http://www.theferalscribe.com/featured/thumbs-up-for-an-american-past-time.html Chronicles of a Wayfaring Journalist Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:17:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://www.theferalscribe.com/featured/thumbs-up-for-an-american-past-time.html/comment-page-1#comment-318 mplo Sat, 03 Mar 2012 19:21:30 +0000 http://www.theferalscribe.com/?p=2538#comment-318 Good point, Beach Resorts!  As someone who also lived through the 1960's and the 1970's, I hitchhiked afew times in the early 1970's, when I'd already reached young adulthood, and, although nothing bad happened to me, I'd always worry about whether or not I'd get to where I was going.  When a slew of young women here in the Boston area disappeared, never to be seen or heard from again,  while hitchhiking, and a couple of young men were picked up by a pair of white toughs and driven to a rough and tough white workingclass Boston neighborhood and brutally murdered, I vowed never to hitchhike again, and haven't since.The fact that there are so few people who do hitchhike nowadays indicates what it's all about.  It's too risky.  I also might add that from the mid 1960's on, the whole situation was already starting to get bad.  More than half the incidents that occur during hitchhiking fail to make the evening news, or even the papers. Good point, Beach Resorts!  As someone who also lived through the 1960′s and the 1970′s, I hitchhiked afew times in the early 1970′s, when I’d already reached young adulthood, and, although nothing bad happened to me, I’d always worry about whether or not I’d get to where I was going.  When a slew of young women here in the Boston area disappeared, never to be seen or heard from again,  while hitchhiking, and a couple of young men were picked up by a pair of white toughs and driven to a rough and tough white workingclass Boston neighborhood and brutally murdered, I vowed never to hitchhike again, and haven’t since.The fact that there are so few people who do hitchhike nowadays indicates what it’s all about.  It’s too risky.  I also might add that from the mid 1960′s on, the whole situation was already starting to get bad.  More than half the incidents that occur during hitchhiking fail to make the evening news, or even the papers.

]]> http://www.theferalscribe.com/featured/thumbs-up-for-an-american-past-time.html/comment-page-1#comment-189 Beach Resorts Sat, 15 Jan 2011 02:24:57 +0000 http://www.theferalscribe.com/?p=2538#comment-189 It all seemed so innocent in the 60's and the 70's -- the only ones continuuing to keep up the scares were the media, the primetime networks.  Hitchhiking, though it used to seem so tame, now scares me to no end.  Call me sexist, but it is true, as a boy hitchhiking around the Southern Califonia surf-party scene, was rather fun, but now that I have a young daughter, turning a teenager as of her birthday today, will never get my blessings. In fact I can't ever see it for her even older.  Just one of those things that I can say it was fun while it lasted, but a thing of the past! It all seemed so innocent in the 60′s and the 70′s — the only ones continuuing to keep up the scares were the media, the primetime networks.  Hitchhiking, though it used to seem so tame, now scares me to no end.  Call me sexist, but it is true, as a boy hitchhiking around the Southern Califonia surf-party scene, was rather fun, but now that I have a young daughter, turning a teenager as of her birthday today, will never get my blessings. In fact I can’t ever see it for her even older.  Just one of those things that I can say it was fun while it lasted, but a thing of the past!

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