Tell me about the '60s (vanity)

[navygal]

I was born in the mid sixties, but I do remember that as a child, I (along my brothers) were used as the remote control for the tv. Parents of the sixties had many remotes, it all depended how many children they had.

[USMCVet]

The 60s sucked.

About a tenth of us went to war for our country and most of the remainder launched into a mindless free-for-all of self-indulgence.

A small but loud subset of the majority even went so far as to openly support the enemy...

But other than that, a wonderful time was had by all..

[Gay State Conservative]

Oh, yeah the Mustang, GTO, Vet, Camaro and of course the VW Bug...

I almost bought a '69 Plymouth Road Runner.It's just as well that I didn't...I wasn't nearly mature enough to own such a car.

[navygal]

I was born in the mid sixties, but I do remember that as a child, I (along my brothers) were used as the remote control for the tv. Parents of the sixties had many remotes, it all depended how many children they had.

[linda_22003]

I made it through the sixties without either one, too - but then, I was 14 when the decade ended. The seventies were a different story. :)

[poobear]

"SUNBEAM TIGER!

Master Blaster!!!"


ZOOM!

You're so 007 dude!

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

A recap of the 60's is not complete without a hat tip to the 1963 split-window Corvette and the RIVINGTONS singing Papa Oom Mow Mow.

[armymarinemom]

LOL. I would rather remember that instead of Walter Cronkite.

[HEY4QDEMS]

and a time when males in their late teens and 20's were acutely aware of what "1A" meant.

And no doubt 4F

[Howlin]

I'm always convinced they have issues with their parents and take it out on us.

Probably didn't get a Nintendo.

[visualops]

Oh yeah no pants- and no shorts except for gym.
I recall it was 6th grade when they changed the rule where I lived (Bethesda, MD). Most everybody wore jeans or casual pants...me I only had slacks (my mother said jeans were farmer pants and she wasn't going to buy them). Of course alot of the time I wore homemade clothes so I already was the weird one lol

[navygal]

Sorry for the double post.

[rhombus]

I wish I had more time to write this but I think a very compelling aspect was the growth and power of media over the individual in the 60s. It started with a few fuzzy television stations with limited entertainment, then we saw televised presidential debates, then we had entertainment stars "coming to America" and growing bigger than life. Cowboys roamed the black and white screens but they started disappearing as the decade progressed and their six-gun morality was questioned by the media masters. In their place we saw ugly race riots with hoses and dogs, assassinations and too many funerals. Before long we became obsessed with the psychedelics of "in living color" until we saw wounded soldiers and manufactured stories of shame and defeat. Hell, just talking about this makes me want to turn on and drop out. :-) We also saw live pictures from the moon. Imagine, it was quite an uplifting moment for us as Americans...that is if you weren't up to your neck in the muddy nudity of Woodstock. How's that? I'm sure I missed much. So much happened in those ten years.

[linda_22003]

You'll change your mind when you realize tonight that you still can't get that song out of your head. :)

[sionnsar]

I would point out that there was no one "sixties" -- one's experience could vary widely depending on what part of the country one was in

Agreed! Where I grew up in the midwest it was an extension of the 50s until about 1967. That year I remember the first anti-war activists trying to persude folks (just one or two, and they weren't getting anywhere) that the war was a bad thing.

In 1968 my family moved to California, where "sex, drugs & rock'n'roll" was already pretty big, along with a whole host of cultural changes (kids who afford better wore blue jeans to school, it was cool to defy authority, etc.). Major shock -- it would have been better had I moved to a foreign culture.

Ironically just months later the culture shift reached my hometown (where in 1964 the town voted 99% for Goldwater). A couple kids were caught with marijuana (one of them the weird kid with long hair) and it became headlines for months on end.

Haven't been back but I've looked at the place online, and it's evidently become something of a rather liberal town now.

[Red Badger]

I was 1H......

[Lando Lincoln]

If you can remember the 60's, you weren't "there".

[Millee]

"Rebellious" was the 2006 Millee. "Reformed" is the 2007 version. ;o)

[goodnesswins]

The 60's.....I was 9 - 19 during the 60's.....

It was a time when.....

You could understand most of the words to a song...and they weren't cuss words

You could spend your 17th summer working in Yellowstone Park (as a girl, without your parents) and be safe. You could also hitchhike around the park with others (although I had two scary experiences with that.)

School administrators made sure you followed the RULES...including....no skirt hems above the knees....no pants worn to school for girls (including NO CULOTTES). Dress was expected to be NON provacative. Guys had to have their shirts tucked in and got HACKS in the hallway (Paddling) if they misbehaved.

You rarely heard the "F" word....and never on TV

You could pick strawberries, raspberries and beans and make enough money to buy your school clothes, and have some left over.

Minimum wage was around $1.50 an hour (late 60's)

School was relatively challenging....I took 1 year of Latin and 2 years of French.

I could go on....but I got to go do other things....

[poobear]

Oh yes, the Plymouth Road Runner. You could spin one those babies out just looking at the accelerator pedal. They could hydroplane on spit.