My Bicentennial Memories
I’m not sure I believe in fate, but there must be a reason why I could never bring myself to throw out my Ross Bicentennial bicycle. My parents, despite complaining about its prolonged residence in the cellar of 1710 78th street, could never bring themselves to roll the bike out with Tuesday trash (something they had no issue doing with all my other toys and preciouses). Maybe I or they knew the Bicentennial would be something I’d one day revisit. Or maybe we all knew, as long as the bike remained, so would those wonderful hazy summer day memories of years past.
Keep checking back, I’ll be adding some wonderful star-spangled, red, white, and blue blasts from the past as we countdown to America 250.
Bicentennial Election
During the Bicentennial, General Mills repeated their 1968 campaign in which children were encouraged to send in a cereal box top to vote "yes" or "no" to the question of “Should the rabbit eat Trix.” They’d hold one more election in 1980. In all three instances, the "yes" vote won by a landslide, and subsequent commercials showed the Trix Rabbit enjoying a bowl of the cereal.