My parents moved a lot. Somehow they always moved somewhere that involved packing the cars and driving across the country, or at least through a couple of states. The only thing that saved my sanity on the long car rides was reading. In 1978, we moved to North Carolina from Colorado and I read James Clavell’s Shogun through Kansas, Missouri and Kentucky.
Now that Apple has released the iPad, I reminisce about the summer of ’78 and think what would I have packed onto an iPad? The thought of having such an amazingly powerful tool for remote entertainment on those horribly boring car rides staggers my eleven-year old brain. Please excuse the time travel. Speaking of time travel, I wonder what I would have loaded onto my iPad circa 1978? Hmmmm, lets see.
My iTunes library would have had a few gems from the late ’70s.
Donna Summer’s Last Dance
Paliament’s Give Up the Funk
Linda Ronstadt’s Blue Bayou
Paul McCartney and Wings’ Silly Love Songs
I would have listened to Shogun as an Audio Book from iTunes and downloaded a few classic ‘70’s TV shows and movies from iTunes.
Jaws–best summer movie ever made.
Airport ‘75–they always tell you that mid-air collisions are impossible. And, Karen Black as a pilot, come on.
The Adventures of the Wilderness Family–cheesy, but I had fantasies of escaping my family and living in the woods.
The Exorcist–because it captures the awkwardness of Junior High School.
HR Puff ‘n Stuff–Sid & Marty Kroft are geniuses.
Sigmund and the Sea Monsters–see above.
The Bionic Woman–because I wanted to bend steel.
Laverne & Shirley–they had their own apartment.
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