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Let’s be the year 1976

I’m the Dorothy Hamill haircut.

by Anonymousreply 238March 16, 2023 6:19 AM

I’m the Bicentennial Minute

by Anonymousreply 1February 18, 2023 2:15 PM

I'm A Bicentennial Minute.

With Dame Jessica Tandy.

And a whiff of disdain.

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by Anonymousreply 2February 18, 2023 2:16 PM

Forgot the pic of Dorothy’s haircut, “the wedge,” which was my haircut as a little 70s dyke in first grade.

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by Anonymousreply 3February 18, 2023 2:19 PM

I turnt twennywun.

by Anonymousreply 4February 18, 2023 2:20 PM

I’m the Evita concept album.

by Anonymousreply 5February 18, 2023 2:22 PM

I'm your daddy's indestructible car with the ball clutch, your Schwinn bike with the banana seat. I'm all those packages of dried peas your Mama has in her pantry. I'm children playing outside with bowl haircuts and bell bottoms galore. I'm people at the local park in summer spread out on blankets listening to a transistor radio. Heaven.

by Anonymousreply 6February 18, 2023 2:27 PM

I’m the Tall Ships in New York harbor — OpSail 76.

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by Anonymousreply 7February 18, 2023 2:31 PM

We're Jimmy and Rosalynn C.

We're two decent, idealistic people about to be set up to fail by the media, among other powers.

by Anonymousreply 8February 18, 2023 2:32 PM

I’m the obsession with topping off the tank in case the gas lines kick back in.

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by Anonymousreply 9February 18, 2023 2:33 PM

I'm Fall on NBC!

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by Anonymousreply 10February 18, 2023 2:34 PM

Jimmy C was an underrated president, R8.

But intellects like Carter always get the short end.

by Anonymousreply 11February 18, 2023 2:39 PM

I'm the red, white, and blue bunting that appeared on, seemingly, every home in the US of A.

by Anonymousreply 12February 18, 2023 2:39 PM

I'm the gay kid in high school, afraid anyone would find out I'm gay, totally unaware of the millions of other gay people out there, many having a great life.

by Anonymousreply 13February 18, 2023 2:41 PM

R13, that just tugs at my heartstrings.

by Anonymousreply 14February 18, 2023 2:45 PM

I’m Battle of the Network Stars with Cosell, Caitlyn, Kaplan, Carter, Conrad, cigarettes and cable-access camera quality.

by Anonymousreply 15February 18, 2023 2:45 PM

I'm the American Freedom Train, touring the country to commemorate our Bicentennial.

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by Anonymousreply 16February 18, 2023 2:47 PM

We're suburban lesbians!

Sssh... don't tell anyone.

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by Anonymousreply 17February 18, 2023 2:47 PM

^^^ link ^^^

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by Anonymousreply 18February 18, 2023 2:47 PM

I'm all the white people confused about what a "booty" is, after hearing KC & the Sunshine Band's "Shake Your Booty" on the radio.

by Anonymousreply 19February 18, 2023 2:53 PM

Although copied by millions, the Hamill wedge wasn't attainable for all. It was a very specific cut she had done by a gay Japanese stylist in NYC, and you had to have a very specific hair texture and face to pull it off. She was the only one it looked good on because she was the only one who 'checked all the boxes'.

by Anonymousreply 20February 18, 2023 2:54 PM

I’m lookin’ forward to a little Afternoon Delight.

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by Anonymousreply 21February 18, 2023 2:56 PM

I’m punk vs disco

by Anonymousreply 22February 18, 2023 2:56 PM

I'm Nadia Comaneci's historic first Perfect 10.

by Anonymousreply 23February 18, 2023 2:57 PM

I’m bicentennial EVERYTHING.

Commemorative beer cans.

Commemorative 5 gallon glass water bottles for your dispenser.

by Anonymousreply 24February 18, 2023 3:07 PM

I'm Leonard Bernstein and Alan Lerner's fabulous flop musical, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue about the history of the White House and race relations in the last two hundred years. I starred DL faves Patricia "Hyacinth" Routledge and Ken "White Shadow" Howard as all of the First Ladies and Presidents. Critics were outraged at this Bicentennial "tribute" and the show closed in a week. It would be Lenny's final score for Broadway.

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by Anonymousreply 25February 18, 2023 3:12 PM

[quote] I Fall on NBC!

Fixed that for you, Lindsay and/or Sidney @ R10.

by Anonymousreply 26February 18, 2023 3:23 PM

I'm one of the 62,000 who attended the July 4th Elton John concert in former Foxborough Stadium (now Gillette Stadium). A good time was had by all.

by Anonymousreply 27February 18, 2023 3:24 PM

P.S. Benny and The Jets was played slower and funkier than the cut on Goodbye Yellow Brick Road and was vastly superior.

by Anonymousreply 28February 18, 2023 3:33 PM

I’m the Metric System - America was too focused on her birthday to accept me.

by Anonymousreply 29February 18, 2023 3:34 PM

I'm Betty Ford's vodka-spiked morning tea.

