[sionnsar]

The only time we locked the door to the house was when we went away on vacation.

[Fairview]

Most people seldom, if ever, wore seat belts. But cars were built of actual sheet metal back then and were harder to destroy. A lot of teaching in the schools was done by showing "film strips." A diagnosis of cancer meant certain death, sooner or later. Lawrence Welk still had a TV show and my grandparents insisted on watching it on Sunday nights. Even then it made me want to hurl.

2001 seemed a very long way off. The scenes in "2001, A Space Odyssey" in which the dad goes on a quick day-trip to the moon and talks to his little girl on a picture phone seemed both exciting and attainable in short order.

Dick Tracey had a two-way wrist radio, the precursor of cell phones.

In the sixties people who were born in the late nineteenth century were still alive and available to learn from. I'm glad I had that chance and hope I can pass on some of their knowledge to my own children.

[mandingo republican]

The real 60s started after 67 and continued up to 1980 - it is said that the night John Lennon was killed was the last day of the 1960s. After that came the Reagan era and everything from hair styles, political thinking, to music changed overnight. If you don't believe me look at old high school year books to look at the differences in men's hair styles. Up to 1980 men still wore big bushy hair, mustaches and big beards that came out of the late 60s. Prior to 68 America was still high on the victory of WW2 and the boom that followed, people went to ballgames in suits and ladies were treated differently. 1960 to 1967 was the age of innocence of the 60s - a 1950s Father Knows best aesthetic still prevailed to a point although you had MOD and groovy Austin powers type folk they weren't the drugged out spaced out hippies we all know - Women still took care of themselves in grooming - it was like Janis Joplin who also changed the female look. It was the hippies and the drug infested Beatles period where every thing started to go Hell. The communists in the West also had a lot to do with the downfall of values - the downfall that continues till this day