|
Replies: 39
| visibility 1
|
Orange Blooded [4023]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 3506
Joined: 1/9/03
|
In 1969
Aug 13, 2018, 10:12 AM
|
|
Gas was 35 cents per gallon
Average cost of a new home was $15,500
Neil Armstrong was first to walk on the Moon
Over 400,000 people gathered for Woodstock
The Beatles recorded their final album together
Richard Nixon sworn in as President
Seasame Street debuts
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was a box office hit
Bret Farve and Jennifer Aniston were born
The Pontiac Trans Am was introduced
Sugar Sugar by the Archies was a top radio hit
The Unversity of South Carolina won their only football conference championship to date.
|
|
|
|
 |
Orange Blooded [2100]
TigerPulse: 92%
Posts: 1471
Joined: 12/12/14
|
Re: In 1969
Aug 13, 2018, 10:15 AM
|
|
I was born.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Orange Blooded [2926]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 2387
Joined: 1/7/18
|
Re: In 1969
Aug 13, 2018, 10:55 AM
|
|
8-8-69 birth date .
|
|
|
|
|
|
110%er [5121]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 5299
Joined: 7/18/02
|
8-12-1969 for me.***
Aug 13, 2018, 4:56 PM
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
CU Medallion [53718]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 43537
Joined: 11/17/03
|
If you are a Tiger, nevermind. But, if you are a board Coot,
Aug 13, 2018, 8:42 PM
[ in reply to Re: In 1969 ] |
|
did your parents tailgate in Columbia?
|
|
|
|
|
|
Orange Blooded [3804]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 740
Joined: 2/3/03
|
Re: In 1969
Aug 13, 2018, 10:48 AM
|
|
And I had been married 1 year!
|
|
|
|
|
|
Orange Blooded [3982]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 1567
Joined: 8/28/16
|
Re: In 1969
Aug 13, 2018, 10:51 AM
|
|
I wasn't quite a teen yet, but already a huge Tiger fan.
|
|
|
|
|
|
110%er [5282]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 6926
Joined: 11/5/12
|
Re: In 1969
Aug 13, 2018, 10:51 AM
|
|
Led Zepplin celebrated their first year as a band.
|
|
|
|
|
|
CU Medallion [65044]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 33179
Joined: 12/3/03
|
There was some big music deal in upstate New York. I think
Aug 13, 2018, 11:17 AM
|
|
it was called Woodstock, or something like that. Wonder if any of those acts ever made it?
|
|
|
|
|
|
Hall of Famer [22965]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 25005
Joined: 6/24/99
|
Woodstock started on Aug 15, 1969, the same day Clemson
Aug 13, 2018, 12:13 PM
|
|
opened for the fall semester that year. I was offered a job by the individual who did the lighting for Woodstock---when I made my plea with the parents to take the job and be a few days late for the opening of school, they naturally put the kibosh on such an outlandish suggestion
Incidentally, in case some of us old farts were feeling a bit spry this Monday morning, there's an article in the most recent issue of "Archaeology" magazine about an archaeological dig that is currently underway at the original site of the festival on Max Yasgur's farm
|
|
|
|
|
|
110%er [6157]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 5084
Joined: 8/30/17
|
Re: In 1969
Aug 13, 2018, 11:23 AM
|
|
I was living in Clemson in “the old White House” near the P&A Building while my father was in grad school. Those were dark days (365 to be exact) living under an ACC “ruled” by the #####.
|
|
|
|
|
|
110%er [6157]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 5084
Joined: 8/30/17
|
Re: In 1969
Aug 13, 2018, 11:24 AM
|
|
Wow they bleeped out the short name for Gamecocks
|
|
|
|
|
|
110%er [5461]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 2074
Joined: 11/23/03
|
Strange. I've never had "coots" bleeped out before.***
Aug 13, 2018, 4:16 PM
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
CU Guru [1639]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 2314
Joined: 10/6/11
|
Re: In 1969
Aug 13, 2018, 11:27 AM
|
|
I got married on 9-20-1969 and on that date we beat Virginia again!
|
|
|
|
|
|
Orange Blooded [2332]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 3530
Joined: 5/7/03
|
Re: In 1969
Aug 13, 2018, 11:40 AM
|
|
It had been a decade since my first Tiger football game! At age sixteen I traveled to the Idaho wilderness for an International Boy Scout Jamberee with 35,000 plus in attendance. Great experience and one I will cherish. Armstrong landed on the moon and people today have so little appreciation of the effort involved! Our cellphones have more power and memory than the state of the art computers used then!
|
|
|
|
|
|
1st Rounder [628]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 792
Joined: 10/27/15
|
Re: In 1969
Aug 13, 2018, 11:51 AM
|
|
Gas was 0.25 on Hagens Street in Rock Hill that summer. Man, I loved me some "gas wars".
Also another gripe. Whatever happened to the "cent" symbol and how many on here even know what it is?
|
|
|
|
|
|
110%er [6223]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 4310
Joined: 6/23/17
|
Re: In 1969
Aug 13, 2018, 1:26 PM
|
|
and they pumped it for you, and you got a free glass or candy bar for a minimum 10 gal purchase.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Orange Blooded [4023]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 3506
Joined: 1/9/03
|
Re: In 1969
Aug 13, 2018, 2:07 PM
[ in reply to Re: In 1969 ] |
|
I looked for the cent symbol and realized it's gone. Not on the iPhone keyboard either.
|
|
|
|
|
|
110%er [6878]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 6107
Joined: 5/22/16
|
Re: In 1969
Aug 13, 2018, 8:41 PM
[ in reply to Re: In 1969 ] |
|
1969 was the year that I graduated from Winthrop. We paid 19 cents per gallon for gas in a bad neighborhood behind Winthrop in Rock Hill, maybe Frank St. Is there such a street? Can't quite remember.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Hall of Famer [22127]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 5026
Joined: 2/25/13
|
Re: In 1969
Aug 13, 2018, 11:58 AM
|
|
And I was an old man, 48 years of age with a daughter in college. !!!!!!!
|
|
|
|
|
|
Orange Blooded [3290]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 4049
Joined: 1/3/14
|
Re: In 1969
Aug 13, 2018, 12:33 PM
|
|
I graduated from High School and started Clemson. Besides Abbey Road, Led Zeppelin II, Stones Let It Bleed, CCR Green River, The Band (Self Titled), The Who Tommy were released. I think I bought all of these at the record store at what is now the Burger Bar.
