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Tell me about the '60s (vanity)
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.
TOPICS: Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: farout; groovy; lovebeadsandlsd; sockittome; summeroflove; thesixties
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To: TET1968
We went there on friday nights in the summer and swam in the sound accross the street, which was Baywille Ave. We lived about 3 blocks from there.
421
posted on
01/09/2007 11:52:00 AM PST
by
alice_in_bubbaland
(New Jersey gets the corrupt government it deserves!)
To: Rte66
Brut. I still have scar tissue on the insides of my notrils from that.
To: truth_seeker
Why was Nixon re-elected by a landslide, then? Because McGovern was somewhere left of John F'n Kerry.
423
posted on
01/09/2007 11:52:46 AM PST
by
Alouette
(Psalms of the Day: 90-96)
To: linda_22003
To: sionnsar
David McCallum (Ilya Kuryakin) is on the TV show NCIS now. Took me months of watching it before I figured out where I remembered him from!
425
posted on
01/09/2007 11:52:53 AM PST
by
Rte66
To: Rte66
David McCallum (Ilya Kuryakin) is on the TV show NCIS now. I thought he was dead.
426
posted on
01/09/2007 11:54:23 AM PST
by
Alouette
(Psalms of the Day: 90-96)
To: Rte66
LOL! Jade East....the place where you bought your bongs and pipes! I haven't thought about that store in years!
427
posted on
01/09/2007 11:54:39 AM PST
by
alice_in_bubbaland
(New Jersey gets the corrupt government it deserves!)
To: Ol' Sox
Thanx, Ol' Sox.
Talk about taking a nose dive. Must have hit one of my triggers in this thread. The meds do work. I'll be able to pull back up. Got my group on Friday and phone numbers if I run into difficulty. Plus, I have a wife, 2 dogs and 2 cats who are always glad to see me.
428
posted on
01/09/2007 11:55:13 AM PST
by
Stashiu
(RVN, 1969-70)
To: JFC
Does anyone remember "IRON LUNGS"
YES...that was my worst fear in life. I watched the movie The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio, with Julianne Moore, about a 60's housewife who enters all these sweepstakes...there's a character in an iron lung and she's quite cheery about it.
429
posted on
01/09/2007 11:55:23 AM PST
by
Miss Didi
("Good heavens, woman, this is a war not a garden party!" Dr. Meade, Gone with the Wind)
To: alice_in_bubbaland
430
posted on
01/09/2007 11:55:47 AM PST
by
Rte66
To: Stashiu; Ol' Sox
"Not in a good place today."
Welcome home, FRiend. Damn glad you made it back. Amen.
431
posted on
01/09/2007 11:55:55 AM PST
by
sionnsar
(†trad-anglican.faithweb.com†|Iran Azadi| 5yst3m 0wn3d - it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY) | UN: Useless Nations)
To: Stashiu
Jesus Loves You (this I know)
432
posted on
01/09/2007 11:56:57 AM PST
by
Rte66
To: girlscout
I never got a scar. When my Hubby was drafted they gave him another vaccination, since he didn't have the scar. They thought it didn't "take".
433
posted on
01/09/2007 11:57:38 AM PST
by
alice_in_bubbaland
(New Jersey gets the corrupt government it deserves!)
To: Alouette
Nope - he's a funny old man, plays a Navy forensic pathologist named Ducky Mallard. (Honest.)
434
posted on
01/09/2007 11:58:10 AM PST
by
Rte66
To: Stashiu
Thank you, Sir, for your service. And welcome Home!!!
435
posted on
01/09/2007 11:59:03 AM PST
by
Brad’s Gramma
(Get right with God....eternity is a long time.....)
To: Rte66
LOL! Some of us were into bongs....sorry. I never bought one...I'd get killed!
436
posted on
01/09/2007 11:59:08 AM PST
by
alice_in_bubbaland
(New Jersey gets the corrupt government it deserves!)
To: NathanR
I know two people who got 4F, both of the during the Vietnam era.
437
posted on
01/09/2007 11:59:14 AM PST
by
HEY4QDEMS
(Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.)
To: alice_in_bubbaland
My little hometown was progressive and gave us our smallpox vaccinations on the inside of the arm, instead of leaving that scar on the outside for the world to see.
I can still see mine - *hanging down there*, lol. *thwapping the geezerette flab*
438
posted on
01/09/2007 12:00:33 PM PST
by
Rte66
To: Miss Didi
School lunch was 30 cents and milk was three. The milk cartons also came with three differnt U.S. Presidents on each panel which presented a dilemma for me as a kid:
- Collect the cards? . . . . or . . .
- Use the empty carton to hide your leftovers because you weren't allowed to leave the lunchroom with food still on your plate.
439
posted on
01/09/2007 12:01:18 PM PST
by
Vigilanteman
(Are there any men left in Washington? Or are there only cowards? Ahmad Shah Massoud)
To: alice_in_bubbaland
Oh, yes, I've seen those. (In the Toke & Smoke, lol.)
440
posted on
01/09/2007 12:01:35 PM PST
by
Rte66
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