
Finding this idea captivating, I re-created the scenario (and attempted to re-create the outfit) and took two friends to various NYC locations that, we imagined, could stand in for communist Czechoslovakia circa 1968. While we played fast and loose with history, there are a few things that are true. The movie wasn't released until around 1968 even though it had been released in 1964 worldwide. My mom was a huge Beatles fan (still is). And her style was pretty fly. The sad ending to the story, of course, is that tanks rolled in by the end of the year, leading to twenty more years of bullshit for the Czech and Slovak people. My mother went to Switzerland shortly after, and never went back.
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What a surprising and wonderful solution to this mystery! I loved this whole sequence!
Thanks!
Glad you liked it ...
Does that same issue of NGM also have artwork of a futuristic vision of cars on a highway?
If so could you scan that into this blog as well? I have been looking for that image ever since I was a kid.
Thank you and congrats on your mother making it into the same magazine. A very attractive young woman - though when I saw that issue, I was too young to notice such things. :^)
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