Fashion: I’ve always been clueless, but I do remember wearing my Dad’s white dress shirt to school
Music: The Beach Boys, and of course The Beatles and Elvis Presley
Movie/TV: original episodes of I Love Lucy; Ozzie and Harriet see list
Family: I got hit by a dodge ball at school which ruptured my appendix. The doctor botched the operation, and I nearly died. My whole family gathered at our house that Christmas, and no one expected me to see my 13th birthday in January.
Going to Disneyland on it’s one year anniversary. I was also there for it’s 50th anniversary
We went from all our Aunts, Uncles and cousins living with in walking distance to spread out across the country. It was a sad time for me. My parents were the first to move, into a better high school district, and one by one their brothers and sisters also moved away, to exotic places like California, Iowa, Nebraska, and New Mexico.
Our vacations took on Marathon proportions, traveling three thousand miles round trip in two weeks, staying in tents every night.
News: Sputnik; transistor radios; Korean War; TV dinners; gasoline for 25 cents a gallon.