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10 things you loved about the 60s I am amazed no one mentioned this yet. I have decided to make 10 as I understand many of us were either very young or in my case not alive yet (My mother was aged between 5.5 and 15.5 at this time). Here goes
1. The Rolling Stones 2. Decimal Changeover 1967 3. Jimi Hendrix 4. The Beatles 5. Free Love 6. Motown Music 7. Ford Mustang 8. Gay liberation (Britain tolerated gays in 1967) 9. The lack of Crime 10. Martin Luther King Junior
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Pot Acid LSD Uppers Downers 'Shrooms Opium Hash Gonorrhea Crabs
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free love airplane rides train rides hippies acid free love the world's fair the riots aftermath the REAL PANTHERS 7th 8th grade (L.A., and NEW YORK CITY)
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I wasn't born yet! But I did get born right into the 9th month of 1969. My art book: http://www.lulu.com/spotl...ecomicskid
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1. Beatles, Hendrix & The Monkees.
6. Having unadulterated unprotected sex with your mom.
8. Living in a society where almost no one went to the gym to work out.
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my mother was 12-22 during that decade, and obviously, she is the one who ignited by archaeological passion for the 60's...
1.M-U-S-I-C (The Rolling Stones, The Beatles and many other British Invasion acts, Soul, REAL R&B, James Brown, Motown, Dylan, Johnny Cash, quality Country, The Beach Boys and Surf Music, Late 60's music-including The Doors, Hendrix, Creedence, Cream, Presley's comeback, etc-and just A LOT of GREAT one hit wonders...) 2.The Golden Age of Sean Connery as 007 James Bond 62-65 (Dr.No, From Russia With Love, Goldfinger, Thunderball, TOP CLASS) 3.Tight jeans and cotton shirts, Bikini Swimsuits, Mini-Skirts, Boots, slighty stiff but still classy suits... 4.The real beginning of sexual and racial tolerance... 5.The Kennedys and MLK 6.Spaguetti Westerns and Neo-Nihilist American Westerns 7.The beginning of the friendly and reasonably affordable worlwide tourism, after the madness of the 40's or the harsh/paranoic 50's... 8.The real masters of the alternative cinema (Bergman, Fellini, Antonioni, Godard, British Free Cinema, etc), not the arrogant, senseless bullshit of the so-called "auteurs" of the 90's and 00's... 9.A large portion of the population being united by hope and love, before everything went to shit in the 70's... 10.Batman TV Series (Adam West) and the Golden Age of Marvel Comics BONUS 11.Some of the prettiest ladies of all time (Jane Fonda, Liz Taylor, Ursula Andress, Claudine Auger, Sophia Loren, Bibi Anderssen, Anita Ekberg, Abbey Lincoln, Gina Lollobrigida, etc.) who sported the right hair, the right amount of make-up and the right clothes (unlike the female celebrities of the 70's, 80's, or the photoshop-fest of the 00's) 12.Sidney Poitier
the low point of the 60's was, of course, the Vietnam War, and the way it was fought/administrated, and how the extreme right was lurking in the shadows, effectively killing the Kennedys and MLK and destroying the peace/love movement: enter the 70's...
I'm not crazy about the drug abuse of that era either: sure, pot is GREAT, and a good LSD trip can be amazing, but generalized drug abuse and addiction are not cool, many leftists ingested an excessive amount of drugs...and they should have used more condoms too, lol, the hippy movement just lost its way by 1969, and the extreme right was ready to deliver the final blow...
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Don't remember much, probably not 10 things.
black and white polaroids, pictures always seem so clear
climbing into bed with my play "aunt and uncle" feeling safe
the permanent imprint of "Hey, Jude" on my mind
Bob Dale, I feel madly in love with him then
the teenage girls that I tagged along with around the neighborhood
the peach tree in the back yard that sub'd as my horse when I played.
the memory of a monarch butterfly landing on my dad's head while he was talking to me, and how I was impressed.
Laddie the first dog I remember
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1. The Beatles 2. The Rolling Stones 3. Mini Skirts 4. JFK 5. Mustangs 6. The Monkees 7. Planet of the Apes 8. Fantastic Voyage 9. Raquel Welch 10. 60's Sci-fi TV shows such as Star Trek/ Land of the Giants/ The Invaders/ The Time Tunnel/ Lost in Space/ Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea/ Batman |
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It's supposed to be 20 things...oh well
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1. Dionne Warwick singing Burt Bacharach tunes. There was nothing better about the 60s than this. We don’t mourn artists because we knew them. We mourn them because they helped us know ourselves. | |
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Hot Buttered Soul - the album cover and the music Dawn of the hippie generation Being a teenager in the "Pepsi Generation" The New York World's Fair Sexual freedom and losing my virginiy on my mother's couch. 1968 Freshan year at Howard University Recconciling my parents' marriage Hot pants, mini skirts and jeans "Grazin in the Grass" MLK, Jr. James Brown Prince getting ready to bounce! Just a damn great time to be ALIVE AND YOUNG!
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Being born. The Civil Rights Movement The Stonewall Riots The Hippie Movement Motown Rock becoming harder than the previous more innocent decade. The cool classy elegant laid back jazzy feel that The Playboy Club had during that time. The Rat Pack Bewitched Gilligan's Island
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LCD Acceptance Hendrix Government Transparency Most of the music Most of the Art San Fransico Being Born Woodstock Sly Stone Civil Rights | |
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How do you even know how to use the computer? In no particular order..
1) The Beatles 2) Jimi Hendrix 3) Miles Davis 4) Woodstock 5) The Who 6) The Stones 7) Motown 8) Barberella 9) Sally Field as Gidget 10) Batman (Adam West/Burt Ward tv show) | |
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Well, I might be an old broad, but I'm not stupid! | |
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I was thinking of that, but decided I want to make it a bit more manageable. I mean I was struggling to find 10 let alone 20. Unless of course you randomly name 20 musicians or movies. I thought that was cheating a bit as Pop culture (Movies, music and people and brands) should not make up more than 50% of the list (Even mine has 4 devoted to music) and I would also suspect most people would speak about the end of the 60s with stuff about Hippies and LSD and all that which was really 1967 - 69 and not representative of years like 1961 or 1962.
I you want to list 20 go ahead, but try not just to list every member of the Beatles or the Byrds or every Jmaes Bond film Got some kind of love for you, and I don't even know your name | |
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