Great post John!
I'm a baby boomer and remember all the stuff going on with my oldest brother (7 years older than I) like records he bought (Bob Dylan, Beach Boys, The Animals) - his hot rods ('56 and '57 Chevys) and the stuff his friends were doing (Honda motorcycle - what 125cc?) and "Slim"'s '65 Impala. Our 3 TV channels were 2-6-10 I think. Rabbit ears.
Saw the moon landing live on TV at the local Highs Ice Cream parlor.
Dad took his sons to see "The Green Berets" at the local Drive In when it first came out and also "It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World."
They built a new Jr. and High School within' walking/biking distance to our home. I attended Jr. High and half of the 10th grade at that high school and the following year we were going to be bussed downtown to Booker T Washington High School. That was in Jan. 1970 - my dad had died in '68 and my Mom re-married 2 years later to a man from Florida so off we went - warmer water for surfing and no bus rides downtown.
The rest is history....
EDIT: First Feb. we were down in Florida my new cousins took us to the Daytona 500 (Feb. '70) and we saw those Dodge chargers with the big wings.....
And Petty in his "Superbird"....
That was pretty cool....