> This was mid 50’s...life was good. <
Yes. I was there, too. It was the Golden Age of America. And I’ll fist-fight anyone who thinks differently!
Eisenhower was president. So we had a steady hand at the tiller. Ike was keeping the world at peace. And he was slowly but surely breaking down the racial barriers in the South.
And you could get a good union job right out of high school. In my neck of the woods three huge steel mills were always hiring. And so was the railroad. As Billy Joel said in his song “Allentown”:
Every child had a pretty good shot
To get at least as far as their old man got
Poor Evelyn Gullo...they forget her in the locker rooms...and it took a while to figure out where she was.