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It’s 1974 All Over Again

Thursday, 17 June 2021, 22:15 Dr. Tar Uncategorized 55

Where were you on this day, 49 years ago today? What was playing on the radio?

I know what lead the news 49 years ago. Here

In case you want to relive 1974 through the music, today is 1974 commercial free on accuradio with you’re choice of genres. Here

It was an era of inflation, velour and polyester prints, speed limit of 55, and one hit wonder bands. All in all, pretty forgettable. Here

55 Comments on It’s 1974 All Over Again

  2. “Jaws” was released…And no one gave a shit about skin color. It was kind of like just after the Berlin Wall fell in 89. But boy what a collective union of fuck ups we’ve been since then….Not to mention before, but I again digress..

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  5. My Dad bought a brand new Ford F150 pickup. That was his first new vehicle for himself in 30 years. What a POS! Engine noise, constant carburetion problems due to pathetic pollution control ad-ons, Rust! – Even the brake lines rusted out!

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  10. On this day 49 years ago, I didn’t tolerate a certain lifestyle of people and today the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that we don’t have to tolerate it.

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  12. Bruce Jenner was training for the Olympics.
    OJ hadn’t even met the woman he would marry and slaughter 20 years later.
    Bill Cosby was drugging women and raping them in 1974.
    biden* was already suckling at the government teet.
    Bill Clinton was already cheating on Hillary…

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  15. I heard about that when I was at breakfast in Soviet (😢) Estonia at the one and only Intourist hotel in 1974. A local relative whispered the news to us across the table.

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  16. I graduated from high school, with a bad attitude. Fortunate to have not ruined my future. It took me a couple years, but I moved to Alaska and grew up, and became a responsible adult. 70 to 75 were my worst years.

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  17. I hate to speak frankly, but you all been played long before your mommy and daddy’s been played by the same ploy. It’s all too familiar to those who see, and feel, and that is being extremely humble, and confessing..

  21. I was beginning my long voyage home across the Pacific Ocean from my first trip overseas from the Philippines back to Dan Diego on board the USS Kitty Hawk about this time in 1974 after being gone for nearly 9 months. But today was a better day, even a great day for I am a blessed man. I got the results back from Inland Imaging from a CT scan and a complete bone scan on Tuesday that were negative for any signs of possible cancer in my prostate. I’ll still have to have surgery within the next few weeks on my prostate but now I know that I’m cancer free and I can live with the surgery and know that all is well. I also got my eyes examined and will get a new pair of glasses with the next week or so. Thank God for his faithfulness because my urologist was concerned that I might have prostate cancer and he called me today to let me know that both the CT scan and bone scan results were negative. Both of us are immensely relieved. Today was a great day to be alive and receive this good news. I haven’t said anything to anybody about this except for my children and the rest of my family and some good friends until now.

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  22. Don’t forget Jimmy Carter’s 1973…..I had three straight classes in the same classroom where it was 35 degrees….I would go into the hall inbetween class where it was 45 degrees….then Chyrstal Bevin would walk by in a down coat and my pants would be near 80 degrees….

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  24. I was promoted to Captain in the Army Nurse Corps and purchased a 260Z Datsun (British racing green) and was single. I was aware of what was going on but not immersed in it because I was too busy with my job. (Plus no IOTW to keep me educated). I loved that car and had it for 10 years!

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  26. We can only hope that our current pResident (and entire conniving cabinet) resigns in disgrace just like Nixon did.

    @Willys I remember doing something similar. The brilliance of 1970’s desegregation. We got bussed cross town to a rundown school in a bad neighborhood for equity. Sat in class with our coats on. In an effort to save heating the schools and transporting kids to save gas they tried “School without Schools” predating remote learning on Channel 12. Good times. Learned absolutely nothing!

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  29. America has had more than 150 years to come to grips with the simple fact that America has had a great gig bestowed upon it through BLOOD SHED. The genuine reality of hope through death has been usurped, and now America is recruiting homosexual Marxist queers who are simply programmed to take ruthlessly, and our military is getting inoculated as father time ticks away. Oh boy!

    But I’m naive, so pay no mind.

