Fifty years ago, this massive mural was painted on the spillway of the Prado Dam in Corona (located here: maps.app.goo.gl/wuyrygzibHSq...).

The Prado Dam Bicentennial Mural was restored in 2022-2023: youtu.be/QgfKdcNYKAc?... #America250 #America200 #4thofJuly

heard #scaramucci talking about seeing tall ships from his dad's fishing boat for #america200 & felt so sad. i was so excited about the bicentennial- i was 9, and i thought the usa deserved all the celebrations in my small vermont town. it breaks my heart to see, from the uk, what america has become

2nd #SongOfTheDay, 6/30/2026:
"Spirit Of '76" (1976) by the Booty People
[Charting R&B hit]
#SpiritOf76 #BicentennialSongs #America200 #America250

1st #SongOfTheDay, 6/30/2026:
"Feel The Spirit ('76)" (1976) by Leroy Hutson
[R&B: top-25 / Disco: top-5]
#SpiritOf76 #BicentennialSongs #America200 #America250

🚨new episode alert!🚨this week we return to our Soundtracking the Year series with a bit of a nod to #America250 …by looking at the albums that mean the most to us from America200 aka 1976. it was a hell of a year in music!

Watch it on YouTube — 🔗 below

Bonus #SongOfTheDay, 7/3/2026:
"America The Beautiful" (1972) by Ray Charles,
which briefly made the R&B chart in April of 1976
#BicentennialSongs #America200 #America250

2nd #SongOfTheDay, 7/3/2026:
"Bicentennial Muscle" (1976)
by the Miami-based Washington Jamb Band [sic]
#BicentennialSongs #America200 #America250

1st #SongOfTheDay, 7/3/2026:
"Happy Birthday America" (1976)
by the Philadelphia-based Soul Survivors
(best remembered for "Expressway To Your Heart")
#BicentennialSongs #America200 #America250

2nd #SongOfTheDay, 7/2/2026:
"America 200" (1976 B-side / "America The Beautiful" cover)
by Beard with jazz vocalist Ethel Ennis (1932 - 2019)
#BicentennialSongs #America200 #America250

1st #SongOfTheDay, 7/2/2026:
"Yankee Disco" (1976 A-side / "Yankee Doodle" cover) by Beard,
with instrumentation credited to jazz flautist Joe Farrell
#BicentennialSongs #America200 #America250

2nd #SongOfTheDay, 7/1/2026:
"Bicentennial" (1976), one of two novelty 'break-in' records that summer,
credited to someone named Jack See (most likely a pseudonym)
#BicentennialSongs #America200 #America250

1st #SongOfTheDay, 7/1/2026:
"Bi-Centennial" (1976 B-side / album cut) by the Ohio Players
#BicentennialSongs #America200 #America250

#SongOfTheDay, 6/29/2026:
"Here Comes The Freedom Train" (1976)
by Merle Haggard and the Strangers
[Country: top-10]
#Bicentennial #BicentennialSongs #America200 #America250