In+Their+Lifetime

In His Lifetime 1970-1990

 * Question**:Dad what did you used to do when you would come home from school?

Well when he would come home, he would clean his room. Then he would do his homework. He normally had not a lot of homework. Then he would let his mom know he was going outside. When he was outside he would ride his bike down the street to a friends house. The bikes they rode weren’t the ones we ride today. They looked a lot older. After he got some friends they would sometimes go to the corner store and get some candy and soda. Then they would go up to the park and hang out. They would play sports like basketball, football, and baseball. In the fall they would play football after it rained so they would get all muddy and dirty. Then they would go home and use the water hose to clean themselves off. Then they would go to the corner store again and grab some more snacks. By that time it would be dark and they would play hide seek. It would be so dark that they couldn’t see each other. By about 9:00 they would have to go home and eat dinner. So that’s what my dad did sometimes after school.

**In the U.S:**
In the 70's a Dodge Colt was $4,785. [|www.thepeoplehistory.com/]
 * In the 70's a car 8 Track Stereo CD Player was $38.99.
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 * In 1970 a new house cost $23,400.00 and by 1979 was $58,500.00.

**In The World:**
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 * The **oil crisis** in 1973 was caused when Arab members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)
 * After nearly 10 years of war in **Vietnam**, allied forces finally pulled out of Vietnam.
 * Another significant factor in the 70's was the growth in **womens rights** and womens role in society including the ability to decide when, where, and if they wished to have children. ( partly through the availably of the contraceptive pill )

**Popular Culture:**
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 * John Lennon is shot outside his New York apartment.
 * MTV (Music Television) is launched.
 * The Simpsons Is First Seen On Tracey Ullman Show April 5th 1987.

**Technolgy:**
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 * The 90's saw the growth of the World Wide Web and the Personal Computer PC, In 1991 when the WWW first became available for the public. It grew dramatically with users multiplying at the rate of about 3,500 times a year, by the year 2000 there were an estimated 295 million users on the Internet. This in turn caused a continuing revolution in communication and business.
 * The first use of card access Electronic Locks appear.
 * The biggest assistance for many of the technological advances in the 90's was the improvements in communication including Internet access, allowing a global sharing of information and Mobile Communications.