ASIN: B010ESK4A8
Publisher: R. W. Ball
Pages: 492
I grew up in Los Angeles during the years of the mid-1950s through the 1970s, and what times they were. In 2011, I started a blog – The L.A. Baby Boomers Rewind Den – to recapture some of those memories.In my day: At my local theater, it only cost a kid 25 cents to get in. Candy bars cost 5, 10, and 15 cents. A 2 cent price increase sent me into a rage. When we kids went outside to play, our parents usually had no idea where we were. In 1960, my parents considered buying a nice 3br house for.….$13,000. I grew up in a ‘no cussing’ zone. Walking ‘cool’ was not an easy thing to do. There was a ‘golden age’ in south-central L.A. On Saturday mornings, the 1st cartoons came on TV at 6:30am. In the late 1950s, only one TV network was broadcasting in color. Etc. Etc…… There are so many memories, and everything was not all peaches & cream. When the Sylmar earthquake hit L.A. in 1971…I ...
