[HungarianGypsy]

I know I am taking advantage of the Food Ping list by doing this (it's not something I do often, though. so forgive me this time). I was hoping some of you could help me with this topic and maybe even pass it on. Thank you very much.

[joylyn]

I graduated from high school in 1963 and drugs were never mentioned as a problem by any adult. LSD was around, but only in certain locales and social circles -- it didn't become more common until the very end of the 1960's.

I don't have time to write my life story here, but if you have specific questions, mail them to me and I'll try to help.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Premium leaded gasoline sold for $.21/gallon. Regular leaded gas was $.19.
GM, Ford and Chrysler built flimsy cars equipped with poor brakes but great big motors that went up against trees and utility poles killing and maiming hundreds.
Something called the county draft board picked your name from a hat and if you were healthy enough, they sent you to Viet Nam for a year. Lyndon Johnson was president. 'sbout all I remember.

[Holicheese]

Hippies roamed the land in huge groups as far as the eye could see and the nose could smell!

[ChildOfThe60s]

Hmm, I was a teenager and, although the environmental specifics change from one generation to the next, adolescence is a pretty egocentric time of life. So, frankly, until I got out of HS in 1970, I didn't really give a crap about the world except as it related to me.

Probably the most dramatic thing I recall of the late sixties was the omnipresence of the war and the draft. I didn't understand it then, but later realized (looking back) that the networks were very heavily invested in ruining the US war effort, much like with the current war. Though to be fair to the average citizens, there were a lot more gray areas about that war than the current WOT. Now, as far as I am concerned, most of the anti Bush/war people are simply America hating traitors. There is no wide eyed idealism anywhere in this current crop of anti war people.

Oh, and one other thing. The BC pill had not really made inroads into my age group, so that had a real effect on behavior. The advent of the Pill is not an insignificant milestone of that era.