Music & Culture
This genre, popularized in New York clubs like Studio 54, dominated late‑1970s charts.
What is disco?
This 1975 film was the first movie to earn over $100 million domestically.
What is Jaws?
This long-running PBS children’s show debuted in 1969 and rose to fame in the ’70s and is still going strong.
What is Sesame Street?
This 1970s term described Americans’ shrinking purchasing power caused by rising prices without matching wage increases.
What is inflation?
This local newspaper documented daily life, industry, and community events in Pottstown throughout the 1970s and still exists today(barely).
What is the Pottstown Mercury?
This album, released in 1977, is the best‑selling soundtrack of all time.
What is Saturday Night Fever?
This 1977 romantic comedy starred Woody Allen and Diane Keaton and won Best Picture.
What is Annie Hall?
This TV show followed the lives of the Brady family.
What is the Brady Bunch?
Lines at gas stations and odd‑even license plate rules were common during this 1970s crisis.
What is the energy (or oil) crisis?
This medical facility opened in 1972 and is often cited as one of the most positive developments in Pottstown during a decade of economic transition.
What is Pottstown Memorial Medical Center (aka Pottstown Hospital)?
This 1970s music movement emphasized DIY aesthetics, short songs, and rebellion against mainstream rock excess.
What is punk rock?
This 1978 superhero film starred Christopher Reeve and helped launch the modern superhero movie genre.
What is Superman?
This late-night sketch comedy show debuted in 1975 and launched many comedy careers.
What is Saturday Night Live?
This environmental observance was first celebrated in 1970, helping launch the modern environmental movement in the United States.
What is Earth Day?
In the early 1970s, Pottstown’s economy was still strong due to heavy industry, especially jobs connected to this major steel company.
What is Bethlehem Steel?
This 1970 protest song referenced “four dead in Ohio.”
What is "Ohio" (by Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young)?
This 1975 musical film follows young dancers competing for fame on Broadway.
What is A Chorus Line?
This sci‑fi series featured Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock in reruns popular during the ’70s.
What is Star Trek?
During the 1970s, this social change became more common, leading to an increase in single‑parent households across the United States.
What is rising divorce rates?
This food company, best known for baked goods and frozen desserts, operated a major plant in Pottstown and was an important local employer during the 1970s.
What is Sara Lee?
(originally Mrs. Smith’s Pie Company, which later became part of Sara Lee.)
This New York venue, originally opened in 1926, was revived in the 1970s and became synonymous with punk rock acts like the Ramones and Talking Heads.
What is CBGB?
This 1979 sci‑fi horror film features a deadly creature aboard a spaceship called the Nostromo.
What is Alien?
This show’s catchphrase was “Up your nose with a rubber hose!”
What is Welcome Back Kotter?
This countercultural movement of the 1970s emphasized natural foods, communal living, and environmental awareness.
Year the Pottstown Area Seniors' Center was started (precursor to TRAAC)
What is 1976?
(started in the basement of Christ Episcopal Church)