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Sleeping on the rear window ledge of the car when we traveled. Good thing we didn't hit anything!
Fender skirts
Continental kits
Wide white wall tires
Chrome sunshades over the top edge of the windshield
A fan on the dash of my grandfathers car that rotated side to side. Air conditioning!
Air bubbles in the glass in the same car. Don't see that anymore!
We used to call them fly windows: They were at the front of the side window and rotated open to direct air into the car. We shushed flies out them - hence the term "fly" windows.
In 67 I installed a “reverb unit” on the car radio 67 Mustang GT2+2. It would change the AM monaural radio station being played into a “stereo type” sound and also add distortion to the audio causing a delayed echo effect at the rear speakers. Very cool! Adjusting the unit controls would make the radio station songs being played sound as if you were in a large cave or tunnel with the echo.
Doing laundry in a wash machine. Running clothes through the wringer into the first tub of rinse water, back through the wringer into the 2nd tub of water and then through the wringer and then hang everything outdoors if weather permitted. Otherwise hang clothes in the basement. Puttin dad's work pants on the metal pants stretchers.
My mom buying a table and chair set and making payments once a week to a man that would come by the house. He'd mark in a book the date and amount of payment. My daddy was in the Navy then and overseas at the time. So my mom worked at the 'Small Arms Plant' not far from our hone.
I remember starch in a coke bottle with a sprinkler head on it, my mother would dampen the clothes with it then roll them up and iron. Lucky me, she taught me how to do it.
How about the daily afternoon game show "Who Do You Trust" hosted by a very young Johnny Carson?
Friday night: "77 Sunset Strip", later "The Twilight Zone".
The 1957 Edsel.
1960 Corvair...the poor man's Porsche.
The whole nation still using two digit mail zone numbers.
All airlines still flying propellor aircraft. DC-6, triple tail wing.
The Dodgers and Giants departing New York to play in Los Angeles and San Francisco.
Rock n roller Jerry Lee Lewis marrying his 13 year old cousin.
Sputnik!
Beatniks!
Telstar!
Gas wars!
U-2 spy planes- Gary Powers
Texan Van Clibourn winning the Tschaikowsky piano competition (and critical acclaim) in Moscow.
East Germany builds a wall separating East from West Berlin.
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