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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: Delmar on July 29, 2018, 11:47:49 AM
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Sun Jul 29, 2018, 10:51 AM
Star Member MineralMan (109,329 posts)
Tracing the Changes in This Country
For my birthday, my wife gave me a 1962 State Farm Insurance Road Atlas as a gift. She found it on eBay. Glancing at it this morning, I noticed how little of the Interstate Highway system had been completed at that time.
I plan to retrace several trips around the country I made in the early to mid-60s on that map. That should stir up some memories and refresh them in my mind.
For example, in 1962, my parents took their three children on a summer trip from our small town in southern California, all the way up to Seattle to see the World's Fair. No Interstate 5 to travel on. We camped in a couple of places during the trip and spent a couple of days with my father's brother in Oregon. I remember many details of that vacation.
Then, again, I also remember a cross-country drive I took in 1965, along the southern border of the US. I was on my way to Selma, Alabama, where historic events were occurring. As a 19 year old kid from a rural California town, I wanted to see history being made. I didn't arrive in time to walk across the Edmund Pettis bridge with the rest, but I did arrive in time to hear Dr. King give his "How Long?" speech in Montgomery.
No Interstate highways, and my drive took me through parts of the rural South that passed by decrepit, falling down houses along the road in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. I had no idea that such poverty existed in my youthful world. I'll be retracing that journey, too, in my new old Road Atlas.
This is what I saw on that day from the back of the crowd in late March of 1965. I will never forget it.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210937879
Response to MineralMan (Original post)Sun Jul 29, 2018, 11:16 AM
BarbaRosa (2,435 posts)
1. I was at the '62 Seattle Worlds Fair,
I'm surprised I didn't run into you.
Our trip was much like yours except we started in Illinois.
Response to BarbaRosa (Reply #1)Sun Jul 29, 2018, 11:24 AM
Star Member MineralMan (109,329 posts)
2. Maybe you did. I was a 16-year-old skinny kid
with mild acne. You'd have recognized me right away!
Rock Head rewriting history to write himself into it. These old white leftist democrats that try to manufacture a civil rights advocate past for themselves are so obvious. The only thing I believe about this story is that he had acne.
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No Interstate highways, and my drive took me through parts of the rural South that passed by decrepit, falling down houses along the road in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. I had no idea that such poverty existed in my youthful world.
Now you nly haver to go to LA or san francisco to see poverty and homless drug addicted bums shooting up and shitting in the street. The poor folks you saw in the south were poor but not drug addicted bums and used the out house.
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No Interstate highways, and my drive took me through parts of the rural South that passed by decrepit, falling down houses along the road in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. I had no idea that such poverty existed in my youthful world. I'll be retracing that journey, too, in my new old Road Atlas.
And IIRC no Republicans ruling those states either. The Democrat Party has always had the corner on keeping people poor for their own benefit.
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And IIRC no Republicans ruling those states either. The Democrat Party has always had the corner on keeping people poor for their own benefit.
Excellent point you brought up. :thumbs:
It seems creating poverty and misery is a long time democrat tradition.
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For his birthday, his wife gave him an outdated road atlas she probably found in the trash.
Somebody loves you, rockhead.
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For his birthday, his wife gave him an outdated road atlas she probably found in the trash.
Somebody loves you, rockhead.
LOL! maybe she's hoping he'll go down some road to nowhere and never come back.
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For his birthday, his wife gave him an outdated road atlas she probably found in the trash.
Somebody loves you, rockhead.
"Hit the road, Rock!
And doncha ..."
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Sun Jul 29, 2018, 10:51 AM
Star Member MineralMan (109,329 posts)
Then, again, I also remember a cross-country drive I took in 1965, along the southern border of the US. I was on my way to Selma, Alabama, where historic events were occurring. As a 19 year old kid from a rural California town, I wanted to see history being made. I didn't arrive in time to walk across the Edmund Pettis bridge with the rest, but I did arrive in time to hear Dr. King give his "How Long?" speech in Montgomery.
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