Metro area population: 398,938, an astounding jump of 38% from 1960

Where University of Texas students went to see controversial foreign films (such as Italy's 1970 Academy Award winning Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion): The Texas Theater (2232 Guadalupe St., now the location of a CVS pharmacy)

Full-service department store: Scarbrough's (6th and Congress, now relocated to the Central Market Center on North Lamar)

Where UT students went spelunking: Inner Space Cavern (off the I-35 at Georgetown) and Natural Bridge Caverns (off the I-35 between New Braunfels and San Antonio)

Favorite steakhouses: The Hoffbrau (613 West 6th St.) and GM Steakhouse (on the lower Drag)

Best chicken fried steak: Threadgill's (301 W. Riverside Dr.)

Fun Saturday evening in summer: Oliver! performed at the Zilker Hillside Theater

Gasoline: about 36 cents per gallon, but there were constant price wars

Average annual income: $9,350

First-class postage: 6 cents

Daylight savings time: began on April 26th and ended on October 25th

The 11th Door (Red River St.)

Action Club (831 Houston St.)

The Afro (1002 East 11th)

Armadillo World Headquarters (525-1/2 Barton Springs Road), opened in August 1970

Broken Spoke (3201 South Lamar)

The Chequered Flag (Lavaca St.)

Club Saracen (6th St.)

The IL Club (1124 East 11th St.)

Jade Room (San Jacinto St.)

New Orleans Club (1125 Red River St.)

The Pleasure Dome (222 East 6th St.)

Vulcan Gas Company (319 Congress Ave.), closed in July 1970

On January 1st, the University of Texas varsity football team beats Notre Dame in the final minutes of the Cotton Bowl to win the NCAA national championship (and at the same time winning its 500th game). On December 30th, the #1 Longhorns beat #4 Arkansas to take the national football championship a second straight year.

The Vulcan Gas Company on Congress Avenue closes in July but is replaced in August by the Armadillo World Headquarters on Barton Springs Road.

The Marshall University football team and its coaches perish on November 14th in the crash of Southern Airways charter flight 932 returning from a heartbreaking 17-14 loss to East Carolina University.

The Chicago Seven are acquitted of conspiracy in connection with riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention.

"Houston, we have a problem..." Apollo 13 aborts its trip to the moon 4 days after launch because of a life-threatening oxygen tank explosion.

The liquid crystal display (LCD) is invented in England.

President Richard M. Nixon signs a bill lowering the voting age to 18.

NFL Monday Night Football makes its television premiere (ABC).

Earth Day is founded by Senator Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin.

Muscle cars: Chevrolet Chevelle and Pontiac GTO

Best Picture of 1970 (Oscars): Patton

Outstanding comedy TV series 1970-71 season (Emmys): All in the Family

Song of the year (Grammys): Games People Play • Joe South

Album (Grammys): Blood, Sweat & Tears • Blood, Sweat & Tears

Best New Artist (Grammys): Crosby, Stills & Nash

Teen fashion: mini-skirts, jeans, and tie-dye T-shirts

Boy's name: Michael (this name holds the #1 spot straight through from 1961 to 1998)

Girl's name: Jennifer (this is the first year this name is #1, but it continues to hold the top spot through 1984)

Single:

• Re-Birth Day • Mariani

Albums:

• Perpetuum Mobile • Mariani
• Songs from the Catalog of Sonosong Music Company: Roy Headrick, Composer • Roy Headrick
• Home Lost and Found (The Natural Sound) (released on Liberty Records' Solid State label) • Wali and the Afro-Caravan