So, what started with Freddy the Pig and Hugh Lofting's Dr. Dolittle books evolved for me into Heinlein and Asimov and Clarke which also led into Gene Roddenbury and George Lucas with Star Trek and eventually Star Wars in 1977.
I loved Science Class in School from about the 3rd or 4th Grade on and I also took Advanced Science in the 9th Grade with a lot of A Students in my junior high School then. But, by High School I wanted to date girls and I was working after school part time and I bought a car and got my driver's license the day I turned 16 and bought my own car a 1956 Ford STationwagon in 1964 for surfing in the Los Angeles area at places like Malibu and Huntington Beach and others. If the surf wasn't up often we would drive on weekends (my friends and I ) to either Knotts Berry Farm or Disneyland instead if the surf wasn't up that weekend. Gas was cheap at around 15cents to 17 cents a gallon then and I was making often between 2 and 3 dollars an hour when the minimum wage was 1 dollar an hour or more. Even my car (8 years old) was only about $600 cash which I could make pretty easy at the pay rate at 4 hours a day Monday through Friday that I worked and 8 hours a day Monday through Friday during summers from age 12 on. So, weekends I usually wanted to drive somewhere interesting and go surfing or hang out with friends or girlfriends then. This was my life growing up in Glendale, California then from 1956 until 1969 when I was 21.
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