Tell me about the '60s (vanity)

[BunnySlippers]

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

[Froufrou]

Pre-quadrophonic! ;p

[RockinRight]

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.

[svcw]

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

[Gay State Conservative]

Venus in Bluegenes, Wendy. Mama's and the Papa's, Jefferson Airplane.

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

[mc6809e]

[UpAllNight]

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

Transistor Radio!

[RobRoy]

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!

[willgolfforfood]

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.

[girlscout]

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.

[armymarinemom]

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.

[Lando Lincoln]

[Howlin]

LOL!

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

[svcw]

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

[alice_in_bubbaland]

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.

[3AngelaD]

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

[timydnuc]

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.

[linda_22003]

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.

[RockinRight]

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.

[Tax-chick]

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.