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24 June 2019, 09:36 PM | #1 |
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I was a kid at a good time - the 1960s
I was born in 1955. Although a little young for most of it, I was around for all the craziness of the 1960's. The good and the bad.
I feel lucky that I was able to see the Beatles perform live on the Ed Sullivan show for the first time 1964. I'm still a diehard Beatles fan. The decade ended with me as a 14 yr old boy, glued to a TV watching the Apollo II moon landing. (I actually applied to NASA for an astronaut position many years later.) Then there was Woodstock. There was so much in between. Assasinations, wars, civil unrest, rock stars deaths. It was a crazy time. Just thinking out loud.... |
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I have similar thoughts from time to time. Although my childhood was in the late seventies/early eighties, can’t help but recall memories from that period.
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Me too, born in 1951......the 60s were a blast.....my family & I lived inSan Francisco, I got to go to Monterey Pop In 67, saw a zillion bands at the Winterland, Avalon, Fillmore.
The highlight of the year, welcoming new year with the Grateful Dead At The Winterland! California was magical, not so much now.
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Same here. I was born in 1953. Grew up in Queens, NY. Started HS in 1967 and college in 1971. Also watched the Beatles on Ed Sullivan and saw them at Shea Stadium in 1965.
Please don’t make this political. It’s not my point to go there.945B0E09-B27D-4BFA-842D-FDCE0964F6B3.jpeg The thing I remember the most about the time was the Vietnam War and the draft. I turned 18 in 1971 and registered with the local draft board on my 18th birthday. I was entered in the 1972 Lottery and drew number 360 out of a possible 365. Although troops were still being sent, the war was winding down. It’s amazing I still have this stuff. Right you are, those were some times!
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My first conscious memory as a child was my parents waking me up to watch the lunar landing on our black and white TV. I'm a few years younger then you Bluside but I know where you are coming from!
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my stepdad was born in 1944, he said the '60s in britain was nothing special, most people were skint, the music was good, but he says most of it is a nostalgic myth created by the media,
To him the 1980s were far better. |
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‘57 here! Grew up in Corona Queens! A few blocks from Shea stadium and the Worlds fair! I always tell my wife that I wish I could go back to the ‘60’s!! For us that grew up then, you know how it was!! I was lucky enough to be at the Met game when the won the World Series, and seen the Beatles helicopter land at the worlds fair heliport and get in the armored car and drive down 108th. Street to Shea for there concert! Things were so much simpler then, god, I miss those days!!
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lets be real 80-90s best time to be alive. Why? Because it was the last 10-20 years before technology really began to become mainstream/take off.
in 2000 years everyone will look back at that time frame and be like....'what a time...to be alive' |
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My parents loved being teens and young adults in the 50s and 60s. The music, pace of life, a very easy life according to them.
I loved growing up in the 70s and 80s. I remember having total freedom growing up in the beautiful English countryside. Very laid back parents helped ... |
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Oh... if only I could invent a time machine
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Born in 56 here....I had two older brothers .....one was killed in Vietnam Jan 71....He had just bought this trail bike a Honda SL90...he told me i could ride it and to take care of it till he got back which was suppose to be Feb 71...he was killed 6 weeks before he hitch was up ....helicopter was shot down.... I kept the bike till 1980....should have never sold it.
Other the war it was good time to be a kid...I got his record collection too, David was a huge Doors fan and saw them live in CA once. |
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Did anybody see Black Sabbath in the early 70s when they were young lads and relatively unknown? They did play at California Jam in 1974 along with a host of other great bands including Deep Purple.
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I was born in Canada in the early 50s and looking back we had an idyllic life. WW2 had ended 6 years before. As kids we rode our bikes everywhere, leave home at 8 or 9 in the morning and just have to be home by suppertime. In winter we played hockey all day Saturday and Sundays at the outdoor rinks.
Walked to school every day, came home for lunch and walked back. My most constant memories of my mother was she was always ironing. But life was not so easy for black people, and for women back then although the pill changed everything in the 60s. And being in Canada we never had to worry about being drafted into the Vietnam war although we still got the news the same as Americans every day. But the main thing that happened was kids were so much freer then than they are now. Just go with your buddies and make your own fun. |
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Same here, my dad woke me up to watch the landing on tv. I remember that, I was 3.
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My sister got a POW bracelet, unfortunately Lieutenant William Brashear never came home.
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I was born in 59 and grew up in Texas. I remember watching Beatles on Ed Sullivan although only 5 years old. I remember the Gemini and Apollo missions too. We named a new puppy “Gem” after watching the Gemini missions on TV in 1966. My early childhood was through the 60s and I have nothing but fond memories of school and summer vacations. Best trip was my dad and I took a round trip bus ride from Dallas Texas to Buffalo New York in the summer of 1968. Spent a couple of weeks of the summer in upstate New York. Then came the 70s, I was a new junior in high school when Vietnam ended in 1975. After I graduated high school in May 1977 I joined the Air Force and served almost 28 years. Being in the military in the late 70s and through the 80s was a good time. Great memories.
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I always knew there had to a good reason why I liked Rob so much.
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The music, the Beatles, the US space program, great TV (for a kid), Bond movies...it was a thick cultural soup at that time. Now it's a thin gruel, it seems. The assassinations (my first recollection is yelling for my mother to come to the TV when I saw the bulletin on President Kennedy--I knew something was terribly wrong), the turmoil, the fear of the Cold War...you knew the world was changing and you were part of it.
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I remember being angry that my favorite TV show was preempted by RFK funeral coverage. I also remember smacking the snot out my little brother because he wouldn’t shutup during the Apollo 11 landing.
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I recorded that CNN movie, "Apollo 11" and watched it late today. You simply have to see that. Will bring you back to every tense moment of that mission, with footage unseen until now, in HD.
And I remember what a salve Apollo 8 was to weary US in 1968. In some ways, that flight, so early to the moon was NASA's greatest achievement. There are astronauts at the time who thought that was the most dangerous mission ever flown, from a flight plan perspective. It was so early in the Apollo program.
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