Are you old enough to remember real Dem's?

[MADem]

20. Your black mayor was an exception in public life.

Black and brown men were poorly represented in the public sphere--and women were paid less and rarely seen.

The exceptions that, by their rarity, proved the rule.

I remember plenty of dual-job families in the seventies, and a shitload of divorce, too. That was the beginning of the end with regard to "staying together for the sake of the children."

Not sure what you mean by "new shit." I don't recall a lot of technological leaps back then. A pocket calculator from Texas Instruments was all the rage for the low price of 110 dollars (about a third of a month's rent in an expensive city). For a quarter in a bar you could play a game of PONG.

It seemed to me that everyone got overly excited about Walkmans in the eighties, and then VCRs, but the seventies didn't seem like a Leaps and Bounds era. People were too busy wearing loud, hideous clothing and doing the hustle, and learning all about cocaine.