by Anonymousreply 30February 18, 2023 3:40 PM

I'm Ronald Reagan, former B-list actor and current Governor of California, and I want to be the republican candidate for the Presidential election this year. Actually, I really don't, but my alcoholic, pill-popping, social-climbing wife Nancy wants to be in the White House and I'm her ticket to get there. However, we both know that lame duck bobblehead Gerald Ford will get the party's nomination, and get his ass whipped by that talking Mr. Peanut from Georgia, so I tell Nancy 'Now is not the time. Let's wait four more years, and the White House will be all yours."

by Anonymousreply 31February 18, 2023 3:42 PM

I'm women wearing v-necked sweaters with short sleeves over a long-sleeved turtleneck and my mother's gold watch necklace. The clock part was encased in a delicate bubble. Middle parts, and men applying hair cream with black combs. Sturdy purses, and booted heels sticking out from underneath tailored slacks.

by Anonymousreply 32February 18, 2023 3:43 PM

I'm Jane Fonda, simultaneously puking my guts out every day, and working on the birth of my Workout empire you believe will make you as thin as I am.

by Anonymousreply 33February 18, 2023 3:44 PM

I’m the last day of school, immortalized in Dazed and Confused.

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by Anonymousreply 34February 18, 2023 3:47 PM

Read a weird article about niece Bridget stating auntie told her she had no muscle tone in her thighs. Wondering if she is part of the reason she gained such a huge amount of weight.

by Anonymousreply 35February 18, 2023 3:47 PM

I'm the chaotic set of the movie "A Star Is Born" which - despite a number of changes in the director's chair and at the writer's table - Streisand and her hairdresser are still in control of this mess. Streisand is convinced she can play the part of a 34 year old Jewish, up-and-coming rock star (and Kristofferson is convinced he can be believable as a rock superstar). Streisand has threatened everyone that if she pulls this off, then one of her next projects will be to play a 17 year old Jewish girl who pretends she is a 17 year old Jewish boy to enter the Yeshiva to study. Oy vey !

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by Anonymousreply 36February 18, 2023 3:49 PM

I'm a Sexolette wondering if I'll ever be on another hit.

I won't.

by Anonymousreply 37February 18, 2023 3:52 PM

R34 You bastard! I was going to say that. 😂

I was a '90s teen who saw DAZED & CONFUSED in theaters and associates the year 1776 with that movie.

by Anonymousreply 38February 18, 2023 4:13 PM

*1976

by Anonymousreply 39February 18, 2023 4:14 PM

I'm as MAD as HELL and i'm not going to take this anymore!!!!!!

by Anonymousreply 40February 18, 2023 4:15 PM

I'm Queen's "A Night at the Opera" and you either can't get enough or you're sick and tired of hearing Bohemian Rhapsody.

by Anonymousreply 41February 18, 2023 4:17 PM

I'm Faye Dunaway in "Network." And I'm acting my tits off!

by Anonymousreply 42February 18, 2023 4:19 PM

I'm Rocky.

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by Anonymousreply 43February 18, 2023 4:22 PM

I'm a fire hydrant painted like a red, white and blue minute man. I have no idea if this was a local or national bicentennial public works effort, but it made everybody laugh when a dog would raise his leg on one.

by Anonymousreply 44February 18, 2023 4:23 PM

Jimmy Carter was and remains to this day a sanctimonious prick. His presidency wasn’t nearly as awful as decades of drooling rightwing agitprop would have us believe, but he was exhausting, not some saint (except in his own mind).

by Anonymousreply 45February 18, 2023 4:28 PM

I was born in 1976. 1976 was a good year, obviously.

by Anonymousreply 46February 18, 2023 4:30 PM

I’m that bright new star, Sissy Spacek.

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by Anonymousreply 47February 18, 2023 4:33 PM

I'm the Montreal Olympics. The debt I will create will take 30 years to pay off.

by Anonymousreply 48February 18, 2023 4:33 PM

I'm Car Wash

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by Anonymousreply 49February 18, 2023 4:39 PM

R47, and I'm that bright new star, Jessica Lange.

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by Anonymousreply 50February 18, 2023 4:41 PM

[quote]Jimmy Carter was and remains to this day a sanctimonious prick.

Until you work into your 90s building homes for those without shelter, kindly DO fuck the fuck off.

You sound like the sanctimonious prick.

by Anonymousreply 51February 18, 2023 4:42 PM

I’m graduating from 8th grade. Our ceremony is low-key, and I wear my best Levi’s cords (tan), a new dress shirt from Miller’s Outpost (‘75 fall back to school collection) and my best Wallabes (Clark’s). I win the academic award for Room 32 (thanks, Ms. K) and in the yearbook I’m named “Brainiest.” I do not win the American Legion Award for overall outstanding boy…I’m not happy. All’s well that ends well: the winning boy goes nowhere in high school, but I had four happy years at Berkeley.

by Anonymousreply 52February 18, 2023 4:47 PM

I'm Match Game 76 with all the 70's schlock, sleaze, shag carpets and Brett Somers.

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by Anonymousreply 53February 18, 2023 4:47 PM

Charlie’s Angels in September on ABC.

Alice on CBS

Wonder Woman on ABC

The Bionic Woman on ABC

by Anonymousreply 54February 18, 2023 4:52 PM

I’m Dorothy’s Olympic “battle” with her fellow American, who actually competes for the Dutch. It’s a big deal. but small potatoes compare to US v GDR in’80.

