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Originally Posted by Denny Wagner
Hell....I remember watching the Nixon/Kennedy debate in 1960....mainly because I had to write a report on it for school....6th grade.
Gawd....did I just admit to that???  |
I remember seeing Kennedy give a campaign speech at the Ruskin Heights Shopping Center in Kansas City in 1960. I was in the 4th grade. Shopping Centers were a new concept at the time and this one had just been completed. This shopping center also issued the first credit card I remember. The card was good at any of the stores in this shopping center but nowhere else.
The standard of living was much lower way back then because people had to put 20% down to buy a house and had little capability to finance a lifestyle through credit. Three generations living under one roof was not uncommon. We had credit at the corner grocery store when I was a kid, but had to settle the account at the end of each month. There was no credit card or credit appliaction process. They just wrote what you owed in a book they kept behind the counter.
After listening to Kennedy speak I went and bought a banana flavored bubble gum cigar at Kreske's for 5 cents and can still remember the taste today.
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