I was a kid when we were visiting family in NYC in 1965 when the Big One hit the east coast. My recollections are much like yours in that I don't remember very much in the way of any major crisis happening, more along the lines of people who were able and mobile looking in on those that they cared about, and then keeping an eye on everyt…
I was a kid when we were visiting family in NYC in 1965 when the Big One hit the east coast. My recollections are much like yours in that I don't remember very much in the way of any major crisis happening, more along the lines of people who were able and mobile looking in on those that they cared about, and then keeping an eye on everything else to ensure that some drgree of order was maintained. My aunt was in her late 50s at that time and I recall a young man that lived next door coming over to politely ask if she was okay and was there anything that he could do? About the only thing that I can really remember of that occasion that seemed out of place was the way that people were talking about the UFO siting of that time and how it might have been linked to the black out: the talk was more than a little desturbing inasmuch as certain individuals were talking about arming themselves as they viewed the black out as a prelude to invasion,...
Like I said, 1977 was a snapshot. 1965 was before they shot Martin, Malcolm, and Bobby. People still had hope. 1977 was a nadir on the hope front, before raygun hijacked it with his phony populism. 2k3 was near enough to 9/11 that people were still warm toward each other. Things change. The only constant is change :)
I was a kid when we were visiting family in NYC in 1965 when the Big One hit the east coast. My recollections are much like yours in that I don't remember very much in the way of any major crisis happening, more along the lines of people who were able and mobile looking in on those that they cared about, and then keeping an eye on everything else to ensure that some drgree of order was maintained. My aunt was in her late 50s at that time and I recall a young man that lived next door coming over to politely ask if she was okay and was there anything that he could do? About the only thing that I can really remember of that occasion that seemed out of place was the way that people were talking about the UFO siting of that time and how it might have been linked to the black out: the talk was more than a little desturbing inasmuch as certain individuals were talking about arming themselves as they viewed the black out as a prelude to invasion,...
Like I said, 1977 was a snapshot. 1965 was before they shot Martin, Malcolm, and Bobby. People still had hope. 1977 was a nadir on the hope front, before raygun hijacked it with his phony populism. 2k3 was near enough to 9/11 that people were still warm toward each other. Things change. The only constant is change :)