Slide Rule c. 1965
On loan from Ian Frazer
On loan from Ian Frazer
Generation Gap: Five ways car culture has changed (click title to entry - thank you)
December 31, 2010
By Beth J. Harper
New York – Not long ago, I gave a ride to a kid in an old care with no air conditioning. It was a warm day, so I told him to roll down the window.
He had no idea what that meant. Having grown up with power windows, he’d never seen a crank handle and didn’t know how to use one. (He’d probably never been in a car without air conditioning either.)
It got me thinking about all the things today’s take for granted when it comes to cars that either didn’t exist or were far less common when their parents were growing up. Here are five ways in which kids experience cars differently stating with those windows….
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