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35 True Photos of What the World Looked Like in 1979

While the Iranian Islamic Revolution was rocking the middle east, Arnold Schwarzenegger was busy making his muscles as large as possible.

By Daniel Bonfiglio

Published 8 months ago in Wow

While the Iranian Islamic Revolution rocked the middle east, Francis Ford Coppola shot Apocalypse Now, and Arnold Schwarzenegger was busy making his muscles as large as possible. The year is 1979, and life is good... at least in the United States. 

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    New York City, 1979.

    35 True Photos of What the World Looked Like in 1979

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    The Specials in 1979.

    35 True Photos of What the World Looked Like in 1979

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    Aunties from NY in South Beach Miami, 1979.

    35 True Photos of What the World Looked Like in 1979

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    Rhodesian woman stands next to a sedan, she has a teeshirt saying: "I’m staying, how about you", Rhodesia, c. 1979.

    35 True Photos of What the World Looked Like in 1979

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    Charlie and Martin Sheen on the set of “Apocalypse Now,” 1979.

    35 True Photos of What the World Looked Like in 1979

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    1979 Minnesota football.

    35 True Photos of What the World Looked Like in 1979

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    “Piggyback with plastic bags on head while being hit with dead fish,” 1979.

    35 True Photos of What the World Looked Like in 1979

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    Punk girls in London, 1979.

    35 True Photos of What the World Looked Like in 1979

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    Leftist woman handing out anti-shah manifesto. Tehran, Iran, 1979.

    35 True Photos of What the World Looked Like in 1979

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    Skinheads march in Southend, UK, August 1979.

    35 True Photos of What the World Looked Like in 1979

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    Easter 1979.

    35 True Photos of What the World Looked Like in 1979

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    Two kids at a house party, 1979.

    35 True Photos of What the World Looked Like in 1979

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    Eddie Van Halen, 1979.

    35 True Photos of What the World Looked Like in 1979

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    Sigourney Weaver, 1979.

    35 True Photos of What the World Looked Like in 1979

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    The blizzard of 1979, at the intersection of Surf and Broadway.

    35 True Photos of What the World Looked Like in 1979

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    People enjoying the beach in Paignton, England, 1979.

    35 True Photos of What the World Looked Like in 1979

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    Halloween, circa 1979.

    35 True Photos of What the World Looked Like in 1979

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    NYC, 1979. Photo by Bruce Gilden.

    35 True Photos of What the World Looked Like in 1979

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    7-Eleven, Rues Lane and Summerhill Road in East Brunswick, New Jersey, circa August 1979.

    35 True Photos of What the World Looked Like in 1979

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    An Arnold Schwarzenegger yacht party, 1979.

    35 True Photos of What the World Looked Like in 1979

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    Central Park, 1979. Photo by Jamie Kalikow.

    35 True Photos of What the World Looked Like in 1979

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    The Carter administration installed 32 panels on the White House designed to harvest the sun's rays and use them to heat water in 1979.

    35 True Photos of What the World Looked Like in 1979

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    Meryl Streep at 30 years old in 1979.

    35 True Photos of What the World Looked Like in 1979

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    The Misfits, 1979.

    35 True Photos of What the World Looked Like in 1979

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    In 1979 the Skylab space station was meant to fall harmlessly to Earth in the Ocean. Instead it crashed near Esperance in Western Australia. The US State Department received a $400 fine for littering.

    35 True Photos of What the World Looked Like in 1979

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    Jason Alexander, left, as an acting student at Boston University, 1979.

    35 True Photos of What the World Looked Like in 1979

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    Jenny Agutter, 1979.

    35 True Photos of What the World Looked Like in 1979

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    35 True Photos of What the World Looked Like in 1979

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    Former AC/DC frontman Bon Scott, 1979.

    35 True Photos of What the World Looked Like in 1979

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    Carrie Fisher on a train to Norway to film parts of “The Empire Strikes Back” in 1979.

    35 True Photos of What the World Looked Like in 1979

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    Iranian-Marxist woman outside of US embassy after forced takeover, 1979.

    35 True Photos of What the World Looked Like in 1979

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    Bodybuilders Arnold Schwarzenegger and Lisa Lyon, 1979.

    35 True Photos of What the World Looked Like in 1979

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    The Talking Heads, 1979.

    35 True Photos of What the World Looked Like in 1979

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    Couple dancing in New York City, 1979.

    35 True Photos of What the World Looked Like in 1979

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    “My parents said they had too much Thanksgiving turkey, 1979.”

    35 True Photos of What the World Looked Like in 1979

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