Thread: I remember some of it but I was very young.

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Take Me Back To The Sixties

I lived through the 60s (and fifties) Times were a lot easier then or at least thats what I remember of them.. turned 16 in 60 bought my first new car in 64 Got married in 67(that lasted till 90) What I remember most was mentioned in this film Kids learned in school. I know kids today that can't tell time unless they have a digital clock. Very few are good at math. When I grew up if you didn't know math you didn't get far. Drugs??? I supose they were there but my choice was sneaking a beer out of the frig. on sat night. hahaha. What hasn't changed by me is I still love Speed. As in MPH.

great post ... thanks ... and yes .. i had to recite the gettysburg address to get out of the ninth grade .. i was a young teen then but remember most all of it ..

Wow – that’s a ride in a time machine. I remember all that stuff and still like most of the music. Loved the cars of the sixties (still do). My mom had a 1962 Ford Falcon with a six, three on the tree and as I recall, my sister finally got rid of it sometime in the late 1980’s My first car was a 1957 Corvette – 283 real stock (yes, I do wish I’d kept it!)

I would concur that the late 60’s was the beginning of the end in terms of the innocent and pure society. As I read the news and look around – well let’s just say things have changed a lot in the past fifty years!

I agree it was a simpler time and life sure was “good” – but I really believe that the best times in my life are right her and now. Fantastic wife of nearly 39 years – four great kids, five grand kids and some pretty decent friends too. Could it be better? Sure – but I thank God I don’t live in Libya!

Hope you all have a great Labor Day weekend !
Glenn

Yep, I do remember it - all of it; and a lot before and after; probably the most important decade of my life. Graduated high school in '59, enlisted in the Navy in '60, got married in '64, and we were expecting our first child in late '69. All of the cars I have ever had that seem truly memorable, for the most part, were '60's cars - and trucks. It was a very significant and tumultuous decade.

I remember 1st or 2nd grade, the sirens would go off and we would huddle under our desks, "Earth Quake Drill", in San Jose. I was too young to understand (Cuban Missle Crisis). But I remember 65 to 68, it was the best time in my life.

huh???? did the sixties end??? It's still '67 in my life!!!!

I like the same cars, do cookouts with the neighbors, trust people, pick up hitchikers, listen to the Beach Boys, Jan & Dean, and the rest.

I consider family as my #1 priority, rarely use a calculator, and do my designing on a drafting table.

Though I must admit it's almost impossible to find bell bottoms and tie-dyed shirts anywhere!!!!

I suppose I've latched on to "the new" that seems good to me but just said no thanks to the rest. Heck, I even catch myself saying yes sir, thank you, and please among a wide variety of other old fashioned phrases!!!! Heck, I even have a pony tail, a pocket watch, and go to mass on Saturday night (Sundays are for drag racing).

Yup, still the sixties around here!!!!!!!

Good show Vara4 , put it in my favorites. I am in the oldest catagory on this forum,I was 25 married w/2 kids when you were born. I have seen it all and been there done that.Formal Education in my era and area ( Applachian Tn) was not promoted. It took me married w/2 kids to realize that I was not going to make it unless I had something to build on. I got a break and was accepted into a Tool & Die Apprenticeship and the rest is history. My avatar is the car I had when I got married in 59. Those were the good times like was stated , until the late 60's.

Things that stand out are things that I was involved in, the ball typewriter at IBM the first cell phone covers built in my shop for Motorola (boy were they big).

Building Robotics for the automotive industry was probably the most enjoyment of my life.

As I age it is satisfying to see the younger kids still involved in rods and classics.

I graduated from high school in 1961, and I remember every little part of that video. The prices on the first page were spont on - except for the gas price. I sold a lot of gas at 19.9 in the early sixties during the gas wars. At one time or another, I saw every one of the TV shows and movies listed. I could play every one of those "surfer sound" instrumentals on my cheapo Sears-bought guitar. The only difference was the end of the decade. The hippy scene and the war protests did not play well in small town Illinois. School courses were math, science, English, history, speech and literature - those things that everyone needed in order to be successful in life. At the end of the sixties, it was like a switch was thrown and the country changed.

As a former Illini myself who graduated from Champaign High School in '63 I know where you are coming from,Champaign-Urbana being a college town made a big change in a short amount of time.I went in the Army in '64 spent a two year tour in Germany and got out in '67 and came home to a bunch of long hair hippy types and got called "baby killers" in Lasalle St. Station in Chicago on the way home,one hippy got a lesson in "respect" from a Marine in the restroom while I posted guard by the door.The country was divided and the poison of liberal thinking began to grow and change this countries values for the worst,our love of our old cars takes us back to the "good times" long may they live.

I,too, graduated in '61 and my memory goes back to at least '47 when my uncle was brought home from Saipan. BTW, Jack I'd sure like to hear your rendition of Misirlou by Dick Dale.