Whatever happened to the cute hitchhiking lesson we learned in it happened one night?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ar-hnj5Zsk4
hitchhiking - a different time and different place.
Up until the 1960s hitchhiking was relatively safe. Growing up in the 1950s I would hitch hike all over. I think it comes out of the depression years when people were willing to share what little that they had with others.
Our society began to change during the 1960s so that hitch hiking went out of favor as it became more dangerous.