You were nine when the Salk vaccine was announced and nine when the Mickey Mouse Club started. Ten when Elvis appeared on Sullivan. Sixteen during the Cuban missile crisis, seventeen in November 1963, and you graduated four months after the Beatles landed.
That sequence belongs to a narrow band of people, and you're right in the middle of it. Someone born in 1940 and someone born in 1952 both lived through the fifties and they remember two completely different decades.
Inside this book:
• In Front of the Television the day the set arrived in its wooden cabinet, Howdy Doody and the Peanut Gallery, the mouse ears, Captain Kangaroo
• The Music you were eleven when rock and roll took the radio, seventeen when the Beatles landed; the timing could not have been better
• At the Movies the theater downtown and a quarter in your pocket
• Toys and Games the last generation whose toys mostly did nothing until you did something with them
• School Days first grade in 1952, graduation in 1964, and a classroom that barely changed in between
• Around the House, What You Ate, and The Way Things Were Done ordinary facts of daily life that would now be considered remarkable, and were not remarked on at all
• Being a Teenager the word barely existed before you were born; your generation invented what it meant
• The Things You Watched Happen ten events you didn't read about later, because you were there
• Plus Questions Worth Being Asked for the family who want to hear the stories
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