Johnny Virgil, from 15 Minute Lunch, posted these photos after discovering a JCPenney catalog from 1977 in his attic. The full article has not been reprinted here due to content. I encourage anyone who has a sense of humor to visit Johnny’s blog. You can read his original amusing post here.
Excess Hollywood: ‘30 Years of ‘Saturday Night Fever’
“Saturday Night Fever” premiered Dec. 14, 1977, and defined the moment disco held in popular culture. Director John Badham’s snapshot of the 1970s disco craze, set in gritty pre-Giuliani New York, tells the story of 19-year-old Tony Manero (John Travolta, in the role that made him a film star) and his pals, whose lives revolve around Saturday nights at a Brooklyn disco. Polyester shirts, big hair, thumping music, touch-dancing, sexual promiscuity and the drug subculture were all part of the disco scene and “SNF” captured it all. Disco was dead by the 1980s but the movie remains a classic.
Do you have the fever? Strawberry Night Fever? These guys apparently have the fever and know how to party. While we can’t guarantee that we’ll have you dancing with this much enthusiasm at the event. We can guarantee that the 70’s music will take you back and the dance floor will be much… bigger!
In celebration of the 70’s we’re going to be looking back at some of the more notable events from that decade. Some of you may know of or have heard the Mill Valley song by Miss Abrams and the fourth grade class. In 1970, Rita Abrams, a kindergarten teacher at our very own Strawberry Point School, wrote a song for her students to sing with her. Through a series of events, the song, entitled “Mill Valley” and sung by Rita and the then-third grade class of Strawberry Point School, was recorded and became a nationwide hit. (When the album was released, the kids were in fourth grade and the title was changed.) It was a national phenomenon with Miss Abrams and the kids touring across the country and making appearances on television and radio. You can read about it at the Rita Abrams Page.
