Listen to this man. Seven years of college, you know. Trying to reason with 2020 and, now, 2022.

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Where Were You October 9, 1973?-- Part 1

After finishing the first hour and a half back in 1968, Bob Stroud jumped ahead five years.

October 9th of 1973, I had been teaching 7th, 8th and 9th graders a grand total of six weeks. I was just eight years older than those freshmen. Liz was working at General Finance Corporation in Evanston, Illinois. I was teaching at John T. Magee Middle School in Round Lake.

She was driving her parents' 1968 Chevy to work and I drove the 1973 Ford Pinto to work from our apartment in Des Plaines, Illinois, off Golf Road near the Golf Mill Shopping Center.

JUST YOU "N" ME-- CHICAGO-- (Play me some horns.)
SATURDAY NIGHT'S ALRIGHT FOR FIGHTING-- ELTON JOHN--A 45 release from the album Goodbye Yellow Brick Road out months before the album was.

RUBBER BULLETS-- 10CC-- Our introduction to this UK band.
PHOTOGRAPH-- RINGO STARR-- (Who'd have figured Ringo would do so well?)

More to Come. --RoadDog

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