Complete with Fender Mustang guitar (red)
and Ludwig grey pearl drums...G-L-O-R-I-A - Gloria!
Good times...
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.
Wow, that's quite a broad brush you're painting with.
You could see the local news, and sometimes a football game, and "The Wizard of Oz" once a year!
In Brooklyn NY, it was safe for a boy to ride around on his bike all day (I went back to my old neighborhood in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn 20 years later, and thought I would not like being on foot unarmed there). I would ride down to the drugstore and have a malted from the counter
As a kid in the 60's we would get home from school and on tv there were childrens programs that were pretty much always local. It was very much a "Krusty the Clown" sort of thing.
I actually tap danced on live TV in Spokane, Wa. in 1961.
TV was still pretty experimental. There was Ted Mac and the Original Amateur Hour, Mitch Miller, stuff like that.
And a LOT of TV shows were making the switch to color but most people still had B&W until the late 60's. My grandparents bought a round tube color tv in the early 60's for $899. Do you have any idea how much that is in 2007 dollars. To give you an idea, my parents paid $60 a month rent for a four bedroom rambler in a Fort Worth suburb.
And nobody knew what "Louie, Louie" said, but we were pretty sure it was dirty.
I was a young mother of three in the 60's. It was a time when most mothers didn't work. They would get together for coffee with coffee cake. When husbands and wife's visited each other. Family's had dinner around the table and ate whatever was fixed for them, with no complaints. Then things started to fall apart. The assination of President Kennedy. The Black Panthers. Patty Herst. LSD. Marijuna. McDonalds. All the things I was hearing on the news really scared me wondering what the future for my children would be.
A very stute observation.
TV was cemented in our life the day Kennedy was shot.
Motown definitely (Marvin Gaye), Ma Ma's and Pa Pa's, drinking alot in the service, Vietnam, still not a bad era....
Many young adults were hard working and didn't rebel against society, even shunned the hippie movement.
Great music of all kinds, including Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass.
And contrary to popular belief, didn't smoke Maryjane or shoot H.
I heard that it actually wasn't, and I've heard it was.
Lassie was a must see TV show for the kids....and MouseKateers (sp).
I remember the cartoons being actually funny instead of political or PC.
Another good one that captures the flavor of the time is "That Thing You Do!" about a band being discovered in early sixties small-town America.
The O-needers! :o)
hehehehe ... smart a$$.
Well....GENERALLY speaking.....I probably didn't listen THAT close.....I wasn't in to music that much....books were my thing.
My first car was a 1959 Chevy Belair. The fins, ahhh the fins. What a car. The back end would actually lift up at speeds over 100mph (not that I ever did that).
And what of those last remaining hopes of 50s? Where they so thoroughly buried in the 60s? The freedom themes of the 60s played out differently in Eastern Europe. Think about it.
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