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Do you feel old yet?  If you do, you may want to stop while you are ahead, the rest of you youngsters read on.....

You must be a member of the Class of 1979 if......

You remember when Jordache jeans were cool.

You remember the days when "safe sex" meant that your parents were gone

for the weekend.

You remember Friday Night Videos before the days of MTV

You remember when music that was labeled alternative, really was.

You took family trips BEFORE the invention of the minivan.

You've conversationally used the phrase, "Jane, you ignorant slut!"

You've recently horrified yourself by using one of the following phrases:

When I was younger..... When I was your age..... You know, back when.....

Your hair at some point in time in the 70's became something which can only

be described by two phrases: "I was experimenting!" & "What was I thinking?"

You're starting to believe now that maybe having the kids go to school year

round wouldn't be such a bad idea after all.

You had front row seats for Luke and Laura's wedding on General Hospital.

You know who shot JR.

This rings a bell..... "and my name is Charlie, they work for me"

The cop, sailor, biker, cowboy, Indian, and construction worker

You remember cigarette commercials on TV.

You can relate to most outfits worn on American Bandstand reruns.

You remember when there was only PG and R, none of the PG-13 stuff.

You remember when VCR's cost $2,000.

You remember rotary dial telephones.

You thought there was nothing strange about Bert and Ernie living together.

Headlines for the Year 1978-1979.....

East Baton Rouge teachers strike

A New Orleans police strike dims 1979 Mardi Gras celebrations

The Shah is forced to leave Iran after 37 years.  The Ayatollah Khomeini

returns after a 15 year exile to establish a Socialist Islamic Republic.

The U.S. Embassy in Tehran is seized.  54 American citizens are taken

hostage and after two were released early, the rest were held for 444 days.

President Jimmy Carter and Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev sign the SALT

II agreement, limiting strategic weapons.

Mother Theresa wins the Nobel Peace prize.

Pope John Paul II becomes the first Pope to travel to the United States.

Former California Governor Ronald Regan, Senator Edward Kennedy and

current United States President Jimmy Carter are the leading candidates for the Presidential election.

In late 1979, Soviet Union forces invade Afghanistan.  This act eventually led to the United States boycotting the 1980 Moscow Olympics.

Authorities discover the mass suicides and murders of 901 members of the Jim Jones' Peoples Temple cult in Guyana.

Margaret Thatcher is elected Britains first woman Prime Minister.

Saddam Hussein becomes President of Iraqi.

First test tube baby born.

Toxic waste dumped by Hooker Chemicals creates a public health crisis at

Love Canal, Niagra Falls, New York and families are evacuated.

C-span and Nickelodeon make their debut on cable television

Jim Davis' comic strip "Garfield" first appears in newspapers.

Dallas premieres on CBS

Here are the Top 20 TV shows for 1979......

CBS had the "must see" TV that year, placing 8 shows in the Top 10.  60

Minutes is the only show still producing new shows today.  Of course,

Monday Night Football was an institution then as it is today.  Other popular

shows of the time included: Mork & Mindy, Charlie's Angels, Hart to Hart, The Rockford Files (not the X-Files, as there was no FOX network in 1979), Diff'rent Strikes, The White Shadow, The Incredible Hulk and B.J. & the Bear

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

60 Minutes Three's Company That's Incredible M*A*S*H Alice Dallas Flo The Jefferson's Dukes of Hazzard One Day At A Time

11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

WKRP in Cincinnati Goodtime Girls Archie Bunker's Place Taxi Eight Is Enough Little House on the Prairie House Calls Real People ChiPs Happy Days

1979 - At the Movies

The top grossing films of 1979 were:

Kramer vs. Kramer

The Amityville Horror

Star Trek: The Motion Picture

Apocalypse Now

The Muppet Movie

Other popular movies from 1979 were:

Alien Rocky II The Warriors          Manhattan Hair Mad Max Moonraker

1941 All That Jazz Being There The Deer Hunter The Jerk Life of Brian

10 Grease Meatballs Love at First Bite Jaws II

Breaking Away China Syndrome Norma Rae Over the Edge The Black Hole

The Academy Awards for 1979.....

Best Picture                     Kramer vs. Kramer

Best Actor                       Dustin Hoffman "Kramer vs. Kramer"

Best Actress                    Sally Field for "Norma Rae"

Best Supporting Actor      Melvyn Douglas for "Being There"

Best Supporting Actress   Meryl Streep "Kramer vs. Kramer"

Best Director                   Robert Benton "Kramer vs. Kramer"

Sports 1979.....

Men's College Baskeball

Michigan State's Spartans, led by Magic Johnson defeated Larry Bird's

Indiana State Sycamores for the championship in 1979, 75-64

Major League Baseball

The Pittsburgh Pirates, whose anthem was, "We Are Family", and powered by

slugger Willie Stargell, defeated the Baltimore Orioles, 4 games to 3 in the World Series.

Pete Rose signs a $3.2 million contract with the Philadelphia Phillies, making

him baseball's highest paid player.

NFL Football

The Pittsburgh Steelers defeated the Dallas Cowboys in the Super Bowl,

35-31. Led by future broadcaster and Super Bowl MVP Terry Bradshaw,

the Steelers laid claim to the "Team of the 70's" with this victory.

NBA Basketball

In the era before Magic, Bird, and Air Jordan, the Seattle SuperSonics won their only NBA title, by defeating the Washington Bullets, 4 games to 1, in the NBA finals.

Boxing

Muhammad Ali becomes the first man ever to wing the heavyweight boxing championship three times.