Today, September 18, 1973 marks my entry into the world. I’m writing this entry a little late (by 28 years) and a lot has changed since this time. A little about 1973, courtesy of the dMarie.com Time Capsule:
Some Top Songs:
“Let’s Get It On” by Marvin Gaye
“Bad, Bad Leroy Brown” by Jim Croce
“Killing Me Softly With His Song” by Roberta Flack
President: Richard M. Nixon
Vice President: Gerald Ford
Academy Award Winners:
Best Actor: Jack Lemmon in “Save the Tiger”
Best Actress: Glenda Jackson in “A Touch of Class”
Best Picture: The Sting
I was born on the same day as Claudette Colbert (1905), Greta Garbo (1905), Fred Willard (1939) and Dee Dee Ramone (1951). If you were to tune into your telly at this time you might have found The Brady Bunch in it’s second to last season, The Odd Couple, The Waltons, M*A*S*H and Gunsmoke. Bread was $0.27 a loaf, gas was $0.39 a gallon and the average car cost $4,052 with houses going for an average of $35,500.
The US was in Vietnam, stamps were $0.08, the Dow Jones was at 851, minimum wage was $1.60/hr and the average yearly income was $13,622.
The hot new toys, just hitting store shelves at the time? Boggle, Pong, Shrinky Dinks and Dungeons and Dragons. East and West Germany were admitted to the UN the day I was born, which was a Tuesday. My how things have changed.
I don’t remember anything about this day, but I expect that my parents (the then youthful 22 year old Kevin Floyd Sutter and his 20 year old wife Yvonne Marie (Brunette) Sutter) probably do. The went into the hospital and had a baby boy, their second after Rhett was born the previous year in July. They named him Ryan Kevin Sutter and I’ve been trying to figure things out ever since. So, anyhow… “Hello World”.
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