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by Anonymousreply 55February 18, 2023 4:53 PM

I have a soft spot for 1976. I started pre school that fall.

by Anonymousreply 56February 18, 2023 4:55 PM

^Not accounting for the advancement in jumps, the quality of her skating is so far above today’s standard.

by Anonymousreply 57February 18, 2023 4:56 PM

I'm Wings Over America, the first time Paul McCartney performed on stage in 10 years.

by Anonymousreply 58February 18, 2023 5:00 PM

My album of the year, Linda Ronstadt's "Hasten down the Wind."

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by Anonymousreply 59February 18, 2023 5:01 PM

My other album of the year, Warren Zevon's s/t record on Asylum.

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by Anonymousreply 60February 18, 2023 5:03 PM

R57 it used to be that modern figure skating (c. 1990s when I used to follow it as a teen) was superior to the early 20th century style of multiple Olympic winner Sonja Henie. When did that change? When did figure skating devolve as opposed to evolve?

by Anonymousreply 61February 18, 2023 5:04 PM

I'm hot rods on mag wheels. I'm polyester and elevator shoes. I'm Tanya the Twirler throwing the batton sky high and still catching it in purple and white during this bicentennial year. My memory is incredible! How dafuq do I know that chick's name right off-hand from the age of six?!! 😂

by Anonymousreply 62February 18, 2023 5:05 PM

I burst onto the scene July of that year.

by Anonymousreply 63February 18, 2023 5:06 PM

I’m the beautiful enthusiasm of Doug Henning and everything about Michael Landon’s style in this intro.

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by Anonymousreply 64February 18, 2023 5:10 PM

Sept. ‘76 I’m Dorothy, a Minnesota nice girl. I considered myself lucky, but everyone told me that I was one the greatest ‘slam dunk’ winners of all-time, that night in Atlantic City.

👀 at the reactions around me. The finalist on my right clearly knew that I was going to win.

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by Anonymousreply 65February 18, 2023 5:11 PM

I'm a leisure suit.

While I was often a tacky punchline, I could also be sexy and flattering.

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by Anonymousreply 66February 18, 2023 5:12 PM

I’m Suga, the stylist who created the Dorothy Hamill haircut.

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by Anonymousreply 67February 18, 2023 5:13 PM

I'm Burt. I'm a huge, popular star.

I'm occasionally an egotistical, self-destructive asshole. But people forget that I'm also genuinely funny and talented.

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by Anonymousreply 68February 18, 2023 5:15 PM

^@ that 9/76 Miss America final might: as you see the line-up of the 10 finalists, I’m Miss Delaware (on the far left of the screen). I’m the very first Black woman to go that far at Miss America.

by Anonymousreply 69February 18, 2023 5:32 PM

*final night

by Anonymousreply 70February 18, 2023 5:32 PM

I'm the first time I had my heart broken. In October.

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by Anonymousreply 71February 18, 2023 5:35 PM

I'm Boz Scaggs, Dirty and Lowdown, my alter ego is Disco Duck.

by Anonymousreply 72February 18, 2023 5:36 PM

I'm "The Muppet Show".

by Anonymousreply 73February 18, 2023 6:13 PM

I’m ABC. I rule.

by Anonymousreply 74February 18, 2023 6:18 PM

I'm Eve Plumb, displaying my thespian versatility by playing a teen prostitute.

by Anonymousreply 75February 18, 2023 6:40 PM

I'm my lost virginity.

by Anonymousreply 76February 18, 2023 7:02 PM

I'm Travis Bickle, the Taxi Driver.

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by Anonymousreply 77February 18, 2023 7:14 PM

I’m Karen Ann Quinlan, in a vegetative state from booze and dope. You can unhook me from life support this year, bitches, but to everyone’s surprise I refuse to die!

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by Anonymousreply 78February 18, 2023 7:18 PM

I'm the song from Boz Scaggs' Silk Degrees that most reminded me of my experience falling in love for the first time.

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by Anonymousreply 79February 18, 2023 7:22 PM

Thelma Houston - Don’t Leave Me This Way

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by Anonymousreply 80February 18, 2023 7:36 PM

ABBA - Dancing Queen

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by Anonymousreply 81February 18, 2023 7:37 PM

I love Silk Degrees, R79.

by Anonymousreply 82February 18, 2023 7:37 PM

Heart - Crazy On You

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by Anonymousreply 83February 18, 2023 7:37 PM

Olivia Newton-John - Come On Over

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by Anonymousreply 84February 18, 2023 7:39 PM

R66, that’s the best-looking leisure suit, ever.

by Anonymousreply 85February 18, 2023 7:39 PM

R9- There was NO gasoline shortage in 1976.

There were gasoline shortages in late 1973 early 1974 and again in the spring and summer of 1979.

by Anonymousreply 86February 18, 2023 7:40 PM

I'm a 1976 Cadillac Sedan Deville with a 500 cubic inch/8.2 litre V-8 engine. I'm last year for the HUGE Cadillacs.

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by Anonymousreply 87February 18, 2023 7:43 PM

I'm a ten year old hiding in our truck camper reading the paperback of "A Star Is Born". Even then I thought Barbra's perm on the cover was ugly.

by Anonymousreply 88February 18, 2023 7:49 PM

I'm Michael who came to fifth grade with a new haircut and then got called Dorothy Hamill so much that he had to go get it cut again.

by Anonymousreply 89February 18, 2023 7:50 PM

I’m Virginia Slims cigarettes. For her.

