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The number of divorces filed in doubled that of a decade earlier. Couples who did stay together had fewer children. Even the government appeared to be falling apart.
Just years into the decade, first a vice president and then a president were forced to resign amid allegations of corruption—and hardly anyone placed much faith in the officials who remained. Not even a night at the movies offered much escape. In keeping with the sour mood, many popular movies of the seventies centered on disasters, demons, and dark conspiracies. Audiences were trapped in The Towering Inferno or booked on a doomed flight in any of three Airport movies. If you avoided being swallowed up by the ground in an Earthquake, you might be devoured by the Jaws of a great white shark.
The Exorcist offered a hell of a fright.
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If you somehow managed to avoid all that, you could still be subjected to Linda Blair shaking her booty in Roller Boogie. They were desperate times indeed. Despite the flagging economy, Americans continued taking vacations throughout the seventies in record numbers, just as they had since the close of World War II. Thanks to two decades of prosperity, increasingly generous terms of employment, and broader acceptance of the benefits of taking time off from work, more Americans than ever before were able to escape the daily grind, if only for a couple of weeks each year.
In fact, 80 percent of working Americans took vacations in , compared to just 60 percent two decades earlier.
As a result, attendance at national parks, historic sites, and other attractions surged 20 to 30 percent every year until To reach these far-off places, my family, like most others, traveled by car. It was that we had no other choice. Air travel had always been too expensive for anyone not named Rockefeller or traveling on the company dime, much less a pair of middle-class parents taking four kids to the beach.
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Adjusted for inflation, a domestic plane ticket in the seventies cost two to three times the price of the same ticket today. Not for a weekend getaway to Las Vegas, not to head off to college, not for a once-in-a-lifetime honeymoon in Paris. If there was one thing America was very good at, it was producing automobiles. Following World War II, American car factories needed only to do some quick retooling to go from churning out airplanes and tanks to cranking out cars faster than ever.
And thanks to a booming economy, Americans could afford to buy all those shiny new cars as fast as they rolled off assembly lines. During the s alone, Americans logged To be sure, most travelers selected closer destinations, as there are so few decent hotel options along that route even today. My family alone was responsible for approximately 1 trillion of the miles logged by travelers in the seventies.
Together, we toured the country well, half of it, anyway—we rarely traveled west of the Mississippi in week-long journeys taken two and sometimes three times a year. We were hardly pioneers, of course.
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By the time we got rolling on our family road trips, Americans had already been beating a well-worn path to the Grand Canyon and sunny beaches of Florida for more than half a century. But for much of that time and in many areas of the country, the routes those motorists took were often little more than dirt tracks. Even in populated areas, drivers often had to pick their way through a confusing maze of privately owned turnpikes and poorly constructed two-lane highways built simply to connect one town to the next.
The interstates were marvels of a modern era, unlike any roads Americans had traveled before.
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They were wide and broad-shouldered, with huge swaths cleared on both sides to invite in sunshine and blue sky. Perhaps the most remarkable thing about the interstates was the way they instantly made the country seem so much smaller. Suddenly it was possible to travel from one state to the next and even one coast to the other in a fraction of the time it once took.
Places many Americans could once only read about in newspapers or see pictures of in magazines were now all within reach, given a reliable car and enough cash for fuel. In an automobile, four or five people could travel nearly as cheaply as one. Making things even nicer for my family, many of the interstates had been around long enough by the s for an ample number of restaurants, gas stations, motels, and other conveniences to sprout up along their sides.
By and large, we could count on exits with such services at regular intervals, allowing us the opportunity to fill our tank, grab a bite to eat, or rush in to take a quick potty as needed. At the time, my siblings and I took all of these things for granted. Of course, we were young.