The July 4 Bicentennial Celebration Of The United States Of America....culminating on Saturday July 10 when Big Daddy tripped over a tent post and anointed the entire back of my dress with Schlitz! Luckily no one was hurt; however he did waste a perfectly good brew and I don't remember if there was a blanket in the car to protect the upholstery from the liquid effects of his clumsiness....
The July 15 Chowchilla California school bus kidnapping! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976_Chowchilla_kidnapping. There still exists discrepancy who was the "big hero": the now deceased bus driver or the oldest teenager. From Wikipedia: "By 2022 all [three] kidnappers had been paroled." To anyone unfamiliar with this case I encourage to you research it. You will learn exactly how to achieve the status of "stupid criminal."
My family leased a beach house in Ephraim, Door County, Wisconsin for at least a week. We rented a television in order to view the first portion of the 1976 Montreal Summer Olympics. These games began on July 17. Re the vacation itself I specifically recall nightmares about Lake Michigan snakes, the lack of kitchen space, and abundance of breakfast meats from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976_Chowchilla_kidnapping.
The property was pretty and located at the bottom of a hill from the main road; I could currently pick out the site but after nearly fifty years I have serious doubts about the building durability.
The July 29-30 Olympic Decathlon! GO, CAITLYN! Of course back then it was not "Caitlyn" but "Bruce!" I explain to young people that if there was a god of 1970s United States track and field it was William Bruce Jenner. He subsequently became a Wheaties man, divorced his first wife and within less than a week married second wife Linda Thompson (an ex girlfriend of Elvis Presley and forever a favorite friend of Lisa Presley) then obtained a second divorce, then in 1991 married the former wife of attorney Robert Kardashian. The entire Jenner/Kardashian clan then obtained a reality television show depicting the self described "Brady Bunch From Hell."
Jenner conceived four children during the first two marriages.
Bruce transitioned to Caitlyn following the demise of the third marriage.
And Caitlyn remains friendly with: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mykola_Avilov; the defending Olympic champion (from 1972) and the ultimate 1976 bronze medalist. I firmly believe Avilov did not personally desire to repeat the competition; very likely there was active Soviet coercion.
Avilov presented as extremely fatigued during the 1976 medal ceremony!
During the Door County vacation my maternal grandmother stayed at home to take care of the welsh terrier dog!
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