With the Vietnam War raging abroad, United States citizens were left to protest at home in 1973, (while getting stoned at music festivals.) Even a CIA backed coup in Chile couldn't stop youngsters from storming Watkins Glen, or Francis Ford Coppola from making Godfather II.
We've already laid on you 35 photos showing what the world looked like in 1973, but here are 30 more for good measure.
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Woman with a broken arm attends a concert at Watkins Glen, 1973.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger at night school in California, 1973.
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“The day I bought an old Mercedes, 1973.”
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Fidel Castro with Viet Cong, September 1973.
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A woman gets a tattoo in 1973.
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On September 11, 1973, a US-backed coup overthrew the president of Chile, Salvador Allende. In this image a street dog watches the Government Palace catch fire after being attacked from the air by fighter jets.
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Watkins Glen, New York, 1973.
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Iron Workers pose for a photo atop the North Tower of the World Trade Center, 1973.
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Lyndon Johnson, six days before his death, taken on January 16, 1973.
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In order to rectify his pending deportation order, John Lennon and Yoko Ono announced the creation of Nutopia, a conceptual country with no land, no borders, and no passports. They are pictured here waving blank tissues as flags of Nutopia. April 1st, 1973.
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1973 photo of Marvin Gaye, by Jim Britt.
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A man Charging an electric AMC Gremlin at a curbside charging station. Seattle, 1973.
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British Army fighting IRA terrorism. Belfast, Northern Ireland, 1973.
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On April 3, 1973, Motorola vice president John F. Mitchell shows how easily the company's newest product, the Dyna T-A-C Portable Radio Telephone System, can make phone calls.
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Kids at the St. Louis Six-Flags, 1973.
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The original lineup of KISS, 1973.
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Chicago’s South Side, 1973.
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Paparazzi photographer Ron Galella wearing a football helmet around Marlon Brando after Brando punched him and broke his jaw, 1973.
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Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin holding a dove that flew into his hand while on stage, 1973.
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Lineup outside a theatre to see The Exorcist, 1973.
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Alleged alien abductees Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker in 1973.
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“My Aunt and her date at their high school prom in 1973.”
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Musician Tom Waits, circa 1973.
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Al Pacino and Robert De Niro During the Filming of The Godfather Part II in 1973.
