In the mid-1970s, all the World War II-built (and subsequently modernized) aircraft carriers were finally retired after 30+ years of service, including some hard years of wartime service in WWII, Korea and Vietnam.
With the retirement of those ships -- which could not easily operate either the heavy F-4 Phantom or heavier F-14 Tomcat -- the Vought F-8 Crusader fighter was retired as well.
However, the F-8 was the last Navy/Marine fighter to be built in a dedicated photo reconnaissance version as well and a few (perhaps a dozen or so) RF-8G photo birds continued in service in two small squadrons in the Navy Reserve. While the RF-8 was not as pretty as the fighter version, as a confirmed Crusader-holic I'd take any Crusader I could get.
Here they are in 1980: RF-8Gs of VFP-206 and VFP-306. They would not last too many years longer.