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No birthday, but I did just get
married !
Duck and cover exercises were
still the norm at my school through the 2nd grade, and my earliest solid memory
is of the JFK assassination. I remember all the old finned cars, as well
as the earlier ones. My parents and grandparents made a game of teaching
me all the cars on the road and then impressing their friends with my "vast"
knowledge. This occurred before I turned 5.
The first new cars I remember
seeing and appreciating were being unloaded off the trucks at BC Hawk Dodge in
downtown Bellevue. That would have been 1966. Funny, but I have two
of them in the drive now !
The finned car I have the
greatest recollection for is the 58 Plymouth. To my young eyes those tail
lights looked just like up-turned lollipops, what could be more compelling to a
3-4 year old than that ? ! I thought of 57 Chryslers and
Plymouths as "rabbit cars" because the tail lights looked like perked up rabbit
ears. My parents each had a 57 Chev, so I knew those well
too.
The week that the first moon
landing occurred, Mom took me to the Seattle Blues Festival, where I got to
stake my claim that I saw Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, Santana, Chicago Transit
Authority, and The Doors, amongst others. Of course, I barely remember any
of it. Just some muffled bands on a stage across a field and lots of
stoned hippies and women with their tops off - this was very interesting to
a boy my age !
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2007 5:24
PM
Subject: [FWDLK] Bdays and such
Like Neil, I just
celebrated...at least it came and went, my 56th B day... and tomorrow will
celebrate 35 years of wedded bliss!
I don't remember all of the
fifties, ... some nights of the sixties are vague, but I do remember cars with
fins, muscle cars, the music and a few slang terms..most of which were
brought up already. I also remember the Cold war scare, Kennedy's
assassination, and the landing of the man on the moon the day after my 18th
Bday.
I also remember
destroying a 59 Imperial so I could scavenge the hemi, the torqueflite and put
is all in my 48 Studebaker pickup. After setting that huge motor and
tranny in that little pickup, and putting a Dodge straight axle in and a
Plymouth rear end, all I needed was a driveshaft about 26 inches long...then
reality set in... my dad...get that death trap out of my yard...sold it for
$75 and it never did fly. Wish I had that big pink Crown Imperial
today!
John in WI
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