JohnR7
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You should have said what can you remember from before the Viet Nam war.
I remember black and white TV's with only three stations, that signed off the air at midnight. Except for Friday night, there would be a movie on 'tell 1:30 so we all would stay with a friend and watch the movie. Then Johnny Carson came along with what they called late night TV.
I remember when I was in Collage they wanted us to learn how to use a computer and it was the size of a room. We had to punch holes in a data card to run data into the computer.
I remember Rachel Welsh in a movie where they shrank her down and put them in a sub in the blood vessels of the body. Nothing today, but pretty neat stuff back then.
I remember going to a concert in NYC to see Jim Morrison and the door live. They had a really wild show with lights and a projector and a screen.
Of course I remember when Kennedy was shot and everyone was so upset. He had given us hope and then it seemed like all that hope was gone. He started the space program.
Then there were the machines, the pinball machine, the juke box with the hit singles. The cigerette machines placed in a hallway so anyone of any age could buy them. The muscle cars, with the big fast motors in them. Esp, the 57 chevy. Everyone wanted one of those. I don't think they ever junked a single one. My first car was a 58 chevy, but they were to big and heavy, no one wanted them. Then in the 60's was when they stared to get very square or boxy looking. So the young guys would say it's not cool to be square. Cars sold new for about $2000 to $3000. You could buy a 10 year old car for about $100. Their scrap value was $35. Min wage was about $100 a week and a apartment was about $100 month. You could build a new home for $40,000 which was very high, because they sold for $12,000 right after WW2. So everyone said, be sure to go to collage or you will not ever be able to afford to buy a house.
Then who could ever forget when mini skirts came out and bikini and then there were the women who started to burn their bras and hate men. If a girl when to school and her knees were not covered they would send her home.
Also, if you wanted to go shopping, you had to take a bus downtown, they did not have malls yet. There was no McDonalds or fast food. But they did have a place you could drive in & eat in the car. It was like a parade and people would just drive through so others could look at their car. Drive in movies were real big to, you would go to get some pop corn and look at the guys making out with their girl. They use to try to sneak people in the trunk, so they did not have to pay for them. So that was when they started to charge by the car and not the number of people.
I remember black and white TV's with only three stations, that signed off the air at midnight. Except for Friday night, there would be a movie on 'tell 1:30 so we all would stay with a friend and watch the movie. Then Johnny Carson came along with what they called late night TV.
I remember when I was in Collage they wanted us to learn how to use a computer and it was the size of a room. We had to punch holes in a data card to run data into the computer.
I remember Rachel Welsh in a movie where they shrank her down and put them in a sub in the blood vessels of the body. Nothing today, but pretty neat stuff back then.
I remember going to a concert in NYC to see Jim Morrison and the door live. They had a really wild show with lights and a projector and a screen.
Of course I remember when Kennedy was shot and everyone was so upset. He had given us hope and then it seemed like all that hope was gone. He started the space program.
Then there were the machines, the pinball machine, the juke box with the hit singles. The cigerette machines placed in a hallway so anyone of any age could buy them. The muscle cars, with the big fast motors in them. Esp, the 57 chevy. Everyone wanted one of those. I don't think they ever junked a single one. My first car was a 58 chevy, but they were to big and heavy, no one wanted them. Then in the 60's was when they stared to get very square or boxy looking. So the young guys would say it's not cool to be square. Cars sold new for about $2000 to $3000. You could buy a 10 year old car for about $100. Their scrap value was $35. Min wage was about $100 a week and a apartment was about $100 month. You could build a new home for $40,000 which was very high, because they sold for $12,000 right after WW2. So everyone said, be sure to go to collage or you will not ever be able to afford to buy a house.
Then who could ever forget when mini skirts came out and bikini and then there were the women who started to burn their bras and hate men. If a girl when to school and her knees were not covered they would send her home.
Also, if you wanted to go shopping, you had to take a bus downtown, they did not have malls yet. There was no McDonalds or fast food. But they did have a place you could drive in & eat in the car. It was like a parade and people would just drive through so others could look at their car. Drive in movies were real big to, you would go to get some pop corn and look at the guys making out with their girl. They use to try to sneak people in the trunk, so they did not have to pay for them. So that was when they started to charge by the car and not the number of people.
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