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Forty-two years ago, in 1976, our nation turned 200 and its citizens reveled in a yearlong jubilee. The Freedom Train visited all 48 contiguous states. CBS ran a Bicentennial Minute each day. And the space shuttle Enterprise opened the sky to new possibilities for space exploration. For a refresher of what made 1976 so memorable, turn to page 12. Be sure to take our bicentennial trivia quiz, too. Merriment is a major part of this issue. In “Hooray for Hometown Pride,” starting on page 34, readers tout what made the town where they grew up so special, whether it was an annual parade, an amazing amusement park or the local teen hangout. Other contributors share tales, beginning on page 42, of traveling along Route 66 and celebrating their own independence.…

~ ACADEMY AWARDS ~ BEST PICTURE One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest BEST ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE Jack Nicholson BEST ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE Louise Fletcher ~ EMMY AWARDS ~ OUTSTANDING DRAMA SERIES Police Story, NBC OUTSTANDING COMEDY SERIES The Mary Tyler Moore Show, CBS ~ TONY AWARDS ~ BEST MUSICAL A Chorus Line, Joseph Papp ~ GRAMMY AWARDS ~ RECORD OF THE YEAR “Love Will Keep Us Together” The Captain & Tenille ALBUM OF THE YEAR Still Crazy After All These Years Paul Simon ~ SPORTS ~ KENTUCKY DERBY WINNER Bold Forbes HEISMAN TROPHY WINNER Tony Dorsett, Pittsburgh WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION Muhammad Ali MASTER’S GOLF TOURNAMENT Ray Floyd…

Working on Ohio University’s administrative staff in the spring of 1954, I was assigned to meet former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt at the Columbus airport. Accompanied by Richard Bitters, director of press relations, we were to drive her to the swanky University Club in Columbus for lunch before escorting her 75 miles south to the Athens campus. When Mrs. Roosevelt was a delegate to the U.N. General Assembly, our university president John C. Baker served as the first chief American representative to UNESCO. Like many others, Dr. Baker was greatly moved by her efforts as head of the Human Rights Commission. Their friendship enabled him to convince the woman he considered one of the world’s greatest humanitarians to give a speech at the central auditorium of Ohio’s oldest university. The…

Marshfield, Missouri, was the best place to be when I was growing up in the 1940s, ’50s and ’60s. It’s a small rural town with a population that’s grown from 4,000 when I was a child to more than 7,000. Located in the Ozarks on Old Route 66, the town holds a Cherry Blossom Festival in April and a Fourth of July parade led each year by veterans. Last year, Dr. T.M. Macdonnell, 94, a D-Day survivor, rode in the parade. THE FOURTH OF JULY PARADE BEGAN IN 1878 AND REMAINS THE OLDEST CONTINUOUS PARADE WEST OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER.…

MY FAMILY MOVED FROM Minnesota to Colorado in 1951 when I was 11. My father sold his sporting goods store and opened a new one on College Avenue in Fort Collins, a college town of about 14,000 people. It was a short walk to my elementary school but a little longer one to junior high—and the high school was clear across town. Over the years I made many friends on those walks. City Park and the lake were nearby. We watched the annual fireworks display from folding chairs and blankets that we spread on the grass. Taft Hill, on the northern edge of town, was the only steep hill, so I went there for early-morning bike rides. After I graduated from Fort Collins High School in 1958, I stayed in…

Lt. Edward Beale, head of the U.S. Army Camel Corps, surveyed part of the route in 1857. Established in 1926, it covers 2,448 miles. Cyrus Avery of Tulsa, OK, oilman and loyal 66 booster, nicknamed it the Main Street of America. An early 66 publicity stunt was the Bunion Derby, a 1928 footrace from California to New York. Cherokee runner Andy Hartley Payne won the $25,000 prize. John Steinbeck called it “the mother road” in The Grapes of Wrath, his 1939 chronicle of Dust Bowl migrants. It was decertified in 1985, but about 85 percent is still drivable.…

