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Great subject. I remember going to Woolworths. I was a teen groom. Don't remember Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, or Big Bopper at all. After that, I remember everything else including the JFK assassination. Mom was a school teacher and I fooled her again faking sickness to stay home and watched the news with the maid (Texas, illegal immigrant) that spoke little English. Mom said everyone was screaming and crying in school. Remember nothing about the bomb scare or Joe McCarthy, but do remember Sputnik and the first astronaut circling the Earth (4th grade). Grandparents loved Ed Sullivan, boring while at their house but they always had hard candy in a dish. I do remember watching, sort of, the Beatles. Thought they were stupid at the time. Sis was enamored. Toys were all imagination from electronic trash becoming rocket science to building forts with dirt clods, loved climbing trees. Didn't know anything about the Yankees. First record I owned was a 45 that I traded for another 45 of 'Time Won't Let Me' by the Outsiders [video=youtube_share;gaj1wVNvSqk]http://youtu.be/gaj1wVNvSqk[/video] Food. Don't remind me. Mom was the worst cook ever and when TV dinners came out, that was the best food I ever ate. Lasagna TV dinner every Thursday night while watching Star Trek. I once asked my Dad many many years later if peas were supposed to be dry and wrinkled. Mom's hamburger was like eating shoe leather, one chew and all the flavor was gone and all that was left was cardboard to swallow. Dinner was sometimes a task. Dad smoked, Mom did until she was 50 and quit. Not everyone smoked.