I’ve come a long way, baby.

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by Anonymousreply 90February 18, 2023 8:38 PM

I'm Bert Parks at this year's Miss America pageant, showing the world I'm hip to the new sounds and that I can still cut a rug with the best of 'em.

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by Anonymousreply 91February 18, 2023 8:41 PM

I'm Donna Summer's Album, "Four Seasons of Love" - proving to audiences I'm no one-hit-wonder with last year's "Love to Love You Baby". I'm the third concept album, hit #29 on the album charts, and all four tracks (celebrating the four seasons of Love) hit #1 on the disco charts. This is my third consecutive gold album, too.

by Anonymousreply 92February 18, 2023 8:46 PM

I'm A Matter of Time. Liza in a musical directed by her father. It has to come out good.

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by Anonymousreply 93February 18, 2023 8:53 PM

I’m gloryholes.

I’m everywhere.

by Anonymousreply 94February 18, 2023 9:11 PM

R94- I'm the TEN+ bathhouses in NYC. I'm great places to meet men for HOT, SWEATY, UNINHIBITED fun with no consequences.

by Anonymousreply 95February 18, 2023 9:16 PM

I’m hot as fuck Bruce Jenner.

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by Anonymousreply 96February 18, 2023 9:32 PM

I’m body hair. If you don’t have me, it sure as shit isn’t because you removed me. Who the hell would even do a thing like that?!

by Anonymousreply 97February 18, 2023 9:44 PM

I'm pooka shells necklaces. All the men and women wear me.

by Anonymousreply 98February 18, 2023 9:49 PM

I’m Bicentennial Chic

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by Anonymousreply 99February 18, 2023 9:53 PM

R91 Bert, dear, you are in the wrong year. That was your ‘75 pageant not the ‘76 pageant (in Sept. of ‘76 they crowned Miss America ‘77)…see Dorothy’s post upthread.

by Anonymousreply 100February 18, 2023 10:29 PM

^N.B. Our Bicentennial Miss America 1976 had been crowned in Sep. ‘75. She was Miss New York…who later became Los Angeles’ leading pass around news anchor: Tawny Elaine Godin Little Schneider Corsini Welch.

I kid you not, that’s her full name.

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by Anonymousreply 101February 18, 2023 10:35 PM

R98. You must have not been a cool kid…stuck wearing ‘pooka’ shells and all.

The cool kids in HI and CA wore the real deal: puka shells. Puka = hole in Hawaiian.

by Anonymousreply 102February 18, 2023 10:38 PM

I am the sheltered, overweight and closeted 15 year old glued to his parents Zenith Chromocolor console TV watching Motown royalty....

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by Anonymousreply 103February 18, 2023 10:49 PM

I'm Harry Reasoner and I hate the cunt who is now my co-anchor.

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by Anonymousreply 104February 18, 2023 10:51 PM

Just because I chose to skate for The Netherlands, don’t leave me out. I was a world champion in my own right, in addition to that silver behind Hamill.

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by Anonymousreply 105February 18, 2023 10:53 PM

R100 "Let 'Em In" wasn't released until March of 1976.

Would've been difficult for me to perform it in 1975, since the world hadn't even heard it yet.

And I'M supposedly the one who's "a bit touched"?

by Anonymousreply 106February 18, 2023 10:58 PM

Dude: your clip is from a tv show in September, 1975. Google it.

by Anonymousreply 107February 18, 2023 11:01 PM

Never mi d —I am you he’d…I flipped my two versions of you Bert. I apologize and withdraw to my own YT rabbit hole.

by Anonymousreply 108February 18, 2023 11:04 PM

We need a mediator to settle this crap out. Bert wore a black tux in Sept 75 (for 76 winner) and a white tux in Sept 76 (for 77 winner).

Which way is up? ;)

by Anonymousreply 109February 18, 2023 11:10 PM

I'm your everyday Playgirl centerfold in 1976. 40 years later homosexuals would frown upon my hairy body, but I love showing all that hair off, just like any other everyday Playgirl centerfold in 1976.

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by Anonymousreply 110February 18, 2023 11:18 PM

[quote]I'm the TEN+ bathhouses in NYC. I'm great places to meet men for HOT, SWEATY, UNINHIBITED fun with no consequences.

"CONSEQUENCES has just entered the chat"

by Anonymousreply 111February 19, 2023 12:46 AM

I'm Classical Barbra.

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by Anonymousreply 112February 19, 2023 12:51 AM

I'm this B movie that opened in theaters June 23, 1976.

Many homosexuals love me especially the scene RENEWAL

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by Anonymousreply 113February 19, 2023 12:55 AM

Swish, swish, swish, I am the sound of heavy corduroy trousers as the elementary school students walk down the hall because….

Brrr, brrr, brrr I am 60 degrees Fahrenheit; the temperature setting both at home and at school.

by Anonymousreply 114February 19, 2023 12:57 AM

I'm in Search of ...

Leonard Nimoy hosts investigations into various mysteries. With clothes by Sandi Nimoy.

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by Anonymousreply 115February 19, 2023 1:01 AM

I'm the Sperry Topsiders, Lacoste shirts, and Levis 501 jeans every single guy in my high school wore.

by Anonymousreply 116February 19, 2023 1:01 AM

I'm the SCIENTOLOGY HOMO who played the character Vinnie Barbarino on Welcome Back Kotter and I sung this minor hit in 1976.

