{"title":"Home page","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"born-in-1962","title":"Born in 1962: The Eight-Track Teen","description":"\u003cp class=\"tl\"\u003eLife in Four Tracks\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"hook\"\u003eBorn in 1962? Then you remember the ka-CHUNK of an eight-track switching programs in the middle of a song, saying \"breaker one-nine\" into a CB, and pushing your car one length at a time down a gas line.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bdg-split\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"banner\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"icon\"\u003e📖\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThis is a story book.\u003c\/b\u003e A first-person coming-of-age novel about someone born in 1962, growing up through the real events, songs, toys and prices of their decades.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch2\u003eThe story\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe map hung on the Huskey kitchen wall, where most people would have put a calendar, and Randy's father drew on it in grease pencil. Every line was a run in his truck, Big Red, and every line brought him back home.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn in 1962: The Eight-Track Teen is a first-person life story of Randy Huskey, born in April 1962 in Knoxville, Tennessee. His father drives long-haul as an owner-operator. His mother works as a long-distance telephone operator and answers the phone at home in her work voice. Randy grows up between the two, listening to the world come in over the air.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen the gas runs short in the winter of 1973, his father bolts a citizens band radio under the dashboard, and Randy is hooked. For his thirteenth birthday he gets a base station and a thirty-foot pole. The story follows him through the CB craze, handles and ten-codes, a mood ring, and long evenings spent talking to strangers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt eighteen he walks into a cinder-block radio station and asks for a job. His career takes him through the 1982 World's Fair in Knoxville, a very different morning on September 11, 2001, a late-life turn behind the wheel of a truck, and an invitation to a forty-fifth high school reunion that asks, can anybody DJ?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapters are named for CB talk, from What's Your Twenty to Ten-Four, Good Buddy. A timeline of 1962, famous people born that year, and how other cultures read the year appear at the back.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is a gift for a husband, brother, dad, or friend who turned the dial and never stopped listening.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eA few things that happened in 1962\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cul class=\"facts\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e1962-02-20\u003c\/b\u003e — John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit the Earth\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e1962-04-21\u003c\/b\u003e — The Seattle World's Fair opens, with its new Space Needle\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e1962-07-02\u003c\/b\u003e — The first Walmart opens in Rogers, Arkansas\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e1962-07-10\u003c\/b\u003e — Telstar, the first satellite to relay live television across the Atlantic, is launched\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e1962-08-05\u003c\/b\u003e — Marilyn Monroe dies in Los Angeles\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003ch2\u003eAlso born in 1962\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cul class=\"facts\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eJim Carrey\u003c\/b\u003e — Actor and comedian; Ace Ventura, The Mask, and The Truman Show\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTom Cruise\u003c\/b\u003e — Actor; Top Gun, the Mission: Impossible films, and Top Gun: Maverick\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eJon Bon Jovi\u003c\/b\u003e — Rock singer; frontman of Bon Jovi\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eSteve Carell\u003c\/b\u003e — Actor and comedian; Michael Scott on The Office\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eRalph Fiennes\u003c\/b\u003e — Actor; Schindler's List and The English Patient\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"NostalgiaGift","offers":[{"title":"PDF","offer_id":48946807963809,"sku":"BI-1962-PDF","price":6.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Softcover","offer_id":48946807996577,"sku":"BI-1962-SOFT","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48946808029345,"sku":"BI-1962-HARD","price":37.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}]}],"url":"https:\/\/nostalgiagift.com\/collections\/frontpage.oembed","provider":"Nostalgia Gift","version":"1.0","type":"link"}