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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsWho's old enough to remember bicentennial fire hydrants?
When I was a kid this seemed perfectly normal.I mean, who would even think to start something like this?
Rhiannon12866
(206,016 posts)They look perfectly normal to me, too! Seeing this gave me a bicentennial moment!
surrealAmerican
(11,364 posts)Where I grew up they painted them to look like minute men, but without anything like that level of detail.
NV Whino
(20,886 posts)But I saw a lot of straight red, white and blue ones.
MissMillie
(38,580 posts)I mean, er...... no. I don't remember
I'm old enough to remember this:
orleans
(34,073 posts)i admit i went a couple times, had a problem getting into disco suburbia--gay discos in the city were far better & a year later i was hitting the punk clubs in the city
Baitball Blogger
(46,757 posts)discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,482 posts)...who decided my senior yearbook should change from the traditional and dignified school colors using high grade synthetic padded leather to some low grade plastic in red, white and the sickest shade of baby blue known to man.
krispos42
(49,445 posts)British, to be specific.
progressoid
(49,999 posts)Honestly, I forgot that was a thing.
shenmue
(38,506 posts)They may have had them where I was, but my memory's a little hazy.
AwakeAtLast
(14,133 posts)I was six and thought they were cool!
Dyedinthewoolliberal
(15,589 posts)is asking my wife to pull over so I can puke my guts out after a party............
PasadenaTrudy
(3,998 posts)KMOD
(7,906 posts)but I do remember a lot of red, white and blue ones.
orleans
(34,073 posts)maybe our town never bothered with that
or maybe i was too self-involved to notice (those 70s years were a busy time! lots of growing up, hanging out, getting high, driving around, etc etc)
Rhythm
(5,435 posts)I was 10 that year, and we went back-and-forth between my home in Charlotte and my grandparents' home in Hampton VA...
Emporia did interesting things... each block would alternately be Continental soldiers or Redcoats!
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)There was a hell of a lot of red, white & blue that year.
Archae
(46,345 posts)But I do remember all the other Bicentennial hucksterism going on.
On TV an ad for a snack food had two Revolutionary War drummers, and the jingle went "They've got French Fried flavor, and Yankee Doodle crunch."
Oh, it was ridiculous, a local diner had a "Pie-Centennial."
I was in High School at the time, and for History class I did a presentation about the facts of the Bicentennial, including how some of the Founding Fathers hated each other.
Got an A on the assignment!