Saturday Night Genealogy Fun -- Memories of the Bicentennial -- 4 July 1976

 Calling all Genea-Musings Fans: 

 It's Saturday Night again - 

time for some more Genealogy Fun!!

Here is your assignment if you choose to play along (cue the Mission Impossible music, please!):

1)  How did you observe or celebrate the Bicentennial of America's Founding on 4 July 1976?  

2)  What were you doing on that day? Did you or your family attend any special events to mark America's 200th birthday?

3)  Share your information about your Bicentennial activities on own blog post, writing a comment on this blog post, or put it in a Substack post, Facebook Note, or some other social media system.  Please leave a comment on this post so others can find it.

Thank you to Marian B. Wood for this week's SNGF challenge!

Here's mine:

Unfortunately, I have no specific memory of 4 July 1976.  We lived in Chula Vista, California (same house that we have today), and I was working at Rohr Industries as an engineer, and Linda was working as a mother to our 26 month old daughter and was 6 months pregnant with our second daughter.  

Since 4 July 1976 was a Sunday, I am fairly sure that we attended church in the morning, and may have gone to my parents home in San Diego in the afternoon for a barbecue with them, my grandparents, and my brothers, my sister-in-law and my niece.  We may have watched a patriotic program in the evening on local and network television.  

I asked Google about celebrations in San Diego in 1976 and received a description of a 40 minute long fireworks show and program at San Diego Stadium, and the first sailing of the Star Of India sailing ship in San Diego Bay since 1923, plus patriotic parades in local cities.  I don't think we attended any of those. 

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