67-73 were the best years for me, but the Horse Power started dropping after 1970. in 1973 i had a 68 Z/28 with a Traco prepared 302 that i would kill for to have back now... 8^)
Posted on 09/29/2005 6:19:24 PM PDT by operation clinton cleanup
"It was the age of selfishness. It was the age of self-indulgence. It was the age of anti-authority. It was an age in which people did all kinds of wrong things."
- Ed Meese III, U.S. Attorney General, Reagan Administration
"It was absolutely exhilarating. It was the greatest time to be alive ever, for sure."
- Charles Kaiser, Author/Historian
The 60s were were mild compared to what we have today with tens of thousand of violent organized gang member, many here illegally. In the 60s no one ever heard of "drive-by shootings that now occur multiple times daily in this country, along with the regular work place, and school massacres. In the 60s we didn't have millions pouring into our country illegally, bringing in tons of drugs, overwhelming our schools and hospitals, all while our government looked the other way...And now fanatic religious freaks that want to murder us all.
We now have housewifes and teenagers in middle America that do what Charlie Manson and his gang did, but much worse!
Have to agree with you there... my biggest worry was talking one punch by the school bully. Trick or Treating lasted until the neighbors turned out the porch lights.... and I never had the candy x-rayed.
Ummmm...Nixon ran for President THREE times. He lost the first time and was elected in 1968 and re-elected in 1972. (He was defeated for Governor of California in between too.)The question is -- did you vote for him 3 times, or just twice?
I have to confess that I voted for Kennedy, but then I wised up and have been a Republican ever since. Living in Berkeley is what drove me to the Republican Party.
"ONLY the early 60's...the rest was crap."
The good years ended when Ike was replaced by JFK.
They didn't even have to x-ray the candy until the 80s. It's just gotten much more violent. The 60s were tame compared to what we have today. No question.
The sixties warped more than one generation. We're now reaping the rewards of a third generation influenced by the lawlessnes and loose morals of the 60s.
What a wasteful bunch of selfish piggies.
I lost touch with my friends who went to Chicago...I was living in Berlin as an Air Force wife by then, and we had (needless to say) divergent interests.
Since you are younger than I, I must assume you were still in school and probably living with your parents. I was out in the real world, dealing with military life, childbirth, and such. It was not a happy time at all.
If you are looking for a happy time, I recommend the Reagan years. If I had to choose a decade to go back to, the 80's would be it.
Your descrition of Berkley sounds rather like Bloomington, Indiana in the early 70's. Not fun at all, and I totally agree with you.
67-73 were the best years for me, but the Horse Power started dropping after 1970. in 1973 i had a 68 Z/28 with a Traco prepared 302 that i would kill for to have back now... 8^)
Nixon had the election stolen from him in 1960 as opposed to Algore in 2000.
I agree on your statements of current conditions vs. the past, but I must point out one thing: the current conditions are BECAUSE of the junk that happened in the 60's.
This man is ignorant and foolish.
The 1960s were the most depraved, selfish, dark-hearted, mindless, perverted, destructive decade the U.S.A. has ever known.
I say this because I watched it begin, grow to a mindless frenzy, destroy everything it touched and then crystalize into the filth you see today.
The 1960s decadence movement rebelled against and threw off some of the best ideas, institutions and morality that the world has ever known and exchanged it for filth and political correctness.
Sex, drugs rock-n-roll, do your own thing baby, if it feels good do it and then sit back and whine about the results and let someone else pick up the tab without pointing out cause and effect.
Throw out the remnants of Biblical morality and law and use the leftist supreme court to prevent America from preserving her culture. Teach the children lies about our country, our law, our Christian underpinnings that held in check the modern filth and Marxism movements.
Oh, yes the 1960s are great if you are fond of Marxism, Venereal Disease, brainwashing children against their parents, homosexuality, filthy language, fornication, AIDS , trillions on giveaway programs, pornography, Bill and Hillary, sex with animals, divorce, latch-key children, kiddie porn, out of wedlock births, ABORTION, government theft and redistribution of wealth, hiring quotas, REVISIONIST HISTORY, Gun grabbing, hordes of fatherless thugs, the DRUG Culture, the destruction of our Constitution by the Earl Warren and Burger courts, the complete strongarm Marxist attack on freedom of thought at public institutions and academia, and on it goes. You would have to be extremely evil to call the 1960s a good time, it was a great evil with very few exceptions.
Good evening and the very best to you and yours.
Semper Fi
Tommie
Wrong about the x-rays. They were x-raying candy in the 70s in Texas after a guy killed his children for their insurance on Halloween. He did it with Cyanide and Koolaid sticks (that's not their name but they were like powdered KoolAid in hollow tubes). Now you couldn't have picked that up on x-ray, but the stories started going around about razor blades in apples, etc., so the Houston hospitals started opening up their X-ray machines to people who wanted to check their children's candy haul; and schools and communities started sponsoring Halloween parties where all of the treats were "approved". That took all of the fun out of Halloween for me.
There was a Halloween killer in Wisconsin too (where I live now) and the communities don't even celebrate Halloween on the actual day now. Each community designates a weekend day the week before or after the 31st, and the trick or treating is done in the afternoon. I haven't had a Trick or Treater at my house for 18 years.
I agree. Most of what is credited to the sixties actually occured during the seventies.
I was 18 in 1964 and never saw anyone smoke dope. It just did not exist yet where I was. Central California.
A '65 389 with three deuces GTO, a Bulova Accutron watch, a lightweight Colt Commander. "Put on a sharkskin jacket, you know the kind with the velvet collar, and diddybop shades." I like the 'Net, but we've lost more than we've gained. Back then, you could pick up a pay phone, tell the operator "charge this call to my home number", and they'd do it.
"I admit to attending a David Dellinger lecture at college..."
Nothing wrong with listening to what someone has to say.
A few years ago I read the transcript of the Chicago Seven Trial. If you have a bit of spare time, I recommend it to read. It's out there on the 'Net.
If you think it's scary nowadays, rest assured; our worst days are behind us.
I agree, MM. I was privileged to "come of age" in the 80's. I want my children's children to know the same happiness!
Sigh. I will be carrying my generation's stigma until I pass from this mortal coil. And it's all a crock!
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