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A little trip down memory lane for many, and a glimpse into the past for those who are too young to remember.  Would be nice to see one of these viewed from a World perspective rather than an American perspective!

http://moreoldfortyfives.com/TakeMeBackToTheSixties.htm

In those days a single person could work 40 hours a week and support a big family. As kids we would go out and kill and pluck a chicken for dinner. People hunted and everybody knew how to butcher. In the fall we put 1/2 beef and elk in the freezer. The meat didnt have chemicals in it and neither did the food. Well water was still drinkable. You could fix most things on your car. You could get thrown in jail sat night for being drunk or fighting and let out the next morning. The fine for fighting was about $100.

Although I was in the military most of the sixties and was spat upon I would love to go back. This country is bankrupt, broke and hurting.

Oh yea some other things we made our own things like guns and toys.
There wasnt a war between men and women.
One thing remains the same. We still have the best military ever.

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Thanks for posting Muryln. I was right in the middle of all that and remember it all very well.

A lot of it I dont remember!!!  

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Hi Guy and Gals, You like this go check out the same site, but for "take me back to the 50's

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glow=yellow][scroll][shadow=red] Correction..."LIZ" says..  :whistle: You just can't go wrong with TomTom onboard !![/shadow] [/scroll][shadow=gold][/shadow][shadow=cyan][/shadow][/shadow]

Ok But I aint gonna milk cows again!!!! Or irrigate or.....

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Such a great video.  I remember all of the 60's, it was definately a better time then.  I grew up in Cleveland, OH and recently there was a news story about a policeman that was shot and killed in my old neighborhood. It happend right at the corner of my elementary school.  I walked past that spot everyday for six years going to school. The news really hurt me.  That area was one of the safest to live in the 60's, now it's full of crime.

FACT:   Kids DID in fact get cars as High School graduation gifts VERY frequently where I grew up (in the 1960s)

FACT:   Banks and Grocery stores DID ask for ID on checks

FACT:   Many times as an elementary school and Jr High School kid I'd be hitch-
           hiking home from school and NO passing cars stopped to pick me up the 3
           1/2 mile walk,  the times I was picked up I was often given a lecture on
           how dangerous a kid my age hitchhiking can be. (even in the 60's)


FACT:   Teen Drug and Alcohol related suicides was EXTREMELY high in my area.

FACT:   Adultry was ardent, and during that "free love" era it wasn't uncommon for
           adults to be passing J's, in smoke-filled rooms over a babies highchair.
           Recreatonal sex was less feared in all age groups with herpes being the
           most feared transmissible form of VD pre-AIDS scare in the States (earlier
           1980's)-  Interesting thing however. Many that were going to the orgy clubs
           in the late 60's- into the-70's, and many I knew that were homosexual did
           come down with mysteriously degenerative illnesses mid  70's on... Yet
           cause of death was often viral Hep with pneumonia, or "bad virus" often with
           unknown rash...  I think I had friends that were quite active as IV drug
           users or within the Wanton sex scene that would've beend diagnosed with
           HIV (C.O.D AIDS)  assuming it recognised in the mid-late 1970s. Weekend
           trips to "Plato's Retreat" by many were common too.

FACT:   We were in another VERY ugly war, and the late 60's was a time of protest,
           rebellion, and you had to register, get a selective service card, and odds
           were pretty high that if you didn't have a medical excuse, or were a student
           you got drafted, inlisted and served your country, or ran off to Canada.
         
FACT:   ADHD, LD's, and other disorders (both medical and psychological) weren't
           known or recognised, meaning "All children unless mentally retarded, or
           considered less intelligent, and emotionally disturbed were assumed to
           be "fine" in all respects and able to absorb school material at an equal
           level  -in fact the medical field was telling parents much of the time "He's
           lazy, he's an underachiever, he's behaving a certain way for attention" and
           MANY of us were corporally punished for things we couldn't absorb due to
           what was not at the time recognized as a legit medical or psychological
           prob.. IOW,  some were beaten for what was not their fault, or medically
           recognized..  Also,  dentistry was PAINFUL even with novacaine.. During
           surgical procedures they put us out with foul smelling gas such as Ether
           or other gas (via masks) that were horrible smelling.




