t been newly expecting a baby that July 4th, maybe they would have spent more money on bicentennial crap. Who knows? ---
**Author:** ![rolandgunslinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/cdc98d/32.png) [@rolandgunslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rolandgunslinger)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2010, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bicentennial-crap-did-you-have/61640/67 "2010-08-09T22:59:08Z")
I had this [poster](http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/25485395/KISS+1976+American+Bicentennial.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![AnalogSignal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/analogsignal/32/1085_2.png) [@AnalogSignal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AnalogSignal)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2010, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bicentennial-crap-did-you-have/61640/68 "2010-08-10T05:23:36Z")
> [@voguevixen](#): > > As we approach the 25th anniversary of the bicentennial As we approach the 10th anniversary of this zombie thread from 2001, I think this new relaxed policy sucks. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bicentennial-crap-did-you-have/61640.md?page=3)