Tell me about the '60s (vanity)

[alice_in_bubbaland]

Mr. Alice graduated in 1968, he was #23 in the draft lottery. He knew he was going and took off for Hawaii until Uncle Sam called. His Mom received his notice on his birthday, he came right home and was off to the Newark, NJ center within 2 weeks. From Hawaii to a bus going to Ft. Campbell, KY talk about culture shock.

[antisocial]

"I had roots in Dumas! Did you know any of the Wells? Murphy's? or Salem's? Are we related?

Did you ever ride in the Dogie Days parade? We managed to visit relatives in Dumas one year during Dogie Days and ride in the parade."

I know the Wells,Murphys, but don't remember any Salems.
We could be related I have a baby sister named Sally!

Yes I did ride in the Dogie days parade a few times. I live near Abilene now, and haven't visited Dumas in years.

[Darnright]

Here's a link to a '60's radio station:

http://www.wrovhistory.com/

[bankwalker]

Red Foxx's and Mom Mabley's comedy albums.

DOLOMITE and Hurricane Annie by Rudie Ray Moore

[wtc911]

Mr. Alice graduated in 1968, he was #23 in the draft lottery.

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There were no draft numbers in 1968. The first VN draft lottery was in December 1969 and those numbers were called up in 1970. Number 23 in that lottery was July 24th. My number was a bit higher, high enough not to worry.

[bankwalker]

"The needs of the many, outweigh the needs of the few,"

I think Karl Marx made an almost identical statement.

[alice_in_bubbaland]

He served in the U.S. Army, Ft. Benning Ga, 931st Combat Engineers 1970-72. Yes he was #23 in the draft lottery. He left for basic training in July of 1970.

[joylyn]

Your high school was more advanced than mine. Yellowjackets are nembutal and I think reds are Seconal, both barbiturates.

Ironically, my nice family doctor had prescribed amphetamines for me as a weight loss aid so I was legally speeding my way through high school. No one thought of this as a "drug."

[veronica]

Great clothes, great cheap weed, great music and the end of segregation in the South. That is all I can say that was good about the 60's, IMO. On the surface it was also about abundant "free" love, unencumbered "free" sex, and standing up to "the man." In reality, it was more like a breakdown in the family structure, sex without love which is ultimately empty and sad, the cheapening of human embryonic life, and the beginnings of an overall disrespect for American traditions that has had grave consequences which continue today. Everything ridiculous about our society today, PETA freaks (the elevation of animals to a status they don't warrant) abortion "rights", the sexualizing of children, the skyrocketing divorce rate, anti-war loonies like Cindy Sheehan, it all started in the 60's.

[RobRoy]

Ha, for me it was science fiction movies every Tuesday and Thursday right after school. 1964.

I think that part of George McFly was modeled after guys like me.

[ichabod1]

The one main event of the 60's that began the decline of Western civilization was the removal of prayer in schools.

Public prayer was a little gay (as the term is used today), a little boring but almost every event had an invocation. It was accepted. It was natural. It wasn't that everybody was a Jesus Freak, far from it (otherwise Sunday was firmly separated from Monday), it was just the way things were done.

[ichabod1]

I've listened to some psychedellic rock and have to disagree there on the cussing part. The Jefferson Airplane song "We Can Be Together" had the "f" word in it.

Then there was the Who -- "Why don'tcha all f-f-f-fade away" (f' off).

[ichabod1]

I actually tap danced on live TV in Spokane, Wa. in 1961.

I was on Romper Room in probably 1963.

[wtc911]

As I said, the first numbers were picked in December 69 and called in 1970. I've spent much time at Benning myself, has he been back?

[Rte66]

Spaghetti! Of course! Duh on me! Thank you, lol.

[6323cd]

Summer 1968, Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Around noon, I'd put on my bathing suit, grab a towel, ride my beloved Huffy bicycle 2 miles to the Greenfield Park swimming pool (entrance fee: 10 cents) and spend 3 - 4 hours swimming. Then I'd partially dry my suit, jump back onto my bike and cycle home in my bathing suit.

I was 9 years old. Nobody ever, in any way, molested or interfered with me.

[bankwalker]

Yellowjackets are nembutal and I think reds are Seconal, both barbiturates.

Valley of the Dolls?

[Froufrou]

I'd try to find copies of an old t.v. show: "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis." Bob Denver [Maynard G. Krebs] plays a beatnik on that series. Bohemians were "in" in the late 50s - 60s.

[alice_in_bubbaland]

No he hasn't. He was stationed there for his entire tour of duty. They were disbanding his unit and in true Army fashion, there was a snafu and they lost his (as well as others) deployment paperwork. Needless to say his family was greatly relieved!

BTW My son will be down there next month. His friend is graduating and Mike will be accompanying his Mom to the ceremony.

[joylyn]

Valley of the Dolls indeed. Where I grew up parents didn't pop pills, so high school kids didn't know much about them either. There were rumors that some of the wilder black kids from the projects smoked grass and a few even used heroin -- but I doubt the school authorities knew about this.