Sunday, July 29, 2018

July 28, 1968--$50, 50 years

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Sunday July 28, 1968, JFK. I've just disembarked from a London-New York charter flight via Iceland. It's the pre-credit card era. In my wallet is $50--that's what I'm allowed to take out of the UK, and a $200 Greyhound bus ticket for 2 months' unlimited cross country travel. Driving into Manhattan from the airport, from the bus window, the urban paraphernalia is new and different. The lamp posts arching, unsupported, ominous over the wider roads, the shrill, raucous, impatient traffic sounds, the oversized cars and trucks, giant bagels, muffins--the oversized glutinous helpings at the diner.