05-09-2018, 01:49 PM
(This post was last modified: 05-09-2018, 01:50 PM by ted johnson.)
I'm not sure. We had Khrushchev, Castro was fresh, the Cuban Missile Crisis was just ahead, and was VERY scary in Brevard County, FL, where I lived. I remember batteries of n1ke missiles along the West side of highway A1A. On the other hand, we had Allen Shepherd going to sub-orbit from our county, and Cape Canaveral was a hotbed of activity. Things were pretty exciting! Our Shriner-owned kart track in Rockledge was new, and we had a lot of good riding and racing there, and at the Eau Gallie Speedway as well. Polio was pretty much under control, thanks to Salk, and the new Sabin oral vaccine. Our West Melbourne kart shop was going pretty well, though Wyatt Enterprises in Cocoa put us in the shade by comparison. I was never a very good driver, but the engines Pop and I modified let me win a ton of A and B Super races. I was a Junior at Melbourne High School, skinny (!) with big ears, a flat top haircut, and VERY few girlfriends. Now, I'm fat, no hair for a flat top, and STILL NO GIRLFRIENDS! 
Ted
Ted