Who remembers the 60's?

RBGene

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Yes, I remember the 60's. Living in the San Francisco Bay Area I Remember...,
My big sister and babysitter screaming and crying at the TV for the Beatles and Rolling Stones.
I was more a Eric Burden and the Animals fan.
I remember JFK's 3 Dark Days on TV. The White Horse.
I remember the Hippy's as my Parents drove us thru Berkeley. A Man dress in All Silver waiting to Welcome UFO's
I remember the psychedelic years of Drugs, Art, and Music (67-69).
I Graduated in 71' and had to get a Job in the " Establishment"...lol
Yes, I Truly Remember the 60's,...
Just wish I could forget about Bell Bottoms, and Beatle Wigs! LOL
 

JohnDee

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Yes, I remember the 60's. Living in the San Francisco Bay Area I Remember...,
My big sister and babysitter screaming and crying at the TV for the Beatles and Rolling Stones.
I was more a Eric Burden and the Animals fan.
I remember JFK's 3 Dark Days on TV. The White Horse.
I remember the Hippy's as my Parents drove us thru Berkeley. A Man dress in All Silver waiting to Welcome UFO's
I remember the psychedelic years of Drugs, Art, and Music (67-69).
I Graduated in 71' and had to get a Job in the " Establishment"...lol
Yes, I Truly Remember the 60's,...
Just wish I could forget about Bell Bottoms, and Beatle Wigs! LOL
Hi Gene,
I graduated from High School in 1967 and immediately went on a major hitch hiking trip to San Francisco. I was wearing a tie died Nehru jacket and a top hat with a red, white, and blue bandana tied around it...and yes - bell bottom jeans. I was an oddity in the mid-west but fit right in once I got to Frisco. Great times...
JD
 

Rob Roy

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In the 1960s, only rich kids had color T.V.

Rabbit ears and hitting the side of the black and white T.V. like Fonzie adjusting a coke machine was the only way to get thru the Jackie Gleason show without the annoying horizontal screen lines going bonkers.

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JohnDee

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I remember my Dad attaching the rabbit ears to our first TV. Mid 50s and black and white of course. As a kid, my favorite show was Commando Cody and later the Howdy Doody show. Stretching my memory here...
JD
 

Budzbuddha

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I remember my Dad attaching the rabbit ears to our first TV. Mid 50s and black and white of course. As a kid, my favorite show was Commando Cody and later the Howdy Doody show. Stretching my memory here...
JD
rabbit ear ( wire hanger ) and pair of pliers ..... good times
 

Dope Fly

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I remember the sixties although I was reborn again in 1987(didn't want to be, but had to be). I was zillions of years old by the 1960s but I still looked like I was less than 2 years old. That's how it is now, too. My body doesn't age past the age of one or so even though I am very very tall and I weigh literally nothing.

I dated Joe Cocker for a few months but it didn't work out all that well due to a lack of chemistry. We stayed friends because we're both hobbyists. Truth be told, I hated that generation of people, those slightly older than the boomers. Humorless as can be and every bit aware of how charmless, jealous and uncreative they were. I was still a gang member back then and I felt pretty alienated by most of the adult crowd in the sixties. The seventies were way better, socially, I felt.

I was at Woodstock '69. I set up a large tent full of blankets, pillows activities and food for kids and babies in attendance, whose parents weren't paying attention to them. We stayed clean and dry. There were about 40 kids in there and all of them got along and stayed in touch after the festival ended. Eight of them later ended up married! Tripped on mushrooms and acid, smoked a little pot here and there. This was before Joe and I dated. Five months later, though, I temporarily broke up with my boyfriend Andrea and started seeing Jimi Hendrix for a little while.

I remember Jim Morrison, too. Really quiet but in a funny way that made you smile. He and Jimi weren't easy people to get to know like Joe was.

I was also a free doctor at a clinic on Haight-Ashbury throughout the sixties and some of the seventies. I bet some of you old-timers here would remember me. I was the female doctor.

What else to say? I don't miss the sagging vintage tits that you got if you were female and a terrible person back then. There were also a lot of people into cults and faux-vegetarians.

The hippies back then cared too much about other people's status. Publicly they pretended to hate money but privately worshiped wealth and those who had it. There was a semi-popular deformity back then known as "hippie-head", which gave you a long forehead with a beluga bulge at the top. It was justice for caring too much about how much money other people made, and/or their social standing.

I was probably considered a ten back then just for having a normal dome, no boob gravity issues and no thick, ~groovy~ body hair patterns. Puke.
 
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Dope Fly

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Okay that post was rather negative. I'll try to recall what I *did* like about the sixties.

Everything was relatively affordable and inexpensive.
People weren't so hooked on convenience like they are now. Cookies and pies were baked at home rather than store bought.
Cars had big spacious comfortable bench seats instead of bucket seats.
Low-riders!
Psychedelic drugs became popular and available to the general public. My personal favorite.
People still read books back then.
Becoming friends with Roky Erickson
Winged black eyeliner
Surfing was popular and I was good at it!
 
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