Anyone remember the name if the store?
|
|
|
|
|
|
Legend [16227]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 12771
Joined: 11/14/09
|
Easy Rider was released.
Aug 13, 2018, 12:04 PM
|
|
I'm hip about time, man.
|
|
|
|
|
|
110%er [5461]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 2074
Joined: 11/23/03
|
Groovy!***
Aug 13, 2018, 4:14 PM
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
CU Medallion [56841]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 39635
Joined: 11/12/04
|
LOL at "to date."
Aug 13, 2018, 12:23 PM
|
|
As if.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Orange Blooded [2587]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 3130
Joined: 1/24/99
|
Graduated...
Aug 13, 2018, 12:46 PM
|
|
from high school (Sin...sex...women...wine...we're the class of '69). Whew...almost 50 yrs ago.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Legend [15509]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 21403
Joined: 9/24/07
|
Re: In 1969
Aug 13, 2018, 12:47 PM
|
|
I entered Clemson as a Freshman.
|
|
|
|
|
|
110%er [5461]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 2074
Joined: 11/23/03
|
Todd Ellis was 2 years old.
Aug 13, 2018, 12:47 PM
|
|
Too young to cycle yet.
|
|
|
|
|
|
110%er [5461]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 2074
Joined: 11/23/03
|
...and Muschamp was not yet born.***
Aug 13, 2018, 12:50 PM
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Hall of Famer [22291]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 7562
Joined: 3/3/99
|
there was about 4 weeks that summer that were incredible....
Aug 13, 2018, 1:35 PM
|
|
historic things that happened within one month that dominated the headlines and we still remember today.
July 18 : Ted Kennedy & Chappaquiddick
July 20 : Neil Armstrong walked on the moon
Aug 8,9 : Charles Manson & Tate/LaBianca murders
Aug 15-18 : Woodstock music festival
Aug 18 : Cat 5 Hurricane Camille hits US
|
|
|
|
|
|
Orange Blooded [3650]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 2257
Joined: 10/29/14
|
|
|
|
|
|
Starter [377]
TigerPulse: 97%
Posts: 683
Joined: 3/5/08
|
Re: In 1969
Aug 13, 2018, 1:47 PM
|
|
And the first draft lottery for the Vietnam War...
|
|
|
|
|
|
Orange Blooded [4754]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 5125
Joined: 9/14/02
|
Re: In 1969
Aug 13, 2018, 8:18 PM
|
|
12 years old and a 7th grader.
|
|
|
|
|
|
All-In [38422]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 33199
Joined: 7/28/11
|
Re: In 1969
Aug 13, 2018, 9:12 PM
|
|
I took my first breaths inside of Portsmouth Naval Hospital in Virginia … and I feel like the Coots have been stealing a portion of my oxygen ever since .
|
|
|
|
|
|
All-TigerNet [12270]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 12594
Joined: 12/1/03
|
and sav82thiger was a hellraising 11 year old!***
Aug 13, 2018, 9:20 PM
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
All-TigerNet [10121]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 4858
Joined: 12/11/12
|
Re: In 1969
Aug 13, 2018, 11:42 PM
|
|
Was in grad school living in the high rises... Waiting to get married in 1970 and abide in the prefabs... Life was good!!
|
|
|
|
|
|
110%er [9708]
TigerPulse: 96%
Posts: 9839
Joined: 9/16/15
|
missed it.
Aug 13, 2018, 11:44 PM
|
|
I was born 7 years later. 8-6-76
|
|
|
|
|
|
Hall of Famer [22291]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 7562
Joined: 3/3/99
|
In 1969 ... I went to my first concert as a 12 year old.
Aug 14, 2018, 6:39 AM
|
|
2nd concert was Alice Cooper, 3rd was Allman Bros, so musical tastes were evolving rapidly....
|
|
|
|
|
|
Orange Blooded [4247]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 5446
Joined: 2/20/18
|
Re: In 1969
Aug 14, 2018, 6:50 AM
|
|
After the Chicken game, Frank Howard retired due to illness... BOT were sick of him...My one and only trip to Cockroach, as a freshman.
|
|
|
|
|
|
1st Rounder [638]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 647
Joined: 6/11/01
|
Re: In 1969
Aug 14, 2018, 9:54 AM
|
|
I was a sophomore at CU and gas was $.19/gal on Pearman Dairy Rd. in Anderson. My Austin Healey Sprite was pretty fuel efficient and I could go home to Greenwood and back on a dollar of gas....We were lousy in football back in those days......
|
|
|
|
|
|
CU Medallion [65044]
TigerPulse: 100%
Posts: 33179
Joined: 12/3/03
|
Re: In 1969
Aug 14, 2018, 10:39 AM
|
|
I remember a "gas war" in Orangeburg, where the price got all the way down to 15.9 cents a gallon. It was 21.9 at that same station for what seemed like forever. Good times.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Replies: 39
| visibility 1
|
|
|
50
