Do You Remember Or Have You Read In Your History Book THE SIXTIES

One of my wonderful friends here on the forum sent me this and I just had to share even thought at the end of it is a statement from the folks who made it that I can't. Oh what the heck I don't think I'm breaking any rules because I'm just sharing it with friends.

Were you there and what do you remember most? If you are to young but have read about it in your history books how did they portray that period of American history and what are your thoughts?

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I was born in 1954. Yes.....I remember it well. :)

Michael Fliegel Wrote:

...I had a woody starting in,... oh about 60/61......and I still have it. Is that in the book?

I was in High School and College during the 60s and I remember not only them but the decade before pretty well, Naomi. I spent most of that decade in So. Calif. which was one of the destinations for a lot people and a lot of movements (not just social/political) of that period. We had the Watts riots, Timothy Leary, Hollyweird, hippies, the John Birch Society, drive-ins, car culture, freeways, and cheap gas. A pretty interesting and stimulating mix from Joe Pine to Mort Sahl and everything in between. But mostly, the Sixties had some great music. Regardless of what was going on around you, you had rock and roll and Motown. And Liberace and Lawerence Welk.

Thanks Na, needed that!
Steve

Finished High school in 62, married in 64, bought a house in 67 and finished USC in 70. I was too busy working and going to school to be aware of a place called Woodstock, or a guy named John Burch. Between work work and school work and class time, I probably averaged about 60-70 hours a week for the decade. Paid off later, I guess, but I sure missed a lot during the times!

All of those "things" were made right here in the USA.

wyatt Wrote:

Graduated High School outside of Detroit in 1963. Surrounded by MoTown music. I remember every glorious minute. Went on the college, rebelled a lot, ended up in the Navy in 1966 so couldn't have long hair. Got out in 1970, went on the Art School for my degree. So I finally got to experience the hippie life (tail end of it).

...Montrose..(by any other name).........that woodie....is in great shape...and you better believe I still have it....just mention my name at the bingo parlor......Canuks?????

Who gets to yell Bingo?

...........HA...................

Hi, Na:

The 60s is when I went ga-ga over Jack Kerouac and his book, "On the Road." I was young, naive and lost. Tried hitchhiking my way to Balboa Yacht Basin in San Diego (I was going to hire on as a deck hand on a schooner bound for Tahiti) but it was January and I got stuck on the frozen wastelands of Kansas, came back home, and joined the Navy a few days later. That really helped me grow up a lot. Was on the Cuban Missile Blockade among other things. Got married and started raising a family about that time, too.

Great time, the 60s!

I was in 6th grade when JFK was elected president in 1960. In 9th grade when he was assasinated. In 1966 I saw the Beatles at Shea Stadium, Jimi Hendrix at Hunter College in 1967 and was at Woodstock in the summer of '69. Also in 1966 I saw my MGB for the first time when my uncle brought it over to our house after picking it up from the dealership.

I can remember, while in the Marine Corps, hitchhiking and always getting a ride soon after extending my thumb. I can also remember the dangerous times that we share including Cuba, the Berlin wall, the missile crisis, and the years in Viet Nam. All was not rosy but optimism prevailed. In many ways, better than today with the lack of choices we have.

It funny, Dave, that you emntioned the assassination of President Kennedy. At that time I worked for the D.C. Department of Motor Vehicles (while in college), and gave the road tests down Pennsylvania Avenue near the Capitol. When the news reached us onthe radio (it was a Friday, I think), people just walked off their jobs and downtown D.C. was a ghost town. The 60's were definitely bitter-sweet as there were good things like going to the moon and tragedy such as the assassination of our President and the FViet Nam War. I, for one, am glad they are over.

dcdci, almost my same story, except my wife went to woodstock, I just got back from Ca and was to tired. I was driving a 56 MGA, appx 100miles to the quart of oil.I had a trunk full.
Another thought about the 60's, a great time, but my life seemed much more peaceful in the 50's...

A lot of differing memories and experiences offered. Might just be why there are so many differing opinions of that period as well. For all the unrest and craziness, most of middle america did not experience anywhere as much of it. Probably the Vietnam war came closer to a truly universal experience than much of anything else, other than, perhaps for some, the assassination of JFK or going to the Moon. They were interesting, but they were polarizing as well and it is just as well that their effects are mostly memory or exaggerated distortions now.

It was a great time to grow up in Chicago. The neighborhoods were full of kids, we didn't have to go far to have fun as kids today always seem to need to be driven somplace. We took the bus if had to, nobody worried or that we had to be with a parent. I don't like the way my old neghborhood is today, not changed for the better.