Not a single thread about American Graffiti ??

[Crowbob]

Originally Posted by tabs

Saw 3 movies in the summer of 74, American Graffiti, Jaws and The Three Musketeers. Musketeers was Richard Lester of A Hard Days Night fame. That is besides Deep Throat and Behind The Green Door which were shown on campus for $1 each.

In S .CA u had to add in surfing and that means Jan & Dean and The Beach Boys with Woody wagons. Most of the Graffiti stuff happened right before my time. 1960's Muscle cars were more the thing.

I swear, TABS. We we to to different schools together.

[intakexhaust]

Disregard the nostalgia for a moment. I've always looked at how odd just 10 years difference the era was portrayed from when the film was made.

Supposedly portrayed as 1962 and the film made 1972/73. Quite drastic change of American culture in only a decade.

[asphaltgambler]

I was a kid in the 60's growing up here; rural town. They had 1 fast food joint - Tastee-Freeze complete with 12 covered ( 6 opposing I think - parking spaces) curb-side food delivery / eating. Occasionally, my much older brother would let me ride along in his '68 Camaro and hang. That scene was very much like A/G.

My own coming-of-age experience is in the same small town is more like the movie 'Dazed and Confused'.........................actually almost exactly like it.

[patz]

American Graffiti (1973) - Trivia - IMDb

[Evans, Marv]

Don. Yeah, Blackstone Ave. is one of the main thoroughfares now and was back then too but less so. We didn't spend much time there except to get from one place to another. We spent a lot of time at night right down town Fresno "dragging the main." I actually don't remember the name of the street, but everybody in town would be there cruising up & down at maybe ten mph or less. The main activities were looking cool, showing off you car - if you had a cool one, giving other guys hard looks, getting into some fights, setting up drags out of town in the area of the fig orchards (my HS gf's family owned all of that) or out on the west side, and picking up girls. The girls mostly cruised to enjoy the attention of the guys.