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by Anonymousreply 117February 19, 2023 1:02 AM

I'm the casual racism.

And the jokes about fags.

by Anonymousreply 118February 19, 2023 1:05 AM

I'm The Omen.

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by Anonymousreply 119February 19, 2023 1:12 AM

I'm the 3rd Century America Expo at Kennedy Space Center during the summer.

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by Anonymousreply 120February 19, 2023 1:18 AM

I’m the frank new sexuality.

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by Anonymousreply 121February 19, 2023 1:19 AM

I’m marches on Washington

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by Anonymousreply 122February 19, 2023 1:25 AM

The uplift and modesty YOU need, with the audaciously attentive nipples HE needs.

Only $20

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by Anonymousreply 123February 19, 2023 1:28 AM

Maude Bicentennial 1

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by Anonymousreply 124February 19, 2023 1:29 AM

Maude bicentennial 2

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by Anonymousreply 125February 19, 2023 1:30 AM

Maude bicentennial 3

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by Anonymousreply 126February 19, 2023 1:30 AM

I’m the skinny brows

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by Anonymousreply 127February 19, 2023 1:43 AM

I'm Leigh McCloskey spending an entire Sunday blindfolded in order to better understand what my blind girlfriend goes through.

by Anonymousreply 128February 19, 2023 4:48 AM

r13 I'm the gay kid that had a copy of "Our Bodies, Ourselves" and made it out to be perfectly normal and then quickly went back to the masturbation pages for guys' fantasies and insecurities.. like the dude that couldn't masturbate in the same room as a houseplant his gran gave him.

by Anonymousreply 129February 19, 2023 5:53 AM

My mother, messing with my 11 year old gay sensibilities and threatening to paint the trim and shutters on our white house BLUE and the front doors RED! I dreaded being so humiliated! Luckily, it didn't happen!

by Anonymousreply 130February 19, 2023 4:21 PM

I think I like your mother.

by Anonymousreply 131February 19, 2023 4:23 PM

I'm "Afternoon Delight!"

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by Anonymousreply 132February 19, 2023 4:23 PM

Yeah, we saw you way back at r21.

by Anonymousreply 133February 19, 2023 4:25 PM

What’s Happening!! on ABC

by Anonymousreply 134February 19, 2023 4:26 PM

I’m watching the What’s Happening!! marathon on TV One today.

by Anonymousreply 135February 19, 2023 4:28 PM

I'm the red Pontiac Astre with oh so chic white vinyl seats my parents gave me.

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by Anonymousreply 136February 19, 2023 4:45 PM

I'm blowing my friend Doug in the the front seat of my Ford Maverick at the boat landing.

by Anonymousreply 137February 19, 2023 6:41 PM

1976 was the year I saw one of our neighborhood dads, who looked like Jon Hamm as Don Draper, at the swimming pool, and could not get over being amazed how hairy he was.

It took a few more years for my brain and libido circuits to get connected but I still remember that visual. So, so, SO hairy.

by Anonymousreply 138February 19, 2023 6:46 PM

Was the Pontiac Astre the sister of the glamorous Chevy Vega?

by Anonymousreply 139February 19, 2023 6:47 PM

My fellow DLers may correct me, but wasn’t it around this time that little Suzie Cupito (so fine as Young Baby June in “Gypsy”) reinvented herself as Morgan Brittany?

It was a new day in America!

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by Anonymousreply 140February 19, 2023 7:11 PM

R140, Suzanne Cupito became Morgan Brittany ca 1970.

by Anonymousreply 141February 19, 2023 8:09 PM

She took on not one but TWO stripper/whore names!

by Anonymousreply 142February 19, 2023 8:59 PM

I'm the last full year of Elvis' life.

by Anonymousreply 143February 19, 2023 11:00 PM

I'm the Queen on Wall Street.

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by Anonymousreply 144February 19, 2023 11:36 PM

I'm Ted Kennedy dreaming that one day I'll be President, too.

by Anonymousreply 145February 19, 2023 11:46 PM

Tick tick tick tick tock. I'm Mike Wallace. I'm Morley Safer. I'm Dan Rather. And I'm Ed Bradley. Tock tick tock tick tock.

by Anonymousreply 146February 19, 2023 11:56 PM

My name’s Martha, and I just opened a catering company run out of my restored farmhouse in Connecticut.

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by Anonymousreply 147February 20, 2023 12:09 AM

I'm the first computer show, PC'76 in Atlantic City.

by Anonymousreply 148February 20, 2023 12:25 AM

"Two Hundred Years have come and gone

Now it's time to Get It On!'

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by Anonymousreply 149February 20, 2023 12:42 AM

Feel the Spirit! And let everybody hear it!

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by Anonymousreply 150February 20, 2023 12:44 AM

I'm that spring, when "Kiss and Say Goodbye" is released. I pulled over on the side of the road, I found it so compelling.

