50 Years Ago: The World in 1963

[Crabby Appleton]

http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2013/02/50-years-ago-the-world-in-1963/100460/#





http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2013/02/50-years-ago-the-world-in-1963/100460/#

[FailureToCommunicate]

1. Wow! Ten cent coffee!

(And... a lot of angry white people visible in the left mirror)


Thanks Crabby, for the reminder.

[pinboy3niner]

3. And 30 cents for a gallon of gas

[krispos42]

2. That does SO not belong there!

A Pepsi machine AND a Coke machine? Is that even legal nowadays???

[Gorp]

39. "No Coke, Pepsi"

[trof]

4. So many of those photos from my home town. K&R

Birmingham

[pinboy3niner]

13. I've visited the Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery

It's a very moving and powerful monument. Superb work again by Maya Lin.

[DainBramaged]

5. The picture has NOTHING to do with the price of coffee, soda, or pie

it has EVERYTHING to do with the cold shoulder being given the lady at the counter because she is BLACK.

[FailureToCommunicate]

9. Yes, the intent of the series of photos is quite clear

Many of us lived those days, got spit upon, beat up, arrested...

Do we really need a "sarcasm" smilie?

I'm just glad we as a country have 'bent a little towards justice'

[RevStPatrick]

6. So... 1963 was kind of a sucky year, huh?

I turned a year old in November, so I don't remember anything.

[DainBramaged]

10. If you had a clue about history

sucky wasn't the word..............


I can't put enough facepalm smileys on this page to compensate for your post.

[RevStPatrick]

12. If I had a clue about history???

So what was the word, smartass?

[OldDem2012]

17. Instead of attacking another DU poster, try doing a little reading on your own....

....about the Civil Rights movement and the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Let us know what you learn.

[MrMickeysMom]

22. What was the "word"?

Apparently, from your typing fingers it was, "so, what?"

Here's a dollar, Rev... buy a fucking clue.

[DainBramaged]

23. On November 22nd 1963, I was playing softball in the school yard

when we got the word that President Kennedy had been shot.


If you had a clue you'd have known that.


It was one of the worst days in our brief history.


That's the clue you missed.


Those of us who have been Democrats all of our lives KNOW who John F, Kennedy was.

[DainBramaged]

41. So sad

goodbye. Great impression you've left us.

[annabanana]

7. What a heart wrenching trip down memory lane...

So long ago, and yet just yesterday.

[Sancho]

8. In 62-62, we built a bomb shelter in our back yard!!! Really, concrete and everything.

All I wanted to do was go to school and play with my beagle (which was more fun than playing with my brother). I remember the family drills in case of an attack. I think it was 68 when I registered for the draft. Very scary...

Growing up in Charleston, SC I didn't notice how racist everything was until I got out of the South. Wow.

I won't be around, but 50 years from today we're going to appear just as stupid: the war in Iraq, destroying the planet, denying health care. Someone will say, "What were they thinking?!"

[Autumn]

11. Wow just WOW. What a trip down memory lane. That little TV in the 6th picture?

We had one. It's in my garage . It still works. Many of those pictures, I remember sitting in the living room with my Dad and Mom watching those events on the news. Such a time of change. K/R

[Squinch]

14. Can you imagine how terrifying that must have been for her?

I don't think I have that kind of courage. She's kind of a hero.

Edit: In the caption, I read she is only 19!! I KNOW I didn't have that kind of courage at 19.

[Divernan]

15. The Sixties were a perfect storm of events historically focusing on the US.

As Italy was in the Renaissance and Paris was in the Fin de Siecle, the US was the cultural center of the 60's. At the same time the US was the center of world power and wealth in the same manner as England was in the 1800s. That the rest of the world paid more attention to the US than the US paid to it is more than just US provincialism, the US in many ways was the center of the universe.

It is a time that has come and gone and we will never see again. People knew of our greatness and our humanity. Now they look at our war profiteering/promotion and our corporate arrogance, that and our Iphones.

[RKP5637]

16. Yep, I remember those times so well living in the DC area. n/t

[Tommy_Carcetti]

18. What a bittersweet year...

From the inspiring (March on Washington) to the tragic (November 22, 1963, Dallas, Texas.)

[sinkingfeeling]

19. OK, those made me cry. I remember all of them. The Civil Rights movement, Nam, and the

wonderful Kennedys.

[Ishoutandscream2]

20. Barbaric. And in my freakin' lifetime!!

It really wasn't that long ago. When I see this, Bob Dylan always comes to mind. "The times, they are a-changin'".

[sadbear]

21. What the hell happened to Clint Howard?

Such a cute kid!

[LeftInTX]

30. He's still around

[sadbear]

33. That's exactly what I'm talking about.

What happened to him?

[Dustlawyer]

24. Amazing to think that all of history that happened in 1963, the year I was born!

[dixiegrrrrl]

37. the year I got married at age 18 and moved to Alabama.

right smack dab into the Civil rights movement.
and the build up to the Viet Nam war.
My new husband was training at Ft. Rucker as helicopter crew chief, due to ship out to 'Nam in a year.
The gov't was still calling the troops "advisors".
We had no idea in hell that Viet Nam was going to be such a crucial and long lasting war.

Many of us grew up very fast during the next 10 years.

[brooklynite]

25. German Chocolate Cake?

Only 18 years after the War?

[Solly Mack]

26. K&R

[life long demo]

27. Thank you for the reminder

I turned 20 in 1963. So I remember all this. I must mention my Mother who was raised in a cocoon of a very large Irish American family. She had no contact with African Americans, hell she had very little contact with Polish Americans, Italian Americans, German Americans, you get the picture. That was still a time of ethnic neighborhoods. But I can remember sitting with my Mother watching our little black and white television at the civil rights struggles, even before 1963. And my Mother, use to comment "why are they doing that to those poor people, that's not right". She knew what was being done to our fellow African American citizens was wrong. To my Mother it wasn't about civil rights, it was about what was right and wrong. And this little woman, at the end of her life at age 91 in a nursing home, was taken care of by a young Haitian woman whom my Mother loved.

[pampango]

28. Nice find, Crabby Appleton. A wonderful, wonderful collection of photographs. n/t

[Dpm12]

29. 1963 is considered

one of the biggest years in American history. So many important things happened

[LeftInTX]

31. Excellent!!!

I was a kid living in Japan the first half of the year, so I wasn't in touch with the news during that time.

Shortly after we moved back to the states, Kennedy was shot and it eclipsed everything.

It was great to see pics before.

Thanks!!!

[uponit7771]

32. Closets thing to a time machine we have now

[U-girl]

34. You have captured many moments, but not really what each meant specifically.

Often, being brave brings challenges, which, in the long run, make or force necessary changes.

[reformist2]

35. People were a *lot* better dressed back then.

[B2G]

38. The year of my birth

Wow...how things have changed.

[Gorp]

40. We were both a little young back then.

[DemoTex]

42. Photos #32 & #33

Last edited Tue Feb 19, 2013, 02:20 PM - Edit history (1)

Notice the amazing similarities of these images. In both photos, the men with weapons (USANG rifle and BFD fire hose) are being - what? - restrained/directed/encouraged? - by the hand of a fellow guardsman/fireman as civil rights demonstrators are intimidated.