Me and Mom
She wore Levi-Strauss jeans and a plain white T- shirt. It was the year 1978 when my mother was 18 years old, as I am now. She was a country girl, you might say and I am as prissy as one may get. She loved her horse named Pepsi like I love my car. She also loved the ranch like I love the mall. My mom and I grew up in different eras, and I really can't believe how different we are. I had the chance to interview her and find out how different she really was and what it was like being eighteen in the seventies. It was the year after Star Wars, during the age of experimentation, when flashing light and throbbing sounds of disco took over. Saturday Night Fever was the hottest movie around, and everyone was introduced to Garfield. It was also the time when Richard Nixon conceded and space exploration was at an all time high. Music, fashions, and entertainment of the seventies were very different from my adolescent years. Music in the seventies was really much different. Sounds of Harry Chaplin, Pink Floyd, and The Who were heard throughout the house so loudly that the china in the china cabinet would shake. Posters of Roger Daltry were on every square inch of my mot
Besides horse back-riding and hanging out at the ranch, she was a normal eighteen-year-old. Going out in the 70's really wasn't that different from today, except it was legal for my mother to drink. My mother and her friends would pile in the back of her friend's truck and head down to the bowling alley or the movies. It was the weekly ritual of every weekend night. She also lived near a beach. It was the hot spot then, just as it is now. Like my mother, I also hung out at the bowling ally and went to the moves and such. I always liked to be with my friends. My mother, on the other hand, spent most of her time with her boyfriend, who then became her husband, and later my dad. She spent a lot of her time at eighteen as a new wife. Fashion during my mother's time are somewhat like the fashions today because in the long run, we took their styles and dragged it into the twenty first century. Bell-Bottoms were the craze but we call them flared jeans now. Let's not forget about platform shoes; I have a couple of those in my closet! During those days every kid had a pair of Levi-Strauss jeans. My mom said that she owned about eight pairs. She was quick to say that she h
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