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by Anonymousreply 151February 20, 2023 12:48 AM
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by Anonymousreply 152February 20, 2023 1:21 AM

I'm Dianne de Leeuw and I'm going to beat that bitch.

by Anonymousreply 153February 20, 2023 1:25 AM

I’m the Dolly Madison vanilla cupcake with white frosting and blue and red stars!

by Anonymousreply 154February 20, 2023 1:27 AM

Was Dianne a traitor for skating for the Dutch?

by Anonymousreply 155February 20, 2023 1:28 AM

I’m David Bowie, and i’m only going to consume milk, peppers and cocaine for a year while I pretend i’m Hitler

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by Anonymousreply 156February 20, 2023 1:28 AM

I’m a 10-year-old model in NYC. My mom arranges my jobs - Sears catalogue shoots, Colgate ads, Simplicity sewing pattern covers… and posing nude for Playboy.

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by Anonymousreply 157February 20, 2023 1:35 AM

I'm the porn star who recorded one of the best songs of the disco era as part of a money-laundering scheme.

"More, More, More" hit #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1976.

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by Anonymousreply 158February 20, 2023 1:37 AM

Not exactly a traitor, but criticized for skating for the Netherlands while living and training in Paramount, California (near LA).

by Anonymousreply 159February 20, 2023 1:37 AM

I'm Candice Bergen flogging the Polaroid Pronto.

And please note that I'm still here, while Polaroid isn't.

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by Anonymousreply 160February 20, 2023 1:39 AM

I'm tube tops and short shorts

by Anonymousreply 161February 20, 2023 1:39 AM

I'm George Lucas beginning production on my new science fiction film, declining a directing fee in exchange for complete ownership of merchandising and sequel rights.

by Anonymousreply 162February 20, 2023 1:41 AM

I'm the Spirit of 76 high school class ring nobody wore but still paid $50 and threw in a drawer, never to be seen again.

by Anonymousreply 163February 20, 2023 1:43 AM

I'm all those frenzied, fabulous, sweaty nights at The Pier . . .

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by Anonymousreply 164February 20, 2023 1:44 AM

[quote]R161 I'm tube tops and short shorts.

I’m one of the winners of the 1976 Clio Awards.

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by Anonymousreply 165February 20, 2023 1:45 AM

BFFs aren't always necessarily BFFs....

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by Anonymousreply 166February 20, 2023 1:52 AM

I'm Patty Hearst, on trial for bank robbery and other related crimes.

by Anonymousreply 167February 20, 2023 1:57 AM

^ There's a reason speeches are written and prepared beforehand. I thought she'd go on forever about that "reward"

by Anonymousreply 168February 20, 2023 1:58 AM

[quote] I'm a fire hydrant painted like a red, white and blue minute man. I have no idea if this was a local or national bicentennial public works effort, but it made everybody laugh when a dog would raise his leg on one.

Every sixth grader in my school was assigned a fire hydrant in town, given brushes and jars of paint, with given a weekend to paint it red, white, and blue. We had a rare cold snap in April and there I was three blocks from home painting a goddamned first hydrant at dusk. When I got home, my fingers were blue from the cold – not the paint – and my mom was furious at the school's principal and art teacher.

The school did not get parental permission for the project and two classmates went missing for about eighteen hours. They were found at a truck stop a few miles out of town after having been offered a ride, which they accepted, by our town's 20-ish psychopath. They said that they were so cold and many blocks from home, so they just wanted to warm up. Scandal ensued and the principal resigned at the end of the school year.

by Anonymousreply 169February 20, 2023 2:00 AM

The seventies were pretty decadent, no?

After the sexual revolution of the late sixties, it seems anything went in the seventies. Nudity became the norm in Hollywood, including teenage movies.

Playgirl debuted in 1973, which was seen as daring at the time. Several celebs posed nude, including frontal.

In fact, porn became mainstream for a bit before being shamed back underground in the eighties upon the advent of VHS.

Child nudity in films/photography was not frowned upon. You had Brooke Shields in PRETTY BABY and Playboy and the children's bestseller book WHAT IS A BOY? WHAT IS A GIRL? with actual photographs of naked boys/girls and men/women.

No wonder fifties nostalgia was big in the late seventies and the country turned conservative in the eighties.

by Anonymousreply 170February 20, 2023 2:00 AM

It was the beginning of the end.

by Anonymousreply 171February 20, 2023 2:04 AM

I'm KC and the Sunshine Band, which had two #1 singles in 1976.

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by Anonymousreply 172February 20, 2023 2:06 AM

I’m the drugs that went to filmmakers’ heads.

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by Anonymousreply 173February 20, 2023 2:09 AM

[quote]Several celebs posed nude, including frontal.

Remember when "nude" implied frontal?

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by Anonymousreply 174February 20, 2023 2:18 AM

The quality of skating has declined because they did away with moves in the field.

by Anonymousreply 175February 20, 2023 3:39 AM

Donna Summer's "Try Me (I Know We Can Make It)" deserved a better chart position than #80.

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by Anonymousreply 176February 20, 2023 4:40 AM

I’m Carroll Baker, hurriedly flown to the U.S. to replace Vivian Vance in [italic] Andy Warhol's Bad.[/italic]

One of the crew excitedly asked me on the set today, “How does it feel to be back in Hollywood?” I said, “This isn’t Hollywood.”

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by Anonymousreply 177February 20, 2023 4:56 AM

I’m the latest interior design, American Colonial Revival. I have fabulous sofas and braided rugs.

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by Anonymousreply 178February 20, 2023 6:10 AM

I'm Sanford and Son. I'd never be aired in these tight-ass times.

