motherload- I was living in Miami, Fla and remember having bomb drills once a week at school to prepare for the Cuban missile crisis. We had to squat down under our desks,when we heard the siren call- like a little wooden desk is gonna save my butt. Thats the real reason your mom made sure your drawyers were clean. Gas was 20 cents a gallon, milk got delivered to the back stoop, dairy queen ice cream was 20 cents for a cone, 25 cents for a dipped cone and Ed Sullivan came on every Sunday night. My dad drove a 1955 Ford robin's egg blue then he bought a 1956 Lincoln Mark II(i think) I can remember what it smelled like- umm the new car smell. We used to go for long Sunday drives. The neighborhood men would smoke cigars after dinnner ahh Cuban cigars where legal, cigarettes where 15cents a pack. My first car was an MGB purchased for 1350.00 what a nightmare that car was but man when she was running could she haul butt- i got myself in more trouble racing at red lights, 2nd car 62' vw bug 425.00 sold it for 425.00 bought it back for 400.00. The word suck was so bad you got your mouth washed out with soap if you said it. The stero of the day was Macintosh and Pulsar made the first digital watch... one last note- my dad was a pilot for Pan Am and every Saturday night in the early 1960's he would fly to Cuba and bring back the refugees, I used to pray at night he'd return safely. Hope this helps.