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NO SEX But Plenty of Drugs & Rock And Roll.

Posted on 05/05/2019 8:07:24 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET

Just heard Alice Cooper's Schools Out song. Reminded me of the 60's when there was so much 'free love'. Looking back I don't believe it. Just the media's attempt that it was all-out there for the taking and you were missing out if you weren't getting it. Drugs and music were the SUBSTITUTES for sex. Women were out there but not as available as the media would have you believe. Being easily led again.


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To: kanawa

Mackenzie Phillips was like 12 or 13 there and that *is* a bar.

o.O


41 posted on 05/05/2019 11:19:01 AM PDT by Salamander (Death makes angels of us all, and give us wings where we once had shoulders, smooth as ravens' claws)
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To: yarddog
I graduated in 65. There were no drugs or really even disussions of drugs. I heard that maybe 10-15 years later they had caught on. No sex either,

I recall the fun started around 1966.

42 posted on 05/05/2019 11:20:33 AM PDT by FreeReign
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To: yarddog

“Only Jazz Musicians were smoking marijuana”


43 posted on 05/05/2019 11:21:29 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: kanawa

Harry Nilson always looked uncomfortable in his own skin.

In this picture, too.


44 posted on 05/05/2019 11:22:15 AM PDT by Lazamataz (McCain's passing ended up being + 2 net Republican Senators. Him, and Lindsey Graham.)
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To: wardaddy

In the 60s, I was still running around my backyard in my underwear, telling everyone I was Tarzan.

/didn’t miss a thing

:D


45 posted on 05/05/2019 11:22:31 AM PDT by Salamander (Death makes angels of us all, and give us wings where we once had shoulders, smooth as ravens' claws)
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To: Lazamataz
Harry Nilson always looked uncomfortable in his own skin.

Wrote some great songs, though.

46 posted on 05/05/2019 11:23:53 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: wardaddy

In 1969, when I was not yet 8, my oblivious dad got the bright idea to take us to Canada for a vacation.

I will never forget the trailer camp we stayed at one night.

It was full of hippies, naked, dancing and screaming, burning draft cards and bras in trashcans.

Looking at them through the trailer windows was like a glimpse into Dante’s Inferno.

The campground had no hookups so we had to use the public bathrooms.

My dad marched me, my mom and my gramma to them with a .44 Magnum stuffed under his shirt.

They screamed and hooted at us all as we made our way to the bathrooms.

I’ve hated hippies ever since that night.


47 posted on 05/05/2019 11:28:47 AM PDT by Salamander (Death makes angels of us all, and give us wings where we once had shoulders, smooth as ravens' claws)
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To: FreeReign

Walton High School was integrated in 1966.

My best friend was probably the alpha male in our senior class. Ruggedly handsome and a great athlete. He became a Naval Aviator and retired from the Navy.

I remember he spent a lot of time trying to get a girl to as he said it, “put out”. He was a virgin when we graduated. Probably still one when he got married.

It was a different world.


48 posted on 05/05/2019 11:33:08 AM PDT by yarddog
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To: DIRTYSECRET
Looking back I don't believe it. Just the media's attempt that it was all-out there for the taking and you were missing out if you weren't getting it.

It probably was media-driven - the media mavens were high on the mass-reach power of TV, and testing the extent of their influence. In the early- to mid-sixties there probably weren't all that many people that took the bait, but by the seventies plenty of followers were experimenting in sex, drugs, art, music, and so on. Some people chose to back out of the decline, but many just went with the media-reinforced flow after that. American pop culture has been degenerating ever since, and has taken mainstream culture down a peg with it.

49 posted on 05/05/2019 11:42:25 AM PDT by Tellurian (Demonicrats would smugly tell even God "you didn't build that".)
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To: Salamander; Pelham

My first actual hippie was at Disneyland in 1968

Sixth grade

Pirates of the Caribbean ride in line

Beads really long hair and embroidered jeans and Indian stoyle shirt smelling of patchouli

His woman had similar garb and a tank top no bra which even at eleven got my attention lol

My mom Miss Mississippi of course had to talk to everyone and so struck up a conversation withe her

They were foreign from Denmark lol

I think my dad liked the girl too honestly

I sat on 707 alone coming back from NYC with my first bell bottoms and it was a milk run plane

Idlewild JFK to Atlanta to Montgomery to Jackson Miss to Shreveport to Dallas

I got on and the stew sat me next to a preppie hippie who was attending college in Nea York and headed home to Dallas

