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Today is the 18th month of my blog! My anniversary post is something different than the usual posts I write.
Today is November 13, 2016.
I decided to go back to the year I was 18 years old – 1978.
On this day back in 1978, Time magazine Vol. 112 No. 20 was on newsstands. Viewing it you find fascinating articles related to our Nation, Business, the World, Education and other topics.
As these are interesting topics, I found in this addition the article ‘Television: Once in Love with Mary’ under the Arts and Entertainment topic and it caught my attention. The article begins with the following –

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Few TV performers are as durable or as justly adored as Mary Tyler Moore. During the past 15 years she has become an unpretentious symbol of sophistication in a medium where that quality is usually considered a punishable offense. As Laura Petrie, the slightly daft heroine of the classic Dick Van Dyke Show, Moore demonstrated that sitcom suburban housewives did not have to be domestic ninnies chained to a kitchen sink. With her easy wit and sturdy intelligence, almost single-handed she brought TV out of the Lucille Ball-Donna Reed era.
Okay, this post is not about Time magazine; though I did write an interesting post related to it – you are welcome to read it by clicking this link ‘Time to read Time‘.

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For those of you my age, you remember Mary Tyler Moore? In my younger days I watched the Dick Van Dyke Show and The Mary Tyler Moore Show. The Mary Tyler Moore Show was a popular television series in the 1970s.
Other popular actors in well-known television series of the 1970s included Alan Alda for M*A*S*H, Farrah Fawcett for Charlie’s Angels, Jimmie Walker for Good Times, Telly Savalas for Kojak and Ricardo Montalban for Fantasy Island.
You know here on my blog, I have a dedicated category titled ‘My 70’s Music Collection‘, where I post information about songs of the 1970s. Many times I refer back to the 1970s in posts; I think because, these were my years of influence. The 1970s were my years of innocence and puberty; and my teen years. I spent the 1970s from the age of 10 to the age of 20 – my denarian decade.
yourdictionary.com has the following –

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denarian. Noun. (plural denarians) One who is between the age of 10 and 19, inclusive.
Back in the 1970s, I liked Mary Tyler Moore and many other actors of that day and still do today. Thinking about them and the shows they starred in bring great memories of a time when life seemed simpler.
Today is the 18th month of my blog! My anniversary post is something different than the usual posts I write.
Happy 18 months and thanks for the sweet memories!
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Thank you and you are very welcome my dear Jodi! 🙂
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Since you and I are the same age, this brought back a ton of memories for me too, thanks for sharing that time, which indeed was simpler and perhaps kinder. 🙂
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You are welcome dear, glad you enjoyed it and thank you for stopping by – I know you have stuff going on – I appreciate you! 🙂
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Ha-my parents recall watching these shows too! They say the 70’s were the best!!!
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They were the best – they gave us Disco! 🙂
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I think my parents boogied to that! LOL
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Oh Dear, you made feel old now. 🙂 Happy Blogging Anniversary
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Oh Bridget, you are not old – you and I have just been around long enough to know about many things! Thanks for stopping by – Happy Sunday! 🙂
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Well, there is still a lot I don’t know, so that makes me feel young again. Well done my friend. 🙂
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You and me both! 🙂
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Felt the same
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Many of us do – thanks for stopping by. 🙂
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Happy 18th month blogging Anniversary my friend! The good ol’ 70’s hey 🙂 You always have such interesting info ….and I do remember Mary 🙂 Hope you are having a great day. 🙂
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Thanks Lynne, good ol’ 70’s – got to love them! My day is great – and hoping the same for you as well. 🙂
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Thanks for the flashbacks…I was a bit older, but still…☺
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You are welcome Van, those were good times in that decade – I thoroughly enjoyed the entertainment back then. Thanks as always for stopping by. 🙂
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Happy 18 months …. and thank you for these wonderful memories – particularly that still of Alan Alda which reminds me why I was a slave to M*A*S*H and had a mighty crush on him!!
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He is a great actor – and the show was awesome. Glad you enjoyed the memories – Happy Sunday my dear Osyth. 🙂
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Congratulations on 18 months of blogging. Thank you for the memories of Mary Tyler Moore and Dick Van Dyke Show and her own show, they were popular here as was “Mash”, but most of all “Kojak” and Telly, so very very popular here in England, I have the DVDs of all the “Kojak” stories, often look at them. Telly often came to England the people loved him. Good times
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Thank you, glad you enjoyed the post. These were some great shows of the time – I have not seen Kodak in so many years! Happy Day my friend! 🙂
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You too
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1.5 years of blogging – how time flies. The pic reminded me of old times as well. I wonder was it really simpler or has the pace changed?
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Honestly, the world most likely was not simpler – but at that age – my life was. Times change as we ourselves do. I always appreciate you stopping by – hope your weekend ends well. 🙂
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I spent my denarian from 8 to 18 years old, and I learned a new word!! Happy blogiversary Terry!
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Oops the deniaran decade of the 70s I meant.
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Kathryn, thank you for stopping by and reading – while writing this post, I learned the same new word also – Happy Monday my friend! 🙂
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I watched all these shows! We had one of those little portable, black and white, 13″ televisions, but we were happy, we didn’t know any better, 🙂 The 70s were indeed a great decade! 😀
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These were great shows and there were many others back during that time. And black and white television, I certainly remember having one of those also. Thanks Paula, have a great week. 🙂
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You are turning into one of the “veterans” in this blogging world :). About the only thing left to say is KKKKKKKKHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNNNN!
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Yep, I just keep blogging on! Thanks Gary, you have been visiting for quite some time now, I appreciate you my friend! 🙂
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Woo-Hoo! Happy Anniversary, Terry!!! 🙂 😀 xxxxx
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Woo-Hoo, thank you Sarah! 🙂
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Happy anniversary! Great memories Terry xx
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Yes, great memories – thanks Lynn! 🙂
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xxx
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The scary thing is… I know all of them 😀
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Yep, many of us do! Thanks Franck – hope you are doing well! 🙂
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I love your post like these….these were all my shows….I was 18 in 1975….grew up watching all the same shows….loved MASH…my most favorite…..Ricardo Montalban looked exactly like my x father in law from Italy….LOL they were so much the same when he was on the TV guide, my daughter thought it was a picture of her Nono…LOL I put it in here baby book…LOL Happy 18 Months! xxk
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Those were great shows back then – classics! Glad you enjoy these posts kat, they do bring back some very good memories, don’t they? Hope all is will with you this week. 🙂
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