President: Jimmy Carter
Vice President: Walter Mondale
Median Household Income: $15,064
Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.15

Popular Musicians and Songs

• Bee Gees with ” Night Fever and Stayin Alive “
• Paul McCartney and Wings
• John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John
• Rolling Stones
• Commodores with ” Three Times a Lady “
• Doobie Brothers
• Steely Dan
• Hall and Oates
• James Taylor
• Loggins and Messina

From the Billboard Top 100

• Shadow Dancing – Andy Gibb
•  Night Fever – Bee Gees
•  You Light Up My Life – Debby Boone
•  Stayin’ Alive – Bee Gees
•  Kiss You All Over – Exile

There was no cable television, home computer, or cell phone. There was also no CD players or CD’s. The Walkman was the latest innovation.

Popular TV Programs

• Happy Days
• Little House on the Prairie
• The Rockford Files
• Good Morning America
• Saturday Night Live
• Wheel of Fortune
• Charlie’s Angels
• Quincy, M.E.
• The Muppet Show
• CHiPs
• The Love Boat
• Three’s Company
• All in the Family

Cast of Saturday Night Live: John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Gilda Radner, Garrett Morris, Jane Curtin, Laraine Newman, Bill Murray, and Don Novello with the Paul Shaffer Orchestra.

Popular Films

• Grease
• Saturday Night Fever
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind
• National Lampoon’s Animal House
• Jaws 2
• Heaven Can Wait
• Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
• Revenge of the Pink Panther
• The Deer Hunter

Awards

• Annie Hall wins Best Picture Oscar.
• Richard Dreyfuss wins Best Actor Oscar.
• Diane Keaton wins Best Actress Oscar.
• You Light Up My Life wins Best Song Oscar.
• Record of the Year is Hotel California by The Eagles.
• Album of the Year is Rumours by Fleetwood Mac.

Sports

• The NY Yankees win The World Series.
• The Dallas Cowboys win Superbowl XII.
• The Washington Bullets win the NBA Championship.
• The Montreal Canadiens win the Stanley Cup.
• Pete Rose gets 3,000th hit.
• Al Unser wins the Indy 500.
• Gary Player wins the Masters.

In The News

• Harvey Milk and San Francisco Mayor George Moscone are murdered.
• The Susan B. Anthony Dollar is issued.
• John Wayne Gacey is arrested.
• The first computer bulletin board is created in Chicago, Il.
• Roman Polanski skips bail.
• The Cult leader Jim Jones instructed 400 members of his church, “People’s Temple”, to commit suicide in Guyana.
• Pope Paul VI dies at age 80
• The comic strip character, Garfield, first appeared.

And  in 1978, a handsome young boy named Clayton was born.

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