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Tell me about the '60s (vanity)

Posted on 01/09/2007 9:18:52 AM PST by HungarianGypsy

I am wanting to write a story based on a young adult in the 1960s. Since I was born in 1973 all I really know is what I studied in books. But, I want to get beyond love beads and LSD. I want to be able to write this as it really was. I know it's said if you remember the '60s you weren't really there. But, if anyone does remember I would appreciate reading your stories and facts. Thank you.


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Looking back, watching those telly tubes warm up had a sense of anticipation to it.

I hardly looked at "Captain Kangaroo". I probably looked more at "Romper Room" than the Captain. We had a B&W, VHF-only Motorola that my folks later gave to my paternal grandparents (my maternal grandparents were both dead by the time I was born), then a B&W GE, then a color Zenith.

Radio? My dad had a beat up, leather bound Channel Master. Later we got a Zenith FM console.

Cars? We parked our one car on the street, lacking as we did a garage in our rowhome neighborhood. We had a white Dodge, traded that in for a Blue Olds F-85.

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901 posted on 01/12/2007 9:50:59 PM PST by foreverfree
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To: budgetbabe
Shock Theater!! Pajama parties. Annette on the Mickey Mouse Club. What was that show after school that had the monster (Barnaby?). Hardy Boys and Sky King

Dark Shadows! Never missed it turned it on as soon as I got home from school.

902 posted on 01/15/2007 3:44:20 PM PST by MontanaBeth (Never forget)
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To: alice_in_bubbaland
We had a Chevy Nova station wagon and there were pull up seats facing each other in the "way back". Of course there were no seat belts and we survived.

Oh my GOSH! I'm talking about the "good ole days", I'm officially old!!!!

903 posted on 01/15/2007 3:45:30 PM PST by MontanaBeth (Never forget)
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To: svcw
Engineer Bill....did you eat dinner in front of the TV doing the go-stop with your milk?

Yes we did and he rang the "get well bell" for my sister and I after we had our tonsils out.

904 posted on 01/15/2007 3:46:35 PM PST by MontanaBeth (Never forget)
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To: armymarinemom
Most people got up to change the channel on their TV's.

And had to go outside to turn the antenna pole for better reception. Ah, those were the days! I'd trade all our modern conveniences to go back there. One more thing. I was watching a documentary about the assassination of JFK and there was a courtroom scene in it. The people were smoking cigarettes in the courtroom, durring trial!!! And no one complained!

905 posted on 01/15/2007 3:54:26 PM PST by beckysueb
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To: randita
In 1969, when the lottery system for the draft was instituted, a lot of young men in my high school class were pretty nervous.

I think the draft was around longer than that. My husband was drafted in 67.

906 posted on 01/15/2007 3:55:41 PM PST by beckysueb
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To: MontanaBeth

That is so cool!


907 posted on 01/15/2007 4:11:07 PM PST by svcw (There is no plan B.)
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To: MontanaBeth
"Oh my GOSH! I'm talking about the "good ole days", I'm officially old!!!!"

"You can get, anything you want ... at Alice's Retirement Home......."


908 posted on 01/15/2007 4:14:41 PM PST by Inge_CAV
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To: WorkerbeeCitizen

Annette Funnicello, Drive in movies.


909 posted on 01/15/2007 4:30:30 PM PST by beckysueb
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To: mc6809e

Doesn't it look like the murder rate went up durring democrat presidents?


910 posted on 01/15/2007 4:35:04 PM PST by beckysueb
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To: UpAllNight
Transistor Radio!

How I loved my little red transistor radio! But the batteries in those little suckers went dead so fast. I remember holding it up to an electric outlet to get better reception. LOL

911 posted on 01/15/2007 4:37:11 PM PST by beckysueb
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To: beckysueb

Beach blanket Bingo, among others.


912 posted on 01/15/2007 4:41:58 PM PST by WorkerbeeCitizen (Religion of peace my arse - We need a maintenance Crusade - piss on Islam)
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To: beckysueb

--How I loved my little red transistor radio! But the batteries in those little suckers went dead so fast. I remember holding it up to an electric outlet to get better reception. LOL--

You must have have had one of the small suckers with the 9v battery. Mine had a whole bunch of D cells.


913 posted on 01/15/2007 4:44:14 PM PST by UpAllNight
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To: Howlin
TV was cemented in our life the day Kennedy was shot.

I was in school that day. My freshman year. I was in English class when the news came out on the intercom. We went to 6th period history class. I remember the teacher crying. She was a very proper lady. Very skinny with thick glasses and short hair and wore tweed skirts and sweaters. I remember being more shocked at the teacher crying then the president being killed. I mean, teachers just didn't cry!

914 posted on 01/15/2007 4:47:35 PM PST by beckysueb
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To: HungarianGypsy
Actually, "The Wonder Years" is a pretty decent depiction 1960s middle class suburbia as seen from the perspective of a kid growing up during that period.

Two things I remember vividly from the 60s are 1) the omnipresent worry over the threat of nuclear war with the Russians (fallout shelters, geiger counters, school nuclear attack drills etc) and 2) the nonstop headlines announcing the latest American casualties in the Vietnam War. On the latter point I still associate the Glen Campbell song "Galveston" with the Vietnam War.

The Interstate highway system was still new and it seems that every family drove these massive squarish big-engined 60s automobiles or station wagons (my family had a 64 Oldsmobile Holiday 88) with big bench seats--no seat belts--at least 80 miles an hour. When dad would let us, we'd tune to great Motown or British Invasion music blasting through a tiny three inch speaker. DJs were superstars.

915 posted on 01/15/2007 4:49:52 PM PST by JCEccles
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To: Tax-chick
For years, color TV was the biggest consumer tech innov- ation.

Cars didn't have seat belts but they did have tailfins and double headlights starting in 1957(except for Cadillac which had tail fins about 1952 if I recall.)

Greeting cards made jokes about A-bombs, an interesting form of counterphobic mechanism.

916 posted on 01/15/2007 4:50:09 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: hinckley buzzard
Greeting cards made jokes about A-bombs, an interesting form of counterphobic mechanism.

I don't remember that, but I remember when we first got a car with seat belts - front only!

917 posted on 01/15/2007 4:51:36 PM PST by Tax-chick ("I don't know you, but I love who you seem to be.")
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To: UpAllNight

Show off! LOL. Yep, mine had a 9 volt.


918 posted on 01/15/2007 4:53:04 PM PST by beckysueb
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To: beckysueb

""Most people got up to change the channel on their TV's.
And had to go outside to turn the antenna pole for better reception""

Naa, real tv watchers had tv antenna rotators, just turn the knob on the control box on top of your console tv. :-)


919 posted on 01/15/2007 4:53:51 PM PST by FreedomGuru
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To: WorkerbeeCitizen
Beach blanket Bingo, among others.

And Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine.

920 posted on 01/15/2007 4:54:35 PM PST by beckysueb
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