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Tell me about the '60s (vanity)

Posted on 01/09/2007 9:18:52 AM PST by HungarianGypsy

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To: HungarianGypsy

The pill liberated women from pregnancy. I'd say a turning point in women's lives in society.


101 posted on 01/09/2007 9:49:40 AM PST by BunnySlippers (SAY YES TO RUDY !!!)
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To: Al Gator

Pre-quadrophonic! ;p


102 posted on 01/09/2007 9:49:41 AM PST by Froufrou
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To: Tax-chick

I do find it funny that people in smaller cities and such considered it a worthwhile expense to buy a TV when there was only one channel to watch.


103 posted on 01/09/2007 9:49:49 AM PST by RockinRight (To compare Congress to drunken sailors is an insult to drunken sailors. - Ronald W. Reagan)
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To: WorkerbeeCitizen

A and W in a frosty mug! Nothing better (well maybe with some ice cream)


104 posted on 01/09/2007 9:50:03 AM PST by svcw (There is no plan B.)
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To: WorkerbeeCitizen
Venus in Bluegenes, Wendy. Mama's and the Papa's, Jefferson Airplane.

Don't forget Creedence...and the Spoonful.

105 posted on 01/09/2007 9:50:24 AM PST by Gay State Conservative ("The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism."-Karl Marx)
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106 posted on 01/09/2007 9:50:34 AM PST by mc6809e
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To: 4yearlurker

--No video games,ipods,cable TV,cell phones,Home computers,VCR,CD,DVD,etc...--

Transistor Radio!


107 posted on 01/09/2007 9:50:59 AM PST by UpAllNight
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To: HungarianGypsy

for the x-15, you gotta check this out: http://history.nasa.gov/x15/cover.html

Sorry, you probably don't care that much but when I googled it I couldn't leave this site. I was fascintated.

I'm glad you asked the question!


108 posted on 01/09/2007 9:51:14 AM PST by RobRoy (Islam is a greater threat to the world today than Nazism was in 1938.)
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To: Tax-chick
Yeah, but you had PBS, "Guilligan's Island" on the second channel, and "The Beverly Hillbillies" on the third channel.

Now really, why in He77 would you even bother to get up and change the channel, if those were your choices. You might as well just watch the channel you're on.

109 posted on 01/09/2007 9:52:01 AM PST by willgolfforfood
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To: HungarianGypsy
Most families still went to church on Sundays. Dinner was usually a home cooked meal. You were lucky if you had more than 3 channels on your TV. Girls had to wear dresses to school that were no more than an inch above your knee (even in the winter). Drug stores had soda counters where you could buy a cherry coke or a root beer float. There was the good side of town and a bad side of town. Movie theaters had balconies and cartoons were shown before the movie. You could load up your car with family or friends and go to a drive-in movie. School didn't start until September after summer break. Milk was delivered by a milkman and your telephones had party lines. Telephone numbers were usually 4 digits.

These are just a few of my memories of the sixties. I was born in 1955.

110 posted on 01/09/2007 9:52:24 AM PST by girlscout
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To: UpAllNight
Behind the TV, a box of extra tubes. On top of the TV, a pair of pliars or wrench to turn the channels and a screwdriver to adjust the colors.

LOL. Also every time the TV broke you pulled a bunch of vacuum tubes and took the to the shop to run through a tester. Occasionally you would hear about so poor guy who forgot to drain the power out of the TV before trying to pull tubes.

111 posted on 01/09/2007 9:52:25 AM PST by armymarinemom (My sons freed Iraqi and Afghan Honor Roll students.)
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112 posted on 01/09/2007 9:52:46 AM PST by Lando Lincoln
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To: Mr. Jeeves

LOL!

And here I thought it was Ted Turner who colorized the black and white world!


113 posted on 01/09/2007 9:52:51 AM PST by Howlin (Not voting GOP was like being thirsty but not drinking since the glass is only 75% full ~~SoCalPol)
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To: UpAllNight

Listing to a baseball game at a summer family BBQ on a transistor radio was the best.


114 posted on 01/09/2007 9:52:58 AM PST by svcw (There is no plan B.)
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To: armymarinemom
I was just a kid in the 60's. I will never forget the war body count on the evening news every night.

We rode our bikes all day, built underground forts and played "Lost in Space" in Vinnie Lembo's back yard. Yes, I played with boys most of the time, they were much more interesting than the girls in our neighborhood.

115 posted on 01/09/2007 9:53:00 AM PST by alice_in_bubbaland (New Jersey gets the corrupt government it deserves!)
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To: Mr. Jeeves

Watching all the Beach Blanket Bingo movies would give you a feel for what part of the country was like in those days.


116 posted on 01/09/2007 9:53:01 AM PST by 3AngelaD (ic.)
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To: HungarianGypsy
Graduated in '65.

Beach Boys on your AM radio.

Top down on your '56 Ford.

Your buds riding around in the day time, and your steady girl in the evening.

Bleeding madras shirts, white Levis, and penny loafers with no socks=the uniform of the day.

Saturday was for detailing your car in the park with the other guys.

Standing up for your little brother when someone picked on him.

Yes sir, no sir, yes ma'am, no ma'am was the way you addressed adults, and no smart mouth either.

Sunday dinner with the family, at the dinner table.

Respect for women, go to the door when you pick her up. Talk to her parents, and be a gentleman, and above all, have her home on time.

Gas was 20 cents a gallon for LEADED regular, but it was still expensive to me cause I only made 35 bucks a week at the drug store. I spent most of that on beer and girls.

When ever you opened a beer you needed a "church key".

Most of all....every thing was an adventure and life was good.

117 posted on 01/09/2007 9:53:05 AM PST by timydnuc (I'll die on my feet before I'll live on my knees.)
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To: UpAllNight

Transistor radios under your pillow at night, to muffle them when you weren't supposed to be listening. Only AM radio. Stations from cities far away on clear nights. Otis Redding singing "Dock of the Bay" through that pillow in the dark bedroom late at night.


118 posted on 01/09/2007 9:53:41 AM PST by linda_22003
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To: goodnesswins
You could understand most of the words to a song...and they weren't cuss words

I've listened to some psychedellic rock and have to disagree there on the cussing part. The Jefferson Airplane song "We Can Be Together" had the "f" word in it.

119 posted on 01/09/2007 9:53:52 AM PST by RockinRight (To compare Congress to drunken sailors is an insult to drunken sailors. - Ronald W. Reagan)
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To: willgolfforfood
Now really, why in He77 would you even bother to get up and change the channel, if those were your choices. You might as well just watch the channel you're on.

Exactly.

120 posted on 01/09/2007 9:53:57 AM PST by Tax-chick (What's this we have now?)
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