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by Anonymousreply 179February 20, 2023 6:36 AM

I’m the far out donut radio everyone was bringing to the beach that summer.

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by Anonymousreply 180February 20, 2023 10:24 AM

R104 What’s amazing about that clip is that they spend almost seven minutes on the lead story about a Ford administration official losing his job because he told a racist joke. American attention spans would never tolerate a seven minute story these days.

by Anonymousreply 181February 20, 2023 10:52 AM

I love this, i was seven when all of this happened and I remember all of it

by Anonymousreply 182February 20, 2023 11:49 AM

Remember when they used to have the Winter and Summer Olympics on the same year? What was that all about? 1992 was the last time they did that.

by Anonymousreply 183February 20, 2023 12:03 PM

I’m HIV, coming into the US via all those tall ships in the harbor

by Anonymousreply 184February 20, 2023 12:06 PM

I’m the Bicentennial classical opera concert in Central Park.

by Anonymousreply 185February 20, 2023 12:08 PM

You're that dumb urban myth, R184. Actual science has found that HIV was introduced to NYC circa 1970, and the West Coast circa 1976.

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by Anonymousreply 186February 20, 2023 12:09 PM

I'm the brand new DC Metro!

by Anonymousreply 187February 20, 2023 12:17 PM

[Quote] Actual science has found that HIV was introduced to NYC circa 1970, and the West Coast circa 1976.

Yes, but why did it go wild around 1980? While it may have been first introduced at that certain time, it certainly wasn’t the only time it was introduced

by Anonymousreply 188February 20, 2023 12:21 PM

R187, thanks for that memory! I grew up in DC and remember the excitement over the new subway

by Anonymousreply 189February 20, 2023 12:22 PM

I'm the 52 hours of labor my mother suffered before the doctor finally agreed it was time to do a Cesarean surgery.

by Anonymousreply 190February 20, 2023 12:23 PM

R188, it went wild around 1980 because the incubation period from infection to severe illness is about 10 years. That has also been well and long established.

by Anonymousreply 191February 20, 2023 12:32 PM

I'm the gallons of spunk I spewed looking at the the hairy men in Playgirl magazine.

by Anonymousreply 192February 20, 2023 2:24 PM

I'm the better manners we had back then.

Thank you, R174, for the super hot picture.

by Anonymousreply 193February 20, 2023 4:46 PM

I'm Baba Wawa doing my very fewst Baba Wawa special on ABC, as part of my contract with my new network. I have two big stars - President-elect Jimmy Carter (who I asked to 'be gentle with us') and Bawa Stweisand with the hairdwesser, Jon Peters. Stweisand is pushing her new film 'A Star is Born' which will be weleased a month later. The watings for my special are astwonomical.

by Anonymousreply 194February 20, 2023 5:45 PM

I'm the Disco Duck!!!!!!

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by Anonymousreply 195February 20, 2023 7:44 PM

I'm Frank Pierson, the director of A Star is Born, who writes a scathing article about its making which is published in advance of the film's release. Despite this attempt at sabotage the film is a hit.

by Anonymousreply 196February 20, 2023 7:51 PM

I’m the Franklin Mint Mothers’ Day pendant that all the suburban women wore to Valley Forge.

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by Anonymousreply 197February 20, 2023 8:53 PM

Who can forget the Captain and Tennille's "Muskrat Love." It reached #4 on the pop charts.

Here Tennille provides some commentary on Henry Kissinger before singing it.

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by Anonymousreply 198February 20, 2023 9:56 PM

It wasn't a good year for me.

by Anonymousreply 199February 20, 2023 10:03 PM

Me neither.

by Anonymousreply 200February 20, 2023 10:06 PM

I’m Star Wars comics.

by Anonymousreply 201February 20, 2023 10:09 PM

Toni Tennille is 82 years old now. I went through my teenaged years in the 70s, I can't imagine her being that old.

by Anonymousreply 202February 20, 2023 10:16 PM

Shop Around was a hit cover version for C&T in 1976

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by Anonymousreply 203February 20, 2023 10:32 PM

[quote]I'm all the white people confused about what a "booty" is, after hearing KC & the Sunshine Band's "Shake Your Booty" on the radio.

My mom thought they were singing "Shake your pootie," her euphemism for lady parts.

by Anonymousreply 204February 20, 2023 10:35 PM

I'm the red, white and blue plastic bracelets my fourth grade teacher wore all the time.

by Anonymousreply 205February 20, 2023 11:12 PM

I'm that hit Broadway Show that all the tourists are flocking to see for its originality, humor, and theatricality.

No, not A CHORUS LINE, but... the revival of OH! CALCUTTA!

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by Anonymousreply 206February 20, 2023 11:26 PM

Oh shitta!

by Anonymousreply 207February 20, 2023 11:31 PM

I'm CHICAGO, the musical, losing all ten Tony award nominations, mostly to A Chorus FUCKING Line! It will be another two decades before theater audiences [italic]get[/italic] me.

by Anonymousreply 208February 20, 2023 11:46 PM

I'm red, white and blue. I'm acceptable to wear together for an entire year.

by Anonymousreply 209February 20, 2023 11:57 PM

I'm Coyote.

No regrets.

by Anonymousreply 210February 20, 2023 11:58 PM

I'm this Butterick pattern, popular with underpaid elementary school teachers.

