The Seventies






A pretty, young high school senior gets ready for her prom in the spring of 1970.
North Vietnam takes over Saigon, ending the longest military conflict in US history---April, 1975.
Patty Hearst is kidnapped by and later joins, the Simbionese Liberation Army.
Everyone gets in on the act for America's Bicentennial in 1976.
A high school club picture in 1970.
High school girls in a 1970 Pep Club photo.
The streaking craze was rampant across the country in 1974.
President Richard Nixon resigns from office in the summer of 1974.
Gerald R. Ford takes the reins of the presidency upon Nixon's resignation.
The Farah Fawcett poster was a hot item in 1975.
The "King of Rock-n-Roll, Elvis Presley, dies at the age of 42, in 1977.
President Jimmy Carter at work in 1977.
Vice-President Spiro Agnew, resigns from office in 1973.
By 1971, summertime dress for women was very colorful.
Rock star, Janis Joplin, dies from a drug overdose in 1970.
Teen girls work in a midwestern cornfield in 1975.
Two college coeds talk on campus in this 1971 photo.
College freshman register at their dorm in 1971.
A college sophomore registers for classes in 1972.
Seniors at a southern college in 1974.
A young bride is escorted down the aisle in 1973.
The happy couple leaves for their honeymoon in 1973.
An unlimited hydroplane tests in 1972.
Terrorist at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, Germany.
A middle aged couple dances the night away in 1974.
A small gas station in Kansas in 1974.
A young high school couple in 1974.
College students at their favorite bar in 1974.
"Paper Moon" proved to be a smash hit in 1973.
Crowning of Miss World in 1971.
Engagement photo of a young woman in 1972.
In hydroplane racing, Miss Madison scores boat racing's biggest upset by winning the APBA Gold Cup in 1971.
The Rolling Stones continue to be popular in the 1970's.
College girls sunbathing in 1975.
Chinese leader, Mao Tse-tung, dies in 1976.
Bell bottom pants in 1974.
Violence erupts at Kent State in Ohio where four students are killed by the National Guard.
College coed having a bad hair day(?) in 1975.
Women in Switzerland finally get the right to vote in 1971.
Check out the loud clothes on this couple in 1972.
"All in the Family" made its TV debut in 1971 and became a huge hit.
A couple gets ready to leave for the senior prom in 1970.
A young lady enjoys the Colorado outdoors in 1972.
A young lady shows off her new 1973 Volkswagen.
Typical summer wear, in 1974, on this young woman.
A halter top and hip hugger jeans in 1974 were common sights.
A young woman poses in a hotel parking lot in 1974.
The First Family in 1977.
The results of the 1976 newspaper strike in Paris.
Dorothy Hamill brings home the gold to the USA during the 1976 Olympics.
Nadia Comenci,14,of Romania, scores a perfect ten in the Olympics.
The Mars landing in 1976 shows a dramatic landscape.
Charlie's Angels takes the TV world by storm in 1976.
A young college student in 1971.
A young mother with her baby daughter in 1970.
A hydroplane racing in Columbus, Ohio in 1976.
Two boat racers talk in between races in Dayton, Ohio in 1976.
A young lady in the style of the day--circa 1975.
A young woman with her Caddy--circa 1975.
Remember those hot pants in the seventies??
A young lady prepares for her high school graduation in 1979.
A cheerleading squad in 1978.
Showing school spirit in 1978.
High school bellringers in 1971.
It's 1972 and the mini-skirt era is about gone.
Two students cheer at a tournament basketball game in 1972.
High school students changing classes in 1972.
Clothing and hair styles in 1972.
Dancing at the prom in 1973.
A cheerleading squad in 1972.
Charles Manson during his trial in 1971.
Ted Bundy terrorized women in the Pacific Northwest in the 1970's.
Eddie Fischer (US) & Boris Spassky (USSR) square off for the World Chess Championship, in 1972.
By the late 1970's, the punk look was becoming popular.
The Partridge Family was a popular TV show beginning in 1970.
The Walton's began it's TV run in 1972.
Linda Ronstadt was a top female singer in the 1970's.
Fleetwood Mac was a popular musical group throughout the 1970's.
Rev. Jim Jones forces 913 cult followers to drink poisoned Flavor-Aid in 1978.
The Rev. Jim Jones in his earlier days.
A beauty contest in 1973 with one contestant in a cast.
A young couple strolls down a midwestern street in 1970.
A young woman in a New York tenement in 1970.
A slum in El Salvador in 1970.
Cambodian prisoners in 1970.
Hot pants on a dancing young woman in 1974.
A New York City street in the early 70's.
Black Panther, Bobby Seale, arrested in 1971.
The Gas Crisis in the winter of '73
Sam Erlichman presiding over the Watergate Scandal in 1974.
The Three-Mile nuclear powerplant disaster in 1979.
Menechem Begin (Israel), Jimmy Carter (USA), and Anwar Sadat (Egypt), celebrate the signing of the Camp David Peace Accords in 1978.
Secretary of State Henry Kissinger off for more Vietnam peace talks in 1972.
Leonid Brezhnev (USSR) and Richard Nixon (USA) in private moment.
1970---An American soldier, killed in Vietnam, is laid to rest.
President Richard Nixon leaving for California after he resigned in 1974.
Apollo 13 being lowered onto the carrier deck after it failed to reach the moon in 1970.

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