I Get Around

Well, as a teenager I got around and had a lot of activities.   My friends and I spent most of our days on the beach in spring, summer and early autumn.  Winters were spent ice skating on a lake, weekend dances, movies, and school and scouting activities and hiking in the mountains.

So this week's Saturday 9 is available and I am joining in.

"Welcome to Saturday 9. What we've committed to our readers is that we will post 9 questions every Saturday. Sometimes the post will have a theme, and at other times the questions will be totally unrelated. Those weeks we do "random questions," so-to-speak. We encourage you to visit other participants posts and leave a comment. Because we don't have any rules, it is your choice. We hate rules. We love to answer the questions, however, and here are today's questions!"

Saturday 9: I Get Around (1964)

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1) 60 years ago this month, the Beach Boys were singing that having a cool car and helped them get girls. In your teen years, what did you drive?

My parents car when I could get it.  Usually a Chrysler.  However, everyone walked to school because our town was tiny and only a couple of boys owned cars that they were working on.

2) They are searching for a new place to party. This weekend, will you be visiting any bars, theaters or restaurants?

 I don't go to bars.  I will be staying home and entertaining myself with movies and music.

The idea of a restaurant sounds nice though.

3) When Brian Wilson was forming the group, he turned to his friend Al Jardine, his brothers Dennis and Carl, and his cousin, Mike Love. Though most of their songs were about cars, beaches and surf, only one of those founding members was a surfer: Dennis. Do you enjoy the beach? Are you good on a surfboard?

I love the beach. I live at the beach. I surfed as a teen.

4) They were originally from Hawthorne, California. Hawthorne was the early childhood home of Marilyn Monroe. Since Marilyn was one of the most iconic women of the 20th
century, we know you recognize her image. Have you seen any of her movies?

Yes a lot of them.  I especially liked Niagara

5) "I Get Around" is included in Endless Summer, the greatest hits compilation released in 1974. Influential music critic Robert Christgau said Endless Summer should be part of any basic record library. What's one of your favorite CDs?

Well... here are a few that are favs: Endless Summer for one.  I also like the movie score from The Pink Panther, the music from the original TV show Mission Impossible and a Japanese CD by  Himekami named Snow Goddess.   

Let's look at the summer of 1964

6) The #1 film of the summer of 1964 was Walt Disney's Mary Poppins. Have you seen it?

Yes. We used to watch films like that on Thanksgiving Day when I lived in Utah. 

 

7) President Lyndon Johnson accepted the Democratic party's nomination at the August 1964 convention in Atlantic City, NJ. Atlantic City is known for casinos and gambling. Do you often play the lottery, bingo, or any other game of chance?

 I live very close to Atlantic City.    No, I don't gamble though I did make a few bets long ago at the racetrack.

8) Billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos was still a baby in the summer of 1964. What was in your most recent Amazon delivery?

I don't get any Amazon deliveries.

9) Another little one born in '64 is Mariska Hargitay. The star of Law & Order: SVU is the daughter of a well-known movie star. Without looking it up, do you know who her mother was?

Sure. Jayne Mansfield.