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To: HungarianGypsy

Try to rent The Trouble with Angels. I was 13 when the movie came out in '66 and went to a similar school. Girls and women wore 'traveling suits' when they went somewhere. They didn't just put on a pair of jeans and a sweat shirt. I wore white gloves for Sunday and dress up.

Obviously no iPods, but I had a transistor radio that swung from the handlebars of my bike. Even a big city newspaper like the Washington Star had a teen section where kids could talk about music and girls signed their letters to the section 'the future Mrs. Paul McCartney' and such.

In the movies, people smoked a lot and ate red meat. On tv, children and teens respected their parents. Looking at some of the classic tv now, I see that the problems kids got into back then are similar to all kids, I don't really see a lot of sugar-coating. I think the difference is the tv shows didn't talk about difficult problems such as teen pregnancy, etc. The kids who smart-mouthed adults or weren't generally well-behaved were pointed out as the exception, not the role model.

For a more urban view, check out Cooley High, made in the 70s but about the mid 60s. Good film.


397 posted on 01/09/2007 11:39:45 AM PST by radiohead (They call me DOCTOR radiohead.)
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To: radiohead

Oh yeah, we dressed up in Sunday best to go on an airplane! Or even to go to the airport, because it was mainly well-to-do people who traveled very frequently by air and we needed to fit in.


406 posted on 01/09/2007 11:45:21 AM PST by Rte66
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