So, in 1964 when I bought my first car I was 16 and for a time I had a sticker that said "AU H2O" which meant "Goldwater" for president which was a cryptic way of advocating the conservative Choice for president in 1964. But, Nixon ruined all that and anything conservative or Republican ever again for me and for people like Hillary Clinton who was also raised a Conservative Republican in I think Chicago then.
The next bumper sticker that I was enthusiastic about was one that just said, "Joy!" because I had a girlfriend named Joy who lived in Long Beach who brought great joy into my life around 1971 and 1972 when I was in College. I had this bumper sticker on a 1966 VW Bug and it was my private joke that I bet people wondered about when they drove past my car.
So, either they thought I was young and happy or just silly. But when you are really in love you are usually a little of both.
I had other bumper stickers from time to time but at the time these are what I was enthusiastic about at age 16 for a short time and the "Joy!" one for a year or two until Joy and I broke up. She was actually too young for me to get serious about in the end but she still brought me great joy as long as that relationship was working well. There is an enthusiasm in young love that you never can really ever replace. But, eventually practicality replaces everything or you have nothing in the end.
The point of this article is to show you that bumper stickers were a way we communicated with each other while driving our cars and trucks down the freeway in the 1960s and 1970s in California then. The bumper stickers could be serious or stupid or intelligent always.
Like there was a bumper sticker I saw a lot that said "Visualize World Peace" that was followed by a cynical bumper sticker later after the Viet Nam War ended of "Visualize Whirled Peas". And on and on these types of Bumper stickers would go into inanity or silliness or cynicism back then especially around college campuses or you might have bumper stickers that said, "Frodo" or just "Bilbo" which might mean you were a fan of J.R.R. Tolkien's works of the hobbits and the shire and Gandalf and Strider. This was well before any movies came out either cartoons or whatever.
"The Lord of the Rings" and almost all of Tolkien's works sold in every college bookstore I ever visited in the 1960s and 1970s by the way.
Tolkien's works are only 2nd to the Bible in Sales in the U.S. by the way.
It's interesting that a therapy for PTSD for Tolkien who lost all his best male friends in Europe during world War I where he also fought could be both so therapeutic for him but likely the most powerful anti-War Novel ever written on earth. He was a linguistics professor in England and created the Orc and Elven Languages for people to study in addition to writing about Frodo and Bilbo and all the rest.
I also liked Tom Bombadil and his girlfriend too in the Silmarillion:
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A collection of seven lectures or essays by Tolkien covering Beowulf, Gawain, and 'On Fairy Stories'. The Book of Lost Tales, Part I. Ed. Christopher Tolkien. The History of Middle-earth: Vol. 1.
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, CBE FRSL was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor who is best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion.
Notable works: The Hobbit; The Lord of the Ri...
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The Treason of Isengard (The History of The Lord of the Rings vol. 2) (1989) The War of the Ring (The History of The Lord of the Rings vol. 3) (1990) Sauron Defeated (The History of The Lord of the Rings vol. 4, including The Notion Club Papers) (1992) Morgoth's Ring (The Later Silmarillion vol. 1) (1993)
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Best known for his epic fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien earned rank in 2009 as Forbes 5th ...
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Born: January 3, 1892, Bloemfontein, South Africa
Died: September 2, 1973, Bournemouth, United Kingdom
Full name: John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
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