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blondeatlast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-29-08 11:42 AM Original message |
How many remember the recession of the 1970's? I was not quite a teenager but |
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Vinca (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-29-08 11:43 AM Response to Original message |
1. It's very strange. We bought our first home during that period |
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gateley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-29-08 11:45 AM Response to Reply #1 |
4. I wasn't personally affected, except for gas lines. I was able to pay for |
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melody (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-29-08 11:44 AM Response to Original message |
2. I remember it distinctly. I was a teenager |
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SmokingJacket (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-29-08 11:45 AM Response to Original message |
3. I grew up in the 70's -- it felt like normal life. |
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rvablue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-29-08 01:12 PM Response to Reply #3 |
29. Matches my story to a tee |
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no_hypocrisy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-29-08 11:45 AM Response to Original message |
5. The price of gas went from 39 cents per gallon to 50-something, |
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Union Thug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-29-08 11:45 AM Response to Original message |
6. My family was doing better at the peak of the 70's recession.. |
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Peacetrain (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-29-08 11:45 AM Response to Original message |
7. Oh I do... |
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faithfulcitizen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-29-08 12:44 PM Response to Reply #7 |
27. 12% was a steal then. My parents talk about the going rate of 16%. |
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Raineyb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-29-08 12:52 PM Response to Reply #7 |
28. Didn't we used to actually make stuff back then too? |
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Kurt_and_Hunter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-29-08 11:46 AM Response to Original message |
8. The late 1970s was stagflation. The economy was merely slow, but |
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demnan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-29-08 11:46 AM Response to Original message |
9. Yes I remember it |
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napi21 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-29-08 11:49 AM Response to Original message |
10. I remember it. Gas shortages, you could only buy gas on alternate days, |
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melody (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-29-08 11:50 AM Response to Reply #10 |
11. Remember odd and even license plates? lol |
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whistle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-29-08 11:52 AM Response to Original message |
12. Oh yes, stagflation was the term, Nixon began price controls, Ford |
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LiberalHeart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-29-08 11:54 AM Response to Original message |
13. I prospered during that recession. No clue why. n/t |
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NashVegas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-29-08 12:06 PM Response to Reply #13 |
18. Did You Have Any Long-Term Loans? |
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riqster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-29-08 11:55 AM Response to Original message |
14. It would have been worse had it not been for Roosevelt/LBJ |
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blondeatlast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-29-08 12:41 PM Response to Reply #14 |
24. Exactly. I can't keep track with nccain and reagan; is he for or against him at 10:40 AZ time? nt |
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willing dwarf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-29-08 11:55 AM Response to Original message |
15. At the time it seemed to just be a fact of life |
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calico1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-29-08 11:58 AM Response to Original message |
16. I remember it. |
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cojoel (125 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-29-08 12:06 PM Response to Original message |
17. I was a teenager |
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willing dwarf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-29-08 12:21 PM Response to Reply #17 |
19. I remember those WIN buttons |
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eShirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-29-08 12:30 PM Response to Original message |
20. energy crisis brought on by the 1973 Arab Oil Embargo |
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Maine-i-acs (989 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-29-08 12:30 PM Response to Original message |
21. My Dad drafted plans for an earth-berm solar house - |
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Ganja Ninja (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-29-08 12:32 PM Response to Original message |
22. The first 3 years of the Reagan presidency were the worst. |
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eShirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-29-08 12:38 PM Response to Reply #22 |
23. I dunno, '73-74 were pretty scary to 10-year-old me |
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Bucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-29-08 12:42 PM Response to Original message |
25. Long gas lines, hard to find a job, factories closing down en masse |
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noonwitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-29-08 12:42 PM Response to Original message |
26. It wasn't that bad |
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