Were You Around for the Bicentennial in 1976?

[Doc Apocalypse]

Were you around to celebrate the American bicentennial in 1976?  What was your experience?  I remember red white and blue merchandise was everywhere. I remember it was the last time that all the relatives on both my dad's and my mom's side who lived locally got together to eat and watch the fireworks on the Fourth of July.   We were hopeful that there was still a chance for Gerald Ford to beat Jimmy Carter in the election that November.  Didn't happen.  The country was still upset over Watergate and the fact that Ford had pardoned Nixon, and so Carter was elected.  But that summer we were able to celebrate and just be proud of America.

[Oldcarpy2]

Here in the UK I was a teenager more interested in girls and fishing.

And that year we had a massive heatwave and drought, with water shortages.

[BeyondKnowledge]

People seemed more excited about the 200 then this 250. Then again, I was young enough to not worry about most of the things going on in the world. I was 10.

Mom had to get me a checked shirt and one of those colonel Sanders ties. I don't think those were worn 200 years before though.

I did get the bicentennial ho train set. Things were simpler then.

And now we have so many things going on to distract us.

[andy06shake]

Were you around to celebrate the bicentennial in 1976?  What was your experience?  I remember red white and blue merchandise was everywhere. I remember it was the last time that all the relatives on both my dad's and my mom's side who lived locally got together to eat and watch the fireworks on the Fourth of July.   We were hopeful that there was still a chance for Gerald Ford to beat Jimmy Carter in the election that November.  Didn't happen.  The country was still upset over Watergate and the fact that Ford had pardoned Nixon, and so Carter was elected.  But that summer we were able to celebrate and just be proud of America.

I was 1 year old back in 76...

First PM I remember is Margaret Thatcher, she stole our school milk. LoL  

POTUS would be Ronald Reagan. "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall".

[IdeomotorPrisoner]

I know of 90s references to the bicentennial in film...




And it really does feel like we are a celebrating a single aristocratic (cult leading) white male not wanting to pay taxes.. So it sorta tracks?

[ArMaP]

My country's Bicentennial was on 1343, I wasn't born yet.

I remember the USA's Bicentennial, mostly because my sister had a stamp collection and wanted Bicentennial stamps. Being 13 years old then I didn't give it much importance.

50 years latter, I still don't give it much importance, it's just a date.