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ALLIGATOR-1974-1980-CONTENTS

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1974
Now that that’s over, let the party begin.
Please Mr. Nixon
Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown
((( UF LIFE )))

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When Journalism Was Cool
After Watergate and its Hollywood depiction, All The President’s Men, a generation of aspiring young investigative journalists was born. Many who wound up the world’s best started at the Alligator. Lou Grant.

1976 — All The President’s Men
1977 — Star Wars
Saturday Night Fever
Between The Lines
1978 — FM
Animal House
TGIF
Donna Summer
Commodores
1979 — The China Syndrome,
The Police @ Disney World,
Hip-Hop Happens

 

dave hogerty

sandy felsenthal

Caped Crusader

A dreary downpour forced Matt Tanoui, a Pennsylvania resident, to seek protection under the United States flag during a “No Nukes” rally last weekend in Washington D.C. The rally was organized by the Coalition for a Non-Nuclear World. More than 200 grass-roots organizations supporting the abolition of nuclear technology were represented.

80s — Space Shuttle, MTV
1980 — Fame

Rubik’s Cube, Post-it Note, Far Side, Jimmy Carter, Grain Embargo, USSR, GPS (January 6, 1980), Paul McCartney, Tokyo Arrest, Marijuana, ABSCAM, Pittsburg over Los Angeles (31-19),  Miracle On Ice (Winter Olympics), Voyager 1 (Janus) Saturn Moon, Moscow (Summer) Olympics Boycott, Kramer vs Kramer, All That Jazz, MARIEL BOATLIFT (April 15, 1980), Mothers Against Drunk Driving, Sunshine Skyway Bridge Collapse (May 9, 1980),    Magic Johnson (42 points)  Los Angeles Lakers (123–107) over Philadelphia 76ers, ARTHUR McDUFFIE MIAMI RIOTS (May 17), Mount St. Helens (May 18), Empire Strikes Back, Pac-Man, The Shining (Howard Appledorf), New York Islanders (Stanley Cup), International Court of Justice calls for release of Iranian Hostages, Indianapolis 500, Johnny Rutherford, Vernon Jordan  Shot, Recession Ends, CNN Launched (June 1, 1980), Ted Kennedy v. Jimmy Carter (backseat scuba gear), Nebraska Tornados, 1980 Heatwave, Wimbledon 1980 (Bjorn Borg d. John McEnroe), Jimmy Carter reinstates the draft in response to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

JULY 16 — RONALD REAGAN NOMINATION, Repblicans end long-standing support for the Equal Rights Amendment, Carter wins renomination, John Anderson (the independent),  1980 Damascus Titan missile explosion, Robert Redford Ordinary People, Janet Cooke, Washington Post, 8-year-0ld heroin addict fabrication, Philadelphia Phillies (4-2) over Kansas City Royals, The NASA space probe Voyager I makes its closest approach to Saturn, (within 77,000 miles of the planet’s cloud-tops and sends the first high resolution images of the world back to scientists on Earth.  MGM Las Vegas fire (Nov 21) and Dallas TV (Who Shot J.R.?), 
John Lennon is shot and killed by Mark David Chapman in front of The Dakota apartment building in New York City.

Iran Iraq War …

TOM PETTY
[HOMECOMING ’81]

Movies
THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW*
Movie With No End

Empire Strikes Back

Raiders of the Lost Arc