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Published: 2016-02-01 17:33:03 +0000 UTC; Views: 3053; Favourites: 27; Downloads: 46
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I got so many nice compliments on my doodle featuring Lois with a 1970's "Farrah" haircut that I decided to do this side piece. I know I've seen pics of her when she was younger with longer hair, but I don't recall this haircut. So it's 1979...her daddy just bought her a new Pontiac Trans Am. She's got tickets to the Queen concert. The possibilities are endless...What cassette would she have in her car? www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtzIWP…
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This pic just screams 70's to me! She looks incredible!
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Thanks. I was really happy about how she turned out. That year of 1978 was when I took driver's ed.
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Aww to be back in those days again!
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That was a fun year - I got my driver's license that summer.
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Good memories. I got my first Rush and my first Yes album that year. My parents were still around, and I had a 1976 Olds Cutlass to use whenever I needed it.
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That's just so great to have those memories! I was only 5 in 78 but I distinctly remember those years so well for some reason.
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I turned 15, and was living on the north side of Indianapolis. I started high school that fall; our middle school ran three years and our high school ran three years. I can still remember all the music and the movies we saw. Boston's second album and Queen's "Fat Bottom Girls" where the big hits that fall. Billy Joel was also really big on the radio. In Indy it was also the year of the Blizzard that shut down the entire state for a week. I darn hear have artwork from those days, which would mostly consist of pencil drawings of spaceships and cars.
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Really great to hear those memories! I do really miss those days and wish I could go back to them! I was only 4 when Elvis passed away but mom says I cried my eyes out! Like I said for some reason, I was young, but I can remember those days so well!
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I had just moved to Indiana when Elvis died, and we were still unpacking boxes. My uncle at the time was chief of security at the Netherland Hilton hotel in Cincinnati, and was actually in charge of his security detail. He was there, went to Indianapolis, and then went home and died. We're actually coming up on the 40th anniversary of Jonestown, which was a strange memory - we were reading about it in the local newspaper while driving to Cincinnati that morning.
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I would have liked to have had a chance to see him live. Unfortunately that wasn't to be. I remember that happening. Not really understanding it at the time but remember thinking how strange and scary it seemed. I can't believe that has been 40 years ago.
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My daughter almost ended up being born on that date in 1993, but she missed it by 3 hours.
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Lol both of my boys were due on my birthday but the oldest went 1 week early and they enduced my youngest 2 weeks early!
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My sister-in-law's son just had twin girls on her birthday, which is also my birthday; I'm always teasing her by saying, "Now, when is their birthday again?"
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Hahaha!! We are all in May!
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That is funny, isn't it? It's mainly just the hair.
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A Pontiac Trans-Am? That's the only car Lois' moneybags father, Carter, could give her? Not a really fast, cool car like a BMW or a Ferrari Testarossa? Still, this is a really cute picture of Lois c. 1979 with the "windblown" Farrah hairdo. And she looks ready for some fun, in spite of her cheap-ass father.
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Oh, I dunno...a BMW or an Audi in those days was just another German car. A Trans Am would have been a pretty cool ride for a teen then. Speaking of fancy rides, I actually have a Rolls Royce dealer in the town where I live.
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I'm not knocking the '70s muscle cars. A lot of them were the very epitome of a cool ride, especially the Trans-Am and the Firebird. I used to work on them in high school auto shop. I just thought a fancy car like a Dino Ferrari would be the kind of car driven by a rich man's child. And a Rolls Royce would be a definite status symbol. The boss of my first job after my Army service actually bought a Rolls Royce sedan. And he even gave me a ride in it. I thought it was the coolest car I'd ever been in. And aside from luxury cars, let's not forget that Rolls also made damn good aircraft engines like the Merlin which was used in the British Spitfire and American Mustang fighter planes.
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Rolls Royce aircraft engines has some sort of connection here in Indy; I think we're a main repair hub for them. When we were little children, our parents had a friend in the Smoky Mountains that would give us a ride in a very old Mercedes. Also, they had a friend in Cincinnati who was a doctor who gave me a ride in his brand new 1971 Corvette Stingray on William Howard Taft Avenue.
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Well, a repair outfit for Rolls Royce aircraft engines in Indiana, eh? That I had no idea. Also, having an avenue named after William Howard Taft I found amusing; amusing in that I doubt today's brain-dead youth would even know who Taft was.
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Oh, Taft is a big figure (excuse the pun) in Cincinnati; there's even a statue of him downtown. The road itself is a major artery that takes you from the east side of Cincy into the downtown; McMillan takes you back out the other way. That street is a big part of my childhood.
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I rather envy you having lived in a place where Taft is so prominent. As I said earlier, today's youth would probably have no idea that William Howard Taft was a US president who was elected after Theodore Roosevelt completed his two terms. And as for Taft being a big figure in Cincinnati, well that goes without saying since he was over 300 lbs. It's a wonder his heart didn't give out during his term of office. The only place named after an historical figure from my youth is MacArthur park, named after, of course, Gen. Douglas MacArthur, a particularly favorite hero of mine.
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We have several other famous persons out our way. Cincinnati is the birthplace of the Heimlich maneuver, and Dr. Heimlich still lives there. Peter Frampton lives in Cincinnati. Ulysses S. Grant was born in a tiny house just down the river from Cincinnati in a town called Utopia; they moved when he was a baby. My hometown of Williamsburg was a major point in the Underground Railroad.
Closer to home, David Letterman used to be a weatherman for Channel 8 here in town, and went to Broadripple High School not too far from me. He went to Ball State University where I went for a year, and there is now a telecommunications building there named after him. Jim Davis of Garfield fame went to the same college, and still lives in Muncie. Then we have our infamous bad apples. Charlie Manson was born in Cincinnati and spent time out here in the Plainfield Correctional facility. Jim Jones is from Plainfield, and used to have his church in Indy before moving it out to SF. And Subway Jared, who is facing something like 15 years in jail (not nearly enough), lived about ten minutes down the road.
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The histories of Charlie Manson, Peter Frampton, Jim Jones, Gen. Grant and Dave Letterman I'm familiar with as far as Cincinnati is concerned (although Grant spent most of his childhood in Galena, IL.) The fact that Dr. Heimlich lives in Cincinnati, that I did not know. Thank you for enlightening me about that. The same also for Jim Davis (although I never liked his Garfield strip. Garfield is just a self-centered bully). And as for Subway Jared, I fully agree with you about his sentence. It's not nearly what he deserves. In fact (and this may seem very harsh) I don't believe he should be put in protective security while in prison. I say let him be put in general population. Let him take his chances the same way you or I would have to if we were sent to prison.
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Oh, and Cincinnati gave birth to the steam fire engine. We also gave birth to Larry Flint, which isn't saying much.
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That fact about the fire engine being invented in Cincinnati I confess I did not know about. And as for Larry Flynt being a native of Cincinnati; I couldn't care less. His morals are as misshapen as an Englishman's teeth.
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Yeah, he's pretty much a rotten pig as far as I'm concerned.
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He's more than a pig to me. Flynt is an abomination. I'm only sorry that the guy who shot him was such a poor marksman.
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The other way around, however...
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::laughs:: Hell, I would have been infatuated with her in 1979.
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I would too, if I'd been around back then. xD
(I was -3yo... 
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It was a fun time, believe me - I got my driver's license in June of that year.
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