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.
My husband remembers walking down Main St. with his gun over his shoulder to go hunting. Doing that today will get you arrested.
"High school kids took their rifles to school during hunting season so we could go into the woods immediately after school and not have to go home to get them."
I wrote about just such a thing way back in the first 50 posts!
One other thing I remember, old black men and young boys getting on the trolly cars in Philly, with their shotguns, heading up to the wilder parts of Northeast Philly along the river to shoot whatever.
No, we moved to NJ in 1970 and have been here ever since.
I remember my brother having trouble with a shotgun of his. He took it on the bus so a teacher could look at it during study hall.
Cool....what were you doing on Romper Room?
Baseball was king back then. I think over organization by adults really messed up the sport.
We were always short of kids, so the offensive team often provided the catcher AND called balls and strikes. He was generally fair too because you knew the other team would get even next inning if he wasn't.
The only time we ever had an umpire is if one of our players was unable to play such as I was once after breaking my wrist in a school dodge-ball game.
Usually, it worked out, because the kids on both teams would come to an agreement on the call of a close play. Once, however, I tried to score from 2nd on a cheap shallow outfield single. The play at home was very, very close. I insisted I was safe. The catcher (my own team) insisted I was out. The pitcher wasn't sure but thought I might be safe. The next batter up sided with me. Everyone chose sides and things got a little heated for all of two minutes. Then we saw a kid walking by who hadn't even seen the play and agreed that we would go with his call. The game went on.
A few years back my neighbors kid was suspended for bringing his pen knife to school. He was going fishing after school and forgot he had it in his pocket. He was a HS senior and was unable to "walk" with his class. Insanity in my opinion.
If you came from Massapequa,or as we called it Matzho(sp) Pizza, you must remember Jolly Roger's on Hempstead Turnpike. Some of the best take-out going. Pastrami and corned beef to die for.
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Ha! My dad took me out there from Texas to see if I wanted to go to Stanford, where he went to grad school. But first, we went to Berkeley, kind of holding our noses because he didn't like it.
Sure enough, draft-dodgers and protesters, hippie stuff. "P.U." Then we traipsed on over to Palo Alto. LOL, just the same! He was crestfallen.
The best thing on that trip, for me, was going to Takahashi and World Imports (or something like that) and getting some little brightly colored hippie accessories for my bedroom.
Second best was going to Finocchio's and seeing the drag queen shows with my button-down-collar parents. Still can't figure that one out.
Air raid drills where you lined up against the hallway walls and assumed the kiss your butt good-bye position.
Ding Dong Daddy!
I personally prefer the 70s music and modes.
Same here. I have been looking at some of the replies and haven't seen a mention of the Red Skelton Show. I loved that show.
Well, yeah it was, but that was a pretty "upper,middle class" area at the time. Also some of the Beach Boy family went there. One was a guy whose last name was Love (went on to play with the Laker's basketball team). Most of us that were surfer's at the time really disliked the image they were giving us.
I know it's the current list, I posted a link to it earlier.
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