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Summer 1971: A Day in the Life of a 16-Year-Old
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Posted on 02/20/2021 5:43:42 PM PST by SamAdams76

Lot of truth in this 10 minute video.

Those who were around in the summer of 1971 can relate.


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To: AlaskaErik

I was 15. When I think back to those days it almost makes me cry. That America has vanished.


41 posted on 02/20/2021 7:57:35 PM PST by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots.)
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To: jonascord

was in Stumps in 70. promoted to Lance there. orders cut for Nam there. Got out of Nam and Active Duty 50 years ago this May...we were young once...

Semper Fi


42 posted on 02/20/2021 8:00:40 PM PST by stylin19a (Seems 4,153,237 people got wed one year, not to start trouble but shouldn't that be an even number?)
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To: AlaskaErik

All my classmates but me were 17 that summer of 71 (class of 72). I was 16 and 3 mo. Worked Saturdays for my older bro who was a church janitor, and volunteered weekday afternoons at the Humane Society. I discovered one of the longest-enduring loves of my life that summer: Taco Bell ... hell, I even bought their “Bell Burger”.


43 posted on 02/20/2021 8:02:00 PM PST by CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC (Unity? Of course! I pledge to respect your President as much as you respected mine the past 4 years.)
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To: stylin19a

1 was born in 67.....thank god


44 posted on 02/20/2021 8:04:33 PM PST by mowowie (Press 2 for deportation)
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To: jmacusa

Amen, my FRiend.

We have have basically been straight down hill (culturally) since then.


45 posted on 02/20/2021 8:08:06 PM PST by ETL (REAL Russia collusion! DEMOCRAT-Russia collusion!! China-Russia collusion! Click ETL...)
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To: mowowie

Born in 67??

What’s a young kid like you doing up so late on the computer!

(I was born in 57)

:)


46 posted on 02/20/2021 8:11:00 PM PST by ETL (REAL Russia collusion! DEMOCRAT-Russia collusion!! China-Russia collusion! Click ETL...)
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To: ETL

I was born in ‘56. It’s Saturday night. I can stay up late if if I want to. So there! :-)


47 posted on 02/20/2021 8:15:40 PM PST by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots.)
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To: ETL

Bet those last ten years just flew right by huh ETL?

NOT looking forward to it..


48 posted on 02/20/2021 8:19:39 PM PST by mowowie (Press 2 for deportation)
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To: AlaskaErik

And I, 27...


49 posted on 02/20/2021 8:19:48 PM PST by Does so (The Media is the enemy of the people...Trial lawyers close behind...)
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To: mowowie

Yes, time does definitely seem to be going by much faster now. I use to think that was all in the mind, but it really isn’t. Because a year to us then was a lot more a percentage of our lives then it is now.


50 posted on 02/20/2021 8:23:26 PM PST by ETL (REAL Russia collusion! DEMOCRAT-Russia collusion!! China-Russia collusion! Click ETL...)
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To: ETL

i am still young at heart...until l look in the mirror.
Which i try to avoid... :)

a week now seems like 3 days..

On Sunday mornings the local radio station has been playing Beatles for what seems like decades now.
I hear it on the drive home from work and i think that it was only a few days ago that i heard it last.

I’ll be 6 feet under before i know it
UGH


51 posted on 02/20/2021 8:35:46 PM PST by mowowie (Press 2 for deportation)
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To: ETL

My second car was a 1968 Coupe DeVille. My first car was a 1969 Buick GS 400. Both cars had vinyl roofs. I bought them in the very early 80s when I was in my late teens. The Gran Sport set me back $800. In 1971 I was riding a single speed bicycle with a banana seat. Not a chopper, though.


52 posted on 02/20/2021 8:38:05 PM PST by Atticus
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To: SamAdams76

Summer of ‘71... just before Boot Camp.


53 posted on 02/20/2021 8:38:13 PM PST by mrsmith (US MEDIA: " Every 'White' cop is a criminal! And all the 'non-white' criminals saints!")
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To: SamAdams76

ā¤ļø love šŸ’• love it !

My famous quote. ā€œ Iā€™m recreating the 1970s with my kids ā€œ

BMX Bikes. Scooters. Pickup football. Poker. 5 and dime store šŸ¬

No phones. No cares. No restrictions. All FUN !


54 posted on 02/20/2021 8:43:09 PM PST by Truthoverpower (The guv-mint you get is the Swamp express to communist hell !! )
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To: ETL

Had a 72 cutlass convertible with retractable top and V8 rocket 350 !


55 posted on 02/20/2021 8:45:20 PM PST by Truthoverpower (The guv-mint you get is the Swamp express to communist hell !! )
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To: SamAdams76
I met Mr.RightField in the summer of 1971.
Today is our 48th anniversary.
It was a very good year.
56 posted on 02/20/2021 8:54:08 PM PST by RightField
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To: ozaukeemom

I was 10 too. My brother 11. He had a banana yellow bike just like that. Mine was pink. We road all over town. Great fun!


57 posted on 02/20/2021 8:59:53 PM PST by dandiegirl (BOBBY m)
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To: ETL

I wish we would. Have kept those bikes!


58 posted on 02/20/2021 9:02:30 PM PST by dandiegirl (BOBBY m)
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To: ETL

I liked TJ Swann Mellow Days but I was only 10 in 71 so a few years later.


59 posted on 02/20/2021 9:03:57 PM PST by dandiegirl (BOBBY m)
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To: ETL

Great songs. I can sing every one of them!


60 posted on 02/20/2021 9:05:14 PM PST by dandiegirl (BOBBY m)
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