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by Anonymousreply 211February 21, 2023 12:10 AM

R173- I saw that movie in 1976 or 1977 and I liked it then. They could NEVER make this movie now.

by Anonymousreply 212February 21, 2023 3:58 AM

I'm Kate Lawrence's ever expanding waistline.

by Anonymousreply 213February 21, 2023 3:59 AM

I'm born!

by Anonymousreply 214February 21, 2023 4:01 AM

R213- She was what we could call

PLUMP-ish

by Anonymousreply 215February 21, 2023 4:01 AM

I'm God Told Me To .

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by Anonymousreply 216February 21, 2023 4:06 AM

I'm Shirley MacLaine Live at the Palace

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by Anonymousreply 217February 21, 2023 4:10 AM

I lost a lot of weight between Family's pilot and and the first season, R213!

It was in the fourth season when I spent a little too much time at the craft table, dealing with the stress of having two lesbian daughters.

by Anonymousreply 218February 21, 2023 5:20 AM

[quote]R218 It was in the fourth season when I spent a little too much time at the craft table, dealing with the stress of having two lesbian daughters.

I think that’s also around the time Sada T really began eating her feelings, having been hired then fired in the same week as a replacement Angel. (It wasn’t as Tiffany Welles, it was a whole different character?)

Anyway, props to her for trying a whole new genre.

by Anonymousreply 219February 21, 2023 6:32 AM

[quote]My mom thought they were singing "Shake your pootie," her euphemism for lady parts.

I honestly thought it was "Shake your boobie"

by Anonymousreply 220February 21, 2023 1:21 PM

I remember some kid in fourth grade singing "Shake your poopy" because that what she thought it said.

by Anonymousreply 221February 21, 2023 1:50 PM

July 4, 1976

New York Harbor

Tall sails scraped the deep purple night as rockets burst, flared, and flourished red, white, and blue over the stoic Statue of Liberty. The whole world was watching, it seemed; the whole world was there.

Ships from fifty-five nations had poured sailors into Manhattan to join the throngs, counted in the millions, who watched the greatest pyrotechnic extravaganza ever mounted, all for Americas 200th birthday party. Deep into the morning, bars all over the city were crammed with sailors. New York City had hosted the greatest party ever known, everybody agreed later.

The guests had come from all over the world. This was the part of the epidemiologists with later note, when they stayed up late at night and the conversation drifted toward where it had started and when.

They would remember that glorious night in New York harbor, all those sailors, and recall: from all over the world they came to New York.

by Anonymousreply 222February 21, 2023 3:25 PM

R220 made me chuckle. You’re cute as hell.

by Anonymousreply 223February 21, 2023 4:12 PM

R3, do you have a crew cut now?

by Anonymousreply 224February 21, 2023 4:33 PM

I'm the birth of punk rock.

by Anonymousreply 225February 21, 2023 4:34 PM

r223, I was sort of sheltered as a little kid

by Anonymousreply 226February 22, 2023 12:10 PM

The year I discovered that women don't poop out a baby.

And also the noises the neighbors are making doesn't mean they are hurt, but that they are having very special man and woman time.

by Anonymousreply 227February 22, 2023 6:09 PM

I'm Afros for EVERYONE!

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by Anonymousreply 228February 22, 2023 10:01 PM

I'm Vikki Carr at Harrah's Reno!

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by Anonymousreply 229February 23, 2023 4:33 AM

r177: Bob Colacello: We had already tried to get Vivian Vance to play the lead... It was a far cry from the I Love Lucy show, but we thought Vivian Vance would be perfect for the part... Vivian Vance thought differently. 'I'd love to do it, Andy, I really would,' she told us over dinner at La Caravelle. 'But you must understand that for all those people out there I'm still Ethel Mertz, Lucy's next-door neighbor and the nicest woman in America, and that's why I can still go into any dinner theater in the country and get paid $20,000 a week, because all my nice fans in their mink stoles want to see Ethel Mertz be nice. I hate being nice and I hate my fans and I hate their mink stoles. But I love making $20,000 a week anytime I want..."

by Anonymousreply 230February 24, 2023 3:27 AM

I’m The Year of the Cat.

by Anonymousreply 231February 24, 2023 3:39 AM

I'm God of Thunder and Detroit Rock City by Kiss.

by Anonymousreply 232March 16, 2023 12:47 AM

I'm the first episode of "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman."

WAXY YELLOW BUILDUP !!

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by Anonymousreply 233March 16, 2023 2:00 AM

I'm something new in gay pron ... "Kansas City Trucking, Co."

I'll become a classic.

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by Anonymousreply 234March 16, 2023 2:58 AM

We're the Bay City Rollers singing our smash hit, "Saturday Night" on "Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell."

by Anonymousreply 235March 16, 2023 3:00 AM

I'm the "1776-1976 Bicentennial Eagle Log Cabin Syrup Bottle." Every home had one.

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by Anonymousreply 236March 16, 2023 3:25 AM

I'm 16 and lost my virginity to a 21 year old man who just got out of the Navy. A year later he fucked my best friend.

by Anonymousreply 237March 16, 2023 3:36 AM

I’m a prematurely freed Eastern Europe, courtesy of a Jerry Ford gaffe in a presidential debate..

by Anonymousreply 238March 16, 2023 6:19 AM
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