He looked out for me the whole trip honestly....he smoked I was curious even then...tobacco

My uncle was in mid school in 1963-65

His best buddy went to Timothy Leary event in New Orleans and became a follower and dropped out and moved to Millbrook and then the West Coast and by the 70s was living in a commune in Hawaii with a family

That’s my first hippies I ever recall

We used to see them in the French Quarter a lot....cops there hated them

I was a long hair smoked weed a lot and tripped but we weren’t hippies

We had guns and were sorta redneck though soft about race compared to the klan which was around then

My kids like to say I was a hippie though

We were more like libertinians with arms and attitudes and idealism admittedly and quite randy as well....hell what’s your twenties for


50 posted on 05/05/2019 12:37:45 PM PDT by wardaddy (I applaud Jim Robinson for his comments on the Southern Monumnets decision ...thank you)
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To: DIRTYSECRET
I loved the whole album but had a special fondness for Grande Finale.
51 posted on 05/05/2019 12:38:26 PM PDT by kanawa (Trump Loves a Great Deal (NorthernSentinel))
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I’ll always remember the Coop.


52 posted on 05/05/2019 12:44:05 PM PDT by kanawa (Trump Loves a Great Deal (NorthernSentinel))
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To: yarddog

The end of innocence .


53 posted on 05/05/2019 12:45:35 PM PDT by wardaddy (I applaud Jim Robinson for his comments on the Southern Monumnets decision ...thank you)
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To: wardaddy; Salamander

“and Indian stoyle shirt smelling of patchouli”

ugh. Patchouli. Boy am I glad that went out of style. That and incense in general. Orange County reeked of it.


54 posted on 05/05/2019 12:50:38 PM PDT by Pelham (Secure Voter ID. Mexico has it, because unlike us they take voting seriously)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Mid sixties seemed to be about the time the old morality started to crumble to make way for the new do your own thing mentality - sadly, lots of kids not too bright or sophisticated, anxious to fit in with what appeared to be happening, jumped in without really knowing how to handle the new “freedom” - knew one such young lady - her son will be fifty-four this year.....


55 posted on 05/05/2019 12:51:12 PM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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To: Salamander; wardaddy

1969. If that was Canada by upstate New York in August you must have run into Woodstock’s overflow.


56 posted on 05/05/2019 12:54:22 PM PDT by Pelham (Secure Voter ID. Mexico has it, because unlike us they take voting seriously)
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To: sparklite2

“Sorry you weren’t getting any.
I had to fend them off”

Best explanation ever. The widespread usage of birth control pills in the 60s changed our society. It changed who scored and who didn’t.

Prior to birth control, women did not want sex outside of marriage for one reason... the baby.

Post birth control, a majority of young women ...and teens ... wanted sex with the guy to whom they were physically attracted, regardless of his suitability as the father of a kid. In my NW Chicago Catholic neighborhood virtually every Polish, Italian and Irish girl I knew age 16 to 26 was doing it. The Puerto Ricans were a little behind...maybe 80% were doing it. The Mexican girls were even farther behind .... maybe 50% were doing it.

One Catholic Pastor/Priest was openly doing it with the Catholic head of the public welfare system. The post Vatican II attitude of all the old Polish and Italian women who felt born in the wrong generation was the remark:

“At least he isn’t doing it with little boys, like the other priests.”

The daughters of Sen Chuck Percy openly joked with Catholic High School girls “give a fuck for Chuck”. There is no doubt in my mind that some of those high school girls did.

Of course, the pill didn’t always work. And sometimes girls weren’t taking the pill when they came across a cute guy. The 80% success of the pill is the reason for the abortion rate.


57 posted on 05/05/2019 12:58:20 PM PDT by spintreebob
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To: spintreebob

Another thing that sparked the sexy sixties was the advent of diet pills, Escatrol, Dexamil, Dexadrine et all. The overweight gals slimmed down and back into the dating pool. More opportunities for all!


58 posted on 05/05/2019 1:04:52 PM PDT by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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To: wardaddy

In a way, the end of a way of life.


59 posted on 05/05/2019 1:36:16 PM PDT by yarddog
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To: dp0622
Love is freer than ever. Except it’s not free.

And it's not love, either.

60 posted on 05/05/2019 1:53:52 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (We believe that faith and family, not government and bureaucracy, are the true American way.--DTrump)
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