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re: Who here remembers the Bicentennial of 1976?
Posted on 7/4/24 at 10:12 pm to Tchefuncte Tiger
Posted on 7/4/24 at 10:12 pm to Tchefuncte Tiger
I remember. I was 6 that year. I got to see the Freedom Train in Memphis while visiting family in Arkansas.
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Posted on 7/4/24 at 10:18 pm to BowDownToLSU
16: wild, young, and free. Not to mention young, dumb, and full of .... Working at a summer camp and terrorizing Metry on my days off. Remember some awesome ex officio fireworks displays all over town when time permitted. Enormous Scout Jamboree up East I was too poor to attend, but just glad I was the first incoming senior class in years that wouldn't have to register for the draft. Proud to be an American- and still am. And a veteran to boot-as a volunteer, not a draftee. God Bless America.
Posted on 7/4/24 at 10:28 pm to Highstepper
Baskin Robbins had special flavors. Valley Forge Fudge was good stuff
Posted on 7/4/24 at 10:30 pm to 6R12
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Look around at all the mental stuff going on with men acting like women, and women acting like men. All the stupidity going on where we simply rubber stamp this stuff. Yes we had inflation and gas lines, but I still think we were better off bc this stuff is crazy today. We still have inflation and the things from the time we are talking about.
I have some memories as I was 8, but the Bicentennial was a big deal. As for the above, It was a time embroiled in the Women's rights ERA movement and the big stories in the news were Dr. Renee Richards, a trans male to female, trying to compete as a female in that years US Open. Richards was denied and sued and was allowed to play a few years later. This was a few years after the momentous Battle of the Sexes between Billie Jean King and Bobbye Riggs in 1973. Everything old is new again.
Posted on 7/4/24 at 10:38 pm to Tchefuncte Tiger
I and 4 of my friends went to jail in Grand Isle. It was an action packed night. 
This post was edited on 7/4/24 at 10:43 pm
Posted on 7/4/24 at 10:41 pm to Tchefuncte Tiger
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Who here remembers the Bicentennial of 1976?
I remember it well…I was about ten years old and too wrapped up in bottle rocket wars to realize the significance of the day
Posted on 7/4/24 at 10:41 pm to Tchefuncte Tiger
Went to Disney that year like every year around then. Also toured the freedom train at LSU.
Posted on 7/4/24 at 10:45 pm to Tchefuncte Tiger
I remember going on the levee and watching Gerald Ford pass by on a steamboat on the Mississippi River during the presidential campaign . My first recollection of life other than watching Star Wars at a drive-in in Kenner in 1977
Posted on 7/4/24 at 11:42 pm to foj1981
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My senior year of high school. Dazed and confused
Same
This post was edited on 7/4/24 at 11:43 pm
Posted on 7/4/24 at 11:59 pm to Tchefuncte Tiger
We celebrated my oldest grandson’s 40th birthday that day. Good times!
Posted on 7/5/24 at 12:24 am to lsusteve1
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Rode over the Old Bridge on a horse during Bicentennial Trail Ride
frick THAT!
Posted on 7/5/24 at 12:32 am to Tchefuncte Tiger
I remember it well. That was the year I graduated from high school. Great times.
This post was edited on 7/5/24 at 10:39 am
Posted on 7/5/24 at 1:09 am to Tchefuncte Tiger
I was determined to collect every Bicentennial quarter. I gave it a good shot. Think I was only a few short.
Posted on 7/5/24 at 2:16 am to BK Lounge
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people make it sound like the world was some utopia “way back when” and it wasn’t even close .
Freedom still existed back then.
You could ride in the bed of a pickup truck on the interstate and not have to pay the uniformed armed government thugs.
No laws mandating the purchase of some 3rd party insurance that are really only enforced upon a portion of the population(auto nor health).
Kids roamed the neighborhood without any guardians getting so much as looked at twice much less get arrested or have their children taken away.
Vehicles weren’t subjected to nearly as many manufacturing mandates and thus were significantly less expensive and more user friendly to repair (granted the quality is improved but that’s more of a market result than legislative).
A person could spin tires on crosswalks and not be arrested or sued, just a small fine for disturbing the peace of everyone and not just a select minority group.
We ate sugar and smoked cigarettes everywhere without legal repercussions nor a morbidly obese overall population. In ‘76 there was not even an age limit law to purchase tobacco in any form.
The Bicentennial celebration was actually about 4 years of events, ‘74 started things up and then there were after parties for at least another year ( maybe just to make use of all the red, white, blue leftover stuff) if not into ‘78.
It’s looking like the 250th birthday of the nation will be celebrated with a mask covered collective yawn.
Posted on 7/5/24 at 2:28 am to vistajay
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I was determined to collect every Bicentennial quarter. I gave it a good shot. Think I was only a few short.
I think you are confusing them with the state quarters. There was only one Bicentennial quarter design. They were struck in all three mints so standard strike Philly and Denver coins along with clad proof, silver proof, and silver standard strike unc. There are some error coins but only 5 versions of the properly produced quarters. There was a boat load of all of them produced well over a billion of the P & D varieties (together) and quite a few S versions given that they were sold vs just put into circulation.
Posted on 7/5/24 at 2:40 am to Obtuse1
Posted on 7/5/24 at 3:15 am to Legba007
That was the Destroyer tour, I saw them in Charleston at the Civic Center, pretty sure it was after the 4th though. My friend's mom took use, lol. Bob Seger opened for them.
Posted on 7/5/24 at 3:26 am to Obtuse1
I saw that show at Midsouth Coliseum in Memphis. Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show opened.
Posted on 7/5/24 at 5:07 am to 3HourTour
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We celebrated my oldest grandson’s 40th birthday that day. Good times!
Hey Pops, your math ain’t mathing. That would make your grandson 88.
Unless you had your child at age 10, and your grandson at age 20, you’d have to be a minimum of over 110.
Exactly how old are you?
Posted on 7/5/24 at 5:08 am to Tchefuncte Tiger
Marched in the parade
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