Posted on 08/11/2018 3:39:55 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen
On this day in 1973, “American Graffiti,” a nostalgic coming-of-age tale set on the streets and steeped in the car-centric culture of suburban California, is released in theaters across the United States. The movie went on to become a sleeper hit. --SNIP-- The 1970s saw a boom in classic-car restoration, even as more and more Americans were driving Japanese imports. The era also saw an increasing number of “lowriders”–or classic cars or trucks with suspensions that had been modified so that they rode as low to the ground as possible
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We are further away in time from the movie than the movie was from the era it represented.
Was this the movie with the hot mom?
An equivalent movie for us would be a nostalgic look at the 90’s.
This is true. The movie was made in 1973 and was set in 1962 Central Valley of California, I think?
So it was actually only 11 years in the past when it was made. And here we are 45 years after the movie was released.
But then again, the era represented, the early ‘60s, was before all the major social changes of the ‘60s happened.
And $.60/gal for gasoline is about the same price as it is now, if you allow for inflation.
Lol
I was a brand new Navy Lieutenant stationed in Pearl Harbor and drove a 1969 Mercury Cougar XR-7 convertible.
I was 9. My dad had a 69 Impala with a 327.
Ten years later, I had it.
But it was still Dad’s, and he sold it while I was away.
And this is exactly why Animal House remains a true movie classic. It was set in a time and place when America was at its greatest.
I graduated in 65 in the Florida Panhandle so everything wasn’t the same but still the movie gave me that feeling several times.
That feeling that I had been there before. No matter what I think of Lucas it was a good movie.
“We are further away in time from the movie than the movie was from the era it represented.”
It was only 11 years earlier, set in 1962 and released in 1973 but it was a million years away by then.
The hippies destroyed everything fast.
As kids we loved the soundtrack album. Listened to it all the time.
In 1977 I had a 1969 Plymouth Satellite. Pretty strong 318 V8 with hydraulic lifters. I used to beat Cameros with the 350s off the line.
If that isn’t a muscle car then it is just shy of one.
My dad had a 69 Impala with a 327
Oh to have it today
On this date in 1973, I was still on wheat harvest in North Dakota and anticipating returning south soon to start college at Oklahoma State University. I had a muscle car - 1970 Ford Torino GT with a 429 and a Hurst 4-speed on the floor. I later found out my younger sister spent the summer enjoying my muscle car around our small town. Epic stories were told. Soon after arriving at college with the money I made from working all summer, I had an 8-track tape player installed. The first tape I purchased was Paul Simon’s “There Goes Rhymin’ Simon.”
“An equivalent movie for us would be a nostalgic look at the 90’s.”
Actually not even that. It would be 2007.
It’s easy to get that feeling when watching old movies and TV shows, that they represent a time and place far removed from where we are today.
“1977 I had a 1969 Plymouth Satellite”
Did you drive it faster than the speed of light?
gasoline in 1962 would have been about $0.30 a gallon.
True, Modesto is too far away from LA or SF to be considered a suburb of anything. Even today, it’s still largely centered around agriculture, isn’t it? It’s the biggest city for many miles around, in a largely rural area.
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