That whole first page of type wasn't any more true than it would be if stated today..


 Oh yeah,  one more fact,  every year after around 1980, the number of people claiming to have been at Woodstock 1969 has increased greatly, claims from people around my age and a little younger (too young to have gone), and a little older (had no interest in going) increase so greatly, that many many millions would've been at Woodstock assuming these claims were true.
 Sadly, many my age and older also make claims of having served in Vietnam, yet if asked "What troop", the response would likely be "Umm-  I don't remember".



                                                                  Signed Kappy
                                                                  (one of the VERY few 13 year olds
                                                                   that wasn't at Woodstock '69) or
                                                                   in Vietnam

(my only point is that simpler doesn't mean "better" in ALL respects, and much that
wasn't glorious is often overlooked, or even glorified-  It was however a lower tech
period of course,  Shortwave Radio listening, 100 MW Walkie-talkies were GREAT
gifts, and many of us were amazed at how a wireless device could transmit and
receive-  I loved CB radio in those days, it was fascinating)

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Along with Nostalgia, a few things must also be recognised.


..and I'll say this without judgement, but as fact (in my geographic areas in Northeast United States in the 1960s)

Gender typing was rampant.  A man was expected to feel and be certain ways, a lady wasn't allowed many freedoms either-  yet males weren't allowed many emotional freedoms.  There was LITTLE room for "self".  There was also ZERO tolerance for homosexuality,  Gays didn't have "rights" assuming they came out've the closet in the 1960's in the areas I grew up in.  Unless you sailed, (something about the Windward ear- Murrlyn and others who sail would know this, and were at danger while at sea) a MAN did not pierce his ear in the 1960's without being called names..

I guess the late 60's was the beginning of revolution and change however.

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[glow=blue]I was born in 1960...i remember burning trash in the back yard...i remember clackers....riding boys bikes were cool..and no one called the amber alert when we came in at dark....the street lights came on...that was when we all came home from the park. ahhhh....and we girls wondered what training bras were for...WHAT were they training...and why?   ....ahhh....memories...[/glow]

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heh I was a child of the 70s but bearing in mind NZ was so far behind the rest of the world that our 70s was everyone elses 60s I lived through it
Murray

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[font=verdana] I may regret getting into this, but here goes.

Fact: The only kid I knew in high school that received a new car for graduation, was the very pretty daughter of the man that owned the Chevy dealership in town. ( A beautiful 1960 Chevy convertible with red interior) The rest of us had to settle for old junkers, if we got a car at all.

Fact:  Maybe banks and grocery stores asked for ID’s if you lived in a large city, but in the area I grew up in, most everyone new everyone else, asking for ID’s would have been pointless.

Fact: I never hitch-hiked, but if I was offered a ride home from a neighbor, I would have been a fool not to take it.  One time on the school bus some kids dared me to ride to the next town, about 6 miles farther, I did, then had to walk back most of the way.  Lol  Thank heaven I’ve managed to get a little smarter in the ensuing years.  It was nothing for me to be gone on a Saturday from early morning until dark. That was the rule, be home by the time the sun goes down.  

Fact: We did do some drinking, thought it made us cool I guess. I never heard of any of my friends being an alcoholic or committing suicide.  

I’ll skip over the next couple because I was too busy raising my children to take part in the “Free Love” era, and never smoked any pot till I was nearly 50 years old. (and no it’s not something I do now or have done for a long time, and when I did it was in private with my husband, not anywhere around children, most of mine were pretty much grown by then.)

