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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIf you were born before 1966, these pics might resonate...
https://www.flickr.com/photos/clyde_ny_photos/Upstate NY (Clyde, NY). I found them in my quest to find out what happened to the "Bicentennial Barge" (aka New York Festival Barge) - of which there are many pics in the photostream. Enjoy!
On edit: GREAT pics of the New York Festival (Bicentennial) Barge are here, specifically:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/clyde_ny_photos/sets/72157624274466231/detail/
irisblue
(32,932 posts)hahahahahahaha.....
they look like my baby brothers.....
Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)Gidney N Cloyd
(19,824 posts)AngryAmish
(25,704 posts)We eat too much.
Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)AngryAmish
(25,704 posts)There was not a lot of stimulants, speed kills etc. Pot and qualludes. And a shit ton of beer.
Disco brought coke back in, along with the early 80s Miami stuff.
On edit: People just ate less. A whopper or big mac was considered huge. People exercise less. Fewer cars etc.
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,824 posts)WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)...since I haven't done a rail in years.
hatrack
(59,578 posts)I also severely resemble some of the hair and clothes in that photograph.
Ah, the 70s . . . . my Formative Decade (TM).
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)Didn't have all these fast food restaurants like back then.
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)Ah memories...horrific memories of really bad fashion...thanks.
Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)I've been there!
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)were that color and that shiny once again!
napkinz
(17,199 posts)yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)I'm still trying to recover.
Baitball Blogger
(46,684 posts)I may have even married one of them!
Jenoch
(7,720 posts)What the hell happened?
Rhiannon12866
(204,815 posts)And I was in a Bicentennial play, played Martha Washington...
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)gotta be
hatrack
(59,578 posts)You mean, they didn't have one of Ernie Anastos himself? Darn . . .
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)But good eye, you called it.
Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)apart from the shorty shorts
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Rhiannon12866
(204,815 posts)Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)Rhiannon12866
(204,815 posts)yourout
(7,524 posts)Tube tops......
AngryAmish
(25,704 posts)applegrove
(118,501 posts)malokvale77
(4,879 posts)Looks like any of my five older brothers or gajillion cousins, and freakishly like some long past boyfriends.
Fun times.