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Sesame Street
The preschool educational television program Sesame Street was first aired on public broadcasting television stations November 10, 1969. The show will reach its 46th season in 2016. The history of Sesame Street has overall reflected changing attitudes to developmental psychology, early childhood education and cultural diversity. -
Bellbottom Pants
Bell-bottoms are a style of trousers that become wider from the knees downward, forming a bell-like shape. bell-bottoms became fashionable for both men and women in Europe and North America. Often made of denim, they flared out from the bottom of the calf. -
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
The Mary Taylor Moore Show is an American television sitcom created by James L. Brooks and Allan Burns. The show aired on CBS from 1970 to 1977. The program was a television breakthrough because it had the first never-married, independent career woman as the central character. -
Floppy Disk
The floppy disk was a revolution in the computer industry when it was developed by the comapny, IBM in the late 1960s as a reliable and inexpensive method of loading microcode into their System/370 computer. However, Floppy disks remained a popular portable digital-storage medium for nearly 40 years after being introduced commercially in 1971. -
Rubik's Cube
Rubik's Cube is a 3-D combination puzzle invented in 1974 by Hungarian sculptor and professor of architecture Ernő Rubik. The classic Rubik's Cube has six faces that is covered by nine stickers, each of one of six solid colours: white, red, blue, orange, green, and yellow. -
Karen Silkwood
Karen Gay Silkwood (February 19, 1946 – November 13, 1974) was an American chemical technician and labor union activist. She is known for raising concerns about corporate practices related to health and safety of workers in a nuclear facility. -
Mood Rings
The mood ring was created in 1975 by two New York inventors, Josh Reynolds and Maris Ambats. The ring was created by bonded liquid crystals with quartz stones set into rings. They intially retailed for $45. Mood rings were a short lived rad, popular amoung young teen girls. -
Pet Rock
The inventor Gary Dahl created the pet rock. A rock would not need to be fed, walked, bathed, or groomed; and would not die, become sick, or be disobedient. Dahl said they were to be the perfect pets, and joked about it with his friends. It became extremely popular and was a huge fad. -
Saturday Night Fever
Saturday Night Fever is a 1977 American dance film directed by John Badham and starring John Travolta as a man named Tony Manero. Manero was a young man whose weekends are spent visiting a local Brooklyn dance spot. The movie made almost $280 million dollars. -
Grease: the movie
Grease is a 1978 American musical romantic comedy film directed by Randal Kleiser and produced by Paramount Pictures. The film stars John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Stockard Channing, and Jeff Conaway. -
Pete Rose
Pete Rose is an American former professional baseball player and manager. Rose played in Major League Baseball from 1963 to 1986, and managed from 1984 to 1989. Rose was able to negotiate a one million dollar per year contract, before Rose few baseball players made more than $100,000 per year.
