1970
By LindaOH
@LindaOHio (194043)
United States
July 10, 2025 12:35am CST
Elvis visits President Nixon in the White House.
The Beatles break up.
The highest-grossing film of the year is Love Story
M*A*S*H receives a Golden Globe for Best Musical or Comedy.
What was on TV? -- The Beverly Hillbillies, The Brady Bunch, The Ed Sullivan Show, American Bandstand, Captain Kangaroo, The Johnny Cash Show, The Mary Tyler Moore Show
Gas $.36 per gallon
New house $23,400
Dozen eggs $.60
Movie ticket $1.50
Postage stamp $.06 - and we received good service
Tuition at Harvard $2,600 per year - Today it's close to $60,000, not including room and board
Color TV $400.00 - Very expensive
Minimum wage $1.60
This is the year I was married.
Photo Credit: Pixabay
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12 responses
@LindaOHio (194043)
• United States
15h
I find the tuition at Harvard to be obscene today. No school should charge that much.
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@LadyDuck (478541)
• Italy
14h
@LindaOHio Colleges and Universities are not expensive in Europe. Europe offers plenty of affordable study options for international students.
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@porwest (102970)
• United States
8h
@LindaOHio At some point student loans became too easy to get and too widely offered, and wherever there's money to grab that someone doesn't have to work a part time job to get and pay the tuition...they start grabbing for whatever money will come from somewhere else.
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@cherigucchi (15236)
• Philippines
14h
I was born in the 70s and not quite familiar with how life was back then
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@rebelann (114269)
• El Paso, Texas
5h
I turned 21 in August of that year, I was in tech school but rode a bus to get there, I hadn't got my first car yet.
I remember some of that. I think the minimum wage here was $1, El Paso was always somewhat cheaper than eastern cities which is why so many military men retired here with their families back then.
@psanasangma (7859)
• India
9h
I am not even born yet and I am glad to learn how expensive things are even back then
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@RasmaSandra (86782)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
1h
The 70s were my high school years and my friends and I had a ball, Loved David Cassidy enjoyed hanging out at a pizza place and life was good, What reminds me of it all is Glory Days by Bruce Springsteen
@MommyOfEli2013 (85183)
• Rupert, Idaho
2h
The TV could be more expensive than it is today, depending what size and how fancy you want. Our TV was around $100 for a 32 inch and that was just last year.
@snowy22315 (192506)
• United States
10h
NY grandparents had a bug color TV in the 60's. They must have paid a fortune for it. They loved watching Bonanza one if the first colorized TV shows on it.
@FourWalls (76487)
• United States
7h
Then they canceled The Beverly Hillbillies, along with Gomer Pyle and Green Acres and Petticoat Junction and Hee Haw in what became known as “the rural purge.” 
Cash’s show was interesting. I never knew when I’d get to watch all of it, because he’d have Merle Haggard on one week and CCR on the next, and daddy didn’t allow no rock and roll playin’ ‘round the house.
Cash’s show was interesting. I never knew when I’d get to watch all of it, because he’d have Merle Haggard on one week and CCR on the next, and daddy didn’t allow no rock and roll playin’ ‘round the house.
@Marilynda1225 (85253)
• United States
7h
It really boggles my mind when I see the prices from back then compared to what they are now.
@LooeyVille (64)
• United States
10h
I was only 5 in 1970 but I remember all of those movies, singers, and tv shows.
