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Remember when...
Richard M. Nixon was President and Spiro T. Agnew was Vice President
The population was 205,052,174
Inflation was at 6.5% and Unemployment was 3.5%
The price of a new home was $26,600
1st Class Postage Stamp was $0.06
A gallon of milk was $1.15 and a dozen eggs were $0.62
A gallon of regular gas was only $0.36
Kirby Theater movie tickets were $0.75
Wow! Those were the days, huh?
Music, Movies and Television
| Top Songs 1969 & 1970 |
| Sugar
Sugar - The Archies Aquarius / Let the Sun Shine In - 5th Dimension Honky Tonk Women - Rolling Stones Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head - B. J. Thomas I'll Be There - Jackson 5 Venus - The Shocking Blue Mama Told Me Not to Come - Three Dog Night I Think I Love You - The Partridge Family Tears of a Clown - Smokey Robinson & Miracles The Rapper - The Jaggerz I Want You Back - Jackson 5 Spirit in the Sky - Norman Greenbaum Vehicle - The Ides of March War - Edwin Starr Green-eyed Lady - Sugarloaf |
| Grammy Award Winners |
| Album of the Year: "Bridge Over Troubled Water"
- Simon & Garfunkel Best New Artist: The Carpenters Best Pop Duo or Group: "Close To You" - The Carpenters Best Pop Female Vocal: "I'll Never Fall In Love Again" - Dionne Warwick Best Pop Male Vocal: "Everything Is Beautiful" - Ray Stevens Best Pop Song: "Bridge Over Troubled Water" - Simon & Garfunkel Record of the Year: "Bridge Over Troubled Water" - Simon & Garfunkel Song of the Year: "Bridge Over Troubled Water" - Simon & Garfunkel |
| Movies 1969 & 1970 |
| Butch Cassidy & the
Sundance Kid Love Bug Midnight Cowboy Love Story M*A*S*H Chariots of the Gods Joe Airport Chisum Diary of a Mad Housewife Five Easy Pieces Gimme Shelter Tora! Tora! Tora! Woodstock Patton Women In Love Ryan's Daughter |
| Academy Award Winners |
| Best Actor: George C. Scott - Patton Best Actress: Glenda Jackson - Women In Love Best Director: Franklin J. Schaffner - Patton Best Picture: Frank McCarthy - Patton Best Supporting Actor: John Mills - Ryan's Daughter Best Supporting Actress: Helen Hayes - Airport |
| Television 1969 & 1970 |
| Laugh In Mayberry, RFD Family Affair Red Skeleton Walt Disney Marcus Welby, MD The Flip Wilson Show Here's Lucy Ironside Gunsmoke Bonanza |
| Emmy Award Winners - Drama |
| Best Drama: The Bold Ones, The Senator(NBC) Best Actor: Hal Holbrook - The Bold Ones, The Senator(NBC) Best Actress: Susan Hampshire - Masterpiece Theater Supporting Actor: David Burns, Hallmark Hall of Fame - The Price Supporting Actress: Margaret Leighton, Hallmark Hall of Fame - Hamlet |
| Emmy Award Winners - Comedy |
| Best Comedy: All in the Family Best Actor: Jack Klugman - The Odd Couple Best Actress: Jean Stapleton - All in the Family Supporting Actor: Edward Asner - The Mary Tyler Moore Show Supporting Actress: Valarie Harper - The Mary Tyler Moore Show Best Variety: The Flip Wilson Show |
| Sports |
| Football |
| Super Bowl V: Baltimore 16 - Dallas 13 |
| Rose Bowl: Stanford 27 - Ohio St 17 |
| Orange Bowl: Nebraska 17 - LSU 12 |
| Cotton Bowl: Notre Dame 24 - Texas 11 |
| Sugar Bowl: Tennessee 34 - Air Force 13 |
| Basketball |
| NBA Championship: New York 113 - LA Lakers 99 |
| NCAA Championship: UCLA 80 - New Mexico State 79 |
| Baseball |
| World Series: Baltimore 4 - Cincinnati 1 |
| Potpourri 1969 & 1970 |
| July 20, 1969 - Neil Armstrong & Buzz Aldrin land on the moon |
| May 4, 1970 - National Guard fires on Vietnam War protesters at Kent State Univ. and Jackson State Univ. killing several students |
| Beatles break up |
| Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Sonny Liston and Charles Riggles die |
| Nation celebrates "Earth Day" |
| NFL and AFL merge into the NFL |
| IBM introduces the "Floppy" disk for storage |
| Lasers are used in bombing targeting for more accuracy |
| New words: preppie, hassle, fast-food, rip-off, Fortran, blahs, put down, floppy disk |
| Massive recall of canned tuna by FDA for possible mercury poisoning |
| Vassar College admits male students for the first time |
| 1970 Horse Racing's Greatest Triple Crown winner "Secretariat" was born |