It’s arguable that I grew up in the coolest time period ever!!!! I was only 6 or 7 years old but damn man, it was 1966!!!! We lived in a nice neighborhood that had been built in the 1950’s and we all had yards to play in and plenty of friends with older brothers and sisters. It was the older siblings that ended up growing into the love children and such. The younger ones watched from a safe distance.
The toys in the day were so clever..... James Bond was huge so many of us had the spy radios that turned into hand guns or canes that shot bullets into the morning sun.
There were large battleships that would patrol front yards as if it was the Pacific Ocean. I remember one older boy mentioning Pearl Harbor but I was too young to understand .
Our background music was played on transistor radios or out of car windows.
Help by the Beatles
Hanky Panky by Tommy James
And every thing by this new group called
The Monkees.
That year, Batman was the rage with everyone at Monroe Grade school and certainly on our street.
We had neighbors next door that I vaguely remember. They had a teenage son and he played drums in a rock n roll band. It was the first live band I had ever heard, so one day several of my friends and I knocked on the front door and interrupted their rehearsal.
I asked if they could play the Batman theme song. The guy told us, not right now but maybe later. They went back to practice.
About five of us hung out in the front yard in hope that maybe they’d play Batman!!!!
After about a half hour, we heard the Batman theme loudly blaring through the front door and out to the lawn. Every kid immediately went into the fight scenes that we would see on TV during the Batman show. BAM!!! POW!!!!
CRACK!!!! It was thrilling. Like our own personal episode.
We pretended we were The Caped Crusaders and while that live band played the theme song loud, we were all in heaven. Looking back, it may have triggered something in me to start my own band someday. Those years were still a ways away but it all started from the ORANGE ROOM.
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