Take Me Back To The Sixties

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[navysealdad]

1960s History and the music. A depiction of old black and white TV shows of the 1950's and 1960's

[Sacajaweau]

As my daughter nears 45...she’s beginning to understand why I like the old stuff...No foul language, no explicit sex scenes, no homos in every plot....

[cbkaty]

Private party lines were rare....

I know...I was a telephone "repairman" that fixed broken 4, 8, & 16 party lines.... A 2 party line was a luxury...a single party line.....well only city folk hadem....

[Daffynition]

[RanGreHad]

Imagine: real TV shows, real cars, real people.

[rickomatic]

Man...now I really feel old.

[mass55th]

I can certainly relate to that presentation. I graduated from highschool in 1965. It was a time of innocence for many of us, and it's a shame so much has been lost over the years. I've been watching the Dark Shadows series on DVD from it's first program in 1966. I never got to watch it back then as I was working, and didn't get home until it was long over. The last episode I watched tonight had aired on August 7, 1968, the day before I turned 21...finally old enough to vote! Hard to believe that 41 years has passed already.

Thanks for posting that. It brought back a lot of great memories. The music was awesome too!!

[NavyCanDo]

And TV was so much better when we only had about 5 or six channels.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

They really skipped over the downsides, and missed some of the really good stuff.

Hippies *stank*! Music was good because life in the suburbs was deathly dull, but most teenagers could get instruments and make their own garage band. They all wanted to sound like either The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, or Pink Floyd.

Here is a website that plays a lot of the “also ran” music of the period, with a few period music commercials. It is worth a listen:

http://www.beyondthebeatgeneration.com/

Pollution in the 1960s was awful. Air pollution, water pollution and litter were terrible compared to today.

However, architecture and design style was amazing. The downside to that was they didn’t have the materials we have today, so the quality was often poor. Googie, Space Age, Atomic Age, Mod, Populuxe, Doo-Wop, etc. A combination of futurism and innovation.

It was a lot more pleasing that today’s utilitarian style. We finally have the tools and technology to create the futurism we wanted, but we have lost the novelty and creativity.

Women’s hairstyles were worth spending hours in a beauty salon, and demonstrated both relative wealth and leisure. Fashion was dramatic, with a design sense like the costumes the actresses wore on the original Star Trek. Print dresses were for wearing at home or work.

Democrats were as annoying then as they are today.

[McLynnan]

Brought a big smile to my face. Can’t remember the last time I thought about American Bandstand. We would hurry home from school every day and have a snack in front of the tv watching our favorite couples and the guest singers.

[SamAdams76]

This morning I was listening to a song from around 1968 called “Some Velvet Morning” by Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazelwood. Now that is a great song. But one of literally hundreds of great songs from that era that never get heard today. The 1960s weren’t only about the Beatles, Bob Dylan and the Rolling Stones.

[WKB]

Scroll down to the play list
http://chu65nang67.us/nam/vietnam.html

[SnuffaBolshevik]

Pollution in the 1960s was awful.

I was in line at a stop light with a '67 Chevelle about 5 cars up. You could actually smell it.

Much as I hate Big Brother government, I'm glad all those stinker cars of the 60's are gone.

At the time, though, no one gave it a second thought. People here burned their trash in the back yard back then.

[Gator113]

I miss all of the 50’s and much of the 60’s.

I miss the Burma-Shave signs, my paper routes and the singing on the berry bus during the summer. I miss the taste of real homemade butter and the smell of butch wax in my hair.

I miss my mom singing around the house and her giggle when I got one over on my dad. I miss the Sunday drives, even with 6 of us kids in the hot old car.

I miss the old wooden single-lane covered bridges, and that kiss on the cheek “the girl with the golden hair” gave me on the schoolhouse steps in the 4th grade.

I miss jumping into the river off of the old railroad trestle, playing war with pine cone fights and snagging frogs from the pond on the way home from school. I miss my grandfathers voice, his wonderful and exciting stories, his all knowing genius and his love for the sea.

I miss so many things, but now that I am 60, I am trying to do some of them all over again, if only in my mind.

Because of all the things I am privileged to miss, my children and now grandchildren will be able to miss enough of what they saw within me, to dream of a better time for themselves.

I have heard a lot of talk about how wonderful Heaven will be, but, with my most humble apology to the Creator, I ......... will miss life.

**** I have seen your site before and is my favorite... I truly love it. Thank you for posting it.

[Oztrich Boy]

This morning I was listening to a song from around 1968 called “Some Velvet Morning” by Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazelwood. Now that is a great song.

One great circle of black vinyl "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling", "Elusive Dreams", "Greenwich Village Folksong Salesman", "Summer Wine", "Storybook Children", "Sundown Sundown", "Jackson", "Sand", "Lady Bird", "I've Been Down So Long (It looks like up to me)" and "Some Velvet Morning”

[Moonmad27]

Your post reminds me why I just got Sirius XM - mainly because of the 60’s on 6 channel, which does play rarely-heard songs.