Angel and I married in 1951, and shortly after I was drafted into the Army and assigned to the Presidio of San Francisco, California. We lived off post until I got my orders for Korea on Dec. 19, 1952. I had furlough until Jan. 3, so we decided to go home to New Jersey for the holidays. We bought a used car and loaded it up. I had thought ahead and bought chains in case we encountered snow. That was the smartest thing I did, as we hit a storm at Tehachapi Pass in the Sierra Nevada mountains. Cars were sliding all around me, but I was able to stay on the road. We had only a blanket to keep us warm. I wanted to drive straight through to make…

ACROSS 1 Won’t admit to 5 Language test 9 Word repeated in a Doris Day song 13 Sheltered 14 Musical group of nine 16 Rain pellets 17 Stocking stuffer? 18 Capital of Vietnam 19 Killer whale 20 1980 satirical disaster flick 22 Wobble 24 ______ and outs 25 Severe 26 Reverberated 30 French for without 31 Status ______ 34 Imitates a leaky faucet 35 ______ Hawkins dance 36 Imposing vase 37 Papa’s mate 38 Greek column 39 Bird’s enclosure 40 Common conjunction 41 Finished 42 Los Angeles, CA, athlete 43 Understand 44 At a distance 45 Loving touch 46 Snouts 48 Derby or stovepipe 49 One on a stroll 51 The ______ Adventure, 1972 tidal wave flick 56 Praise 57 Care for the sick 59 Irritate 60 Has to do with…

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SCHOOL CLUBS Were you a Science Olympiad or mathlete? A member of student council, the school drama society, or Future Farmers of America? We want to hear about the after-school activities you liked best. Label your story “School Clubs.” FIRST VACATION Just as school lets out for summer, the buzz of vacation excursions to faraway places hits a crescendo. Do you remember your first vacation? Where did you go? What made it so special? Label your story “First Vacation.” TRAVELING GAMES When parents finally tired of hearing “are we there yet,” the backseat crew learned to rely on eagle-eye games to kill time—I spy, travel bingo or slug bug, to name a few. What games did you play on long road trips? Label your story “Traveling Games.” MY FIRST BOOK…

Years after the Beatles’ 1970 breakup, concert promoters began floating the idea of staging a one-night Beatles reunion for worldwide broadcast. By early 1976 the offer stood at a head-spinning $50 million—about $360 million today—for the group who once performed for cheap in shabby German bars. Shortly before his death in 1980, John Lennon explained his take. “Talking about the Beatles getting back together is an illusion,” he grumbled. “You cannot get back together what no longer exists.” Yet on April 24, 1976, Lennon, wife Yoko Ono, and Paul and Linda McCartney were at the Lennons’ posh Manhattan apartment, watching NBC-TV’s hip new show Saturday Night (later Saturday Night Live). In the opening segment, producer Lorne Michaels held up a check for $3,000 and, tongue in cheek, promised the Beatles…

SWEET SUCCESS Launched in 1939 out of an abandoned jailhouse in Catonsville, MD, The Frostie Co. grew into a national franchise beverage company. The flavor secret? Pure cane sugar. To find a store: HOMERSODA.COM/SODA/FROSTIE-ROOT-BEER/ C’MON HOME TO GREEN RIVER Nostalgia in a bottle, Green River was introduced in Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood in 1919, the year Congress passed the 18th Amendment establishing Prohibition. Bright green in color with an intense lime flavor, the beverage was second only to Coca-Cola as a soda fountain drink in the 1950s and ’60s. To find a store: GREENRIVERSODA.COM CALL THE DOCTOR Concocted in 1885 by pharmacist Charles Alderton at a Waco, TX, drugstore and soda fountain, the peppy flavor of Dr Pepper found a local following. The fever spread when it was introduced at the…

