Thank you for sharing!
That's one of the side benefits of FR - an unassuming article will be posted that brings back memories of 50 years ago and I take a trip down memory lane.
Two other anecdotes I left out to prevent my comments from becoming a novella:
That dynamite was brought up by those guys from Virginia. They put a whole case of that stuff in their trunk, then drove through the then new Hampton Roads Bridge–Tunnel. Even in those free-wheeling days, we almost had a cow, wondering what would happen to them if they were ever rear-ended, let alone if it happened in that tunnel.
The organizers told us to convert our money into silver dollars to show the locals how much money we spent in the community. I was with a NY (NYC) outfit and some of the guys went to their local banks and took out $200 in hard dollars, then stayed up until 2 a.m. looking through them for "CC" (Carson City) mint marks. All the others, we spent. I think of that when I see even the Peace dollars going for $20 or more.