The Seventies
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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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