Brylcreem ever put some on your toothbrush?

Corvair mechanical genius doomed by piss poor drivers

girdles they were on their way out, but were great birth control

Cruising Fremont St. from Union Station to the Blue Angel.

Top 40 radio remember hearing the same song at the same time on two different stations?

Pretending to be hung over in Priest's Quorum! Anyone else ever go play pool between priesthood and Sunday School?

Blue balls! Amazing fun to get them, sinfully refreshing getting rid of them.

The Twist first dance I ever did well. And just this christmas I showed off by doing an elegant twist to the Handel's Messiah opening concerto. My G/F's eyes opened very big and she gaped...

The Draft I went from 4D (I think) to 2S to 1A, and got my draft notice while at the Y. Only lottery I've ever won.

What do you remember?

The Beatles, Elvis and the beach Boys.

Surfer shirts and piper boards

Hippies, albums, and rock concerts.

Long hair, wearing rollers all night.

Twiggy, eye make up, and mini skirts.

Wonder bread, spaghettio's, and tv dinners.

Bikini's, glow in the dark paint, and muscle cars.

Mormonism doing their best to try and not let any of this happen.
Making girls kneel on the ground to measure their skirts. Boys being denied all kinds of things if their hair was too long. Constant bashing of rock music and culture.

Vietnam, Kent state, race riots, protests, Kennedy, and MLK, getting shot. The Vietnam body count on the news every night.

The protest music. Dylan, Baez, Mitchell, Woody and Arlo Gutherie. The British invasion and Beatle boots.



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garter belts, stockings with seams

Lots of Motown music

ugly blue cotton one piece gym suits

wool pleated skirts

mohair sweaters

Evening in Paris perfume

good manners

ancient school desks with unused ink well holes

Chevy station wagons

milk at 28 cents a quart

multicolored aluminum drinking glasses

Christmas trees for a couple of bucks

living without air conditioning in beastly hot summers

minimum wage around a dollar

Melmac dishes

Betty Crocker cookbooks

45s and long playing vinyl records

Not to mention that when I got my first car (1965), in the midwestern town where I lived gasoline cost 25 cents a gallon.

Sure hope that we get back down there soon.

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My first job, 1959, not quite 13 yet, rolling bales of hay for $.75 an hour. I think the minimum wage was about $1.25 or so.

Aluminum Christmas trees with a colored light wheel rotating beneath so it would turn different colors.

Pogo Sticks, Hulu Hoops. Maybe that was more the 50's.

Basic Training, mean TI and one of the guys had a radio we were allowed to listen to - sometimes. "Hang on Sloopy", Beach Boys.

Taking advantage of an alcoholic Native American to get liquor. We'd drive him to the Utah liquor store, park out back, and give him 5 bucks. A fifth of most stuff was about $4.50 or so. We'd let him keep the change and give him a good stiff drink. I got a bottle of Everclear one time. He took a big snort of that and struggled to start breathing for a bit, then he said "That strong stuff". Truer words were never spoke.

8 Millimeter home moves with no sound.

Getting a fine Samsonite suitcase for Christmas my senior year. Hint, hint.

The first crosswalks painted across Highway 91 through town. Before that we were taught to stop, look, and listen before we crossed the road to get to school. NO-body had a mom who drove them to school, NO body, unless we were crippled or something.

Pre-vaccination Measles, Mumps, and the Asian flu. I wonder if these goddam anti-vaxers understand just how miserable that stuff is.

There has never been anything on TV since that even comes close to "Laugh in". For that matter there's never been anything nearly as good as the Smother's Brothers. Tweak the man until you get your ass kicked off of network TV.

And there is but one true Batman. All others are but pale imitations.

A man in a rain coat riding a tricycle and falling. Adam West promising driving lessons for a twenty-year-old Burt Ward. "I'd like to teach the world to sing" by the Coca Cola choir. Dr. Smith selling Billy Mumy to the aliens for a return flight to Earth. Rod Serling smoking and pontificating ironically. Fred Flintstone forever pounding at his front door. Winston tastes god like a cigarette should. Beany and Cecil on a jungle island with beatnik natives. Four out of five dentists agreeing. Walter Cronkite announcing the death toll in southeast Asia. Bobby Kennedy on the floor in a pool of black and white blood.

It's all in a repeating loop like an eight track tape, switching tracks--kachunk--and playing over and over without end in my head.

I thought I was the only one who remembered Beanie and Cecil. I got a Beanie hat for my 6th birthday - complete with propeller.

"A Bob Clampett cartooooooOOOOON!"

The night on the Smothers Brothers when Pete Seeger sang, "Knee Deep in the Big Muddy" and the screen went blank. My mom said, "Ooops, they just pissed off LBJ."

Laugh In has never been surpassed.

I remember that! Except it was "Waist Deep..."

I just found this:

http://youtu.be/uXnJVkEX8O4

He sings Knee deep first, then Waist, etc.

That one really needed the link to refresh the memory...it sure seems so fuzzy at times.



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BTW, no one's mentioned draft card burning. I torched mine before it was against the law, haw haw.

And FWIW, I gave up my innocence in the back seat of a red 65 Corvair Monza.



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I was a boy in the sixties, and I recall:

Pet monkeys
Rabbit ears
45 records
Transistor radios
Mormon potluck dinners
Black & White TV
Shag carpet
Free roaming dogs/ dogshit everywhere
Volkswagen Bugs
Evil civil rights activists/ "negro riots"
Beatle boots
The Monkees TV show
Adam West as Batman
Bikes with banana seats
Butterfly handlebars
Crew cuts (mandatory)
Beatle haircuts (forbidden)
Smoky houses (smokers)
Rock and Roll (evil)
President Kennedy's death
Vietnam
Laugh In
Go Go girls
The Mormon skin curse
The Soviet Union
Fallout Shelters
End of the world

I've got a little list.



