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Flashes of the Past
  
Remember these?
- Backroad/backwoods parties
- Smoking in the bathrooms
- Knee socks and skirts
- Cruising Main Street
- Modular scheduling
- Watching the sunrise from Buck Knob
- Hideous plaid pants and HUGE ties
- Toe socks
- Hanging out in the cafeteria during free mods
- The original Star Wars, before it became a sequel
- Carrying change for pay phones
- Twin City Mall
- Gas at $.78 per gallon
- Rocky Horror Picture Show
- Pintos, Pacers, Mustangs & Bugs
- Black TransAms, Camaros and Monte Carlos
- Mississippi River Festival
- "Semper ubi sub ubi" (Always wear underwear)
- Roller skating
- When sex couldn't kill you, but your parents would if they knew.
- Driving to Illinois for beer
- Caveland
| President: |
James Earl Carter, Jr. |
| Vice President: |
Walter F. Mondale |
Population: |
222,584,545 |
| Life expectancy: |
73.5 years |
Dow-Jones |
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| High: |
893 |
| Low: |
807 |
Federal spending: |
$458.75 billion |
| Federal debt: |
$776.6 billion |
| Inflation: |
12.4% |
| Consumer Price Index: |
65.2 |
| Unemployment: |
7.1% |
| Cost of a new home: |
$62,500.00 |
| Cost of a new car: |
$ |
| Median Household Income: |
$15,064.00 |
| Cost of a first-class stamp: |
$0.13 ($0.15 as of 5/29/78) |
| Cost of a gallon of regular gas: |
$0.63 |
| Cost of a dozen eggs: |
$0.82 |
| Cost of a gallon of Milk: |
$1.71 |
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