Do you remember when every telephone was a landline? Sometimes different families shared one. These were called party lines.
How about music? It could be live, or on the radio, or on the record player or jukebox. It was never portable unless you wanted to carry a radio around. That would have been uncool to say the least with those radios.
Television was black and white with a small screen. Few people could afford them.
Polio stalked children and everyone knew what an iron lung was.
The eligible generation was at war in Korea.
Many things were very different; other things were just the same.
We were there then, too. We were also younger.
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Chapter I
The Very First Time
Chapter II
That Day Just Kept Happening
Chapter III
That King
Chapter IV
That Meeting
Chapter V
Sunday
Chapter VI
So Comes Monday
Chapter VII
The Unkempt Yard
Chapter VIII
The Beach
Chapter IX
Posing
Chapter X
Goodbye & the Gallery
Chapter XI
Vaya con Dios