Memory Lane: 1977

Star Wars opens in cinemas

TV mini-series “Roots” is aired

First commercial flight of the Concord

NASA space shuttle first test flight

World Trade Center completed

UK Jubilee celebrations

Roman Polanski is arrested and charged

Alaskan Oil Pipeline completed

New York City blackout lasts for 25 hours

Population:

• Wake County: 280,163
  
• NC: 5,686,000
  
• USA: 220,200,000

National Debt:

• $698,840,000,000 (1977)
  
• $18,152,809,942,589 (2015)

Value of a Dollar: $1 in 1977 is $4.03 in 2015

Cost Of Living 1977:

• Yearly inflation rate: 6.5%
• Year End Close Dow Jones Industrial Average: 831
• Interest Rates Year End Federal Reserve: 7.75%
• Average cost of new house: $49,300
• Average income per year: $15,000
• Average monthly rent: $240
• Cost of a gallon of gas: $0.65
• Bikini: $9.00
• Wrist Worn AM Radio: $7.95
• 5 inch Portable TV: $147.00
• New stereo system: $247.95
• Cheeseburger at McDonald’s: $0.30
• Ticket to Disneyland: Admission and 12 Adventure Book tickets: $8.25-$9.50

Ounce of Gold Price:

• The cost of an ounce of gold was $147.84
  
• The inflation-adjusted price of an ounce of gold was $578.23

Cost of a movie ticket: $2.23

Inflation-adjusted price of a movie ticket: $8.81

The cost of a movie ticket in 2015: $7.92

Top 5 Movies:

1. Star Wars 
   
2. Smokey and the Bandit 
   
3. Close Encounters of the Third Kind 
   
4. The Goodbye Girl 
   
5. Saturday Night Fever 

• Best Picture: Rocky
  
• Best Director: John G. Avildsen – Rocky
  
• Best Actor: Peter Finch – Network
  
• Best Actress: Faye Dunaway – Network
  
• Best Supporting Actor: Jason Robards – All the President’s Men
  
• Best Supporting Actress: Beatrice Straight – Network

1. Laverne & Shirley – ABC – 23,036,400
   
2. Happy Days – ABC – 22,890,600
   
3. Three’s Company – ABC – 20,630,700
   
4. 60 Minutes – CBS – 17,787,600
   
5. Charlie’s Angels – ABC – 17,787,600
   
6. All in the Family – CBS – 17,787,600
   
7. Little House on the Prairie – NBC – 17,568,900
   
8. Alice – CBS – 16,912,800
   
9. M*A*S*H – CBS – 16,912,800
   
10. One Day at a Time – CBS – 16,767,000

1.  Rod Stewart – Tonight’s The Night (Gonna Be Alright)
   
2. Andy Gibb – I Just Want To Be Your Everything
   
3. Emotions – Best Of My Love
   
4. Barbra Streisand – Love Theme From “A Star Is Born”
   
5. Hot – Angel In Your Arms
   
6. Kenny Nolan – I Like Dreamin’
   
7. Thelma Houston – Don’t Leave Me This Way
   
8. Rita Coolidge – (Your Love Has Lifted Me) Higher And Higher
   
9. Alan O’Day Undercover Angel
   
10. Mary MacGregor – Torn Between Two Lovers
11. K.C. and The Sunshine Band – I’m Your Boogie Man
    
12. ABBA – Dancing Queen
    
13. Leo Sayer – You Make Me Feel Like Dancing
    
14. Jimmy Buffett – Margaritaville
    
15. Electric Light Orchestra – Telephone Line
    
16. Pablo Cruise – Whatcha Gonna Do?
    
17. Peter McCann – Do You Wanna Make Love?
    
18. Stevie Wonder – Sir Duke
    
19. Eagles – Hotel California
    
20. Marvin Gaye – Got To Give It Up, Pt. 1

1. Broken Down In Tiny Pieces – Billy “Crash” Craddock
2. You Never Miss A Real Good Thing – Crystal Gayle
3. I Can’t Believe She Gives It All To Me – Conway Twitty
4. Let My Love Be Your Pillow – Ronnie Milsap
5. Near You – George Jones & Tammy Wynette
6. Moody Blue – Elvis Presley
7. Say You’ll Stay Until Tomorrow – Tom Jones
8. Heart Healer – Mel Tillis
9. She’s Just An Old Love Turned Memory – Charley Pride
10. Southern Nights – Glen Campbell
11. Lucille – Kenny Rogers
12. It Couldn’t Have Been Any Better – Johnny Duncan
13. She’s Got You – Loretta Lynn
14. She’s Pulling Me Back Again – Mickey Gilley
15. Play, Guitar Play – Conway Twitty
16. Some Broken Hearts Never Mend – Don Williams
17. Luckenbach, Texas – Waylon Jennings
18. That Was Yesterday – Donna Fargo
19. I’ll Be Leaving Alone – Charley Pride
20. It Was Almost Like A Song – Ronnie Milsap

ACC Football Champ: North Carolina

ACC Basketball Champs: North Carolina (UNC 75 – Virginia 69)

World Series Winner: New York Yankees over the LA Dodgers

Heavyweight Boxing Champ: Muhammad Ali

Super Bowl XI: Oakland Raiders (Raiders 32 – Minnesota Vikings 14)

NASCAR Season Winner: Cale Yarborough

Masters Winner: Tom Watson (12 under – won $40,000)

Wimbledon Winners:

• Men’s Singles: Sweden Björn Borg defeated United States Jimmy Connors, 3–6, 6–2, 6–1, 5–7, 6–4
  
• Women’s Singles: United Kingdom Virginia Wade defeated Netherlands Betty Stöve, 4–6, 6–3, 6–1
• Men’s Doubles: Australia Ross Case / Australia Geoff Masters defeated Australia John Alexander / Australia Phil Dent, 6–3, 6–4, 3–6, 8–9(4–7), 6–4
• Women’s Doubles: Australia Helen Gourlay Cawley / United States JoAnne Russell defeated Czechoslovakia Martina Navrátilová / Netherlands Betty Stöve, 6–3, 6–3
• Mixed Doubles: South Africa Bob Hewitt / South Africa Greer Stevens defeated South Africa Frew McMillan / Netherlands Betty Stöve, 3–6, 7–5, 6–4