"You can get, anything you want ... at Alice's Retirement Home......."
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.
I hardly looked at "Captain Kangaroo". I probably looked more at "Romper Room" than the Captain. We had a B&W, VHF-only Motorola that my folks later gave to my paternal grandparents (my maternal grandparents were both dead by the time I was born), then a B&W GE, then a color Zenith.
Radio? My dad had a beat up, leather bound Channel Master. Later we got a Zenith FM console.
Cars? We parked our one car on the street, lacking as we did a garage in our rowhome neighborhood. We had a white Dodge, traded that in for a Blue Olds F-85.
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Dark Shadows! Never missed it turned it on as soon as I got home from school.
Oh my GOSH! I'm talking about the "good ole days", I'm officially old!!!!
Yes we did and he rang the "get well bell" for my sister and I after we had our tonsils out.
And had to go outside to turn the antenna pole for better reception. Ah, those were the days! I'd trade all our modern conveniences to go back there. One more thing. I was watching a documentary about the assassination of JFK and there was a courtroom scene in it. The people were smoking cigarettes in the courtroom, durring trial!!! And no one complained!
I think the draft was around longer than that. My husband was drafted in 67.
That is so cool!
"You can get, anything you want ... at Alice's Retirement Home......."
Annette Funnicello, Drive in movies.
Doesn't it look like the murder rate went up durring democrat presidents?
How I loved my little red transistor radio! But the batteries in those little suckers went dead so fast. I remember holding it up to an electric outlet to get better reception. LOL
Beach blanket Bingo, among others.
--How I loved my little red transistor radio! But the batteries in those little suckers went dead so fast. I remember holding it up to an electric outlet to get better reception. LOL--
You must have have had one of the small suckers with the 9v battery. Mine had a whole bunch of D cells.
I was in school that day. My freshman year. I was in English class when the news came out on the intercom. We went to 6th period history class. I remember the teacher crying. She was a very proper lady. Very skinny with thick glasses and short hair and wore tweed skirts and sweaters. I remember being more shocked at the teacher crying then the president being killed. I mean, teachers just didn't cry!
Two things I remember vividly from the 60s are 1) the omnipresent worry over the threat of nuclear war with the Russians (fallout shelters, geiger counters, school nuclear attack drills etc) and 2) the nonstop headlines announcing the latest American casualties in the Vietnam War. On the latter point I still associate the Glen Campbell song "Galveston" with the Vietnam War.
The Interstate highway system was still new and it seems that every family drove these massive squarish big-engined 60s automobiles or station wagons (my family had a 64 Oldsmobile Holiday 88) with big bench seats--no seat belts--at least 80 miles an hour. When dad would let us, we'd tune to great Motown or British Invasion music blasting through a tiny three inch speaker. DJs were superstars.
Cars didn't have seat belts but they did have tailfins and double headlights starting in 1957(except for Cadillac which had tail fins about 1952 if I recall.)
Greeting cards made jokes about A-bombs, an interesting form of counterphobic mechanism.
I don't remember that, but I remember when we first got a car with seat belts - front only!
Show off! LOL. Yep, mine had a 9 volt.
""Most people got up to change the channel on their TV's.
And had to go outside to turn the antenna pole for better reception""
Naa, real tv watchers had tv antenna rotators, just turn the knob on the control box on top of your console tv. :-)
And Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine.
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