Before this I was more all over the place even though I loved Christina (Kristina) in the 4th grade who was a blonde haired blue eyed wisp of a girl then but I never told her because I was just too young and shy then at age 9 in the fourth grade.
By 1963 the same month President Kennedy was assassinated I didn't want to die like Kennedy too so I asked the girl I sat next to in English Class named Gayle there at Glendale High to go on a date. She had blonde hair and blue eyes and was beautiful and from Alaska. We were both 15 and sophomores at Glendale High School. I think we went to "Beach Blanket Bingo" at the Alex Theater then . We liked groups like the Beach Boys then and went Ice Skating because she was an expert Ice Skater. I looked and saw that "Beach Blanket Bingo wasn't made until 1965 so that wasn't it because I was in Santa Fe, New Mexico at a private school by then. So, the movie had to be "Beach Party" with Annette Funicello which actually was made in 1963. The Beatles didn't show up on Life or Look Magazine until 1964 sometime a year later or so. When my friend Mike (now passed away) who was my best friend at Woodrow Wilson Junior High and at Glendale High school and after drove us to the Alex Theater on likely a Friday or Saturday Night for an evening showing. I remember how embarrassed I was when I accidentally kicked out a thermos from the floor of Mike's and it broke as we unloaded from the front seat. It was a bench seat in a 1951 Red Ford convertible that Mike Owned then. We used to put our 10 foot plus longboards under the front seats in back sticking straight up and somehow that was legal then to do that with the top down to go surfing. Amazing! Thinking back on it now it seems sort of crazy but then again no one wore seat belts then until the late 1980s either nationwide.
If you watch the movie "American Graffiti" you can see what my life was then except that I was also a surfer and dressed like one in 1963. We wore really tight levis that we wore up about at our ankles and white t-shirts with a pendleton brand wool shirt as a surfer then with white tennis shoes with white socks and surfer locks (hair) sometimes lightened with lemon juice and sunlight from surfing.
So, I was a street racer who was also a surfer and a hiker and a skier and mountain climber and a scuba diver then. So, we did many things because of our location close to the Pacific Ocean there in Southern California and by age 16 I bought my 1956 Ford STationwagon that I called my "surf wagon" to haul our over 10 foot longboards to the ocean on weekends and some times we would cut school to surf as well or go skiing. We could ski by driving up into the Angeles Forest and going skiing as close as Mt. Waterman there 45 minutes away from where I lived by car when I was in high school.
American Graffiti is a 1973 American coming-of-age comedy film directed and co-
Budget: $777,000
Box office: $140 million
Production company: Lucasfilm Ltd. The Copp...
Edited by: Verna Fields; Marcia Lucas
No comments:
Post a Comment