Saturday, December 17, 2011

1971

in 1971
  • the cost of a gallon of gas was 40 cents
  • a first class postage stamp was 8 cents
  • a movie ticket was $1.50
  • Walt Disney World opened in Orlando
  • Led Zeppelin released their 4th untitled album
  • the film 'Love Story' premiered (bleh)
  • Apollo 14 landed on the moon
  • Starbucks was founded
  • teen-aged girls were reading this
Seventeen-magazine-december-1971
  • Jim Morrison, Coco Chanel, Ogden Nash, and Louis Armstrong died
  • Winona Rider, Mark Wahlberg and Mariah Carey, Luke Wilson, Mary J. Blige, Paul Bettany, Kid Rock, Minnie Driver and Antonia Banderas (and a few others) were born
  • the film 'Patton' won best picture at the Oscars
  • Evel Knievel set a world record by jumping over 19 cars
  • the Pittsburgh Pirates won the World Series
1971 world series
  • my sweet and handsome husband was born
  • and so was i

i wonder what the price of gasoline will be
40 years from now?

yikes



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11 comments:

  1. I graduated from high school that year - it was fun reading about the price of things you listed.

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  2. Becky@OrganizingMadeFunDecember 17, 2011 at 11:09 AM

    Yay! I was born in 1971 too! Welcome to being 40...it's definitely fabulous! Happy Birthday!

    Becky B.
    www.organizingmadefun.com
    Organizing Made Fun

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  3. hmmm

    i must have counted backwards wrong
    because
    i could have sworn that today was my 29th birthday!

    thanks becky!

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  4. Happy birthday! I will be joining the 40 club next year! ;)

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  5. happy birthday dear. I can't believe you are 40 - you seriously don't look it one bit. Neither does the hubs

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  6. Debra@Common GroundDecember 17, 2011 at 1:38 PM

    Happy Birthday, you two!! ha ha, I gradutated from high school in '71. That was a really good year!

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  7. Happy Birthday! I love the post!!!!

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  8. Happy, Happy Birthday to both of you!! Neither of you look 40! I'll be joining you in 4 short years but Heather will beat me to it...heehee! :-)
    Vanessa

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  9. aw fun post! Haha scary question at the end there...

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  10. I hope you're having a wonderful birthday weekend, Alison!!! I showed my mama your picture and asked if she thought your Agnew hubby looked related to us, who are also Pennsylvanian Agnews. She guessed so…and also said that that is a proper sentence, though I think it sounds funny.

    : )

    Julie M.

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  11. Happy Birthday to you and your husband! I hope that you make some wonderful memories. (The cover of Seventeen is hilarious! My, how things have changed...)

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