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20 Things We Miss the Most About the 1970s

December 20, 2022December 20, 2022Phil Andrews1 Comment

. Us children of the 1970s may bore our kids into slumber with our tales of how great life was back in “our day”, but what was it that made our adolescence so special? There are literally hundreds of things that made that decade stand out amongst all the times in which to be growing […]

12 Things We Most Remember About 1976

August 3, 2021August 19, 2022Phil AndrewsLeave a Comment

1. Concorde enters service On January 21st 1976 a British Airways Concorde took off from London Heathrow airport with a full compliment of passengers destined for Bahrain, while at the exact same time Air France’s maiden Concorde flight left the runway at Paris’ Orly airport for Rio de Janeiro. After initially having been refused permission […]

1000 Memories of 1976 – A Compendium of Nostalgia

July 20, 2021May 13, 2026Phil AndrewsLeave a Comment

1000 Memories of 1976 is just as the name suggests, except that there are actually many more than a thousand. Each and every memory was solicited through Facebook groups whose admins kindly lent me their platforms, and was crafted together into a veritable mosaic of nostalgia which I hope will serve as a valuable reference point for present and future historians of the era.