The 60s
Mar 30, 2020 15:24:29 #
For those hogs who were around in the 60s, but cannot remember them all that well now.
https://biggeekdad.com/2014/07/back-sixties/
https://biggeekdad.com/2014/07/back-sixties/
Mar 30, 2020 15:37:43 #
Mar 30, 2020 16:01:29 #
The 60s? There' all kind of blurry and things run together. Of the things I do remember: I didn't go to Woodstock (1 of only 3 of my generation who didn't). I did go to Altamont and didn't know anyone got killed. I will always remember Kent State. I was beaten by Blue Meanies in Berkeley. I was a Deadhead but didn't take The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. Most of all, I survived but friends didn't.
Mar 30, 2020 18:11:57 #
Mar 31, 2020 08:03:14 #
UTMike wrote:
For those hogs who were around in the 60s, but cannot remember them all that well now.
https://biggeekdad.com/2014/07/back-sixties/
https://biggeekdad.com/2014/07/back-sixties/
I remember them well. I married the love of my life in the summer of ‘69
Mar 31, 2020 08:14:59 #
Today’s politicians are corrupt? Just carrying on an old tradition.
Mar 31, 2020 08:56:28 #
Don't have to worry about Mr. Whipple squeezing the Charmin these days. At least not in the stores. Thanks for sharing Mike. Fun trip back...
Mar 31, 2020 08:58:30 #
Yup; I remember them all. Since the clips are roughly in chronological order, it gives you a slight idea of the incredible changes our society underwent, from 1960 to 1969. Civil rights, women's rights, the environment and gay rights all came of age, that decade, to say nothing of technological changes that saw us going from being just barely able to launch a 100 pound satellite in orbit, to walking on the moon. Of course that decade was when we boomers went from about 15, to 25 years old and really shook things up.
Hmmmm....Buck Rogers to Captain Kirk; not too much changed there, it was still the good guy kicking the bad guy's ass but in color!
Hmmmm....Buck Rogers to Captain Kirk; not too much changed there, it was still the good guy kicking the bad guy's ass but in color!
Mar 31, 2020 09:16:32 #
Navy wings 1959
Married 1963 (still there, quarantined with her now)
Daughter born 1966
Fun times.
Married 1963 (still there, quarantined with her now)
Daughter born 1966
Fun times.
Mar 31, 2020 09:17:19 #
If someone tell you that their saw it all during the 1960s is a lied. Too many things were going on at the same time during the 1960s. To this day I finding out about thing that happen during the 1960s I never knew about.
Mar 31, 2020 09:32:18 #
Mar 31, 2020 11:16:22 #
Being a "boomer" I lived through the 50s, 60s, and 70s. Those 30 years were evolutionary and revolutionary at the same time. I may not have experienced everything that went on, but I have rubbed elbows with many who experienced much more than I and consider myself fortunate to have lived then. Many of the younger generations do not really appreciate what happened back then that has made their loves that much easier and more secure. Nor do they understand why and how we made the mistakes we made, and they are being corrected now. It is all part of life that will come full circle soon enough.
Mar 31, 2020 11:44:05 #
Mar 31, 2020 11:47:41 #
I remember being in a motel in College Park, across the street from the Univ. of Maryland waiting for a meeting with USDA in Hyattsville. There was lots of commotion outside and teargas came wafting into the rooms. When we went outside to see what was going on, the was a line of police to keep us off the street. There was some sort of riot on the campus and they were asking people who wanted to be arrested to get on busses that were lined up. It happened on the same day as the Kent State shooting so never made the news. Being a young man fresh off the Kansas farm, it made quite an impression on me.
Mar 31, 2020 12:37:49 #
UTMike wrote:
For those hogs who were around in the 60s, but cannot remember them all that well now.
https://biggeekdad.com/2014/07/back-sixties/
https://biggeekdad.com/2014/07/back-sixties/
Makes me want to get a copy of "Easy Rider" and watch that movie again.
If you want to reply, then register here. Registration is free and your account is created instantly, so you can post right away.