Posted on 01/09/2007 9:18:52 AM PST by HungarianGypsy
I am wanting to write a story based on a young adult in the 1960s. Since I was born in 1973 all I really know is what I studied in books. But, I want to get beyond love beads and LSD. I want to be able to write this as it really was. I know it's said if you remember the '60s you weren't really there. But, if anyone does remember I would appreciate reading your stories and facts. Thank you.
The pill liberated women from pregnancy. I'd say a turning point in women's lives in society.
Pre-quadrophonic! ;p
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.
A and W in a frosty mug! Nothing better (well maybe with some ice cream)
Don't forget Creedence...and the Spoonful.
--No video games,ipods,cable TV,cell phones,Home computers,VCR,CD,DVD,etc...--
Transistor Radio!
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!
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.
These are just a few of my memories of the sixties. I was born in 1955.
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.
LOL!
And here I thought it was Ted Turner who colorized the black and white world!
Listing to a baseball game at a summer family BBQ on a transistor radio was the best.
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.
Watching all the Beach Blanket Bingo movies would give you a feel for what part of the country was like in those days.
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.
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.
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.
Exactly.
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