I HAD THE TIME OF MY LIFE PLAYING FOR ENTHUSIASTIC AUDIENCES ACROSS AMERICA. As a singer, I was delighted to be one of the first women recruited in 1974 to join what had been the all-male Singing Sergeants of the U.S. Air Force Band. I’d been performing with them for about a year when I overheard someone at a rehearsal say that a special military band formed for the U.S. bicentennial was auditioning singers. My ears perked up at this unique opportunity. For the first time, a single band unit would be made up of members from all five branches of the military, and it would perform in every state for the year leading up to the 1976 bicentennial celebrations in Washington, D.C. I auditioned for the Bicentennial Band and…

Growing up in Sycamore, Illinois, in the early 1950s was like growing up in Mayberry. The town’s charm was as much a function of the times as it was the place. Although the Korean War was underway, those sights and sounds didn’t invade our homes every night the way Vietnam did. As teenagers, we had scant experience with class distinctions, racial injustice, unemployment or poverty. Maybe we were naive living in the American heartland, sheltered from the harsh realities of the world. Regardless, it was a wonderful time to be a teenager, and Sycamore was the best place to live. As in most small towns, schools were the center of community activity. We respected our teachers and they cared about us. In those days, a call from the school to…

Whenever my mind wanders and someone offers “a penny for your thoughts,” I grin and think about a special place in Hilbert, Wisconsin. For those of us lucky enough to have grown up there in the 1960s and ’70s, we had only to bike up Main Street to find the best spot in town—Krautkramer General Store. It’s 1968 and I’m a carefree, freckle-faced 8-year-old. St. Mary’s is closed for the summer, and Mom has just brushed my hair into high pigtails and swabbed my sister Toby’s knee with Mercurochrome. She hands me a $5 bill and tells us to go to Krautkramer’s for groceries. I ask if we can keep the change. (You see, Krautkramer’s has the ultimate penny candy counter.) Mom nods and dries her hands on her apron.…

BEING A TEENAGER DURING World War II in Hebron, a small town in central Ohio, presented a special employment opportunity for me and my contemporaries. Everyone just a few years older than us either was inducted into the service or employed by one of the defense plants that had cropped up. As a result, jobs not previously available to kids were ours for the asking. Nearby was an amusement park called Buckeye Lake, also known as the Playground of Ohio. The park had a variety of rides, concessions, games and eateries, as well as a skating rink and two dance halls. The plethora of jobs there was amazing, and the laws covering child labor were much more relaxed than they are today. I began working in 1944, when I was…

Filmmakers love the stretch through the Mojave Desert, where the weather is consistent and the stark terrain ripe with drama. It plays major roles in The Grapes of Wrath (1940), Easy Rider (1969), Paris, Texas (1984), Thelma & Louise (1991), Cars (2006) and Little Miss Sunshine (2006). A plaque honoring humorist Will Rogers, for whom the highway was renamed in 1952, marks the west terminus at Ocean Avenue and Santa Monica Boulevard in Los Angeles, CA. There are at least 196 recorded versions of Bobby Troup’s “(Get Your Kicks on) Route 66.” The setting for a quirky 1987 cult movie about a German visitor, Bagdad Cafe caters to film buffs, tourists and hungry stragglers in Newberry Springs, CA.…

Burlap may not be the textile of choice for garments, but my mother wore it like a banner one day to teach our dad a lesson. In 1955, Dad was a machinist with a company in Coffeyville, Kansas, about 100 miles from our home in the Ozarks. He rented a room during the week and came home on weekends. The company published its own magazine, with the occasional short profile of an employee. The May issue that year featured my father and his many adventures—panning for gold in Canada, appearing in silent movies with the actress Mary Astor, operating a motel. Conspicuously absent was any mention of his family. Miffed, Mom quipped that “it all sounded like a bachelor on the loose,” then added ominously, “someday they’ll find out about…

