Standing on a beach

"And, well, that's the real reason why we can't have nice things."

Life's a beach.

Fancy dinner on vacation.

The Long & Winding Road

I checked with Forgotten Hits for a suitable soundtrack for

The Clan Arnold Vacation to Somewhere Unimportant!

Now, let's get a little music to go with this incredibly long car trip!

25 or 6 to 4 - Chicago

"Mississippi Queen" - Mountain

"Band Of Gold" - Freda Payne

"Ball Of Confusion" (That's What The World Is Today) - The Temptations

"The Love You Save" - The Jackson Five

Get Ready - Rare Earth

"The Long & Winding Road" - The Beatles

"The Wonder Of You" - Elvis

"Solitary Man" - Neil Diamond's first hit, says YouTube.

(Love is a small word.)

"Cecilia" - Simon & Garfunkel

Stevie Wonder's "Signed, Sealed, Delivered, I'm Yours". 

(11 August 1970)

"(They Long To Be) Close To You" - The Carpenters

Relegated to the back, again.

The number one national hit song of 1970 was, apparently, 

Three Dog Night doing "Mama Told Me (Not To Come)".  

Readers may remember that song being featured in

 Terry Gilliam's Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas (1998).

The Big Lebowski

What do you know, you guys?

The Big Lebowski is Norma's Father-in-Law!

Beach trip, late-fifties style.

Hello from the past (1990) pretending to be the past (1970) remembering a collective, pretend past (195?).

Callbacks.

As a lover of language and one frequently frustrated by the limitations of English - I am happy to share a link to a language blog that brings up word usages though Mad Men but carries them to the seventies (where The Wonder Years largely takes place).

CBS News Special Report

Special Report: This Television is Yellow

Orange cardigan!

The start of a new season on the show.

Severe 90's hair!  Ouch!

"Pour that milk into a glass, you dumb idiot."

Oh, who cares? Let's just have fun.