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Where Were You 50 Years Ago Today?

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Trevor Triumph said:
Fifty years ago on August 18, 1970 I was driving between Beallsville, Ohio and York Station, Ohio. First job as the only band instructor - spent two years as assistant. Eye opening - we were in Appalachia. Having grown up in the Cleveland area, the hills and attitude were quite a change. In the first three weeks we lived in the town we had driven to Wheeling WV, a forty-five minute drive, at least twice. Many of my students having lived in the town all their young lives had never left the town. The school was twelve miles from the Ohio River and one of the seniors said on her first trip to Wheeling, "So that's the Ohio River I've heard so much about." At the time we was driving a 1960 Austin Healy 3000 or a 100/6 depending on whether you read the horn button on the steering wheel or the sign on the boot lid.
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Trevor - that describes me in August 1970 too. I'd just moved from Fort Worth to Edinburg TX for my first teaching job. What a culture shock - most of my kids were children of migrant farm workers. Families lived in two room shacks up on concrete blocks, each room had a bare light bulb hanging from the ceiling. Spanish was their first language. Could only afford to buy meat once a week. Oh the stories I can tell ...

Tom M.
 
Trevor Triumph said:
Fifty years ago on August 18, 1970 I was driving between Beallsville, Ohio and York Station, Ohio. First job as the only band instructor - spent two years as assistant. Eye opening - we were in Appalachia. Having grown up in the Cleveland area, the hills and attitude were quite a change. In the first three weeks we lived in the town we had driven to Wheeling WV, a forty-five minute drive, at least twice. Many of my students having lived in the town all their young lives had never left the town. The school was twelve miles from the Ohio River and one of the seniors said on her first trip to Wheeling, "So that's the Ohio River I've heard so much about." At the time we was driving a 1960 Austin Healy 3000 or a 100/6 depending on whether you read the horn button on the steering wheel or the sign on the boot lid.
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I'd just left Geneva-on-the-Lake, OH, and got to Lackland AFB, TX. I'd had a part-time job my second year of college (1969~'70) as a "kidnapper" school photographer. Been to some of those small towns, one-room school houses. Thought I'd stepped into a time machine in some cases.
 
DrEntropy said:
I'd just left Geneva-on-the-Lake, OH, and got to Lackland AFB, TX. I'd had a part-time job my second year of college (1969~'70) as a "kidnapper" school photographer. Been to some of those small towns, one-room school houses. Thought I'd stepped into a time machine in some cases.
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My wife when she was a kid went to a one room schoolhouse in Selina Kansas and to top it off, some of the kids rode horses to school! :encouragement:
 
My great grandma was a teacher in a one room school house out around Sayre, OK back in the teens and twenties. Some of her students were grown men who were there to learn how to read and my grandad said she'd take her buggy whip into the school house with her to maintain order.
 
I was 9, was going to say I was sitting in 4th grade, but school didn't start early back then summer vacation before 4th grade. Riding my bike, a red Sears Sting-Ray, or roaming around the neighborhood on foot. Wasn't building models yet I don't think (but in a year or two would be building balsa planes, plastic cars, cars and ships. At this point more likely disassembling toys to see how they worked, always liked to take things apart or put them back together, which grew into the British car thing later in life.
 
You Corvair guys will need to guess who this is:

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WOW! Really would like to know if mine's still around at all.
 
Not seen one in many years, even at car shows. A lot of fond memories of a few of 'em though.

Same with Pintos and the early Ford Fiesta. Always thought a Fiesta with a Lotus twin-cam fitted would be a hoot.
 
I had just started teaching and had enough money to buy a used 1275 Mini Cooper S - that started it all!
 
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