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per Google. And if it's on the internet it's got to be true lolQuote: AutomaticMonkeyQuote: lilredrooster.
Times Square, NYC in the 70s_____________so beautiful__________;)
it got cleaned up in the mid to late 90s - "Disneyfication"
You are talking about the Howard Johnson correct?
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Ah yes, I remember them well!
And I'm glad I went to those places, those cathedrals of heterosexuality, when I was like 15 and 16 because I couldn't possibly have enjoyed them as much as an adult. I think society gets that backwards. An older guy going to places like that, it's like an older guy going to Scandia or Chuck E. Cheese Just... why? How much fun can that be for you? How much fun should that be for you? But a teen getting a superlative thrill out of it- perfectly normal.
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Quote:Psychic Jeane Dixon reportedly predicted a disastrous structural failure or collapse involving the Tower of the Americas (sometimes referred to as the "HemisFair Tower") during the 1968 World's Fair in San Antonio, Texas.
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Quote:eane Dixon became famous as a prominent 20th-century American psychic and astrologer, largely due to her widely publicized 1956 prediction of the 1960 presidential election and the subsequent assassination of John F. Kennedy. Her fame was solidified by a best-selling biography, a syndicated astrology column, and a high-profile clientele, including Nancy Reagan.
Key reasons for her fame include:
The JFK Prediction: In 1956, she told Parade magazine that a blue-eyed Democratic president elected in 1960 would be assassinated or die in office.
Media and Publications: She authored best-selling books (e.g., A Gift of Prophecy: The Phenomenon of Jeane Dixon) and wrote a popular syndicated newspaper column.
Political Connections: Based in Washington, D.C., she was known for advising high-profile figures.
The "Jeane Dixon Effect": She became a household name because people focused on her few correct predictions while overlooking her many incorrect ones (a phenomenon now known as the "Jeane Dixon Effect").
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My cousins had a radar range in the late 1960s, but I don't remember how it worked.The older I get, the better I recall things that never happened
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Times Square, NYC in the 70s_____________so beautiful__________;)
it got cleaned up in the mid to late 90s - "Disneyfication"
You are talking about the Howard Johnson correct?
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Ah yes, I remember them well!
And I'm glad I went to those places, those cathedrals of heterosexuality, when I was like 15 and 16 because I couldn't possibly have enjoyed them as much as an adult. I think society gets that backwards. An older guy going to places like that, it's like an older guy going to Scandia or Chuck E. Cheese Just... why? How much fun can that be for you? How much fun should that be for you? But a teen getting a superlative thrill out of it- perfectly normal.
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Cathedrals of heterosexuality? From my volunteer work with the group then known as Under 21, those theaters were mainly used for older investor type gentleman to teach younger males negotiating and marketing skills.
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You might be a little off on the timeline there. I recall middle class people could afford microwaves in the mid-70s, by the 80s everyone had one,
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"Early 1970s: Ownership was less than 1%; the first countertop models cost nearly
(roughly
in today's currency).
1980: Ownership reached 20% of U.S. households.
1984: By the end of this year, ownership had climbed to 40%."
Less than 1% in the early '70s which grew to 20% by 1980 and 40% by 1984 is hardly 'everyone had one'. In the 1970s almost nobody had one in their home unless they were extremely well off which almost nobody was. By the mid 80s less than half of Americans had one and they were still extremely expensive. I didn't get my first one till the 90s. People get confused because every 7-Eleven type store had one so they assume a lot of people had one in their homes which just wasn't true. It's like color TV in the 1960s almost nobody had one percentage wise. I got my first color tv from Sears in 1970 and it was $400 which I had to take out a loan to get. $400 in 1970 in today's money is $3,500. By 1967 less than 16% of Americans had a color TV in by 1970 it reached 33%. It was not until the late 70s that almost everybody had one.
I remember reading a story in the late seventies about a restaurant in New York City that had five microwave ovens and they took the doors off of them and let them run all the time during rush hour. The cooks would put the item in the microwave with their bare hands and take it out with their bare hands and this seemed fine until eventually their hands started to go numb and they ended up losing most of the feeling in their hands which never return. They don't do that anymore.
