I'm old enough to have experienced black and white television, the introduction of color television, the very first post-WWII gasoline "shortage" and rotary "Princess" telephones. I also remember when AM radio was king and only uppity college kids listened to FM. In fact, I recall when an AM radio was all the entertainment you would ever find installed in the automobile dashboards. In my youth, a CB radio was your cell phone and your iPod was an eight-track tape player. My buddies and I questioned the ability of those tiny new audio cassettes to sound as good as our vinyl records and quarter-inch reel-to-reel tapes. Oh yeah, that vinyl album costs $3.98, which I considered highway robbery. After all, gasoline prices had just been raised and I was paying 25 cents a gallon for that 23 cent-a-gallon gas I just bought last week. With those high prices, how could I afford to buy the latest tunes and cruise the Dairy Queen parking lot in my brand new $4,000 Oldsmobile 442?
展开▼
