I think anyone who likes cool cars, motorcycles, and boats kinda wonders what it was like in the heyday of all that. When they were cheap, gas was cheap to wad them out and run, style and power was king, and regulations let you modify however you wanted. Plus used vehicles were often worth little more than scrap and parts were everywhere and dirt cheap.
I go a job at a law firm as a legal secretary. That job paid about $25 more a week than most other secretarial jobs. The only ones that paid about the same were medical and engineering secretaries.
Of course you didn't. It was the norm then and taken for granted. That's the thing about the golden ages of a scene. No one knows it is when they are in it.
There's that too. I've had my fair share of that outside the 60's though. Doing it in a Chevelle SS driving down a neon lit highway though is another story. The 670's and 70's had a lot going on that I would have liked to see.
I was teaching electronics at an Air Force base in the 60s and I didn't quite believe what I was hearing from the outside. I was glad when Rowan And Martin's Laugh-in started. At last! Something that made sense! I mean compared to everything else that was going on.
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I was 10 years old in 1960, so I didn't really get to enjoy them until the late 60s. But we had great music, food and cars. But much was overshadowed by the Viet Nam war. That took a toll on all of us.
I thought it was brilliant, in that decade, I left school, went into work straight away, then joined the Royal Navy, got married and was presented with my first child. What could have been better in a 10 year stretch?
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