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'Mad Men' and Me: Growing Up in the Advertising Age

The shabby and creaky New Haven Railroad commuter cars are what I remember best from the "Mad Men" era. The Gillette blue-bladed men in their crisp white shirts with narrow Peter Gunn neckties silently hiding their hangovers behind copies of The New York Times and Herald Tribune on the morning pilgrimage into the city. The same men, their ties loosened and their moods elevated by paper cups filled with J & B and Cutty Sark from the bar car, talking loudly about advertising agencies (BBD0, Young & Rubicam) and sports (Mickey Mantle, Frank Gifford) as they headed home to the John Cheever ...

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