Recognize any of these?
Posted on 06/05/2015 2:20:21 PM PDT by NYer
I was literally about to post Billboards top 100 songs of 1965.
I was going to but I thought it would be too long.”
Satisfaction and Like a Rolling Stone came out within weeks of each other. I was a senior in high school and got to cruise in my parents 65 Chevy 327 Impala Super Sport Coupe, hearing them back to back on the AM radio, and felt on top of the world.
It’s culture more than anything.
Culture shaped by the explosion of media.
If you had a TV in 1965 you may have had 3 or 4 channels.
The media learned and quickly exploited their power to influence masses of people.
So you think the changes outlined here were good?
Recognize any of these?
1. High and tight.
2. Commie, hippie, girl.
Certainly.
What I am looking for is a visual anthology.
The year over year changes in not only style, but the faces or attitudes being projected.
I’m sure there are plenty of barbershop goers that know the posters I’m talking about.
If you look at the differences in the faces/attitudes being projected you will see what I mean.
The 1950’5 and 60’s were all smiles and a clean cut positive projection.
Into the 70’s and 80’s they began to slowly shift and the faces/styles took on a sense of determination, seriousness.
Into the 1990’s and beyond they are almost angry.
There has to be another Freeper here that knows what I’m talking about.
My grandmother taught in NYC Public for 55 years. She used to cut articles out of the paper for us when we were kids, to make important moral or civic teaching points.
I will never forget the day in 1965 when she brought the story about the birth of "credit cards". "THIS", she said, "will destroy America faster and more surely than the communists", she said.
And she was right.
Definitely true about these things, but, not sure when no-fault divorce was implemented, haven't looked it up, but it belongs in there with these things that put us on the slippery slope to national destruction beginning in the 60's. Now its same-sex marriage, but the anti-marriage trend started with no-fault divorce.
1965, the year that money changed, silver to no value. So appropriate with all the false promises of the left.
The most important thing that happened in 1965 to bring down the curtain on the old order was the licensing of BankAmericard outside of California, to create what became VISA and the modern system of unsecured credit as a substitute for money as a means of exchange - although not, obviously, as a store of value.
These things don’t happen in a vacuum.
You can’t blame BOA/Visa or even a regulatory system that allowed it to happen.
BOA saw a market and they moved to fill it.
The loss of personal responsibility combined with mass marketing and a growing economy and tons of lawyers and an explosion of media together with a Federal Government that positioned themselves as their savior in the event people got into trouble.
By design?
Not likely.
People make choices and other people provide those choices because they can.
So, we have a choice.
Do we want the Government telling businesses and people what they can do? or a society of people that are responsible for their own actions?
We can acquiesce to the ignorance of way too many and take an elitist position that they need to be protected from themselves or throw them to the wolves of life.
You are correct. Shacking up and easy divorces lead to the disintegration of marriages which opened the door for queer marriages.
Vatican II ended. I was in Quigley Seminary in Chicago for my freshman year high school (transferred out after one year). I remember the excitement building among the clergy of the great “changes” that were coming. I felt like I was in the eye of the hurricane, in that school that produced so many bishops, in that city, in that year. How “human” so much of it was, how lacking in the spiritual. And what a price we have paid.
Left the US in mid ‘65 for military service on Okinawa - returned at the end of ‘66 - seemed like virtually a different country by the time I got back - culturally, politically, morally......
bkmk
The year the youngest baby boomers turned 20...
bump for later
I was 30. It was the year my Dad died, and so in a way, the end of my childhood. If I didn’t think it was, then after “The Graduate” came out, the younger folk kept reminding me that I was old already.
And the Pill. It was then that the girls stopped saying no.
Actually, they’re off by a few months. I was born in July ‘64.
:-D
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