Between Watergate, the Vietnam War and Portugal's Carnation Revolution, 1974 was a busy year for adults. But for kids, it was a year to grab a bike, and ride to your town's 7-Eleven with your friends.
We've already shown you plenty of photos of what life was likein 1974, but just because we can, here are 24 more.
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Picketing the company ticket counter at an L.A. Airport to protest a recent firing of a stewardess who was four pounds overweight, October 21, 1974.
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“My grandmother took my mother to national parks over the course of a few months, just the two of them.” 1974.
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The St. Petersburg Shuffleboard and Duplicate Bridge Club, St Petersburg, Florida, 1974. Photo by Neal Slavin.
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In Matteson, Illinois, 1974.
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This couple is onboard Amtrak's Lone Star as it crosses over into Oklahoma.
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Family trip across Canada in 1974.
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Ed Austin with some of his 20 children in Fireco, West Virginia, near Beckley, April 1974.
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Winning a new Gibson dishwasher at the company's 1st annual employee & family picnic near Jasper, Tennessee, August 1974.
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Motor Trend’s 1974 Car of the Year. Don Sanderson Ford, Glendale AZ.
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With kids living their best lives.
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The last day of high school, Los Alamitos High School, California, 1974.
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At a Bar in Philadelphia. 1974.
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At Northeast High School in Philadelphia, 1974.
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Keeping an eye on the flooded streets of Ontario, Canada in 1974.
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On the Amtrak train between Chicago and Glacier Park, Montana, June 1974.
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At a picnic table outside Casey's Caboose, a fast food restaurant in Montgomery, Alabama, June 1974.
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“I’ll have a pack of Salems please.”
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The Brookside Mine company town, Kentucky, 1974.
