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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.


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To: HungarianGypsy

I was born in the mid sixties, but I do remember that as a child, I (along my brothers) were used as the remote control for the tv. Parents of the sixties had many remotes, it all depended how many children they had.


61 posted on 01/09/2007 9:40:39 AM PST by navygal (Numbers 6:24-26)
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To: HungarianGypsy
The 60s sucked.

About a tenth of us went to war for our country and most of the remainder launched into a mindless free-for-all of self-indulgence.

A small but loud subset of the majority even went so far as to openly support the enemy...

But other than that, a wonderful time was had by all..

62 posted on 01/09/2007 9:40:49 AM PST by USMCVet
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To: poobear
Oh, yeah the Mustang, GTO, Vet, Camaro and of course the VW Bug...

I almost bought a '69 Plymouth Road Runner.It's just as well that I didn't...I wasn't nearly mature enough to own such a car.

63 posted on 01/09/2007 9:41:19 AM PST by Gay State Conservative ("The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism."-Karl Marx)
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To: HungarianGypsy

I was born in the mid sixties, but I do remember that as a child, I (along my brothers) were used as the remote control for the tv. Parents of the sixties had many remotes, it all depended how many children they had.


64 posted on 01/09/2007 9:41:46 AM PST by navygal (Numbers 6:24-26)
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To: GOP_Proud

I made it through the sixties without either one, too - but then, I was 14 when the decade ended. The seventies were a different story. :)


65 posted on 01/09/2007 9:41:50 AM PST by linda_22003
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To: Al Gator

"SUNBEAM TIGER!

Master Blaster!!!"


ZOOM!

You're so 007 dude!


66 posted on 01/09/2007 9:42:05 AM PST by poobear
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To: HungarianGypsy

A recap of the 60's is not complete without a hat tip to the 1963 split-window Corvette and the RIVINGTONS singing Papa Oom Mow Mow.


67 posted on 01/09/2007 9:42:18 AM PST by IllumiNaughtyByNature (Obama ... Kinda has the onomatopoeia of a train crashing as it pulls out of the station.)
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To: linda_22003

LOL. I would rather remember that instead of Walter Cronkite.


68 posted on 01/09/2007 9:42:21 AM PST by armymarinemom (My sons freed Iraqi and Afghan Honor Roll students.)
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To: Gay State Conservative
and a time when males in their late teens and 20's were acutely aware of what "1A" meant.

And no doubt 4F
69 posted on 01/09/2007 9:42:24 AM PST by HEY4QDEMS (Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.)
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To: xsmommy

I'm always convinced they have issues with their parents and take it out on us.

Probably didn't get a Nintendo.


70 posted on 01/09/2007 9:42:37 AM PST by Howlin (Not voting GOP was like being thirsty but not drinking since the glass is only 75% full ~~SoCalPol)
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To: armymarinemom

Oh yeah no pants- and no shorts except for gym.
I recall it was 6th grade when they changed the rule where I lived (Bethesda, MD). Most everybody wore jeans or casual pants...me I only had slacks (my mother said jeans were farmer pants and she wasn't going to buy them). Of course alot of the time I wore homemade clothes so I already was the weird one lol


71 posted on 01/09/2007 9:42:51 AM PST by visualops (artlife.us)
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To: HungarianGypsy

Sorry for the double post.


72 posted on 01/09/2007 9:42:53 AM PST by navygal (Numbers 6:24-26)
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To: HungarianGypsy
I wish I had more time to write this but I think a very compelling aspect was the growth and power of media over the individual in the 60s. It started with a few fuzzy television stations with limited entertainment, then we saw televised presidential debates, then we had entertainment stars "coming to America" and growing bigger than life. Cowboys roamed the black and white screens but they started disappearing as the decade progressed and their six-gun morality was questioned by the media masters. In their place we saw ugly race riots with hoses and dogs, assassinations and too many funerals. Before long we became obsessed with the psychedelics of "in living color" until we saw wounded soldiers and manufactured stories of shame and defeat. Hell, just talking about this makes me want to turn on and drop out. :-) We also saw live pictures from the moon. Imagine, it was quite an uplifting moment for us as Americans...that is if you weren't up to your neck in the muddy nudity of Woodstock. How's that? I'm sure I missed much. So much happened in those ten years.
73 posted on 01/09/2007 9:43:02 AM PST by rhombus
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To: armymarinemom

You'll change your mind when you realize tonight that you still can't get that song out of your head. :)


74 posted on 01/09/2007 9:43:09 AM PST by linda_22003
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To: CatoRenasci
I would point out that there was no one "sixties" -- one's experience could vary widely depending on what part of the country one was in

Agreed! Where I grew up in the midwest it was an extension of the 50s until about 1967. That year I remember the first anti-war activists trying to persude folks (just one or two, and they weren't getting anywhere) that the war was a bad thing.

In 1968 my family moved to California, where "sex, drugs & rock'n'roll" was already pretty big, along with a whole host of cultural changes (kids who afford better wore blue jeans to school, it was cool to defy authority, etc.). Major shock -- it would have been better had I moved to a foreign culture.

Ironically just months later the culture shift reached my hometown (where in 1964 the town voted 99% for Goldwater). A couple kids were caught with marijuana (one of them the weird kid with long hair) and it became headlines for months on end.

Haven't been back but I've looked at the place online, and it's evidently become something of a rather liberal town now.

75 posted on 01/09/2007 9:43:35 AM PST by sionnsar (†trad-anglican.faithweb.com†|Iran Azadi| 5yst3m 0wn3d - it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY) | UN: Useless Nations)
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To: Gay State Conservative

I was 1H......


76 posted on 01/09/2007 9:43:48 AM PST by Red Badger (New! HeadOn Hemorrhoid Medication for Liberals!.........Apply directly to forehead.........)
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To: isthisnickcool; HungarianGypsy

If you can remember the 60's, you weren't "there".


77 posted on 01/09/2007 9:43:49 AM PST by Lando Lincoln
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To: Gay State Conservative
"Rebellious" was the 2006 Millee. "Reformed" is the 2007 version. ;o)
78 posted on 01/09/2007 9:44:23 AM PST by Millee (Tagline free since 10/20/06)
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To: HungarianGypsy

The 60's.....I was 9 - 19 during the 60's.....

It was a time when.....

You could understand most of the words to a song...and they weren't cuss words

You could spend your 17th summer working in Yellowstone Park (as a girl, without your parents) and be safe. You could also hitchhike around the park with others (although I had two scary experiences with that.)

School administrators made sure you followed the RULES...including....no skirt hems above the knees....no pants worn to school for girls (including NO CULOTTES). Dress was expected to be NON provacative. Guys had to have their shirts tucked in and got HACKS in the hallway (Paddling) if they misbehaved.

You rarely heard the "F" word....and never on TV

You could pick strawberries, raspberries and beans and make enough money to buy your school clothes, and have some left over.

Minimum wage was around $1.50 an hour (late 60's)

School was relatively challenging....I took 1 year of Latin and 2 years of French.

I could go on....but I got to go do other things....


79 posted on 01/09/2007 9:44:32 AM PST by goodnesswins (We need to cure Academentia)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Oh yes, the Plymouth Road Runner. You could spin one those babies out just looking at the accelerator pedal. They could hydroplane on spit.


80 posted on 01/09/2007 9:44:47 AM PST by poobear
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