Where were you in '62?

I just found a cool picture from what I can tell is 1962 in Seattle...check out the '60 Impala...rollin deep in the weeds....badass.....

 

i was still on the bottle, hell i was born in 61.
i love the pic.

 

In N.S.W. Australia... I was 2 years old!..

 

Freshman high school. Getting zits, into pop music, girls and cars. Only the 45s were easy to get. Never heard of 'Nam or worried about the draft, but feeling the national panic over nukes, WW3, the Ruskies and the cold war. Gary

 

That's awesome but isn't that a 61?

 

I was 2 also,probably lying in a cot screaming for a feed.
Cool pic though.

 

It's a 60'

 

It's a '60. That's a '61 wagon ahead and to the left.
Bob

 

In 62 I was in kindergarden.

 

I was a Sophomore, but you hit the nail right on the head. I hated high school and being a teenager, I guess. If I had it to do over again........
Tom

 

I always try to date old pics by the cars, looks like you got an easy one with the billboard. I was impatiently waiting for 15 more years to pass, so I could get my license when I turned 16

 

That almost looks like the Ford Rouge Plant on Miller Rd..... Where deuces rolled off the assembly line back in the day...

 

I had just graduated and the whole world was in front of me. Now ( for the most part ) it's all behind me !!

 

I was 11, my life was building AMT 3in1 kits, Rod&Custom and all the other car magazines riding my bike with the ballons rubbin the spokes. I would save two bucks from mowing lawns or picking up bottles and go to the drug store and buy a model, have a Coke and hamburger and still have change left over. Never see those days again!

 

In the spring I was a senior in highschool. In the fall I was an apprentice steamfitter. No cars yet but 3 years of Hotrod Magazines for dreaming.

 

In '62 I was near Seattle at Ft. Lewis and Yakima Firing Center.

 

It depends on the time of year. I was either still in the womb or just a baby because I was born in August of '62 and riding around in an old MoPar. Some things never change!

 

10 years old...This was my ride @ 50 cents/hr.......best job I ever had

 

1962 I graduated from high school, on a whim moved from Buffalo to Ashley Indiana to work in my uncle's dry cleaners. Bought my 41'Ford convert. in FT. Wayne and learned about cruising the drive in burger joints. There were none where I lived and they were all over in the midwest. Great memories the two years I lived out there.

 

Wasn't even thought of yet..... born in 69.

 

Clad in very traditional white cloth diapers.

 

I turned five in '62 we lived in Seattle WA, a small village in Mexico and Eugene OR
in that order while my father went to school and did his field studies.
when in Seattle we would visit family, one of my uncles built plastic models and after each visit us boys would get to choose one to bring home.
that uncle was always into hot rods,
it's probably his fault I am too.

 

not sure if I was even swimming around pas nuts. he was born in '57 I didn't come long till '81

 

Let's see fenderless, big and littles, solid front axle and showing off the engine. You already had hotrodding in your blood.

By the way that's a neat reel type mower.

 

10 years old, building models and watching the sleds cruise the main drag. Saturday night jalopy races with my pal Larry and his uncle.

 

I was a Senior in High School, had already had a '55 Ford 4 door, a "57 Fairlane 2 door post, and was driving a red '59 Galaxie hardtop, pumping gas for $1.00 an hour, mowing lawns for $3.00 and trying to scrape together some money for teacher's College and a career of trying to teach 7th and 8th graders Science. Syl

 

I was 2 years old. My parents had two cars, a '49 Cadillac and a '50 Cadillac.

 

Due to Japan and Germany being flattened in WW-II, Pittsburgh was the industrial capital of the world back then.. I remember going to grade school walking past American Bridge and watching them make the pieces to the Golden Gate bridge..


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I don't think you were watching parts of the Golden Gate bridge being built in 62 since the bridge was opened 25 years before that. Well before WWII started.

 

Behind the '59 Ford Wagon

 

I was in the Air Force in Sacramento. My ride was a '48 Ford Coupe with a '55 Y block, dropped axel, '39 top loader that I replace about every other week it seemed, good times.