INTRODUCTION
Looking
back to where it all began
I have
always considered myself very fortunate to have
grown
up during the mid 1950's. It was, I believe, a very
special
decade.
In 1955
General Motors unveiled their new and exciting
Chevrolet
265 V-8 Bel Air and dubbed it the "Hot One".
Little
did they know that it would become their first
"Classic
Chevy".
The fifties
was also a time of peace, prosperity and very
simple
pleasures. In 1956 more than 38 million
households
watched the $64,000 Question on television
and saw
Elvis Presley make his first appearance on the
Ed Sullivan
Show. The "Late Great" Jim Reeves also
signed
his first singing contract with RCA Victor and
produced
his first album "Singing Down The Lane"
People
stood in line to watch Marilyn Monroe, Frank
Sinatra,
Dean Martin, and Elizabeth Taylor star in their
favourite
movie. And of course everyone loved Lucy.
And it
was a time for real live heros. In 1956 Mickey
Mantle
earned himself the Triple Crown of baseball, lead
the New
York Yankees to their fifth pennant in six
seasons
and a World Series Championship.
It was
also the greatest decade for the American motorist.
If you
are one of the lucky people who can recall pulling
into a
full service gas station, winding down your window
and uttering
those famous words "Fill 'er up"
then
"Welcome
to Bud's World". I hope you'll
stay a while
and enjoy
a nostalgic stroll down memory lane.
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