Reply #17: For My Fellow Members of the Class of 1971 [View All]

[CO Liberal]

Some simple 1971 facts first: bread was 25 cents a loaf. Eggs were $1.18 a dozen, A stamp cost 8 cents while an average house would set you back $28,300 - and all from an average income of $11,583 a year (minimum wage was $1.60/hr).

1971 was a little confusing. The Vietnam War was still going on, the US invaded Laos, and the movies gave us Shaft and Dirty Harry cleaning things up vigilante style . . . ”do you feel lucky punk?”.

American kids of 1971 were busy learning how to enunciate correctly from the Electric Company while shovelling spoonfuls of Count Chocula and Cocoa Pebbles cereal into their mouths. Meanwhile, the teenagers of 1971 were getting busy in their Ford Pinto’s as Led Zeppelin played Stairway To Heaven.

But all 1971 really wanted to do was to buy the world a Coke and keep it company - right on!

JANUARY

02 - 66 Football fans are killed when barrier collapses at Ibrox Park, Glasgow

07 - Long hair for men is declared legal in the USSR

11 - First divorce in UK on sole grounds of "Irretrievable Breakdown" granted

19 - The first all-out strike in the 300 year history of the British Post Office halts UK postal services

25 - Coup puts Idi Amin in power in Uganda

31 - Apollo 14 mission launched