OPEN POST: Cruisin' On A Sunny Afternoon!

By AK


It's 1964 and there's so much going on! The Vietnam War's ramping up even though no one knows why, and rich men keep sending people's sons and brothers to war while their own sons keep getting "deferments." But there's always good in the world, and sometimes it even gets rewarded, like Martin Luther King Jr. becoming the youngest person to win the Nobel Peace Prize.

"My Fair Lady," "Mary Poppins" and "It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" had the theaters packed, and "Gomer Pyle," "The Fugitive" and "The Dick Van Dyke" show were on everyone's televisions, but that very year a small craft with only 2 crew and 5 passengers set sail one day for a three hour tour...a three hour tour.


I know! Let's drive around in your swell new Chevy Impala for a while before curfew and listen to the radio and gab about whatever we want, like it's an Open Post or something. Ooo, turn it up, this one was a #1 hit last year!


Photo Credits: AK

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