Take me back to the sixites, check out these memories

[Sapere aude]

Take Me Back To The Sixties

http://moreoldfortyfives.com/TakeMeBackToTheSixties.htm

[CountAllVotes]

1. K&R

Wow, brings back so many fine memories!

:dem: :kick:

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

2. The first half sucked. The second half was revolutionary.

I spent the first half ('61 - '65) toting a gun and marching in the Marine Crotch. The second half we naively believed that we could actually change the world and the America could become something other than a consumers paradise.

My-Lai, Kent State, and the Democratic Convention in '68, proved us wrong.

[Monkeyman]

3. Yep

[uppityperson]

4. Only reason 60's were innocent time for me is I was a kid

I didn't really know how scared my parents were about what was going on in the world until the mid-late 60's. Bobby's murder was the eye opening event for me. VietNam on tv. Integration struggles. Volunteering at Vets Hospital with dad. Back in the 60's only 1/3 families (family group means parent with kid) was genetic mom/dad/kid together in 1 household. (don't have stats, something I read a while back by someone attempting to counter the "divorce rate is so high now" sentiment).

Yes, the early 60's were more of an innocent time for me, because I was a child. And yes, music leads to many memories.

[raccoon]

13. The Cuban Missile Crisis was a scary time.

Like you, I was a kid then. My mom, and other adults, have told me years later it was a scary time.

[Deja Q]

15. Cuban missile crisis, Russia's nukes, offshoring, China's contaminated imported food...

How much of history is legitimate and how much is "encouraged" by paranoid people and fostered by insane media outlets?

[Wickerman]

5. How so very, very white

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[CountAllVotes]

6. make that

white anglo-saxon Protestant. I was told I was a WASP at school and when I came home and told my father this, I was told I was NOT a WASP. It was a real :wtf: moment for me, but Dad was right, I am not a WASP.

It was an era of white is best and WASP is best. It had downsides to it no doubt and yes, the only thing that was not white it seemed to me was Louis Armstrong on the Ed Sullivan show quite often.

[Az]

7. That is a very narrow view of the 60s

One wonders why there were suddenly protests everywhere if everything was all so peachy keen.

[Sequoia]

11. I'll say. No Black Panthers? No crazy wild eyed Manson?

What about Hurricane Camille? What! No Doors!! What about the Iron Curtin?


Just one person's view anyway.

[Deja Q]

16. The acts of Mansion kinda killed off the hippies' naive mindset rather quickly.

That or he preyed upon the mindset as any psycho would. And proving that no matter how benevolent the society, some nutter will come in and try to ruin it - hence the need for proper defense. Not overspending on it, but not eliminating it. And the idea Dems would eliminate defense altogether is outrageous and absurd. Mind you, so is offshoring if we're worried about enemies gaining access to technology, but what do I know...

[CatWoman]

8. that was wonderful

thank you :)

[Rhiannon12866]

9. Wow. K&R. Thank you, that was priceless.

:hi:

[Arkansas Granny]

10. Thanks. I enjoyed that.

[IronLionZion]

12. If you remember the 60's you weren't there

I wonder how true that is. I was born in the 80's.

[crikkett]

18. my mother in law says she hated the 60s,

all the corruption, all the unrest...
She served in WW2

[crikkett]

14. Very nice presentation, congrats.

It was good to be a white male in America in the 60s.

[uppityperson]

19. don't forget socio-economic class also, and age

non-draftable upper/middle class white male young adult.

[Zywiec]

17. The cars were the best!

Once the kids have left the nest, I'm buying a 60's era muscle-car.

[misanthrope]

20. More Boomer egotism...

...No decade or period of time is "simple." The gauze of nostalgia erases all unwanted complexity and pain.