1962

In 1962 John F. Kennedy was president. Johnny Carson came into our living rooms as the host of "The Tonight Show". John Glenn was the first American to orbit the earth. The Yankees won the World Series. Marilyn Monroe passed away. West Side Story won the Oscar for best picture. Henry Mancini won a Grammy for "Moon River". A first class stamp cost 4 cents. I was born in the Bronx, New York.

My mother loves to tell this story about my first year of my life. We lived in a small walk up apartment. She went grocery shopping almost every day and when she got back to the apartment my mother couldn’t get me and the provisions up the stairs at the same time. She had a choice; the baby or the groceries. So she would leave ME in my carriage at the bottom of the stairs, take the groceries UP, and come BACK for me. Her reasoning? People would steal our food before they’d steal a baby. She isn’t sure the same would hold true today.


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