wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer <fairfieldlife@>
> wrote:
> >
> > on 6/5/06 10:24 AM, TurquoiseB at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer
> > > <fairfieldlife@> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Patti Boyd: My life as a muse
> > >
> > > The muse sayeth:
> > >> But you have to cut yourself a bit of slack in the end,
> > >> I think. I certainly wouldn't have lived through any
> > >> other era. People blame the 1960s for just about
> > >> everything these days, but it was the decade when all
> > >> that post-war furtiveness and small-mindedness was
> > >> finally blown open and opportunity really came
> > >> knocking."
> > >
> > > Well said. It was an interesting era to live through.
> > > I don't know who here is old enough to remember the
> > > 1950s and what it was like growing up in them. We're
> > > talking 'duck and cover.' We're talking people brag-
> > > ging about the size and quality of the fallout
> > > shelters they just built in the back yard. It was
> > > not a happy time, no matter how many neocons think
> > > it was and want to return us to that mindset.
> >
> > I'm old enough (56) to remember air raid drills in grammar school
> > in which we'd assemble in the hallway and cover our heads with
our
> > hands (as if that would protect one from an atomic bomb) and the
> > local lumber company had a fallout shelter for sale, prominently
> > displayed on the main street. We used to play in it.
>
> I'm about eight years older than you, and I don't
> remember much of any drill-type stuff (but I went to
> a private "progressive" school,
Boy, does that explain alot.
Did you sing Pete Seeger songs?
> whose administrators
> may have had more sense than to inflict that idiocy
> on the students).
>
> But I do remember the air-raid shelter signs on just
> about every building (this was in NYC). Some of them,
> oddly enough, are still there, yellow circles with
> black arrows, I think, pointing to the basement.
>
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