Every generation has its fads but I feel a special sympathy for the latest generation. In the forties it was the Zoot Suit, in the fifties the Bobby Sox crowd had saddle oxfords and the Beatniks had their goatees, in the sixties the Hippies had long hair and flowers, but all these things had something in common, they were reversible. The Zoot Suiters could shed their baggy dress, the Bobby Soxers could revert to street shoes, the beatniks could shave their goatees, and the Hippies could cut their hair. I lived through one of those generations and if you saw me today you would have no way of knowing if I had been a long haired pot smoking dropout who had burned his draft card and lived in a Volkswagen bus or if I had been a Viet Nam warrior. What do you do with a Tattoo?
About Me
- Robert
- Grew up in Sacramento, CA. Our family moved around like a Gypsy troup and I attended different schools every year, and sometimes two in one year! In our family the "Work Ethic" was praised above all others and, consequently, I was not encouraged to attend college, and only graduated from the University of Redlands later in my life. After High School I hitchhiked from San Francisco to New York City and sailed from there to England on the original Queen Mary. I visited with relatives in England for six months before I sailed home on the original Queen Elizabeth, thus having the distinction of sailing on both of the original Queens. Shortly after returning home, I served four years in the United States Air Force as a Radar Technician, met and married my wife, Gail, and settled in Riverside, California.
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