Looking back - do you remember

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If you were around in 1972 maybe you remember this:

1) A gallon of gas was 55 cents
2) The average income was $11,800
3) The average cost of a house was $27,500
4) The average rent was $165.00 a month
5) The top song was "The first time ever I saw your face" by Roberta Flack
6) Dawn dishwashing detergent had just come out
7) The Top TV Shows were:
a) The Brady Bunch
b) Sesame Street
c) The Benny Hill Show
 
As the French say, "Plus ca change, plus ca la meme chose".... The more things change the more things remain the same.
 
Being an attempted model builder in my teens I do remember these testors. So did mom when she smelled them in my room.
 
JohnnyGage said:
This was almost as common as a fire hydrant on street corners of Manhattan...you picked your paper and had exact change in your other hand to pay...

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JohnnyGage said:
This was almost as common as a fire hydrant on street corners of Manhattan...you picked your paper and had exact change in your other hand to pay...

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There was a store by the train station at Seneca Ave. and Palmetto St. in Ridgewood. I would take a paper from the rack in the street and place the money in the cigar box. I would then proceed 5 blocks to Knickerbocker Ave. to the firehouse and be lucky if my car was still there at the end of the tour. It was amazing what happened in two places that were five blocks from each other.
 
In the Bronx, many of those stands were literally built in under the stairs leading up to the "El" station. And the vendors usually wore a short pocket apron to hold change and cash. These were provided by the newspapers, with their logo on them. The papers also gave out flat metal bars, with their names, to place on the paper displays, so they won't blow away if the wind picked up.
 
I worked in a Candy store in 1960 after school from 4 till 11. The night edition of the News and the Mirror came out around 9 PM and the store would be crowded from about 8:30 till the papers came in. I got a lot of practice making egg cream sodas, sundaes and packing pints and quarts of hard ice cream.
 
t123ken said:
What was your draft lottery number?
Mine was in the mid-twenties but they ended up not calling from that year.
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I wound up being 360 out of 365. It’s on the large classification card listed as “Random Seq. Number. That lottery took place on 2/2/1972 for those born 1953.

Same with me, not called. The war was winding down.
 
born in 1953 my draft # was 49
got preinducted in october was supposed to be inducted in february
however 2 weeks prior to my inductive date on superbowl sunday pres nixon came on tv at halftime during the superbowl and announced that he was starting de-escalation in viet nam..was never drafted
 
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