In+Their+Lifetime

In My Mother's Lifetime
My mother, Linda Sue Moczynski was born in June of 1959 to Joan and Donald Moczynski. She was the third child born into her family of five which would quickly turn to eight. Some of her life she lived on 22nd and Villard, which was the projects or the hood. Since she lived in the projects and had 6 brothers and sisters there were always at least twenty to thirty kids outside to play with. Where she lived each unit had four houses, so therefor four families and there were eight units per block. My mom lived in the Northlawn part of the hood out of Southlawn, Westlawn, Barryland and Northlawn. Northlawn in everyone's opinion back then was the worst out of all of the units. Everyone thought that because it had the highest crime rate out of all of the buildings and it had 90% African American renters, Southlawn had about 90% caucasion renters, Westlawn had about 75% causcasion renters, and Barryland had about 100% caucasion renters. While living there my mom's bedtime stories were the ambulance sirens wailing from across the street and her bed was always shared with a young child or a baby which was one of her siblings. Her curfew was acknowledged by the piercing sound of the unit sirens. The sirens went off at 9:00 p.m. each and every night because back then, in the 1970's riots were an everyday occurance. So, the government didn't want anyone out late (past 9:00 p.m.) because the crime rate was higher at night. Police officers would patrol the streets at night to make sure that everyone was inside their houses. Through all of that, my mom remembers one man who had a huge influence in her life, one man who to her, stood out from all of the rest, this man was Father Grappi. He was basically the pope back then for both races, even though he was just a simple white man himself. He wasn't just a person who could talk on the radio about peace and change. but he would walk the streets with the "hood" kids holding up signs that said things such as "Give peace a chance." Slowly, but surely the riots decreased and then became non-existent. From father Grappi my mom learned that it just takes one man to do so many great things and he inspired her to on and make something of her life. She overcame riots and the streets, a girl's home, life, death, being weak and becoming strong, but because of all of that she is a strong wonderful person and mom.

In the United States?
1. In 1968 the first cash dispensing machine was put into First Philadelphia Bank. 2. In 1963 President Kennedy was assasinated on November 22. 3. In 1965 he United States sends large numbers of soldiers to fight in the Vietnam War!

[|http://www.kidsnewsroom.org/elmer/infoCentral/frameset/decade/1960.htm#inventions] http://whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/JFK/postphotos.html http://www.vietnamwar.com/

In the World?
1. In the year 1981 the disease AIDS was discovered. 2. In 1968 Dr King was shot dead in the neck in the Southern US city of Memphis, Tennessee. 3. On December 8, 1980 beloved John Lennon was assasinated.

http://library.thinkquest.org/03oct/01335/en/txt/discovery.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/4/newsid_2453000/2453987.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/december/8/newsid_2536000/2536321.stm



In Popular Culture?
1. Throughout the 1960's a popular television show was Tom and Jerry. 2. In 1984 the first Video Music Awards aired on television. 3. In 1978 the movie Greece came out and was a hit!

[|http://aeburdick.wi.schoolwebpages.com/education/staff/staff.php?sectionid=59&] [|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984_MTV_Video_Music_Awards]

in Technology?
1. In 1971 people first started to email one another on computers. 2. In 1977 the first MRI scanner was created by Raymond Damadian. 3. In 1874 W.T. Odhner in Sweden independently develops the pin-wheel calculator, the first of the long series of [|Odhner] calculators. .

[|http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/theymadeamerica/whomade/damadian_hi.html]

in Fashion?
1. 1872 on August 8, filed patent application for Improvements in Fastening Pocket-Openings 2. In 1935 Levi's® jeans for women were first featured in Vogue magazine. 3. These were extremely popular clothes in the 1960's:
 * Hot pants (extremely short shorts)
 * Mini skirts
 * No hats or gloves for day wear
 * Space age fashions in vinyl and other synthetics
 * Bold, solid color contrasts from the Op Art and Pop Art movements, commonly
 * called Mod fashions
 * Preppy fashions for upper class youth: Madras plaids, oversize hairy sweaters,
 * painstakingly matched accessories

http://www.kyrene.k12.az.us/schools/brisas/sunda/decade/1960.htm#Fashion

in Sports
1. The first Super Bowl was played in 1967, with the Green Bay Packers and the Kansas City Chiefs; the Packers won!!! 2. In 1962, Jackie Robinson, the first black American to play in major league baseball, was placed in the Baseball Hall of Fame for his talent. 3. Roger Maris hit homer number 61, setting a record that wasn't broken until the September of 1998 by Mark McGwire.

http://www.kyrene.k12.az.us/schools/brisas/sunda/decade/1960.htm#sports