Tell me about the '60s (vanity)

[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.

[Polyxene]

I knew I was forgetting a favorite show!! Thanks for reminding me! Jackie Gleason and the Honeymooners is another!

[HEY4QDEMS]

4-F is on your list.

[CatoRenasci]

Indeed.

My own paradigm of the Kennedys:

St. John the Martyr
Robert the Dead
Edward the Pretender to the Throne of St. John (also known as "Pond Scum")

As you can gather, I was not (and am not) a fan of the Kennedy Clan. I was at VMI when Robert was assassinated, and I have to tell you the place was not exactly filled with the rending of clothes and tearing of hair or moaning at the bar....even among the (many) Democrats (this being the South). As a Christian, I am ashamed to say that my reaction was that the country had been saved from a very dangerous man.

[NathanR]

After I looked it up. I just don't remember people getting it. (That probably says more about me, than the SS)

[E.G.C.]

BTTT

[CatoRenasci]

We had to stop singing "Dixie" at the football games -- and you wore a dress and heels to the game.

Until the mid-1970s, at VMI the Corps stood for Dixie.

[ExtremeUnction]

After serving in Vietnam, I returned to So. California to go to school (1967). My young wife and I had a very nice one-bedroom apartment one block from the beach. The rent was $85 a month. I attended Long Beach Community College. The tuition was free. My only costs were books. My wife worked and I received GI benefits ($230 a month, no tax). We were very comfortable. We bought a VW Bug for $1800 new. Our car payment was $60 a month. The lowest price I saw for gas was 24c a gallon. When we had friends over we would drink Spanada wine and play cards. Our phone bill was $4 a month. It was a good life in the 60's in Southern California.

[jwalsh07]

Football, Baseball, Basketball, huge parade on Memorial Day and parties at the VFW, family get togethers, Giant games, Yankee games, beer, beach, Beatles, street fights, marijuana, long hair, road trips, extended road trips, learning how to ride a horse in Montana before a re-ennactment of Custers last stand, longer hair, rock festivals, Vietnam, Donna Reed, John Wayne, Jimi Hendriz, Cream, James Brown, Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris, Butkus, Huff, a friend named Wino, another long roadtrip to the Caribbean, even longer hair...

Same ole, same ole.

[Miss Didi]

We HATED the Town Clown...but Mr. Moose was cool

[antisocial]

You Bet!

[Gritty]

at $10 each the rounds were expensive!

Yeah, I know. These guns and their ammo were wa-a-ay too expensive for a kid working 60 hour weeks in the summer for $35 a week (no taxes) who had to put money away for college. How else could you afford school if you spent all your money on cannon ammo?

But other military surplus ammo was pretty cheap, and there were lots of places to shoot it when you felt like it and had a few extra bucks and no date.

[Arrowhead1952]

I remember the Jackie Gleason show too. I don't remember the other guy's name, but he worked in the sewer or something like that. One episode he was talking to Jackie about eating his lunch and Jackie almost barfed.

[bt_dooftlook]

go carts, speed racer, hot wheels, matchboxes, the banana splits,underdog, the addams family, the munsters, the beverly hillbillies, gomer pyle, andy griffith, andy williams...

[linda_22003]

Ed Norton (Art Carney) worked in the sewer; he lived upstairs from Ralph with his wife, Trixie (Joyce Randolph).

This series is from the FIFTIES, not the sixties.

[Al Gator]

Yea, not too many people remember that Joe the bootlegger and gunrunner actually "bought" Johnny boy's presidency.

Richard Nixon did in fact win by a goodly margin, but Joe the smuggler was able to spend really big bux and his corrupt buddy Dailey in Chicago "found" a whole lotta votes that just got misplaced.

Dick Nixon was too much of a patriot to put the country through what Algore did.

He didn't want the upheaval, he just waited till he was in better position.

Nixon should have been prez in 61.

[DouglasKC]

2001 seemed a very long way off. The scenes in "2001, A Space Odyssey" in which the dad goes on a quick day-trip to the moon and talks to his little girl on a picture phone seemed both exciting and attainable in short order.

Oh that's for certain. I remember int he late 60's thinking that I'd be SO old in 2000...almost 40, older than my parents. It seemed so far off, but it sure did pick up speed.

[linda_22003]

If you think getting to forty was fast, wait till you're fifty. That will be coming along any minute now.

[bankwalker]

Ed Norton (Art Carney) worked in the sewer; he lived upstairs from Ralph with his wife, Trixie (Joyce Randolph).

That was the Honeymoners. Gleason also had a variety show in the 60s. Joe the bartender.

[linda_22003]

Yes. That was awful in comparison with the old one.

[xroadie]

How about "Diver Dan"

...He moves among creatures with frightening features,
Snapping fish smacking claws
Snapping fish clapping jaws..

He protects and he saves
his friends under the waves,
That's where you'll find Diver Dan..

At least that's how I remember it