Chevy Club

Re “Chevy Owners’ Club Pays Homage to Classics,” Jan. 1.

As I read of the Ventura County Chevys club, with emphasis on a ’57 Chevy, it brought me back to the greatest years in which to be a Southland teenager, the “Nifty ‘50s.”

Although I didn’t own a coveted ’57 Chevy, (the most popular being the red and white), I did have a convertible, complete with a Bermuda Bell which really aroused the chicks, (not broads). The article brought me back in time to driving my convertible to Scrivner’s Drive-In restaurant, where you could dedicate a record through the still-active deejay Art Laboe, at Wilshire and Crenshaw boulevards. And a date to a drive-in restaurant hopefully led to a drive-in theater.

Yes, we were innocent teeners of those status quo Eisenhower years, and it does me good to see the existence of such a club, as drive-in restuarants, drive-in theaters and too many other Southland landmarks have disappeared in the last several years.

EDDIE CRESS

Sylmar