Nice quote from American Grafitti.  Funny, two of my all time favorite movies has been mentioned here.  "Ole Burt" brings on the emotions every time I see it.  It always gives me inspiration to do better and keep at it.  In the movie he states the 1920 Indian Scout is 42 years old.  That puts his first visit around 62 or 63.  I think he was born in 1900 and that made him a rookie at 62 or 63 also.  The reason I related so much is that I was a rookie at about that same age.

In American Grafitti, Wolfman Jack advertised the movie by asking, "Where were you in 62"?  Well, I was right there in Modesto attending the junior college.  When that movie came out, the hair stood up on the back of my head.  We lived in an apartment building on the corner where the main drag turned from down 10th to up 11th (one-way streets).  We had plenty of hamburgers and fries at Mel's drive-in delivered by girls on roller skates.  George Lucas (producer) was from Modesto and attending college there at the same time, but I never met him.  Later I was a little dissapointed when I found out it was filmed in a Petaluma, CA just north of San Francisco.

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