I was born in 1965 so maybe I shouldn't comment : ) I do remember watching the moon landings on our little black and white portable TV we had. I think we got our first color TV in 1970. If you could afford it you could get the kind that had wooden sides & tops and were more like a piece of furniture. Lime-green freezers and refrigerators were also popular. There were no microwaves and you had to boil hot dogs or reheat your food in the oven if you wanted leftovers. Phones were kept on desks or nightstands (or on the wall) and had dials or push-buttons. They were also made of very cheap plastic. Cars were gas guzzlers but that didn't matter because gas was cheap and they were fairly easy to fix without a lot of computerized gadgets. There were no emissions standards. I also had one of those 45 record players. My parents lived in Chicago and my Mom can remember seeing National Guardsmen on the O'Hare (?) expressway during the 1968 riots.
They did have cool toys, though-none of this high-tech stuff and kids were allowed to be kids. And parents actually thought that too much TV was bad for you!
For the most part, I think the hippie stuff was something you mostly saw on T.V. especially if you lived in the Midwest. The counterculture stuff didn't reach some places until well into the Seventies.
LOL your comments remind of how high-tech we thought a Toast-R-Oven was!
Television- I remember it was a special event if my dad brought the TV upstairs so we could watch during dinner.
Saturday TV was predictable but fun- cartoons followed by 3 Stooges or Laurel & Hardy and Tarzan movies or Shirley Temple. Lots of war movies yes- ones where we kicked butt and won!
Growing up outside of DC, I remember seeing the riots in Anacostia (downtown DC). Terrible thing. A whole city block if not more got burned down as I recall.