Posted on 04/24/2024 10:32:31 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Of course they were. The water hadn’t boiled yet.
Compare and contrast who comprised school teachers in the 60s versus in the 70s?
The Weather Underground types gave up bombings and shooting police officers, in favor of becoming school teachers.
Smoking is a nasty habit. I’m glad it has fallen out of favor.
$1.00 in 1965 translates to $9.98 today. Thank you Fedzilla for devaluing our currency.
$2.00 in 1965 translates to $19.96 today. Eff You again, Fedzilla.
BTW, there’s really no such thing as a long distance phone call, today. The “grocery price” is very ambiguous ... but you can get a whole lot of things at the grocery for less than ten bucks today, so I’m not sure how to interpret that claim in a reasonable manner.
The IBM Selectric typewriter was one of the world’s greatest inventions.
....and only jazz musicians were smoking marijuana.
Oh, yeah ... 72% adults married ... Thanks again, government. Welfare, no-fault divorce, the horror show that is “family court”, abortion ... all designed to destroy the family and empower the State.
The current, smoke and mirrors, unrest stirred up by
Eric Holder et al (ala students for a socialist dictatorship)
reminds me of the good ol’ days of the 1960’s, when ON the TV, there was “the unrest” while NOT ON TV, there was mowing the lawn, changing the engine oil, points and plugs, game of softball or golf or football.
The street price for a stolen Selectric in DC was about $200 in the early 70s. They were relatively easy to acquire.
That was my decade of growing up....................
The Sixties is recalled for the number of youthful volunteers that joined the Peace Corps. Theirs is a wonderful saga.
One notable fact is back then nobody had any inkling the entire hippie movement was hatched by the CIA.
So true!! The media got full of themselves and decided what we should see on the evening news and read in the NY slimes.
Those were the good old days when the Huntly-Brinkley report was a 15 minute session with no editorialization or opinion pieces. Local weather had far more importance and interest in SW Oklahoma than student sit-ins at berkley.
The good old days.
The number one cause for the 60s was the election of JFK, a Nixon win in 1960 would have given the left much less to work with.
“most people were living normal everyday lives”
The abnormal people were still in institutions, jail, Hollywood or running for political office.
I never saw anything much come out of the Peace Corps that was good an enduring.
Maybe we would have less fatsos if people went back to smoking (tobacco)
I still have an early 1990’s vintage IBM Selectric typewriter in my library at work. We used to use it to type call numbers on the small adhesive stickers. We had someone come in an ask specifically to use a typewriter last year for the first in years. He typed out an obituary for his spouse. I have two more on a shelf in reserve.
That is a ridiculous comment.
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