The lowrider bike craze sweeping the urban United States is energizing the creative impulses of young adults, as they express their personalities on comfortable bikes.
I was just a little kid in the late 1960s, when the TV show The Munsters was on the air in Prime Time TV, young enough to feel that Eddie Munster (the werewolf son) was my favorite character on the show. I don’t remember him riding the “converted Schwinn Stingray” which was apparently the first lowrider bike featured on TV, and which started the craze for the lowriders during the late 60s and 70s.
I do remember that I wanted to sleep in a bureau drawer as he did – I felt that would be nice and snug!
What I most remember about the show, in the technology department, was the car they drove – the converted hearse. Now that was a car!
Anyway, that’s just a bit of historical interest. Most kids today have never even heard of the Munsters – or if they have it’s the remake done in the 1980s which had none of the charm of the original – give me Fred Gwynne, Yvonne DeCarlo and Al Lewis any day of the week!
It wasn’t a TV show...
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