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.
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.
That was my decade of growing up....................
One notable fact is back then nobody had any inkling the entire hippie movement was hatched by the CIA.
The good old days.
“most people were living normal everyday lives”
The abnormal people were still in institutions, jail, Hollywood or running for political office.
Maybe we would have less fatsos if people went back to smoking (tobacco)
Some more stats that make you understand how badly our country has been destroyed....
Church membership was 70% in 1992. It is now 46%.
The percentage of families that needed 2 full time workers was 30% in 1970. It is now 60%.
The percentage of children living in 2 parent households was 85% in 1970. It is now 65%.
The rate of “severe obesity” was 10% in 1970. It is now 20%.
The suicide rate was 10 per 100k in 1992. It is now 17 per 100k.
In 1962 the Supreme Court threw God out of public life. A year later our President was murdered, riots began in 64, the first widespread drug use started, endless war, crime began to rise, families began to break down, schools started their downward spiral, record inflation, scandels, on and on. Yes, there is a strong correlation to the actions of the Supreme Court and what happened to society afterwards.
Bookmark.
yep, it is a fallacy to think everyone had long hair and was a hippie in the 60’s.
Most people still looked like what you think people looked like in the 50’s during the 60’s
I can tell you this: The old coots the press used to run to back then to get their uncool old coot opinion on the latest boomer burning, sit in, riot or perversity were one hundred percent correct in where they said it would all lead…RIGHT HERE WHERE WE ARE NOW.
Great times civility was in season beautiful cars............
Between 1880 and 1960 the inflation rate was 100%. That is 80 years for prices to double.
Between 1960 and 2024 the inflation rate was over 955%, in only 64 years.
IBM Selectric was probably #1 because of sales to businesses.
We just got ours from Sears.
I was kinda busy living a normal life in Vietnam.