1. "Cruising" Tanglewood Blvd.,
Westheimer and Richmond on a Friday night, listening to
the Top 40 on KILT-610AM radio.
2. What group was created for TV, and
then became popular? (The Monkees)
3. When there were only 3 TV channels
(2, 11 & 13) -- and it was so hard to choose what to
watch even back then!
4. Where you were when Marilyn Monroe
died...JFK was shot...or RFK...or MLK, Jr....or John Lennon...or
Elvis.
5. When the "duck and cover"
was a way of life...for all the good it would have done!
6. Who played "Bud" on the program
Father Knows Best? (Billy Gray)
7. Who the first American to fly in space
was. (Alan Shepherd)
8. Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris compete
to break Babe Ruth's home run record. (1961)
9. When Johnny Carson started his 30-year
reign on late night television. (1962)
10. The unbelievable taste and sophistication
of good ol' Ripple wine...or Mateus...or Lancer...or Schlitz...or
Jax...or Pearl.
11. What takes a "licking and keeps
on ticking"? (Timex watches)
12. Who played in the first Super Bowl?
(Green Bay Packers vs. Kansas City, 1967)
13. When you said that you'd never trust
anyone over 30.
14. What a TV test pattern looked like,
when the channel went off the air at midnight.
15. Phone numbers were letters and numbers,
and you dialed them, no buttons and NO AREA CODES!.
16. When the price of gas jumped up to
50 cents per gallon.
17. When the "Motown Sound"
and "soul music" found its way into our beat.
18. Making love, not war, on your way
to Woodstock (ok, to Austin) in your flower-powered VW van.
19. Watching the first man walk on the
moon with "one small step..." in beautiful black
& white.
20. Dr. Denton Cooley performed the first
successful human heart transplant in the United States in
1968.
