Tates Creek High School  

Tates Creek High School
Class of 1970

The 4th Senior Class of Commodores


 
 

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Music by:
TC '70
All-Classmate
Party Band


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Where Are They Now

Creekers Memoriam

 

Countdown to ...

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Stuff about 1970
(do you remember?)

| Economy | Prices | Music | Movies |
| TV Shows | Sports |

Economy        
    President: Richard M. Nixon      
    Vice President: Spiro T. Agnew      
    Population: 205,052,174      
    Life Expectancy: 70.8 years      
    Dow-Jones        
         High: 842       
         Low: 669       
    Federal spending: $195.65 billion      
    Federal debt: $380.9 billion      
    Inflation: 6.5%      
    Consumer Price Index: 38.8      
    Unemployment: 3.5%      
             
  Prices        
    Cost of a new home: $26,600.00      
    Cost of a new car: $3,542.00      
    Median Household Income: $8,734.00      
    Cost of a first-class stamp:  $0.06      
    Cost of a gallon of regular gas: $0.36      
    Cost of a dozen eggs: $0.62      
    Cost of a gallon of Milk: $1.15      
             
  Billboard.com #1s from 1970   Peak Date Weeks
@ #1
 
    Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head B.J. Thomas

1/3/1970

4  
    I Want You Back  The Jackson 5  1/31/1970  1  
    Cracklin' Rosie  Neil Diamond  10/10/1970   
    I'll Be There  The Jackson 5  10/17/1970   
    I Think I Love You  Partridge Family (w/ Shirley Jones & David Cassidy) 11/21/1970   
    The Tears Of A Clown  Smokey Robinson & The Miracles  12/12/1970   
    My Sweet Lord/Isn't It A Pity  George Harrison  12/26/1970   
    Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)/Everybody Is A Star  Sly & The Family Stone  2/14/1970  2  
    Bridge Over Troubled Water  Simon & Garfunkel  2/28/1970  6  
    Venus  The Shocking Blue  2/7/1970  1  
    Let It Be  The Beatles  4/11/1970  2  
    ABC  The Jackson 5  4/25/1970  2  
    Everything Is Beautiful  Ray Stevens  5/30/1970  2  
    American Woman The Guess Who  5/9/1970  3  
    The Long And Winding Road/For You Blue  The Beatles  6/13/1970  2  
    The Love You Save The Jackson 5  6/27/1970  2  
    Mama Told Me (Not To Come)  Three Dog Night  7/11/1970  2  
    (They Long To Be) Close To You  Carpenters  7/25/1970  4  
    Make It With You  Bread  8/22/1970  1  
    War  Edwin Starr  8/29/1970  3  
    Ain't No Mountain High Enough  Diana Ross  9/19/1970  3  
             
  Top 10 Movies    
    1 9 6 9 1 9 7 0    
  1 The Wild Bunch Patton    
  2 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid M*A*S*H    
  3 Easy Rider Gimme Shelter    
  4 Army of Shadows Woodstock    
  5 Midnight Cowboy Tora! Tora! Tora!    
  6 Medium Cool Beyond the Valley of the Dolls    
  7 The Italian Job Five Easy Pieces    
  8 True Grit Little Big Man    
  9 A Boy Named Charlie Brown The Honeymoon Killers    
  10 Cactus Flower Taste the Blood of Dracula    
             
Top 10 TV Shows  
    1969-70 1970-71    
  1 Laugh-In Marcus Welby, MD    
  2 Gunsmoke The Flip Wilson Show    
  3 Bonanza Here's Lucy    
  4 Mayberry, RFD Ironside    
  5 Family Affair Gunsmoke    
  6 Here's Lucy ABC Movie of the Week    
  7 Red Skelton Hour Hawaii Five-0    
  8 Marcus Welby, MD Medical Center    
  9 Walt Disney Bonanza    
  10 Doris Day Show The F.B.I.    
             
Sports  
   

Super Bowl IV, New Orleans

Kansas City defeats Minnesota
(23-7)
 
    World Series - Oct 1969 NY Mets defeats
Baltimore Orioles (4-1)
 
    World Series - Oct 1970 Baltimore defeats Cincinnati (4-1)  
    NBA Championship New York defeats LA Lakers
(4-3)
 
    Stanley Cup Boston defeats St. Louis (4-0)  
    Wimbledon - Women Margaret Court defeats
B.J. King (14-12 11-9)
 
    Wimbledon - Men John Newcombe defeats
K. Rosewall
(5-7 6-3 6-2 3-6 6-1)
 
    Kentucky Derby Champion Dust Commander  
    NCAA Basketball Champ UCLA defeats Jacksonville
(80-69)
 
    NCAA Football Champs Nebraska (AP, FW) (11-0-1);

Texas (UPI, NFF-tie), (10-1-0)
&
Ohio St. (NFF-tie), (9-1-0)
 
    World Cup Brazil defeats Italy (4-1)  
         
 
     

Tates Creek High School Class of 1970
1111 Centre Parkway, Lexington KY  859-381-3620

 
 

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Last Updated: 25 Oct 2019

 

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