Another difference between then and now was that there wasn't such a media saturation as we have now. So when something was big enough to make an impact it really made a big splash. I remember when the Beatles' music hit the streets here in Buffalo and up and down the street you'd hear their music playing on small transistor radios and the kids were going wild over it.

Remember the first James Bond movie?

That was another thing I remember - people actually were outside of their houses! My Mom would send me to the corner store for something and it would take a half hour to get back home because you had to stop and talk to all the neighbors who were sitting on the front porch :)

• Rick