Where Were You In 1976?

Me

[bjcoop]

It was Carter Vs. Ford, so where were you during the course of that election and when Carter claimed his victory(unfortunately). It was a pretty close race.

[Missouri]

I was 18 and voted for Ford. Carter was promising the moon and I figured nothing is that easy. I remember going to bed not knowing who won. The next morning, we had heard Ohio went for Carter putting him over the top in a close election. It did really bother me but I was still pretty young and naive.

[macbee]

Finishing college and voting for Ford. I was MUCH more liberal than I am now, but Carter just seemed like he was out of his league at the national level. Sadly, my instincts were correct.

[Lancey Howard]

I had a tooth pulled and was in some very serious pain.
So I went to the Oxford Valley Mall (Bucks County, Pennsylvania) in the morning to see a campaign appearance by President Ford, and then off to Englishtown, New Jersey to see an outdoor concert with the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, the New Riders of the Purple Sage, and the Grateful Dead. All in all, a busy day in 1976.

[Fred Nerks]

BRILLIANT! CAN YOU HEAR ME CHEERING ALL THE WAY FROM AUSTRALIA?

[Kirkwood]

"Actually, what I'm really curious about is what % of current active FReepers were among the collection of nitwits that voted for Perot in 1992."

I was never that stupid.

[Mjaye]

did an addition on a beer distributer in Van Nuys and they told my men to take all the Billy Beer they wanted. My Superintendant brought a few cases into the office and after one can we put the rest in the next load to the dump! <<<

It was truly awful, wasn't it? But I heard that it was valuable as a collectable at some point after Carter left office.

[Nowhere Man]

I was boarding the Freedom Train. Anyone remember that going around the country?

Wasn't the Freedom Train made up of two separate trains, the engines were painted in red, white and blue and one was called "1776" and the other was "1976."

[Koblenz]

I was six, and have no recollection of the election. We lived in Wisconsin. I do remember the 1980 election, by which time I was ten and living in Virginia. I remember a year or so before the elction, my dad said he had gone to a speech that day, and that the speaker was Ronald Reagan. I asked who that was, and my dad said he would be the next president, hopefully.

In 1980, my dad was the local precinct captain for the Reagan campaign. We didn't have school that day, so I went with my dad to the polls. I was there when they opened the ballot machines up and read off the counter. My dad was expecting a close race, but RR got about 75% of the votes in each of the three machines. My dad raced home with the news and called the state HQ, and they said that the results were going overwhelmingly for Ron. Ron got 53%, Jimmy got 40% and John Anderson and other turkeys got the rest.

[Professional Engineer]

Sixth grade.

[ezo4]

I hate these things ...Im getting old

[Petruchio]

USAF, Sheppard AFB in Texas.

[LibertarianInExile]

You were potty training when you were 11? Geez, your family diaper bill musta been a bear!

:)

[wrbones]

That stuff was nasty!

[GeronL]

grandma would NOT launder his white tank shirts from wet T shirt contests, for moral reasons.

good for her

[Twinkie]

Hey! THAT was the birthday party I went to that time and gave a kid that spirit of '76 shirt and he said, "Thank you I really like the shirt!" - Now I know the truth!!

[clamper1797]

On an undercover mission in Olongapo

Probably at New Jolos

[ProudVet77]

No more paperboys anymore. You have to be over 18. The Glob led the rest of them to get rid of paperboys as it was child labor. So now kids mug each other instead.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

I worked at Harrah's Lake Tahoe in the slot department. I started at $24/shift and went up to something like $40/shift by the summer of '77 when I was a floor supervisor.

Then I bugged out and went on to waste a few more years before I met my wife of 23 years.

[Spyder]

Hmmmm. I'd only been married 2 months and had been in Michigan for the summer preparing. I'm not sure I voted since it was my first election, was 20 years old, a student in California but "from" Michigan, and with a new name change. I wasn't sure yet if I wanted to give up my dual Canadian citizenship either. I definitely voted the next election (1980) and for Reagan.

[RadioAstronomer]

BTW, one of my more prized possessions is a picture of my grandmother sitting with President Nixon on Air force One.