Seriously? That's President Lyndon B. Johnson who just signed the 1964 Civil Rights legislation. (Yeah I know what LBJ said about blacks). Who writes this stuff?
Seriously? That's President Lyndon B. Johnson who just signed the 1964 Civil Rights legislation. (Yeah I know what LBJ said about blacks). Who writes this stuff?
It was the best of times,
it was the worst of times.
I was a teenager...TV was interesting...but THIS “huge win in the fight for equality as President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act into law”...turned out horribly.
The Ali-Liston photo was actually from their 1965 rematch, not their 1964 fight.
The jukebox control includes the songs “Always On My Mind,” by Willie Nelson, and “Photograph” and “Actions Not Words” by Def Leppard.
Also “Rock The Casbah” by The Clash.
I’m thinking it’s from 1983 or perhaps 1984.
I was 7. While I was aware of the JFK assassination I was too young to know who he was or what he did. The Beatles while a big thing was mostly in 1964 for somewhat older yutes. I began to appreciate them as their career and the 60s rolled on. The first Presidential election I was somewhat aware of was 1968 with Nixon winning. I had reached the grand old age of 11 by then.
Best year ever!
I was born :)
Only Tesla Owners would think that the Civil Rights Act improved conditions for black families.
Lisa Loring was six at that time (my age) and passed in 2023.
One granddaughter was into the Netflix Wednesday and I showed her the YT vid of the dance in 1964 and that she was my age and had just passed.
I was 7 years old in 1964. We lived in the final flight path of the City of Blythe Airport where we were served by a regional airline. It was Bonanza Airlines which flew Fairchild F-27 40 passenger turboprops. I was a Bonanza “ Silverdart” fanatic.One evening I was sitting with my dad watching the CBS news with Walter Chronkite and then all of a sudden were the the images on our black and white tv screen of the wreckage. Bonanza Airlines Flight 114 had crashed at 815 pm into a solid rock cliff on approach about 6 miles from Las Vegas during a rare freak snowstorm killing all 29 aboard. I’ve been to the crash site 3 times. Not an easy hike. They say 10 more feet and they would have cleared. I would say 15-20 feet to be sure. The original crash report blamed the pilots misinterpreting the approach chart. There was a successful lawsuit against Jeppesen who made the approach chart several years later. Seems it was different than their other charts. Not being a pilot, the thing that confuses me is that the crash impact location doesn’t line up with the runway. The flights I see overhead at the crash site on final are a few miles to the right of the crash site on the way to land on runway 1. Im not insinuating they were off course but if there is any pilots out there can you explain this to me? Anyway,1964 is one of those years that sticks in my head because of the tragedy.
Horrible confession time:
After the fire, I’ve only got streaming channels.
Sometimes, I watch the free Ed Sullivan show channel for hours.
/don’t judge me
😜
… to underdog Cassius Clay (soon to be known as Muhammad Ali) …Poor guy; went from being named after one of the USA’s greatest abolitionists to renaming himself after two of the most prolific owners of black slaves, the former of whom even said that the devil resembled a black man.
Worst year ever, except for 1965.
I missed all this. Mostly sleeping, crying, feeding!!!
Thanks for not killing me, mom!
I still like “feeding!!!”
Declaring something from 1964 as vintage hurts me.
Post some of the pics!!
