1960

It was the start of a decade not to be forgotten. It was my growing up period. A very bad year for me in many ways. My last year of Jr. High I was kicked out for smoking in boy's restroom. Then a few months later I was kicked out again in my first of high school, smoking on school property as the Vice-Principal was waiting for me out side of door way, as I lit up, there he was. My dog shep died just before school started. After those things it was a great year. Some great TV shows were on that year, the debut of the Andy Griffith show with good old Barney Fife as his deputy. Then there was the Jack Benny Show, My Three Sons, and Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp and many more. The Pittsburt Pirates defeated the New York Yankees in Seven games in a huge upset. The Eagles upset the Green Bay Packers in the NFL Title Game, this was way before the Super Bowl. Movies coming our way were Psycho a very scary movie. David Jansen made a movie called "Ring of Fire", where he played a Deputy Marshall overpowered by these two escaped convicts and this girl, they took him hostage, up into the Oregon Forest, this fire breaks out creating a lot of drama. John F. Kennedy was elected our President, I was too young to vote for him, but if elected again I was going to vote for him. This was before i became a Republican, but then came November 22, 1963 changed all of that. My friend Danny and I started our 3rd year working at the Iowa State Fair as ticket takers on the midway. That fall him and I went to our first sock hop at our new school East High, we didn't dance with anyone, we went to look at the pretty girls, us being too shy to talk with them. Our football team had a great season with a 6-2 record. They won the big six conference and the City Championship. I really miss going to those high school football games. Music was starting to go downhill for me, until Chubby Checker came out with the song "The Twist" then later came the Beach Boys and Dion was great. Was so young in 1960 i had my whole life in front of me, now most of it is behind me. But those were great times. Written 8-18-11