Where Were You In 1976?

Me

[bjcoop]

It was Carter Vs. Ford, so where were you during the course of that election and when Carter claimed his victory(unfortunately). It was a pretty close race.

[No Blue States]

I was 13 and sneaking out to the field where my fort was to smoke cigs and ogle my penthouse mags.

[RightWinger]

I was 3 years out of the military.
I had been married for 2 years and had been working a new job for 2 years at $6 an hour (good pay for then).

[Snardius]

If you remember the 70's...you weren't there.

[todd1]

I was just being born... For some reason I can remember the smell of pot...

[k2blader]

Probably keeping my parents busy with bodily emissions.

[Preech1]

1976..let's see, I saw Star Wars and Close Encounters...believe it or not, I saw Close Encounters with my entire 6th grade class as a field trip...And I remember my republican Dad cringing at the thought of Jimmy Carter as president.

[Last Visible Dog]

It is seared into my memory. October of 1976 - President Carter order me into Cambodia – I thought it was very strange that President Carter, in October of 1976, was saying none of us were in Cambodia and there I was……no….wait….I was a senior in high school. My family and everybody I knew were Democrats so I was a Democrat (this was before my intellectual awakening). I really had very little interest in politics - unless it could be used as a way to meet chicks.

[Last Visible Dog]

1976..let's see, I saw Star Wars and Close Encounters

(pardon me whilst I wax pendant)

That would be a pretty good trick - Star Wars and Close Encounter of the Third Kind were released in 1977.

:-)

[BlueNgold]

Riding my bike ... glad to be done with training wheels.

[wrbones]

Yeah, well...I'm gettin' old. Yer right .It was NAS Millington, but Marines 'owned' it...

[Preech1]

Hmm...OK...you got me...I was in the sixth grade though, it must have been early 77 for Close Encounters. </Jedi Mind Trick Off>

[Last Visible Dog]

The only reason I remember is Star Wars had just opened and was hot when I graduated in spring of 1977. I actually thought Close Encounters was 1976 but I looked it up and found it was 1977.

[R. Scott]

Now that I've lived here for 14 years I don't really desire to leave the area when I retire.

When I retired the clerk asked me where I was going to live. I hadn’t really thought about it until then. I thought for a minute and decided I had lived in a lot of worse places and not any better places, so I stayed.

[paltz]

playing with my weeble wobbles

[Tamar1973]

Where was I in 1976?

Potty training and picking on my little brother.

[rock58seg]

I still have four cans of Billy Beer. Due to my age and their age, they will be killed in honor of GWB"s election.

I was in NYC at the time working for Intl Paper. Voted for Reagan in the primary and Ford in the general election.

[Lancer_N3502A]

Play that Funky Music White Boy

[Gal.5:1]

1976: I was in the 3rd grade, with freckes, pigtails and roller skates (skinned knees), with my pink soft sided Barbie lunchbox and thermos, riding my red Schwinn (American made, no doubt) 1 speed /banana seat bike ('My fair lady'), watching Brady Bunch , playing dolls and celebrating that huge event, the Bicentennial.

[holdmuhbeer]

I was 10 years old so didn't care too much

[RJS1950]

Married, just graduated from college and newly commissioned AF lieutenant waiting to return to active duty as an officer. After serving under Nixon and Ford it was not a happy prospect serving under peanut brain.