1972

This photo was taken in 1972.  I was only 30 years old, an age, by the way, that I loved becoming.  At last, I thought, I’m a grown up!   Now I look at 30 year olds and they seem so very young.  Perspective! lol

 

The people in this photo, left to right:

 

Baby sister Mary K; me with Noel, who was seven; my mother, age 55…and just before she started having illnesses, surgeries, etc. that began the limiting of her life; my maternal grandmother, whom I dearly loved…she taught me to sew, to crochet, to love Constant Comment tea;  sister-in-law Debbie, about the time she married my brother; Aunt Marian, my mother’s SIL (now deceased).

 

My parents, back in those days, used to host wonderful picnics on their patio. Dad grilled the steaks, mom made her wonderful macaroni salad, still the best I’ve had; family and friends gathered, talked, ate, just had a great time together.

 

That seems like another world when I look back on it. 

 

Here are a few historical facts from 1972 (From Bernard Grun’s The Timetables of History):

 

• President Nixon visits China and Russia
• The "Watergate" affair begins with the arrest of five men inside Democratic National Headquarters
• Ceylon becomes a republic and changes its name to Sri Lanka
• Arab terrorists kill two Israeli Olympic athletes in Munich and take nine others hostage
• Harry Truman dies
• "Grease"  and "Jesus Christ Superstar" open
• Films:  "Caberet," "The Godfather," "The French Connection"
• Bobby Fischer wins world chess title by defeating Boris Spassky
• The military draft is phased out in the U.S.
• "All in the Family" is the leading U.S. tv show
• The Dow-Jones Index closes above 1,000 for the first time

So there you have it, a quick look back to what really was a long time ago.  And yet, the plays and movies mentioned are all still popular;  the events in Munich have been immortalized in an Oscar nominated film; and Nixon’s visit to China surely paved the way for all the  "made in China"  tags on our clothes, toys, and housewares.    And, of course, we still have an all-volunteer military. 

Peace!