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.
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.
"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.
Here's a link to a '60's radio station:
http://www.wrovhistory.com/
DOLOMITE and Hurricane Annie by Rudie Ray Moore
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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.
I think Karl Marx made an almost identical statement.
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."
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.
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.
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.
Then there was the Who -- "Why don'tcha all f-f-f-fade away" (f' off).
I was on Romper Room in probably 1963.
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?
Spaghetti! Of course! Duh on me! Thank you, lol.
I was 9 years old. Nobody ever, in any way, molested or interfered with me.
Valley of the Dolls?
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.
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.
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