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.
"staying up at our cottage on Cape Cod"
Too cool. We used to do the same thing, stayed in Orleans for a few weeks, even as long as a month in the summers.
Actually, the "little dab" bit was for Brylcreem. You know, '...for men who used their heads about their hair."? ;-)
If you didn't get your clothes at Krass Brothers Men's Store, you got STUCK! (Arrow shot through chest....)
I was in southern NJ just a few years ago and the GEATOR was still spinning the disks at a club somewhere near Ocean City! :)
Gosh, long time ago. Family was important. The family ate together, watched TV together, went camping and fishing with all the aunts & uncles and many cousins. Most lived in the same town and worked at the same steel factory. Body counts, assassinations, missile crisis, man on the moon (every space venture watched closely by all), typewriters and carbon paper, great music, the Beatles, pedal pushers and mini skirts, Mustangs, Charlie Manson. That's just some of it. Was there a certain topic you wanted to write about?
I got my first record album with S&H green stamps. It was the Beatles 'Sgt. Pepper'.
I stand corrected. That was the UT tower in '66. I intended to mean public schools, like high school and below (where prayer was removed).
I think it was 65 or 66, high school history teacher gave a class on were Viet Nam was and why we were there.
We didn't realize it, but that was the minute they put all the dudes in that class on the conveyer belt.
For dudes, the 60s was all about that conveyer belt.
Some guys fell off it, some guys jumped off it, some, like me, stayed on it and rode the ride.
I know exactly what you are talking about.
Dark Shadows?
Remember "reverberators" which gave you fake stereo on the AM radio?
One year I did have a Man from U.N.C.L.E. lunchbox. In other years I recall a "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" lunchbox, a "Bonanza" lunchbox and a "Flipper" lunchbox.
I was born in 1963 and I had two older sisters 12 and 9 years older than me. I remember my sisters rolling their hair on Orange Juice cans, and doing the flip on the bottom of their hair. They used products called Dippity Do. And Aqua Net hair spray. My oldest sister got GROUNDED for 2 weeks because she put eye liner on........
Better reception if you put a flag of tinfoil on the antennae!
Really?!
God bless him! I hear Gene London is still drawing too!
Nobody from the 60's remembers the 60's.
60's adn 70's were GREAT YEARS ;)
"gave a class on were Viet "
GRRRR were = where
(I will proof read, I will proof read, I will poof read)
I remember when he had a kids' show. Haven't thought about him in years.
My dad built an honest to god buried shelter. It was a quonset hut style steel building buried under 3+ feet of dirt with a filtered air pipe attached to a hand cranked blower. I used to love to crank the blower. Stocked with a months food, radio, geiger counter, batteries, etc. He had to replace the supplies once a year...especially the batteries...this was long before alkaline batteries and they had a short shelf life.
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