Tonight, I decided that I would spend a little time looking up my birth year, 1976, on Google, Youtube, and Wikipedia.
I have learned several interesting and useless facts about 1976....
- I was born while Disco was still alive
- I was born while Elvis was still alive
- The Apple Computer company was started
- The tradename "Microsoft" was registered with the Office of the Secretary of the State of New Mexico
- Our country celebrated it's Bi-Centennial
- The first class of women was inducted into the U.S. Naval Academy (My brother, Dan's, alma mater)
- The Summer Olympics were held in Montreal, Quebec
- Rocky was released. Yo, Adrian!!!!
- "Bionic Woman," with Lindsay Wagner, debuted on ABC (This past fall, ABC relaunched the "Bionic Woman")
- The fashion was bad, and most of the music was worse!
I initially started out to write something profound about life and gaining another year of wisdom, but as you can see, none of that is coming out right now.
All I can say is, "I feel old!" I remember looking at mom and dad's photos and thinking the 50's and 60's looked so old. Looking back at 1976 had that same effect on me tonight. All I can say is, I am thankful I can remember the 80's! It doesn't look like I missed much during my 4 years in the 70's!
These are too cool!
How can you not love disco!
Have a groovy day!!
3 comments:
"Happy Birthday"
WOW what a way to start the week with a nostalgic trip to 1976; on a positive note 1976 was a great year, you could buy a "nice" house for under $20,000.00 less than most cars cost today! I enjoyed viewing the Montgomery Ward Catalog; I remember ordering some clothes from that issue! You make me proud; if you think you are old, I must be ancient in your eyes! Enjoy your special day and eat a piece of HoHo cake for me! Love MOM
Dave,
If you view the catalog while you listen to the disco clip that you sent, it brings back a lot of memories. Those were the days. Have a great birthday!!!
Rich
Happy birthday Dave! (Waving to Kristen as well! :)
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