1970

US population is 293,200,000 Thirty-seven residences are destroyed and 12 damaged by a raging fire above the Hotel Claremont First Earth Day - centered in San Francisco Gas costs $0.40, milk $1.32, and bread $0.24

Long hair holdover from the sixties...

...seems to have vanished by Greg's Bar Mitzvah

1971

Cigarette advertisements banned on TV Dallas Cowboys beat SF '49ers 17-10 in NFC championship game Two Standard Oil Co. tankers collide in zero-visibility fog just outside the Golden Gate Bridge - 1.9 million gallons of oil spill into the Bay. Congressional deadlock over attempts to force U.S. withdrawal from Indochina. San Francisco voters re-elect Mayor Alioto,

Tamarack, the World's Greatest Dog, joins the family.

Thanksgiving

1972

China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor NASA announces development of space shuttle The City's first-ever Gay Parade BART opens President Nixon re-elected in landslide Snow powders The City

A kinder, gentler vehicle. Prelude.

...and the proud skipper.

Wendy, Laurie, Leslie Jann, Greg

1973

The last American forces pull out of South Vietnam San Francisco Symphony and guest pianist Andre Watts smashing successes in Leningrad Vice President Spiro T. Agnew resigns and pleads nolo contendere to charge of income tax evasion Reagan signs bill lowering state speed limit to 55 mph

On Location in Cozumel

1974

Nixon refuses to hand over tapes subpoenaed by Watergate Committee Gold hits record $121.25 an ounce in London Even day / Odd day gas rationing goes into effect

Newspaper heiress kidnaped: Patricia Hearst is in the hands of the Symbionese Liberation Army, according to a letter delivered to Berkeley radio station KPFA.

1975

Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Mitchell & Mardian convicted of Watergate crime Cesar Chavez leads more than 10,000 United Farm Workers sympathizers to organize the union Shot Fired At President Ford as he leaves St. Francis Hotel Moscone elected mayor by narrow margin

Prelude takes us to Baja. Greg administers a gamaglobulin injection...

... the closest Midge and Syl will ever come to "My son's a Doctah..."

1976

One word: Bicentennial! MacNeil-Lehrer Report premieres on PBS Patricia Hearst is sentenced to 25 years in prison Channel 5 hires KCBS radio personality Dave McElhatton

Sally Stanford, onetime San Francisco madam, gave up the world's oldest profession in 1948. In 1972, she was elected to the Sausalito City Council and in 1976 she was elected mayor.

Sisters

The Family Wedding Band

1977

Apple Computers incorporates 1st woman formally ordained an Episcopal priest 250,000 parade in downtown SF to protest Anita Bryant's anti-gay crusade "Yippie Pie Thrower" nails Supervisor Quentin Kopp with banana cream pie

Laurie and Larry tie the knot.

A little relaxation at Playa Blanca

1978

State voters pass Jarvis-Gann initiative, Proposition 13 Supreme Court orders U.C. Davis to admit Allan Bakke to its medical school, ruling that he had suffered illegal discrimination because he is white. Jonestown mass ritual suicide-murder death toll 912 Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk are shot and killed Dianne Feinstein is elected mayor of San Francisco by Board of Supervisors

A little more relaxation at St. Vincent

1979

International Year of the Child Today Show gets a new theme song US & China (Peoples Republic) begin diplomatic relations

The Jackson Five were a singing sensation in the '70s. From left: Randy, Michael, Jackie, Tito and Marion.