Toys of the 70s

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Toys of the 70s
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Fun Fads

• Smiley Faces
• These were seen everywhere from shirts to bumper
  stickers.

• Mood Rings
• The idea behind a mood ring was simple You wore
  it on your finger and the color of the stone
  would reflect the state of your emotions.  And in
  1975 it only cost 19.95 to figure out how you
  were feeling . . .

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Fun Fads

• Lave Lamps were also popular in the 70s.

• Pet Rocks were a 1975 fad originated in
  California by salesman, Gary Dahl. They spread
  like wildfire to the rest of the country. Here
  was a pet that took no care and still gave its
  owner a few moments of pleasure.

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• George Lucas and the merchandizing deal with 20th
  Century Fox
• The Wilhelm
• Star Wars Thesis on toys?!

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Electronic Games

• Pong The game that started it all.  Although it
  wasn't the first coin-op video game, it was the
  first video game success story.  Pong is
  essentially a simple game of Tennis or Ping
  Pong.  Each player has a bat that is controlled
  by a paddle,  a ball bounces around the court,
  and you must strike the ball with your bat, and
  send the ball off towards the opposing player. 

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Electronic Games

• In 1977, Mattel put out Football 1. These were
  pre-Gameboy hand-held games that basically let
  the player use direction keys to run his blinking
  red blip through a maze of defensive blips. A
  kickoff would result in a chirping version of the
  "Charge!" melody.

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Atari
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70s Toys

• Other Toys

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Andy Warhol

• Andy Warhol was born Andrew Warhola in
  Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1928. In 1945 he
  entered the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now
  Carnegie Mellon University) where he majored in
  pictorial design. Upon graduation, Warhol moved
  to New York where he found steady work as a
  commercial artist. He worked as an illustrator
  for several magazines including Vogue, Harper's
  Bazaar and The New Yorker and did advertising and
  window displays for retail stores such as Bonwit
  Teller and I. Miller. Prophetically, his first
  assignment was for Glamour magazine for an
  article titled "Success is a Job in New York."
• At the start of the 1970s, Warhol began
  publishing Interview magazine and renewed his
  focus on painting. Works created in this decade
  include Maos, Skulls, Hammer and Sickles, Torsos
  and Shadows and many commissioned portraits.
  Warhol also published The Philosophy of Andy
  Warhol (from A to B and Back Again). Firmly
  established as a major 20th-century artist and
  international celebrity, Warhol exhibited his
  work extensively in museums and galleries around
  the world.

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Michael Jack Schmidt

• Mike Schmidt was born on Tuesday, September 27,
  1949, and began his Major League baseball career
  on September 12, 1972, with the Philadelphia
  Phillies. The 23 year-old played for 18 seasons
  on one team and ended his big league playing
  career in 1989.
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Bill Gates

• In 1973, Gates entered Harvard University as a
  freshman, where he lived down the hall from Steve
  Ballmer, now Microsoft's chief executive officer.
  While at Harvard, Gates developed a version of
  the programming language BASIC for the first
  microcomputer - the MITS Altair.
• In his junior year, Gates left Harvard to devote
  his energies to Microsoft, a company he had begun
  in 1975 with his childhood friend Paul Allen.
  Guided by a belief that the computer would be a
  valuable tool on every office desktop and in
  every home, they began developing software for
  personal computers. Gates' foresight and his
  vision for personal computing have been central
  to the success of Microsoft and the software
  industry.