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26/05/2008: "HAWAII ...... Honolulu Buskers"

Any famous faces here? A young Frank Zappa perhaps? This was August 1969, South Vietnam was not an ideal place to visit, so Hawaii was full of GI's on R&R from Saigon.

Actress Sharon Tate was headlines in the world news, unfortunately. Glen Campbell was high in the top ten with his Galveston...... The international commercial aircraft were still mostly those fantastic 707's.

The first jumbo jet was to begin service late next year.

International travel was expensive. Not like today. An Australian overseas was a bit of a novelty to locals. Had to imagine such a thing today.

Americans would note my accent and ask "where are you from". As a test, I'd answer "Sydney". All knew where that was. After a while, just for a change I'd answer I was from 'Montana'.

Nobody questioned that so I could avoid a long conversation about nothing.

(I had no idea where Montana was. It was simply the name of some old western movie, Blue Skies of Montana or something).