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Man smoking at night, woman getting on bus, women driving and at gas station, girls at roller rink 1970s.
View of a dark, secluded street at night. A soldier holds a lighted cigarette, with cigarette butts littered on the ground. Close up car headlight turning off. Woman's feet stepping out of car. Young female sergeant walks alone in secluded street at night. Soldier throws cigarette butt on the ground at night. Bus pulling up to bus stop in Alabama. Young woman wearing 1970s fashions, with blue boho head scarf steps onto bus as doors open. Blond woman holding groceries unlocks car door. Young woman sitting in driver’s seat as gas station attendant at Gulf gas station cleans windshield of her sports car. Car drives down street at night while 1969 Mustang GT car pulls away. African American girl and her friend in pigtails approaches the African American girl’s father in a roller skating rink. The African American girl tells her father that her friend needs a ride home. Man looking through binoculars at night. Views of several apartment windows at night with curtains drawn. Man putting down binoculars and closing curtains at night. A soldier greets a young female sergeant. Female sergeant asks the soldier to hold her handbag for her while she plays billiards with them. After the soldier asks if it was an order, the female sergeant hands over her handbag to him, explaining “… it’s called being a good sport.”
1970s footage of Wright brothers National Memorial and Wright Brothers museum; early 1900s view of Wright flyer flight
A hand reaching for a green, vintage 1970 corded Princess Telephone and dialing a number. View of the Wright brothers National Memorial in North Carolina. Wilbur Wright and Orville Wright written on the building. The Wright Brother's museum. View of a Wright flyer aircraft flight from roughly 1908. More views from the museum: Sign board under pole reads 'End of 4th Flight, time Distance and pilot: Wilbur'.
Description of American demographics in 1970 emphasizing diversity of backgrounds and cultures
Animated map assembles sections of the United States of America reflecting various kinds of inhabitants. A woman of Native American Indian origins weaves a straw hat as a young boy plays nearby. Sign outside a building identifying the "Slovak Political Benefial Assn." Other signs on seen on different buildings include: "Polish Army Veterans Association of America;" "Ukrainian American Youth Association;" and "Germantown Hospital." A brass plate on a building reading: "English-Speaking Union." Asian-American school girls, and a Japanese-American man with a boy. View of a wood carving in ancient African style. A street scene showing many Hispanic Americans, and commercial signs in Spanish. A group of new American citizens reciting oath at a naturalization ceremony, each receiving a small American flag. Some appear to be of Asian or South Asian descent, including possibly Vietnamese. Animated map shown again, indicating the geographical distribution of Americans in the U.S. First it shows areas where citizens live near water, either the oceans, Gulf of Mexico, or the Great Lakes. Montage of urban scenes showing some of the cities where most Americans live. The Massachusetts State House in Boston. New York City street scene with the Empire State Building in background. City Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Capitol in Washington, DC
The U.S. Bureau of the Census processing data for the 1970 decennial census.
Posters in Japanese and Spanish, illustrating efforts by U.S. Bureau of the Census, to reach all Americans. Such a non-English sign in a barbershop window. Census enumerators conversing in a District Field Office. A woman checking responses against a master list of residents. Staff members discuss individual cases. Newspaper headlines reporting preliminary census results for their respective localities. Census staff making corrections after preliminary results are disclosed. A forklift moving a stack of census documents at the central processing office in Jeffersonville, Indiana. View inside warehouse at Jeffersonville, containing 75 carloads of census questionnaires stacked in bins. Staff in the Central Processing office using special machinery to microfilm the paper forms. View of census workers microfilming in near darkness. Woman at Census Headquarters, with machine called "Fosdic" standing for Film Optical Sensing Device for Imput to Computer. The microfilm is seen being fed into a reader that converts citizens marks on questionnaires into computer-storable (digital) form. View of microfiche census record containing citizens marks. Mailman delivering letters of inquiry to the Census Bureau. census worker looking up information in response to inquiry.
Scenes illustrating consumer prices and worker earnings, as tracked by Census Bureau in United States in early 1970s
U.S. Public Health Service Outpatient Clinic. An ambulance entering a yard. Businesses advertising their prices with price posters in shop and store windows, including: A radio and television store; A drycleaner and laundry; Furniture store; Carpet store; mattress store, grocer; butcher; and dairy. Workers carrying their earnings statements. Exterior view of woman outside post office after she collects retirement income check from U.S. Post office, at Brooklandville, Maryland, 21022. A telephone booth in front of the Post office.
Interstate Highways in United States; Recreation and RV vacations in the 1970s; Grand Ole Opry House
An RV motor home tows a vehicle with bikes loaded onto it. Nettles Island, Florida. Children play on swings and play area, and enjoy horseback riding. Children on a water slide. Signs of campgrounds for motor homes and recreation vehicles. A woman sings and plays a guitar in a bus as it moves on a highway. The bus driver steering. A gasoline tanker truck and cars on a highway. RV camper arrives at Ryman Auditorium, at 116 5th Avenue North, in Nashville, Tennessee, home of the Grand Ole Opry House. Woman exits the RV camper and walks into the building. A sign outside reads "WSM Grand Ole Opry." People lined up outside the building to get tickets or tour. An African American man walks by the people in line on the sidewalk.