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.

[bannie]

I remember rushing home from school to watch Dark Shadows.

[Professional Engineer]

Telephone numbers were usually 4 digits.

My grandparent's was until the early 80s.

[bannie]

Gloria and Little Red Riding Hood by Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs!

[Inyo-Mono]

The boys had to keep their shirts tucked in, and their hair couldn't touch their collars.

In HS in 1966 I was suspended for three days for having my shirt-tails out and sent home once in 1968 for having my hair touching the back of my collar, told not to return until I got it cut.

[HoustonCurmudgeon]

I went to the University of Texas in the late 60's. Best time to ever go to college, after the pill, before AIDS. The largest Young Republican club in the nation, inside a nest of liberal hippies.

[bannie]

When my then-husband and I met back up after basic training, he pulled up and asked me for directions! He didn't recognize me, either; and we'd been married for three years! It must be a military thing.

[bannie]

Johnny Yuma was a Rebel...he roamed through the West.
Johnny Yuma was a Rebel...he roamed with the best.

[Ditto]

The pill liberated women from pregnancy. I'd say a turning point in women's lives in society.

No doubt about it. Be it for good or bad, "The Pill" changed everything and we can never go back to the 'good old days.'

[gcruse]

We were also shocked by...

Rusty Warren's "Knockers Up" comedy album.
Red Foxx's and Mom Mabley's comedy albums.
Lady Chatterly's Lover, Tropic of Cancer, and Peyton Place.
Sputnik

We were amazed by...
Perma-pressed clothing that really didn't need ironing.
Diet pills.
2001 A Space Odyssey
Black light posters
The turnaround of the Chrysler Corporation by Lee Iococca

[foreverfree]

Well, I was born in 1961. "Batman" is one of the first TV shows I remember. And "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet" BION (albeit vaguely). Vietnam was just a place on the map to this GIJoe doll player-wither (not now, back then. :-) ). (Now THERE's a crumulent word.) We lived in suburban Philadelphia and got three networks plus NET (PBS's predecessor) (and by the time my folks divorced and I moved out with my mom, three independent stations). We had on in the house WIP-610 where I remember hearing Ed Ames and Al Martino but also the Cowsills and Smokey Robinson. My mom had a Trini Lopez LP. I enjoyed drawing telephone poles, high tension wire towers, and PA Railroad catenary poles on the blackboard at my grandmother's across town.

Hope that helps. (:-)

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[A Citizen Reporter]

That TV Guide page posted above was really something. There are more programs that I would like to watch on that page, than in the 900 cable channels I have right now.

I don't think I saw anybody mention Marcus Welby M.D. I would love to see reruns of that today! LOL

[Ditto]

Listing to a baseball game at a summer family BBQ on a transistor radio was the best.

I still do that every summer weekend and the fact that I can "see" a game better on radio than on television is a statement that has nothing to do with my vision but the fact that I am a leftover from a different time.

[bannie]

That's right...the MOON WALK! The REAL one.

How could I forget that????

[gcruse]

He got fightin' mad, that rebel lad.
He packed no star when he wandered far
Where the only law
Was a hook and a draw, a rebel,
A man, Johnny Yuma...


Or something like that

[bannie]

I remember Knocker Up from Dr. Demento!!! HAHAHA!!!

Remember Lay, Lady, Lay. WOW...risque!

[bannie]

WOW! You too!!! :-)

[bannie]

Delano, California
Cesar Chavez
Police surrounding the high school during lunchtime
Riots on campus at noon
Riot at my high school graduation

[bannie]

I scored an 80 by the way,....

You beat me...and not with an ugly stick!

:-)

[bannie]

Groovy and bitchin'

and outta' sight.

[sionnsar]

My grandparent's was until the early 80s.

I never encountered 4-digit phone numbers. But was readily acquainted with "MElrose" and one other exchange (forgotten, "TEmple"?).