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

Economy
President:  James Earl Carter, Jr. 
Vice President:  Walter F. Mondale 

Population: 		 222,584,545 
Life expectancy:  73.5 years 

Dow-Jones 		  
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% 

Prices
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