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SleeplessinSoCal

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27. Cherished memory from 1976...

Reply to QueerDuck (Original post)

Tue Jun 30, 2026, 07:15 PM

15 hrs ago

I'd just moved to NYC from SoCal in time for the Bicentennial celebrations. Like the Tall Ships down the Hudson to the Statue of Liberty and Macy's first annual fireworks over downtown. It was big and splashy and filled to the brim with joyous people (despite a really bad economy I was completely unaware of.)

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Bicentennial images in 1976... I remember this well! [View all] QueerDuck 18 hrs ago OP

One nation under Zeus. The Wizard 18 hrs ago #1

Exactly! Jupiter bless America! QueerDuck 17 hrs ago #2

And sure enough - it did! peppertree 14 hrs ago #30

I remember some of that -misanthroptimist 17 hrs ago #3

Here are the songs I was listening to... AND STILL DO!! QueerDuck 17 hrs ago #5

Interesting -misanthroptimist 17 hrs ago #8

I hear ya... some of them were groaning clunkers! An eye-rolling bookmark of a time in my life. QueerDuck 16 hrs ago #17

So I had to count after that and I got 12 that I didn't know. LisaM 15 hrs ago #25

I did the same and got 15 Lifeafter70 14 hrs ago #29

The list is very Euro musette_sf 1 hr ago #41

Wow! karin_sj 14 hrs ago #31

I wish I remembered it more MustLoveBeagles 17 hrs ago #4

The Great American State Fair could have been something really cool. Initech 17 hrs ago #6

And a Republican Was President MineralMan 17 hrs ago #7

I was rockin' with Aerosmith, Bob Seger, Black Oak Arkansas & Jeff Beck/Jan Hammer concert RedWhiteBlueIsRacist 17 hrs ago #9

I remember much of that celebration. I watched the fireworks brer cat 17 hrs ago #10

I was on the mall in DC, totally ploughed with some friends, watching the fireworks oberle 10 hrs ago #38

I went to the glacier of Mount Hood on July 4,1976 EYESORE 9001 17 hrs ago #11

Wow! Very cool! electric_blue68 15 hrs ago #26

For a period of about three years, I went into the cascades every chance I got EYESORE 9001 5 hrs ago #39

Made a big American flag out of petunias and marigolds. PufPuf23 16 hrs ago #12

That is seriously impressive!! RockCreek 16 hrs ago #14

Wow! karynnj 15 hrs ago #20

Everything Trump touches dies. patphil 16 hrs ago #13

And the tall ships!! pat_k 16 hrs ago #15

such a happy time... RT Atlanta 16 hrs ago #16

I remember back in '76 talking to this guy NewLarry 15 hrs ago #18

I remember it well and it was cool karynnj 15 hrs ago #19

And red/white/blue were THE colors for everything. Not in the tacky MAGA way... QueerDuck 15 hrs ago #21

Very cool! Been to the South Street Seaport... electric_blue68 15 hrs ago #28

I remember July 4, 1976. Americanme 15 hrs ago #22

We went to Philadelphia the Summer of '76 Billsdaughter 15 hrs ago #23

I remember seeing these images on TV in 1976 kimbutgar 15 hrs ago #24

Cherished memory from 1976... SleeplessinSoCal 15 hrs ago #27

TY for photos! electric_blue68 14 hrs ago #32

happy to share SleeplessinSoCal 13 hrs ago #35

We lived relatively near the Manhattan side of the GW Bridge so on July 4th we walked down.... electric_blue68 14 hrs ago #33

I got to march in the big Philadelphia parade with Hey Joe 14 hrs ago #34

I was there! PCIntern 4 hrs ago #40

Yes PCIntern, when we think of how far we have Hey Joe 11 min ago #42

Republicans under Trump: Find out what's made America great, and do the opposite. n/t Beartracks 13 hrs ago #36

I was 13, in Mr. Yarnell's 8th grade History class MerryBlooms 13 hrs ago #37