Bicentennial images in 1976... I remember this well!

[QueerDuck]

CAPTION: These images are from the bicentennial in 1976, which is what a milestone birthday for America looks like when we don't have a President literally ruining everything great about our country.

[The Wizard]

1. One nation under Zeus.

[QueerDuck]

2. Exactly! Jupiter bless America!

[peppertree]

30. And sure enough - it did!

Jupiter - in the 'natal chart' for the U.S. (a diagram of the heavens on the place and time of any given event) - is conjunct the Sun and Venus.

It's, moreover, in home-oriented Cancer - the sign in which Jupiter is said to be exalted (as its qualities are best expressed).

Had the U.S. been a person, that combination would've brought him or her luck, popularity, talent and success - as well as a relatively happy, prosperous home.

And whatever this nation's faults and foibles, we've certainly had more than our share of all those.

[-misanthroptimist]

3. I remember some of that

Hey, it was 1976.

[QueerDuck]

5. Here are the songs I was listening to... AND STILL DO!!

[-misanthroptimist]

8. Interesting

I have no memory of 19 of those songs. And there's probably at least that number that I never need to hear again.

There's some good stuff in there, too, though.

[QueerDuck]

17. I hear ya... some of them were groaning clunkers! An eye-rolling bookmark of a time in my life.

[LisaM]

25. So I had to count after that and I got 12 that I didn't know.

What always amazes me about old playlists is the variety of songs that everyone knew. There are a number of songs and genres represented where I don't really even like the song or artist, yet I know almost every word. So different from the Balkanized music world we live in now.

[Lifeafter70]

29. I did the same and got 15

But a couple were iffy.

[karin_sj]

31. Wow!

That was a fun stroll down memory lane. I remember almost all of those songs. The 70s had such a huge variety of music.

[MustLoveBeagles]

4. I wish I remembered it more

I got stuck with the crappy one 😞.

[Initech]

6. The Great American State Fair could have been something really cool.

But nope, we just had to have the fucking asshole back in power, who turned it into a celebration about himself and his twisted version of... whatever the hell he wants America to be, and we got this bullshit instead.

[MineralMan]

7. And a Republican Was President

Gerald Ford. So...

People hate Trump!

[RedWhiteBlueIsRacist]

9. I was rockin' with Aerosmith, Bob Seger, Black Oak Arkansas & Jeff Beck/Jan Hammer concert

on July 3/4th '76, Winston-Salem NC. Tickets were something like $12 bucks for the whole shebang!

[brer cat]

10. I remember much of that celebration. I watched the fireworks

from across the river in Arlington.

[oberle]

38. I was on the mall in DC, totally ploughed with some friends, watching the fireworks

Everyone was using the Reflecting Pool to pee in. Yeah, those were the days.

[EYESORE 9001]

11. I went to the glacier of Mount Hood on July 4,1976

I didn’t ski, but I’d been wanting to experience it anyway, so took a ski lift to the highest accessible point. Saw skiers in summer attire, adding to the surrealism of the day.

[electric_blue68]

26. Wow! Very cool!

Beautiful Seattle area mountains!

[EYESORE 9001]

39. For a period of about three years, I went into the cascades every chance I got

Mostly in Oregon, and even though I could see Mount St. Helens when conditions allowed, sometimes hovering just on the horizon, an eerily symmetrical cone reflecting the sun with the brightest white light imaginable, I never suspected that half of that cone would be gone the year after I left the PNW.

[PufPuf23]

12. Made a big American flag out of petunias and marigolds.

Living with gf in an A-frame built as a fishing cabin built on a steep slope. There was a path to deck and front door from parking. The bank above the path was blackberries, rocks and other wild vegetation. Hauled in river silt with PU and wheelbarrow. Built terraces out of rock to retain the soil. The flower bed was about 30 feet by 15 feet. Planted red, white and blue petunias for the stripes and field for the stars. Used marigolds for the stars and to form gold border. Started in the Fall. Planted and pretty well filled in by July 4. The work was almost like penance as slowly progressed. Gf helped too but reminded me as work progressed that it was my idea. Wish had a photo. darn.

[RockCreek]

14. That is seriously impressive!!

[karynnj]

20. Wow!

[patphil]

13. Everything Trump touches dies.

[pat_k]

15. And the tall ships!!

Walter Cronkite reporting

[RT Atlanta]

16. such a happy time...

more of 'what was taken from us' by the monster at 1600 right now ....

[NewLarry]

18. I remember back in '76 talking to this guy

He was about 60 years old and owned a junkyard.

He had a plan to get rich slow. He was going to buy thousands of bicentennial dollars and save them for the tricentennial, then sell them as souvenirs.

I occasionally wonder whatever became of that old coot. He's only got 50 years to go!

[karynnj]

19. I remember it well and it was cool

I worked on Lower Manhattan in the Trade Center area. The entire group I worked in walked to the South Street Seaport area to see the tall ships in the harbor.

Now, THAT was bipartisan.

[QueerDuck]

21. And red/white/blue were THE colors for everything. Not in the tacky MAGA way...

... but in the red shirt, blue shorts and white tube-socks way!

[electric_blue68]

28. Very cool! Been to the South Street Seaport...

Though not since the alterations to Pier 17.

[Americanme]

22. I remember July 4, 1976.

I was 14 years old. We were camping up north, near Baldwin, MI. We drove to Ludington on the 4th, my stepdad bought us ice cream, which was a rare thing. We watched fireworks over Lake Michigan. The whole town seemed like one huge party, everybody was happy. Don't have a lot of happy memories from my childhood, but this was one.

[Billsdaughter]

23. We went to Philadelphia the Summer of '76

and it was spectacular!! We spent two weeks in Philly taking it all in and then down the shore to cool off! Great times.

Trump can shit all over everything but he can't take our collective national pride and our fellowship of community that we have with one another. Let's celebrate THAT!

[kimbutgar]

24. I remember seeing these images on TV in 1976

Our country is so awful now and I'm not celebrating on Saturday.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

27. Cherished memory from 1976...

I'd just moved to NYC from SoCal in time for the Bicentennial celebrations. Like the Tall Ships down the Hudson to the Statue of Liberty and Macy's first annual fireworks over downtown. It was big and splashy and filled to the brim with joyous people (despite a really bad economy I was completely unaware of.)

[electric_blue68]

32. TY for photos!

[SleeplessinSoCal]

35. happy to share

[electric_blue68]

33. We lived relatively near the Manhattan side of the GW Bridge so on July 4th we walked down....

We: my dad, my sis and I, my cousins, aunts & uncles walked downed to under the bridge parkland near the Little Red Lighthouse to watch the Tall Ships sail by!

Sooo fun to see all the different types of ships. They sailed up past a bit, then turned around and came back down. I don't have my slides any more.

Then that night we went down to the southern area of Manhattan to see the fireworks.

[Hey Joe]

34. I got to march in the big Philadelphia parade with

my high school band on July 4 ‘76 and it was an awesome experience!
One band from every state got to go with expenses paid for the trip and fortunately we were the #1 band in Florida that year!
Still have great memories of that trip and how impressive the city of Philadelphia was with the old statues, monuments and buildings.
Made a big impression on this 16 year old kid!

[Beartracks]

36. Republicans under Trump: Find out what's made America great, and do the opposite. n/t

Or, rather: Assume things you don't personally like are a national crisis, and try to fix them.

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[MerryBlooms]

37. I was 13, in Mr. Yarnell's 8th grade History class

Man, we did debates, mock election... It was lovely.
He was also my home room teacher, heard morning announcements... Good times 🥰