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I'd like to hear the rest of that story. Glad it worked out for you. Sometimes hardships instill good virtues in a man.

I've been schooled by the old truck drivers. Takes a man to drive a 1948 Mack coast to coast . Never mind the idiots today

End of May
I remember nothing of 61

I was riding around in Dads bag sommers around cambodia way in '61, i hit dirt in '63, and hell no it isn't the same, when obongo bathed the Capitol in shlt packer colors and they started calling bruce jenner 'her,' i knew we were forever fu-ked!

Feb of 83 for me


Nothing has changed.

Schit...maybe even got more old timey.

Dec 24th 61'

That's because the hi-line is in a time warp..... things don't progress there they regress....

I went 25 yrs between visits and nothing visually changed, literally

I retired from Johns-Manville just a little before that.

I was 10 in 1961 and with my grandfather I went to the Seattle World's fair and saw the space needle.

The space needle is still there. I saw it yesterday, with all the boarded up windows for antifa and BLM

My mom was in middle school

I was 15 in 61 and spent a couple weeks in Oakville Iowa visiting my Dad's mom. 2nd and last time I saw her..I learned what humidity was that summer.

Way too many doors left open there - I'm passing.

Headed out to H.S in my '48'Merc with the 56 Caddy under the hood.. Life was great. $3 in your pocket and you were rich. Gas 25cents a gallon. The drive-in was 50 cents and a hamburger ,fries and coke was 49cents. Hunted and fished on property that now is golf courses and condos. Laughed a bit when the last hurricane came through and flooded out a bunch of the posh homes in those areas. You would think folks would be a bit hesitate to build something in a place labeled on old topo maps as "Alligator Swamp". But what do I know.

Good stuff - I do understand. Some of my best times were driving our 1952 Mack LTL - supercharged big valve Cummins, jake brake, 3x5 double stick, conventional steering and brakes. Driving trucks like that is real work.

1961-First assignment after advanced training-Promoted to PFC

Bruce

I was 14, it was a great time to grow up. Pocket calculators were starting to come in. Slide rules still ruled.
In math they were trying to teach us about binary numbers. We didn't know why and really didn't care.

Mantle/Maris chasing the Babe

AND hurricane Carla

The first year I ever went to an NHRA drag race. The top fuel dragsters were usually above 9 second ET's then, but they smoked the tires almost to the finish line, fun to watch.

Vietnam and Cuba were in the news a lot.

My buddy and I shot his dad's .264 Win. mag. with a scope. The first year I had shot a rifle with a scope, it was a Redfield if remembering correctly.

It was the first year I went to a Mexican border town.

I was working in a grocery store after school and on weekends trying to save money to buy a used car when I got my license. Life seemed good from my perspective.