ECG: Nostalgia is one of my favorite subjects

Oh seventeen, is it really so long ago?

How many times have I not thought of that idea in recent years? Just take the Alm battle in Kungsträdgården in May 1971. I don’t remember it as yesterday, but as well as yesterday.

I have never been a Mattesnille, but realize that the demonstrations took place more than fifty years ago. The same year we got a belt duty in the cars, steam week and 50 cards (though without a steam week).

If compared to today’s monetary value Corresponds to the fifty -noted 1971 nearly SEK 460 today. It is not even enough for half a monthly card for adults with Stockholm’s public transport. In this way you can say with justification that it was better in the past.

Now I do not belong to the large group of people who believe that everything was better in the 20th century.

Just take the TV programs. The supply in the 1970s was significantly leaner than today’s, but there is such a big difference. You didn’t have to pay a lot of extra to see big sporting events and feature films. What was available in the « dumb can » was good enough. We knew nothing else.

Why are I stuck in the 1970s, what was « almost just recently »?

Well, I have just read a new book by Arne Norlin called « We remember the 70s-a nostalgia ». Just nostalgia is one of my favorite subjects.

We who were in the 70s Remember That everything was not gold and green forests even though we got five weeks of statutory holidays and Sweden got its first lottery millionaires, on the contrary. It was aircraft creation, bank robbery, explosive and other misery. Add to that the Watergate scandal, the buried poison barrels in Teckomatorp, the coup d’état in Chile, which got obese, justified headlines and political aftermath.

But the 70s were so much more. I just say Abba, Ted Gärdestad, Björn Borg, Ingemar Stenmark and the other 56s.

No Swedish sports year has probably had such an impact as the 56s in the early and mid-1970s.

Although it is clear: Ralf Edström and Stellan Bengtsson, both born in 1952 did not go off for hacks either. Not to mention the 55th Ulrika Knape who took double gold at the Munich Olympics, one of my black and white TV memories from the 70s that has etched itself. Although it has been « a few » years.

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