Stone Soup by Jan Eliot for June 08, 2012

Although I was born 12 years after that event, but yes, Holly, I’m sure they still even drove to games.

In 1972 people went back to wearing sandals.

we only drove VW beetles with a weak horn and no AC, just open the windows and hope for a breeze

I brought a new Chevy Chevelle in 1972 – A/C was still an expensive option which I didn’t take. It got stolen in 1976, when I bought a Oldsmobile Cutlass which had my first A/C in a car – boy was that a luxury!

Hubby’s first car was what he called a “Fiatsco”. The it had so little power that if he went up a hill he had to burn off the headlights.

This comic was a lot funnier before it started pushing politics. Look at early examples.

amazing what a fat society can afford. Will be interesting to see what they can afford if college basketball and football start to lose revenue.

In 1972 I was driving a Honda 600 – 4 wheel, 4 seats and a 600 cc motorcycle engine. It got 45 miiles per gallon, but wouldn’t do more than about 55 mph – less with a headwind. My first car was a 1963 Chevy Corvair, which dispite what Ralph Nadar said, was a great little car.

My brother had a Corvair; it was a total piece of crap.

I remember the Gremlin, and I was too young to drive one then. When I got my license, I couldn’t afford one. Curse the luck.

I also remember the Pacer. That looked to me like a giant egg, and looked about as safe. My ex-financeé called it “the fishbowl.”

One that caught my attention but didn’t last was the VW Thing. Looked like a WW2 German staff car.

Then came the Energy Crisis of 1973 – which began months before OPEC’s oil embargo.

LOL!!! To my kids, anything in the 19somethings sounds ancient!

I rode my 1 speed Schwinn or walked to games.

yes, my grandmother was born before 1882… my dad was born in 1911 and i was born in 1949. so, how good are you at math???

Ah, the innocence of youth! Holly, dear, in 1972 I thought the year 2000 was a LOOOONG way off, and didn’t even consider life beyond 2000. I was born a few years before Sputnik, and only just remember the horse-drawn milk cart at our house. My gradnparents were probably born in the late 1890s – I shall have to ask my father about that this evening when I see him. Never thought to enquire about them before…

Cool! I’ve only seen the recording on TV, but I wish I could’ve seen it live the first time around.

Don’t tell about slide rules, log tables, and trig tables. You know the BC era (before calculators).

My sister was born in ’72. :p

I wouldn’t put later generations through the Vietnam War, Deflation, the Cold War, or the Energy Crisis, but I wish they might have the feel of the JFK Era, the beginning of the Space Age, the Moon landings, and when “Made in USA” was common.

A Ford Pinto that was red as fire and also could set on fire if hit from behind!

I was 13 in 1972. On the subject of cars though, my first one bought with my own money was a manual shift Pinto. It was around 1977 and was NOT one of the exploding gas tank models …

“My grandmother was born in 1880”One of mine was born in 1865. She died of TB in 1898 before my dad was two.

I remember the moon landing. I was 9. My whole family got up early to watch it on TV, and we all drank Tang, just like the astronauts. Vile stuff, actually.

And I remember watching Star Trek when it first came out. We had a black and white TV – and then being amaze a few years later when we got a colour TV – they had diffent colour uniforms!

Oh, and that TV had to be almost the first one built. My parents bought it used, and it took a full hour of warming up to get a picture. Hard to imagine in this day and age, ey?

Imagine what changes she will see!! Maybe first woman president!