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Of Plaid and Pasha Patterns

“Nowhere in Seventies car designs did the stylists take more liberties than in the interiors.”

Being a child in the 1970s really wasn’t so bad. Helicopter moms were a thing of the far-off future, so we had a lot of unsupervised time to find ourselves. That time involved bikes, hikes, scrounging around for excess construction materials to build ramps to jump our bikes with, occasional fireworks, occasional broken bones, and lots of worn-out clothes.

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