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COME CRUISING THROUGH THE '60S & 70S.


Byline: Daily News

Those were the days . . . cruisin' on the boulevard, Mustangs and Beetles, Beach Boys and the Beatles, women's lib and Playboy bunnies, drive-ins and malls.

Take a nostalgic trip back to the days we thought would never end, the 1960s and '70s, in today's fourth installment of our Millennium series, ``Valley: Generations of the Century.''

Recall the rantings of Wolfman Jack

For other people named Robert Smith, see Robert Smith (disambiguation).


Robert Weston (Bob) Smith (21 January 1938 – 1 July 1995) was a gravelly-voiced disc jockey who became world famous in the 1960s and 1970s under the stage
, revisit the cruisers' playlist A file that contains an index to a selected group of music files on the computer. Using digital jukebox software such as iTunes and Winamp, playlists are created by the user by dragging and dropping titles from a master index. The software may be able to create a playlist automatically.  in your ``Pink Cadillac'' or was it a ``Pink Thunderbird thunderbird

In North American Indian mythology, a powerful spirit in the form of a bird that watered the earth and made vegetation grow. Lightning was believed to flash from its eyes or beak, and the beating of its wings was thought to represent rolling thunder.
,'' but watch out for ``Dead Man's Curve'' and those ``Forty Miles of Bad Road.''

Forget downtown department stores This is a list of department stores. In the case of department store groups the location of the flagship store is given. This list does not include large specialist stores, which sometimes resemble department stores. , hit the mall and see how through a succession of developments - from Panorama Mall to Topanga Plaza to the Galleria - the Valley perfected a business concept into an art form.

It was a booming era as orchards and farmland gave way to housing tracts, freeways and malls. An age when TV started broadcasting living-color images of the carefree lifestyle in sunny Southern California to snowbound snow·bound  
adj.
Confined in one place by heavy snow.


snowbound
Adjective

shut in or blocked off by snow

Adj. 1.
 easterners and the myths of kooks and crazies shocked the sensibilities of a staid nation.

Those were the days we thought would never end.
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Publication:Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Date:Sep 21, 1999
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