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15 Mar 2018, 12:35 pm

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That 70's Show was first created, but it was originally just called "That Show". It didn't do well so they took it off the air and waited until 1998 to air it again, but changed the title to "That 70's Show", and it became much more successful.

That was a joke, obviously. Ha ha. :mrgreen:


That 70's show was a show set in the '70's written for 00's teens. Not that it was inaccurate but it contextualized the events and fads in a 2000's manor.

The movie "Dazed and Confused" is still by far the closest to the "feel" of the 70's in white suburban America.


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15 Mar 2018, 4:53 pm

what about "Spirit of '76"?



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17 Mar 2018, 2:45 pm

auntblabby wrote:
what about "Spirit of '76"?


Ahhh... They had t-shirts of that:

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17 Mar 2018, 3:29 pm

LegoMaster2149 wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
what about "Spirit of '76"?


Ahhh... They had t-shirts of that:

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that was a fun movie :mrgreen:



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19 Mar 2018, 8:41 am

auntblabby wrote:
LegoMaster2149 wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
what about "Spirit of '76"?


Ahhh... They had t-shirts of that:

Image

that was a fun movie :mrgreen:


There was a movie called The Spirit of '76?



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19 Mar 2018, 9:49 pm

LegoMaster2149 wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
LegoMaster2149 wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
what about "Spirit of '76"?


Ahhh... They had t-shirts of that:

Image

that was a fun movie :mrgreen:


There was a movie called The Spirit of '76?

yup-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spiri ... (1990_film)



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20 Mar 2018, 9:37 am

auntblabby wrote:
LegoMaster2149 wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
LegoMaster2149 wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
what about "Spirit of '76"?


Ahhh... They had t-shirts of that:

Image

that was a fun movie :mrgreen:


There was a movie called The Spirit of '76?

yup-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spiri ... (1990_film)


Looks interesting, I might check it out.



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20 Mar 2018, 10:18 am

The "Bicentennial" was really, really big in the United States in 1976. By 1977, nobody cared.

Probably even more significant than the "New Millennium" of the year 2000.



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20 Mar 2018, 10:21 am

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The "Bicentennial" was really, really big in the United States in 1976. By 1977, nobody cared.

Probably even more significant than the "New Millennium" of the year 2000.


So just about everyone celebrated the bicentennial?



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20 Mar 2018, 10:25 am

I don't believe most people "celebrated" it overtly. They celebrated it like any Fourth of July. Barbecues, trips to the beach, fireworks, etc. Perhaps a little more intense with the fireworks than usual.

But it was certainly on lots of peoples' minds. The 200th anniversary of the founding of the USA!



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20 Mar 2018, 10:27 am

kraftiekortie wrote:
I don't believe most people "celebrated" it overtly. They celebrated it like any Fourth of July. Barbecues, trips to the beach, fireworks, etc. Perhaps a little more intense with the fireworks than usual.

But it was certainly on lots of peoples' minds. The 200th anniversary of the founding of the USA!


Gotcha. I could certainly see it just like any other Fourth of July, except it being more noteworthy.



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20 Mar 2018, 10:34 am

Pretty much.

We were inundated with the Bicentennial via all media (TV, radio, billboards, etc), though, from the beginning of 1976 to the Fourth of July.

Probably the most popular musical form that year was disco. There was lots of "arena rock," too. And a bit more novelty songs than most years.



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20 Mar 2018, 10:41 am

I believe people should have cared more about:

The 200th anniversary of the ratification of the Constitution was in 1789. I feel like we should have celebrated that in 1989 at least as much as we celebrated the Bicentennial.

Frankly, without the Constitution, we probably wouldn't have a nation today. We were an absolute mess until the Constitution was adopted. Before the Constitution, we were a conglomeration of 13 sovereign states rather than one unified country.



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20 Mar 2018, 3:47 pm

...During the 70s, there was a weird idea going around re: pop/rock music that the " next big-decade defining thing " was going to come along, and be like Elvis was to the 50s and the Beatles to the 60s...and that a " Ten Year Cycle " meant it would come along in 1974 or so! :wink:
Even after that, music writers kept looking for the next " Seventies-defining thing ". More generally, was it punk rock? Disco? New Wave?


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20 Mar 2018, 7:50 pm

There is no one musical form which "defines" the 1970s.

The nature of the early 70s is just so very different from the late 70s-----that both might as well be considered "separate eras."