Grew up in Neptune Beach, Fl right on the ocean!
Thoughts from 1960 to 1970
Monkey sent up in Mercury space mission. So
Happy when the monkey returned safe.
Mercury, Gemini, Apollo space programs with resulted with men
On the moon.
Cool cars from the 50’s and earlier.
Cold war. Citizens build bomb shelters at home.
Cuban missle crisis. We were a navy town. Shetchy few days.
Watching John F. Kennedy get killed on live tv.
TV was 19” oblong black and white. Only 3 channels
Then watch Oswald get kill the day after on live TV
Elvis comes to the Florida theatre. Girls flipped out. City fathers said it was against the law to film from
Waist down!
The British invaison rock n roll invades the USA
The Beetles on the Ed Sullivan show
007 , Secret Agent man., The man from UNCLE. Everone spy paronoid.
Beach Boys USA goes surfing crazy.
Vietnam
Hurricane Dora destroys our house
Civil rights movement. Got slapped by some ole ugly white women for drinking at the “colored”
Water fountain at the A&P store. My mom led me away with a stare the was ment to kill the old bag.
It was my first WTF moment i remember as a child.
Thank God I was raised in a family where color did not matter at all. Nada!
Martin Luther King Killed! I was sad!
Vietnam
Great music!
Football played by men who play for the love of the game, not at all like the pu$$ys of today.
Custom cars, hot rods.
Airbush t-shirt Daytona beach boardwalk.
Rat Finks. Ed Roth
Stockcar racing, Drag Racing, Dune buggies
Surfing
Flower power, Flower children
Acid rock
LSD
Bobby Kennedy Killed.
Air raid drills every week
Hippies
Protest all over America
Great music!
More surfing
DNC riots Chicago
Ban the bra. What a great time to be a young man. Couldn't wait to go to school
Hair
Age of Aquarius
First shopping mall
The Movie Bullet
Hawaii FiveO
Woodstock
More great music
Go carts, motocross
Vietnam what a cluster phuck
Richard M. Nixon
More surfing
Kent State my Second WTF Moment
What a hoot!
Winston