I wasn’t nearly as political then as I am now, and was usually too busy changing and washing diapers, wiping noses and kissing boo boo’s to really keep up with what was going on in the war, plus a good part of the time we didn’t have a television, we were lucky if we had a radio.  I did know a few young men that were sent over there, and not all of them came back.

Fact: I have six children and when it came to their ability to learn, they ran the gamut from barely able to pass, to straight A’s.  I never once punished any of my children for being unable to be at the top of their class.  I did my best to encourage them to do better, and helped in anyway I could, short of doing their homework for them.  I really think that many children that are diagnosed with ADHD or other learning disorders wouldn’t need to be drugged if they had good parenting and a firm hand.  It gets back to that video, about mother’s thinking their primary job was raising children.

Fact: I believe that a lot of what is wrong with this country and our society in general is that you can no longer support a household with children on one parent’s wages, unless you’re a very highly paid professional.  I used to think I had a terrible childhood, but then one day I realized that compared to some I see now, it wasn’t really all that bad.  My mother never had to work, she was usually home when I got out of school, (often with fresh bread and biscuits just out of the oven).  My father was definitely the final authority in our household, although there were many times he was too inebriated to hit his ‘arse’ with both hands. I had the same parents, no step parents, until I was in my 30’s when my mother died.  So all in all, I had it better than a lot of kids do today.  There were no video games. Movies and  television shows weren’t all about violence and sex.  Advertisements weren’t about what products to use to look sexier, or what drugs to take to get it up. You could actually understand what a singer was saying in a song, and they weren't spouting violent, vulgar, and disgusting lyrics.

I spent most of my junior high years in Long Beach, CA where our “gang wars” consisted of meeting at some previously designated spot after school and calling each other names and pushing each other around. May have been a punch or two thrown, but I doubt it ever occurred to any of us to bring a gun or knife and mortally wound anybody.

I thought raising children in our society was difficult when mine were growing up, I sure don’t envy the parents that are trying their level best to raise their children properly in the world we live in today.

To summarize, Yes, I think in most ways life was better and simpler back in the 60's, and I enjoyed the nostalgia trip the video allowed me to take.  

This is me getting down off my soap box and shutting up now.  :whistle:  [/font]

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All things considered, i wouldn't trade it to be a kid again today. Not even if it meant i would live 40 years longer.

Compared to what kids have to put up with, our lives were sweet back then.    So much safer.    Easier.   Less hectic and way less hastle.    I hope someday we wise up and return to those days where you got your a$$ beat for screwing up and you didn't turn in to a mass murderer.   Kids could walk the streets and not have to worry about becoming victims of some pervert.    Police actually had some enforcement power.    Nobody had to always be politically correct.    You had fredom of speech.   Teachers were respected.   Less law suits.   American workers had pride and good secure jobs.   Corporate greed didn't exist.    You could count on your pension to be there.    You could get a job in the factory that employed your dad and his dad.    One income actually was all you needed to survive.    Food was real and fresh.    Men were men.   And women were hot and dressed and acted like women.    Divorce was a family disgrace.    So were unwed mothers.    Mainstreet was busy with actual businesses.   Less crime.    Less drunk drivers.     No graphic TV violence.    No rap and hip hop music.  No street gangs.   You actually knew and talked to all your neighbors.   No drug addicts.

Kids are missing so much today.

There's a big difference according to the socioecon bracket a person grew up in. Average income in the 1960's where I grew up was 6 figures a year. I did state "where I grew up",  and of course what I noticed being "my age" during those times.  Drug use was HUGE !!!!

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[font=verdana]Sidewinder, If you’ll marry me, I’ll let you go with me in my time machine!  LOL  I agree, I wouldn’t want to go back to being a kid, but I would love to live in a world that was a lot more like it used to be.  Oh!  Just thought of something, if it were 1960 something, we wouldn’t have home computers, no internet, no Karaoke Scene Forum!  No karaoke! Oh No!!   [/font]

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