Isn’t it the other way around ? Don’t parents usually take their kids to the rock concert with them.
“Come on kids, we’re going to the Journey concert. You’ll really like this group.”
Oh? That must have made for awkward dinners?
When were you supposed to talk?
Talking was for my parents. We were supposed to speak when spoken to. We might get away with piping up to rat each other out but it could easily ricochet back.
Since they had seperate roles, it was the chance for my parents to talk with each other. It was mostly fairly interesting to listen to. (We were allowed to talk, but not to interrupt.)
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First off, the school year went from about mid September to mid June, which seems to be a big difference right there.
On the last day of classes, every June, my school showed Island Of The Blue Dolphins, which is at least well regarded children’s film if not a universally lauded classic. I always enjoyed it.
Don’t you look at me while I’m talking to you! 
I’m not sure if this due to a different time or a different place but they started running back-to-school ads here immediately after the 4th because the schools are back in in less than 3 weeks from now.
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Just saw one of those. It’s still 5 to 6 weeks away, starting in August seems to be the tradition here but I don’t think they’ve moved it back any further. I never went to school before Labor Day and back to school ads started in the last week of August. I think this is just because they start the next holiday marketing right after the last one. But they certainly need to get the product in the store earlier than they used to. And there’s a lot more of it too.
I remember being allowed to go hang around the toy section in Towers by myself while my parents shopped. I would have been like 5 years old. Nobody ever bothered or questioned me.
When I was in college in the mid-seventies, I worked temp jobs for Kelly Girls in the summers. Usually I was a place-holder for the receptionist or secretary who was on vacation or maybe working on a special project. But no matter what I was doing, “honey get me some coffee” was something I heard all day. I remember being pissed off about that because I didn’t even drink coffee.
I worked for a law firm for two weeks one year. The started happy hour around 2 p.m. on Fridays. They let me drink and I took advantage of trying Crown Royal whiskey for the first time. I got drunk as shit and then drove home. They were a law firm!
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I just finally saw this. Comedy gold!
We should write it down.
Another problem with eight track tapes was that one of the other three tracks would sometimes bleed through on the one you were actually listening to. You’d become vaguely aware that there was another, faintly audible song playing in the background. I don’t know if that was a problem with the recording or with the playback.
Eight tracks really didn’t last that long, IIRC, compared to cassettes for example.
Certainly they “jogged”. California was probably a forerunner in this but Kenneth Cooper’s Aerobics appeared in 1968 and did set a lot of people around these parts to jogging.
Some years later, however, you never heard of people “jogging”. Instead they went running. Maybe people began to think “jogging” sounded too easy or something. I couldn’t tell you myself because I was anti-physical in those days, avoiding vigorous activities of all kinds and driving my car across campus–on which I lived–to use the research library.
And you could get better than 5% interest on your savings, but then inflation was far higher.
If you mean that inflation hadn’t progressed so far on a cumulative basis, that’s true. 20K per year was still considered a very good income in the mid 1960s. But contemporaneous inflation rates were much worse then. It was the ongoing monetary dilemma of the late 1960s and 1970s.
This chart of inflation through the 1970s shows that it stayed above 5% through most of the decade, and at times reached double digits.
Speaking of salaries, I remember reading an ad in an early 1960s issue of Scientific American touting a master’s program for engineers to boost their income from 10K to 15K.
Casual research on the price of first class tickets today, at least when purchased early, combined with supposedly typical prices mentioned in old radio dramas, leads me to think that even first class air travel is probably cheaper now than it was in the regulated era. I also think hotels have gotten more expensive by contrast.
People were less paranoid about inadvertent “vicarious” physical contact. I know this went on into the early 1990s, because at that time, when I started working out at UCLA’s John Wooden Center, I didn’t see anyone carrying a little towel with them to wipe down every bench or machine before they could use it. I don’t know about the Wooden Center now, but with regard to public health clubs you wouldn’t think of going there without your wipe-down towel. The more expensive clubs usually provide and launder the towels for you.
Anyone could use the local high school track for jogging or running after hours, and you didn’t need a student ID or alumni rec card to do so at a university track. Any adult attempting to do so may be asked to leave, at any time.