Era of 'Argo' at National Archives: Disco, Datsuns, Disturbing
A photo exhibit features the heyday of the Baby Boomers, millions of whom settled in the DC suburbs.
The aging population in Montgomery and Prince George's counties is often the topic of discussion among local planning officials, with the Baby Boom generation entering the retirement years. That makes this area, with its millions of boomers—many of whom who came to DC decades ago and settled in—a prime audience for what The Washington Post calls a captivating photo exhibit of the 1970s, a decade known for disco, polyester, pollution and political strife. The exhibit, Searching for the Seventies: The Documerica Photography Project, seeks to tell the story of the turbulent decade in a series of color photographs taken for the Federal Documerica project. The Environmental Protection Agency initiated the project in 1971 to document the “…
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Jerry Simmons
10:23 am on Friday, March 8, 2013
A 2009 article about DOCUMERICA by Hyattsville resident Jerry Simmons: http://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2009/spring/documerica.html more ›