1974 Flickback Mini-Book: Great Birthday Gift or Anniversary Gift Hardcover – 2011

1974 Flickback Mini-Book: Great Birthday Gift or Anniversary Gift Hardcover – 2011

Take a trip down memory lane with this fun and factual blast from the past! Our new, full-color minibook comes packed with a year’s worth of rare pictures, stories and ads! Thrill to the movies, music, TV & radio, headline news, people, sports, fads and events that changed our lives forever. 64 pages, hardcover 4 1/4" x 6 1/4" The decade of the 1970's saw an end to the War in Vietnam, while Richard Nixon resigned from Presidential office amidst the Watergate scandal. Oil embargoes lead to the oil crisis, resulting in gas shortages and a spike in the price of oil. Jimmy Carter is elected President in 1976, and is instrumental in the signing of the Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty, signed by Egyptian President Anwar El Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin. Technology leaps ahead with the birth of the microprocessor, floppy disks, video games, microwave ovens, and VCR's. Green shag carpet, bright floral wallpaper, and beaded curtains are all home décor staples. Disco emerges as a popular music genre, and bell bottoms and wide-collared shirts are part of the dress code for dance floors lit by disco balls. Star Wars is the biggest thing at the box office, and Steven Spielberg's career takes off when he directs Jaws. Swimmer Mark Spitz sets seven World Records and wins seven gold medals at the 1972 Summer Olympics. Through and through, the seventies was a decade full of people, places, and events that changed the course of human history forever.