I’m thinking teen angel. Didn’t the guy get stuck on the railroad tracks. I refuse to listen to it again though. We didn’t need movies, we went to the actual funerals.
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Senior year two classmates were in a fatal accident driving one of the friends home about 10pm, taking a curve that looks gentle but is marked at a lower speed for good reason the driver was doing an estimated 20mph over the posted limit for that curve and lost control crashing into a tree, first responders are still haunted by what they saw almost 30yrs later. With more development and several roundabouts, it’s a much safer stretch of road.
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I also attended three funerals as a teenager in the '60s, one was for a friend and two were for school chums. I try to remember them philosophically and remember them when times were good. All three accidents were caused by the people I knew, one school chum lost control going way too fast on an icy road and hit a tree. Another school chum stole a car and was being chased by the police for speeding and ran a red light, hit another car and killed that driver too, and my friend was drag racing, and a car pulled out in front of him and he swerved, flipped the car, and was thrown out.
But this was the music of our era and they all listened to these songs too…
Here is Jan and Dean, “Dead Man’s Curve…”
Here’s Mark Dinning “Teen Angel…”
Ray Peterson - “Tell Laura I Love Her…”
J. Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers - “Last Kiss…”
Twinkle Ripley - “Terry…”
Sort of like “Leader of the Pack…”
John Leyton - “Johnny Remember Me…”
It reminds me of “Rider’s in the Sky…”
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That depends on the state you live in. Here in NH, glass is covered a special glass rider. If you don’t have the glass rider, then you pay out-of-pocket. I know in NY and MA, glass if covered under comprehensive, but not all states.
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Drivers Ed was a free optional class when I was in high school but it was a little redundant for ,e, I had been driving since I was 12. I did not get my license until I was 20. My folks could not afford the insurance. I was married with 2 kids at 20 and working at a trucking company and the bus stopped going to where I worked so I bought a $20 car.
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In Virginia, my Glass coverage is handled under Comprehensive Coverage “D” Other than Collision. I have a $50 deductible and on the two occasions I have used the coverage, State Farm waived the deducible and the coverage costs about $100 a year for all 4-vehicles…
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EXACTLY like my experience in 1963, Harrisburg PA. Where/when you?
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You have a couple years on me but similar timeframe. Southeastern WI. I got a kick out of the pictures posted. Took me back to that time…
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When I was 12, I got a summer job as a driver’s helper on a White Motors box delivery truck. After a couple of weeks the driver said “Here, you give it a try. Remember, you gotta double clutch it shifting up or down.” That was my driver’s ed.