America was really coming of age by the time the calendar flipped to November in 1958. As a test, Bank of America mailed 60,000 California residents a small plastic “credit” card with a $500 limit. The experiment was successful.
“An Evening with Fred Astaire,” the first TV show recorded on color videotape, was broadcast on NBC.
President Dwight D Eisenhower uttered his famous quote: “What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight – it’s the size of the fight in the dog.”
And American sportsmen were eagerly buying new guns, ammo, and clothing in anticipation of relatively new activity — a deer-specific hunting season. Not just “big game,” but deer — namely white-tailed deer.
It sounds far-fetched to imagine modern deer hunting is only 65-ish years old, but it’s true. And, let me tell you, these were trailblazing times. It was well before tree stands. Way before food plots. Decades before scent-elimination products. And even before modern bowhunting (unless you count the 1,700 deer that were shot by traditional bowhunters that year).
