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Things to remember about 1970…

 The cost of a gallon of gas was $.36

 A pair of men’s leather shoes cost $6.97

 Richard Nixon was President

 The average house price was $4,975

 The cost of a postage stamp was $.06

 The Dow Jones was 631 in 1970. In January 2018, it broke 26,000

 The 1970 Song of the Year was “Bridge Over Troubled Water,”by Simon & Garfunkel

 The most popular 1970 TV Comedy was All in the Family

 The top college football team was the Nebraska Cornhuskers

 The number-one fiction bestseller was Love Story by Eric Segal

 The median household income was $8,734/yr

 MLB’s MVP was Johnny Bench of the Cincinnati Reds

 A cyclone in Bangladesh killed 500,000 people

 1970 popular films: Catch 22, Patton and Hello Dolly

 The minimum wage was $2.10/hr

 Average monthly rent was $140.00

 The Isle of Wight concert in August in Englanddrew 600,000 attendees