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re: 50 years later: The Bicentennial celebration of 1976
Posted on 6/1/26 at 12:31 pm to scrooster
Posted on 6/1/26 at 12:31 pm to scrooster
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Honestly, it was a remarkable nationwide celebration that lasted most of the year but really peaked over the 4th of July weekend.
I remember the Cub Scouts/Boy Scouts uniforms included a red, white, and blue neckerchief as part of the official uniform for 1975 and 1976. And yes, I still have my old Scout uniforms from those years.
I also recall watching President Ford ring the Liberty bell on Independence Day and then hopping into Dad's old '57 Thunderbird to go ride around town that afternoon while we loaded up on smoke bombs, sparklers, and the contraband explosive stuff to play with that night after the city fireworks display.
It was hot, humid, and hazy in our town that day and I remember it like it was only a week ago.
It's a damned shame that we've allowed the communists to subvert this year's Independence Day celebration. In only fifty years we've allowed them to turn the best holiday of the year into a shriek-fest for every malcontent that resides within our borders.
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Posted on 6/1/26 at 12:57 pm to High C
What I remember the most is the Freedom Train that came to Baton Rouge for a couple of days. Took my oldest son and wife. It was a USA history museum inside the many train cars. Who else remembers this?
I don't recall all the details of it, but I do remember it was awesome!
I don't recall all the details of it, but I do remember it was awesome!
Posted on 6/1/26 at 12:59 pm to High C
We got to take a field trip to see the movie 1776.
Posted on 6/1/26 at 1:14 pm to High C
That shirt is pure gold, Jerry.
Posted on 6/1/26 at 1:15 pm to High C
And to end the year, we got to watch Rocky Balboa make his debut. Plus, Bad News Bears. The Omen. Carrie. King Kong. The Shaggy DA. Gus. Outlaw Josey Wales.
It was a freaking awesome year to be a kid.
It was a freaking awesome year to be a kid.
Posted on 6/1/26 at 1:21 pm to High C
I was 6 and my brother 5, we were in the parade in Eunice, La parents dressed us up like Uncle Sam... 
#fricktheleft
#fricktheleft
Posted on 6/1/26 at 1:23 pm to High C
My younger cousin had that Kiss poster.
Posted on 6/1/26 at 1:26 pm to High C
My dad was a small town veterinarian in 1976. He opened a little fireworks stand outside the clinic, hired some high school kids to run it. Back then there weren’t fireworks stands on every corner like now. So it was him and maybe one other stand in town. He still talks about how much money he made that year off the fireworks.
He did it again for a few years after but never came close to the money he made that year.
He did it again for a few years after but never came close to the money he made that year.
Posted on 6/1/26 at 1:26 pm to High C
I remember these 
Posted on 6/1/26 at 1:27 pm to High C
It was all over TV all the time, even in the cartoons. I still see the quarters occasionally.
Posted on 6/1/26 at 1:33 pm to geauxpurple
quote:The world of MTV and 24/7 news hadn't yet materialized, much less social mind-warping media.
That was the year I graduated from high school.
We made a much bigger deal of it back then.
Posted on 6/1/26 at 1:40 pm to themunch
It also helped that in 1976 most people in this country were native born Americans.
Present day we have upwards of 50 million illegal immigrants running around who aren't assimilating, and who were invited here to receive free stuff in exchange for voting a certain way. That is on top of whatever the liberals in media, academia, arts and entertainment are doing to make actual Americans hate their own country.
Present day we have upwards of 50 million illegal immigrants running around who aren't assimilating, and who were invited here to receive free stuff in exchange for voting a certain way. That is on top of whatever the liberals in media, academia, arts and entertainment are doing to make actual Americans hate their own country.
Posted on 6/1/26 at 1:45 pm to Tall Tiger
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That is on top of whatever the liberals in media, academia, arts and entertainment are doing to make actual Americans hate their own country.
I was born in 1976, but I tell my kids often about 1984. If you would have told me in less than 50 years we would have fellow Americans literally dancing in the streets when other Americans were killed, simply over different political opinions, I would have never believed it. Now there are tens of millions of "Americans" who not only think this way, but openly espouse it like a badge of honor.
Posted on 6/1/26 at 1:54 pm to blueboy
The new quarters look great but I have yet to see one in the wild.
If Trump hadn't won they were fixing to hit us with a bunch of DEI trash coins
If Trump hadn't won they were fixing to hit us with a bunch of DEI trash coins
Posted on 6/1/26 at 2:06 pm to High C
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I lived it. It was everywhere without America-hating protesters involved.
I can attest to this as well. I don't recall any protests or American hating liberals. People were really proud to be an American. We are far from perfect, but love this country or leave. Don't try and destroy what we have. We are the envy of the world.
Posted on 6/1/26 at 2:14 pm to Tigergreg
This was before the Great Divider came in and “fundamentally changed” our country, before the weak minded were brainwashed into thinking that anyone who didn’t completely agree with them was the enemy and deserved to be killed.
From a time where we didn’t take everything so seriously.
From a time where we didn’t take everything so seriously.
Posted on 6/1/26 at 2:22 pm to High C
i still have the flag glasses and pool sticks we bought that year 
the pool sticks are pieces of shite though
the pool sticks are pieces of shite though
Posted on 6/1/26 at 2:24 pm to High C
That looks so much cooler than what Trump’s rally will be
Posted on 6/1/26 at 2:28 pm to High C
The left has spent 50 years and trillions to get rid of any national pride.
Posted on 6/1/26 at 2:35 pm to uggabugga
quote:250 is a big reason I was glad Trump won. I cannot imagine the communist shame-fest we'd have undergone under Kamala, wasting and desecrating our country's quarter millennium anniversary.
If Trump hadn't won they were fixing to hit us with a bunch of DEI trash coins
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