Posted on 04/13/2018 9:10:11 PM PDT by vannrox
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Hey, me too, high school Class of ‘66 (Paly High - Palo Alto, CA). I had so much fun in high school, I didn’t want to grow up.
Girls were still girls back then - cute and dresses and stuff - until the hippies and the women’s libbers de-feminized them.
It was a HUGE controversy at the time and got banned because it was SO effective. It literally sucked the car down onto the track. Some really clever concepts and engineering went into that beast.
Nice. I hope it’s in a museum somewhere, at least.
Right. I was just sorting through my old sewing patterns and ran across a few from the ‘60s. Adorable — the clothes and the models.
Very cool for the time, but give me an Alfa Romeo Tipo 33 please, thank you.
According to our local paper, My 1955 high school graduating class was the largest in the country. We never heard anything about drugs. I realize there was some usage but not like today. It was the 60’s punks who popularized drug usage. I don’t understand how someone can call themselves law abiding and use drugs.
Thanks for posting that. It’s heartbreaking.
Although there were a number of wholesome family shows on TV in the 50's, like Father Knows Best and Donna Reed show, the close interaction in the family was starting to disintegrate because of other TV shows, other media, and the communist pundits. Plus, teenagers have a tendency to rebel, but the parents made little attempt to reign in kids during the Flower Generation. I know, because I was the classic juvenile delinquent with pre-occupied parents who had to have the latest innovative stuff.
The Greatest Generation's failing was just the beginning. I still hold my Boomer hippie generation for most blame. Those idiot hippies went on to become teachers and screwed up academia. It's since been an exponential (which I doubt many Millenials can spell) lowering of basic morality, workable standards of behavior and human virtues. Read the book, or don't because it will most likely make you depressed.
Increased mobility, due to technological advancements also made the impact.
Consider that, most people were born, lived and died pretty much in the same place, up until maybe the mid-20th Century.
Today, we don’t think much of all of living in several different places, and all the travel we now do to other places.
IIRC, the girls/women of the 60's started wearing mini-skirts, short shorts, and bikinis. The feminists agreed that women should be able to flaunt their sexuality and discard the prudish mores of 50's dresses and behavior. It wasn't until the 70's, the feminists started their crusade that women can have it all. Now we have girls/women behave like stupid frat boys and the feminists think that is good. Think movies like Spring Break or any other anything goes chick flick. I've refused to buy into all that and still open the door for a woman. I'm a gentleman until the day I die.
BTW, NOW has been completely discredited and pretty much defunct since they say nothing about the horrible treatment of females in Islamic countries or elsewhere like Mexico. They are open-border advocates but never mention all the rapes that go on from the coyotes. When is the last time you heard a rep from NOW condemn the horrific action of gentital mutilation that occurs almost every day around the World? Crickets.
You never heard anything about alcohol? It's a drug (caloric content notwithstanding).
Possibly, but 60's cars weren't much more advance than the 50's, except for new optional items. As the parents deferred to their Boomer kids antics, the hippies and others would mostly pool their resources for an used car. I did it with friends, although was never a hippie.
The exception would be the rich who bought new cars for their spoiled over-indulged kids, mostly on the way to a college where they took their "anything goes" beliefs with them that started the dumbing down of academia. Those who couldn't get a car, hitch-hiked. That was big in California. Are you talking about other means like buses or rail or what?
No advocacy of use here: "I’m joining the board of #AcreageHoldings because my thinking on cannabis has evolved. I’m convinced de-scheduling the drug is needed".
The “male chauvinist pig” chant started in the 60’s with the hippies and the women’s libbers. It was all downhill from there.
Men need to stand up to this b/s by being, as you have said, gentlemen and also, the head of the woman.
I don't remember that in the 60's, but then I was happy to watch the girls in mini-skits...haha. I thought it was early 70's, but could have been late 60's that chant started. That was all in my teens and now 68 and could be wrong, but not going to bother to google. I'll take your word for it.
A small factoid about my mid-60's experience: I used to drive my friends nuts when riding in my car because I loved the early 60's girl groups (Shirelles, Chiffons, et al) and Golden Oldies of the 50's and then fell in love with Motown. I can't remember how many shotgun (remember that?) riders would ask me to turn off Smokey, Supremes, Temps, Otis Redding, Aretha, etc.
Then there was the competition between Beatles and Stones fans. Of course, I was a Stones fan because the Beatles were doing bubble-gum pop when the Stone were doing covers of Muddy Waters, and other Chess artists. I still listen those classics of that era, especially since most have been re-mastered and re-mixed.
If you're a Stones fan, the 2 disc "GRR!" compilation is the best they've ever done, and they've done many. It sounds amazing in surround sound and even stereo, and gives you more insight to the writing brilliance of Jagger and Richards. Best example; Gimme Shelter. The best intro of their catalog and almost any rock song with its haunting guitar and vocalist while being a 3 chord song.
Another factoid for Stones fans: Sympathy For the Devil has no drums in it. The percussion is from bongos, maracas, and a caribbean guiro with stick that gives a high-hat sound and more melodic that maracas. Also, probably the most under-rated bassist in RnR is Bill Wyman. He not only did his base runs, but filled in the rhythm section that was missing Watts' drums.
I had fun in the 60’s especially in high school (Class of ‘66). In ‘65, my friend and I saw the Stones live at the San Francisco Civic Auditorium. We were so stoked that we started a band, playing mostly Stones because they were usually easy to play, at parties.
BTW, an opening act for the Stones then was Paul Revere and the Raiders - they were a great show. Mark Lindsay of the Raiders was almost as good of a live act as Mick Jagger of the Stones. A lot of fun.
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