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I was born in detroit in 1950 but we summered there and left at the first snow to S fla
detroit had 2 or 3 TV stations plus one from canada, miami had only one at first
in detroit we had a big lake front house but no kids on our street 10 mile road
we had a huge B&W projector TV with a 3x4' screen but it ran hot and could catch on fire
dad was into Jags mark IV and V's nice cars but not very reliable so we had a caddy as a back up car and needed it
and always took a caddy or Lincoln to south fla on pre-interstate US 41
by 57 dad got into 356's after my much older brother started racing them in the SCCA
miami was still segregated totally with even buses by race [the black ones always came before ours] mom never bothered to learn to drive even thou we always had two or more cars
I found that odd as detroit schools were not and I had a black kid as a best friend there in 1st grade
another odd thing in miami was all the boys and girls were paired up as BF/GF in that school
it started in kindergarten and continued in 1st and second grade
I remember my G/F being pissed at me for moving away to coral gables as that left her alone
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