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Nixon was gone from office. Vietnam was finally over. And the United States was ready for a party. Thank goodness 1976 was the year of the bicentennial! Other notable events? The Concorde supersonic airplane made the world a little smaller with its first commercial flight. Farrah Fawcett’s pin-up poster sold millions of copies. And kids everywhere rejoiced at the introduction of Everlasting Gobstoppers; Jelly Belly’s first eight flavors; Kenner’s Stretch Armstrong action figure; The Gong Show; and Slime, a clammy goo perfect for grossing out grown-ups. JAN. 18 Super Bowl X adds the perky group Up With People to the usual marching bands at halftime. JAN. 21 Concorde makes the world’s first supersonic flight with fare-paying customers. JAN. 23 Donny and Marie debuts on ABC. The teen siblings’ guests include…

1 Who was the U.S. president during the bicentennial? 2 What denomination of paper currency was issued in 1976? 3 Which president was posthumously promoted to the equivalent of six-star general so he can never be outranked? 4 The bicentennial culminated on July 4 to honor Congress’ 1776 adoption of what document? 5 What 6-ton birthday gift did Queen Elizabeth II present to the U.S. on July 6? 6 Who unfurled bicentennial and American flags from a 200-foot-high wire at Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia? 7 What singer, dressed in black, served as grand marshal of the American Bicentennial Parade in Washington, D.C.? 8 CBS ran 900 daily short history lessons from 1974 to 1976. What were they called? Check your answers on page 80.…

Three blocks from where I grew up in the small town of Taylorville, Illinois, were a park and a roller rink. Both were open seven days a week, and my friends and I would go skating on Saturday or Sunday afternoon. My favorite memory of the place is when I went to bed at night. In the summertime, I would lie down to rest with the windows and doors wide open. We didn’t have air conditioning in those days, so we’d hope for a breeze. The wonderful music of the skating rink would lull me to sleep.…

My hometown of Linton, Indiana, was a Norman Rockwell painting come to life in the early ’ 50s. We’d walk or ride our bikes to Daisy Cigar Store, where a cowbell on the door clanged as you came and went. The place smelled of old and new magazines and had red vinyl-covered stools at the soda fountain where they served the best black cows ever. We’d ride past Mrs. Abercrombie’s garden and smell her lilacs. Women would hang their sheets out to dry while old men would sit on their rockers or porch swings. What a life. I wish it could be that way again.…

Bob Snow and I married in 1945, shortly after we both were discharged from the military in Illinois. He had been an aircraft crew chief during the war and loved it, so he hoped to do the same kind of work in peacetime. His dream was to apply to the Flying Tigers, the country’s first cargo freight airline, which was in California. I was in love and would have gone to the moon with him, but California? That was beyond my imagination. It became very real in 1946 when we bought a Kozy Coach house trailer and outfitted it with birch cupboards, sink, water pump, refrigerator and space heater. Loaded, the thing had to weigh 1½ tons. “Now we can go to California!” Bob exclaimed. So we hitched the coach…

Setting out bright and early that day in February 1964, I was eager to begin my trip west. I had just graduated from Purdue University and looked forward to driving a new blue Ford Fairlane 500—my graduation present—from my home in Rockville, Indiana, to California, where I’d accepted a job. In St. Louis, Missouri, I lost sight of the other car I’d been traveling with while navigating the construction zone around the base of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial—now known more famously as the Gateway Arch—which wouldn’t be completed until the next year. I was relieved to be on my own; now I could drive without the constant worry of keeping another car in my rearview mirror. On day three, I got to Flagstaff, Arizona, about 5 p.m., checked into…

WE GREW UP AS ARMY BRATS George and I were born six minutes apart on April 3, 1925. I was the older sibling, but George always called me “little sis.” We even had our own language. George fought in both World War II and Korea, where his plane was shot down on June 13, 1952. I will miss him always. JOANNE PATTON THOMAS • San Diego, CA SALES FORCE TIMES THREE My sisters and I—from left, Gloria, me and Margaret—were born on Nov. 28, 1931. We grew up in Queens, New York, and moved to Long Island when we were 12. We attended a USO dance in 1950 to help sell war bonds. ROSE JOHNSON • Mountain Rest, SC BUMPER CROP My twin cousins, Art and Arliss Watson, lived with…

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