Were you alive in 1960?

spudcon · 03-13-2010, 08:37 PM

I graduated from 8th grade that year. Swimming was done more in swimming holes in local creeks than in public swimming pools. Big treat to go to a lake to swim. 16 oz root beer could be bought for 11 cents. Block dances downtown, band concerts in the park. Mostly old fart bands, but they were good. Garage bands played at dances we had to pay to get into. My clothes were hand me downs, so I didn't have much chance to follow latest fashions.
All this in a small village, and I was the 7th of 7 children, and my father worked in a factory, so not much money unless I found work, which was hard to do under age 16.

03-13-2010, 08:37 PM	#7
spudcon Beware of potatoes Join Date: May 2007 Location: Upstate NY, USA Posts: 2,078	I graduated from 8th grade that year. Swimming was done more in swimming holes in local creeks than in public swimming pools. Big treat to go to a lake to swim. 16 oz root beer could be bought for 11 cents. Block dances downtown, band concerts in the park. Mostly old fart bands, but they were good. Garage bands played at dances we had to pay to get into. My clothes were hand me downs, so I didn't have much chance to follow latest fashions. All this in a small village, and I was the 7th of 7 children, and my father worked in a factory, so not much money unless I found work, which was hard to do under age 16. __________________ "I believe that being despised by the despicable is as good as being admired by the admirable."

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