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09-01-2012, 05:52 PM
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Where were YOU in '62?
I was, uh, not born until 1967. But in my mind American Graffiti was set on this weekend 50 years ago. One of my favorite movies:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Graffiti http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069704/ Favorite lines: "Wow, he's really fast!----Yeah, but he's stupid!" (Between Carol and Milner) "Wow, you're just like the Lone Ranger." (Toad's gal Debbie) "I'll die soon and then it will all be over....." (Drunken Toad) Here's a bunch more: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069704/quotes |
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09-01-2012, 06:16 PM
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Youngstown, Ohio!!!
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09-01-2012, 06:38 PM
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Drive In
I went to the drive In with my dad and came home with my mom LOL. Ed
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09-01-2012, 06:48 PM
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I was going into my junior year at UCLA, and I was dating the lady who was destined to be my wife.
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09-01-2012, 06:53 PM
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For me it was the summer of 65. American Graffiti typified everything that was going on in my life. The location was Portage Mi just south of Kalamazoo and it was Schwatz's Drive In and drag racing stoplight to stoplight down Westnedge Ave.
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09-01-2012, 07:44 PM
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Kindergarten for me in '62!!!
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09-01-2012, 07:57 PM
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Shoot I was one year old by that time! I was brought up in a real small town in western Ny. It was so small we did't have a traffic light, they now after oh about 23 years have one!
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09-01-2012, 08:16 PM
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My mother was 5 years old in '62
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09-01-2012, 08:16 PM
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2 years old, don't remember much that was happening....
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09-01-2012, 08:17 PM
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Smoken cigarettes and watching Captain Kangroo.
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09-01-2012, 08:59 PM
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Crusin chicks at Dog-N-Suds in my step-dads '55 Olds and some 2-lane blacktop action.
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09-01-2012, 09:01 PM
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About 6 years from being thought of.
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09-01-2012, 09:12 PM
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There are some things my dad never talked about much. When I was young, we lived in between Ft. Bragg and Pope Air Force Base, just north of Fayetteville NC. My dad was a civilian employee of the military and worked on tanks and heavy equipment after WWII. I was about 5 yrs old in September 1962. I remember is my parents were very nervous about living in between Ft. Bragg and Pope Air Force Base. I believe my dad quit his job and moved back to Monroe NC because he was worried the standoff might turn into a nuclear war and Ft. Bragg/Pope would be one of the first targets.
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09-01-2012, 09:46 PM
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At that time, I was a small kid living in Hampton, Va. Like you, Mike, my father was working for the government. He was in the Army and stationed at Ft. Monroe, Va. Besides Ft. Monroe being the Army Command Center (TRADOC), we were next to Langley Air Force Base, the Air Force Command Center. Within base property lies NASA. A few miles away is the Yorktown Naval Weapon's Station (think missiles being manufactured in underground bunkers) and also Ft. Eustis.
Then, on the other side of town you had Newport News Shipbuilding making carriers and destroyers. A few miles across the river is the Norfolk Naval Station. I would estimate all of this is within a 50 mile radius, with most within 20 miles. Talk about feeling like a target is on your back! |
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09-01-2012, 10:02 PM
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12 years old growing up in Hagerstown, Md. I would get together with my friends on Saturday morning and we would ride our bikes to Mason-Dixon drag strip, and spend the day. But, if we weren't home when the street lights came on we had to answer to our parents!! And, that usually meant "THE BELT"!
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09-01-2012, 10:13 PM
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I think that's why some kids started busting street lights! My father used his belt too.
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09-01-2012, 10:52 PM
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Cruising Frisch's Mainliner in Cincinnati in a buddy's '56 Chevy Bel Air 210 hardtop. .
No front bumper, 265 with 2-4s, and a Hurst-shifted 3 speed.
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09-01-2012, 10:55 PM
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I was 19 years old early in '62, standing on the sidewalk in front of the neigborhood Pontiac dealer, Nelson Brothers, watching them unload new Pontiacs. Among the others on the car hauler, were two cars named GRAND PRIX!! I stood and watched, wondering why I hadn't heard Pontiac was about to release a new nameplate. Also wondering if I'd ever be able to afford one!! My dad always bought 4 doors, so the Grand Prix didn't interest him. Little did I know there would be a GTO in two years---and I bought one!!
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09-01-2012, 11:22 PM
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I was three and my parents had just bought a small farm just outside of Stockport,Ohio, and getting my butt busted for constantly being in a stall brushing my dad's big Appalosa stallion. That horse hated my mom and brother and dad was afraid I'd get hurt. I never had a problem with that horse.
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09-01-2012, 11:28 PM
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Counting flowers on the wall, playing solitar till dawn with a deck of 51, soking cigaretts watching captain kangeroo, dont tel me ive got nothing to do Great song remember it well Summer of 63 well dont remember much do remember mom getting a 64 Ford Falcon not much else sticks out in the think box, was just turning 4 in September of 63 also remeber coming in out of the rain and while I was trying to remove my sweater i fell and hit the base board and split my chin got 5 stiches. Oh yeah I forgot to say where I was that would have been in Plymouth, Ind my parents moved off the dariy farm big family farm 690 acers between Rotchester Ind. and Kewanna, Ind. we got bovine fever had to shut down dariy operations for 7 years
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