I can sense pizza rolls and Kool-Aid being consumed … pic.twitter.com/98VqP6SJiJ
— Super 70s Sports (@Super70sSports) December 18, 2021
When did locking up your bike become standard operating procedure for you? In Los Angeles’ suburban San Fernando Valley, I’d say maybe 1973 …
(This picture looks like it’s from fairly recent decades because the style in vogue is mountain bikeish.)
Many of my memories of the late 1970s involve the pursuit of ever-more uncuttable bike locks. Worst theft I can remember is 1986: the hatchback window of my Datsun 310 was smashed to steal my bike. Sure, it was downtown Chicago at night, but I’d parked in full view of the security guard at my office building’s front desk. (I assumed it was his cousin who did it, but how do you prove that?)
When I bought an Accord in 1988, I got the base model without a radio to keep my windows from being smashed, so I don’t have much opinion about music from late 1988 to early 1993. When I finally got a car with a radio again, I discovered to my surprise that 1990s rock was good and I’d been missing a lot.
I wonder if hatchbacks, which had been viewed as the wonder car design during the 1970s Energy Crisis, faded out of popularity in the 1980s because with a sedan you could at least lock your possessions in the metal box of your trunk?