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  30. I fondly remember 1974 because I backpacked through the UK for 5 weeks. I was a belated student in my early 20’s because our adventure in SE Asia had interrupted my education.

    I saw so much in the UK, from Lands End to northern Scotland. Stonehenge, York, Loch Ness, Dover, Cambridge, lots more. The Brits were so friendly, often buying my drinks in pubs. Last time I was there was in 1997 and it had deteriorated. I’ll never see Britain again.

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  34. Quit picking on Fred. I enjoy his posts. Much like watching Gomez Addams play with his trains. You knew if you hung around long enough, something interesting was bound to happen.

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  37. “Jethro June 17, 2021 at 10:32 pm

    My Dad bought a brand new Ford F150 pickup. That was his first new vehicle for himself in 30 years. What a POS! Engine noise, constant carburetion problems due to pathetic pollution control ad-ons, Rust! – Even the brake lines rusted out!”

    I just bought a 2006 F-250 3/4 ton 2wd with AC and an E40D transmisson with 84,000 miles on it for $3,000. I had to replace a MAP sensor, and polish the paint.

    Nearer nearer nearer….

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  39. This day in 1974 I was a week away from my first anniversary of marriage to wife #1. In retrospect, I should have seen the Nixon resignation as an omen of the impending disaster that was awaiting.

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  40. Just like Trump needed to tone down his messages.

    The day will come, and it will be absolute, America will sacrifice reason for insanity. It is already underway.

    I don’t make the rules. I just survive them.

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  41. In 1974 I didn’t have to pass through a metal detector at San Jose air to LAX and back.

    I can exist without a cell phone.

    Does Apple, and samsung support America..? Just Asking….

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  49. Jethro, 1974 was the low water mark for the auto industry, especially the American manufacturers, because of the pollution control BS. Big V-8 engines were limited in most cases to 100-150 horsepower and reliability was almost non-existent.

    In my life, I had just graduated High School a few days earlier.

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  50. 1974. Purchased my first new car, an AMC Gremlin. Stop laughing. Straight six, 3-speed manual, complete with AM radio. $500 down, $93 a month for 3 years at 16% interest. Good times.

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  53. Wendell “Biff” Slappenhertz JUNE 18, 2021 AT 1:44 PM

    1974 One year out of High School. I bought my first car, a 1969 VW Beetle.
    I still have it.
    I still drive it.

    That is inspirationally awesome.

    My first was a `68 bug I purchased in the Summer of `73. When I was 16 and paid for it with my life savings. It was MINE.

    Weirdly, I found out later it was actually fully mine as a minor. Something that was not supposed to be in either Texas or Wisconsin. The state I moved to a year later.

    I’m in the county license building and two people behind the counter tell me they can’t transfer the title to me because I’m a minor. The title that’s already solely in my legal name.

    Texas must have messed up, but the fact remained that I was still the full and only legal owner of this vehicle. They looked at me in unison and gave me some kind of “What now?” look.

    I looked at them and said: Look, I’m the owner – it isn’t a transfer to me for the first time. Just register it as you would any other owner coming to your state.

    They looked at each other and shrugged with a “why not” look between them.

    I may have been the first minor in Wisconsin that had legal registration/ownership of a vehicle documented.

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  54. IrateNate JUNE 18, 2021 AT 9:28 AM

    1974. Purchased my first new car, an AMC Gremlin. Stop laughing.

    C’mon

    Gremlin
    Pinto
    Mustang II
    Chevette
    Pacer

    All deserving of the ridicule the 70s Commies, like Carter, have earned.

    It was relatively recent that the 55 mph limits were lifted in Dallas. Less than 10 years for the 635 Loop and about the same for the other interstates around Dallas.

    Truly appreciating what you have seems to be the hard thing in life.

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  55. I was in the Army, 82nd Airborne at the time. I went thru the Ford and Carter Administration during the post-Vietnam times and it sucked. Low pay, low moral, no fuel for our vehicles, having to march to Pope AFB to get on a plane, parachute in and having to march all the way back to our barracks, sometimes 15-20 miles away due to fuel shortages. Nice to be young and dumb in those days, Airborne All The Way!

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