Word: wagonned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with twelve porcelain-headed puppets in full Victorian dress, in a gallery of the main building at Pratt. Perkins changed the puppets' positions each day and used cards to explain what was happening in his mini-Forsyte Saga. Perkins would like to tour the country in a gypsy wagon with his own Punch and Judy show. But at the moment he is looking for a job creating commercial displays. Says he: "I believe if you try hard enough you can do and be anything...
...young children are not in the family station wagon, they are on the school bus. So many older students have cars that high school parking lots are jammed. As suburban mothers do across the country, Hinsdale's decry the time they spend behind the wheel. And well they should: they clock between 6,000 and 8,000 miles a year simply shuttling around the area. Says Mrs. James Gibson, wife of a psychiatrist and mother of four girls: "Everything is event-oriented with children here. Dozens of full-sized station wagons roll just to get teenagers to their parties...
...families are not nearly as common as in Hinsdale, and the kind of mother who lives at the controls of her station wagon, chauffeuring around the small fry, is virtually nonexistent. Here most children walk l½ miles or farther to school. Leonore Carls, 50, shares the family Ford Consul with her husband, Hans, a Ford sales-promotion manager. As part of a car pool, he drives to work Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday; she gets the car Monday and Friday. Together, the Carlses put a total of 11,000 miles a year on their lone auto-a figure that does...
...earnings remains unpainted and unpapered. Her social life is similarly neglected. "There is no way I'd put up with any man who had a life-style like mine," she says, but allows that eventually "I'd like to go back to Virginia. I want a station wagon full of kids and wet bathing suits...
With an older and less adventurous population, demographers predict, there will be less pressure on the nation's congested beaches, lakes, waterways, hiking trails, ski slopes and wilderness areas -while sales of art supplies, mah-jongg, backgammon, books and endless variations of electronic games should soar. The station wagon, the Patton tank of suburbia, may be replaced by smaller cars. The automakers expect to sell more of the handy vans that are already a part of the youth culture as well as more recreational vehicles: motor homes, campers, dune buggies, Jeeps, motorcycles and mopeds. Education may finally get better...