I have a brother your age. You turned 16 in 1968, I turned 24 in 1968. I was a young single man, driving a new car which was my second new car, I lived with my parents but I was helping them, not the other way around. I had had an honorable discharge from the Navy for three years already and I was enjoying my money. I made 500 a month! Things were so different then that people had decided that I would never marry! They thought anyone who was 22 or older should have a wife and at least one child already! Can you even imagine that now? By the way my new car had cost me about 3400 dollars, it was full size with a V-8 engine, automatic transmission, air conditioning and a radio, “loaded to the limit” for those days. You could only finance a new car for 36 months then.
Interesting. My older brother is 10 years my senior (would have been 26 in 68). We email this kind of stuff back and forth every day!
I know we can never get that world back but I believe it's up to us to try even so.