THE YEAR IS 1974

 

Average Home Price was $38,000; Monthly Rent was $150

A loaf of bread was .35 cents and a pound of bacon cost $1.32

On April 8, Hank Aaron broke Babe Ruth's home run record while playing for the Atlanta Braves

Stephen King released his first novel, "Carrie"

Skittles "rainbow of fruit flavors" were debuted in 1974

Rubik's Cube was Invented

1st Class Postage raised to 10 cents

 

FASHION TRENDS

Bellbottoms - Platform Shoes - Tie-Dye Shirts - Feathered Hair and the Afro - Military/Safari Look - Circular Sunglasses - Hot Pants - Puka Shell and Love Beads 

 

MOVIES / TV

The Godfather Part II, Chinatown, Mel Brooks' Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein, Towering Inferno, Jaws

"Happy Days" begins an 11-year run on ABC

 

 

MUSIC

The Way We Were - Barbra Streisand

Come and Get Your Love - Redbone

Dancing Machine - Jackson 5

 

SPORTS

Super Bowl VIII at Rice Stadium, Houston. Miami Dolphins beat Minnesota Vikings 24-7

Daytona 500 - Richard Petty was first driver to win back-to-back titles at Daytona

 

POLITICS AND NEWS

Watergate Scandal 

Three US astronauts return to Earth after 85 days in the US Space Station, Skylab

Physicist Stephen Hawking publishes his landmark paper "Black hole explosions"