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While I was but a young lad, as the late sixties rolled over into the early seventies, I’ll never forget my dad experimenting with those handlebar moustaches and sideburns. And my mom decked out in a miniskirt, thigh-high white leather lace-up boots, a bouffant hairdo, and her cat-eye glasses (OMG, and not a good OMG). And I’ll never, ever forget the 67’ Camaro my dad bought for my mom. The tires would chirp just shifting gears in that car, so we always knew when mom was coming home. Those sure were the days, even if I was just a kid. Some of the best music in our culture ever came out of the 60’s and 70’s too, IMO.

Sure wish that 67' Camaro was still around. Vroom, vroom ... screeeeech !!

Listening to Casey Kasem's show on KRLA, Los Angeles
Listening to Sonny and Cher, Beatles, and Rolling Stones (among many others) on KRLA
Kennedy's assassination (I was a freshman; we all cried)
The barber telling me I couldn't have a flat-top due to a round head
Butch wax
Really good tasting Crest toothpaste
Toothpaste in a tin tube, not plastic
Needing a can opener to open and drink a soft drink
Not being able to walk away from a vending machine without paying a 2-cent deposit to the clerk
Picking up pop bottles along the side of the road for their Deposit money
Deposit money from bottles being enough to buy comic book, soda, and Hershey bar
Beverly Hillbillies
Bewitched
Girls in almost white lipstick
Beehive hair-dos
My dad watching that awful Mitch Miller Singalong show
Hootenannies
Kingston Trio
Peter, Paul, and Mary
Bob Dylan, who couldn't sing but wrote kick-ass songs
Dr. Strangelove
Parents hating the Beatles
Branch president hating the Beatles
"King of the Road" playing on the radio over and over, over and over
Mother dying of lung cancer
Everybody smoking
The branch president coming in and throwing out parents' cigarettes
Father dropping dead of stroke
Going into foster care
Aging out of foster care at 17
Vietnam, of course
Avoiding the draft
Draft number coming up while on mission, so didn't get called
Losing a couple of friends in Vietnam
Tet 1968
Finding girl of my dreams / losing girl of my dreams


Edited: Just too much stuff.



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HS graduation
'Nam
Getting my ltr to report for physical from draft board while already in 'Nam (They wouldn't send me back to take it.)
Joining the LDS church
Getting married

-Discovered the party in my pants in 1960.
-Got my drivers licence on my birthday, July 25, 1964.
-had my first cigarette in 1963.
-Got my first car a 1953 Meteor Victoria(Canadian Ford) Sept.'64.
-Drank my first beer about the same time. More to come.
-The British invasion on the Ed Sullivan Show every Sunday after SM...still like the Beach Boys and hot rod culture.
-Went to Ricks in '66-'67...totally fucking blew my mind as to how controlling and fucked up the Mormon church is, but discovered R&B, Soul and the Blues from some cool dorm mates from NY & Pittsburgh.

-1967-return from Ricks and begin my decent into hippydom an all that entailed...bought '64 VW Beetle.

-Heard Led Zeppelin for the first time...OMG!

-1968..moved to Calgary to attend Mount Royal College (now MRU) and really learned how to drink beer.

-1968- ordered my new '69 Acadian (Nova) 350 4-speed muscle car.
-more partying until I graduated from MRC in '70.

Packed a lot into those 10 years.

Ron Burr



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Long live R&B !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Indeed....

RB

Bee Hive hairdo's

The Beatles

The Rolling Stones

Bob Dylan

Black eyeliner and false eyelashes

Cigarettes 25 cents a pack

Barbie Dolls

Jiffy Pop Popcorn you could make in its own little pan.

Fuzzy Dice

Bunny shoes that only the Pachuca's wore

KRLA and KDAY radio stations in LA.

Silver tinsel on christmas trees.

Flat tops and duck tails

Leather Jackets

class rings

Letterman Jackets

making out at the show

spin the bottle

the twist

Vandy Burgers and Bob's Big Boy.

TV Dinners

Hula Hoops

45 records

After school dances

Sunday school in the morning and Sacrament meeting at night.

WOLFMAN JACK ON XERB.........!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

From a tiny studio, just across the border, in Mexico's Baja California.........

......blasting across North America...starting every night at sundown......

The ONE...the ONLY...the TRULY INCOMPARABLE...the WILL ALWAYS BE MISSED.........WOLFMAN JACK!!!!!!!!!

Love ya, Wolfman...and I ALWAYS will!!!

[really crappy audio quality...but here are some of the original broadcasts (including the original commercials): http://www.xerbradio.com]

[and here is what he actually sounded like when he was broadcasting in real time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLL30r3x7eY --- or search on YouTube for "Wolfman Jack sign off"]



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I remember most of the above (except for real personal family events, specific to the poster) because I was born in 1954. I loved the 60s, 70s and 80s music! I just now remembered a pair of hip-hugger bell bottoms I had in high school. They had very thin vertical stripes: red, white and blue! Oh, my!

I also remember Kenny Rogers fronting the First Edition.

Can't you feel it baby?
Can't you feel it, here it comes...
Feel it!
Feel it!
Fire!
Fire!

Something's burning ...

(and I think it's love)


Ya, frikin ay! Flashin' back now, man! Look out...

Kenny, sing it... (loved this tune)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xO1CqLpadAM

Fond memories of picking up Wolfman Jack on the skip from some station in northern California on my Channel Master transistor radio in my dorm room at Ricks in '67.

RB

I would listen to Larry Lujack on WLS (AM 890) in Chicago but late at night I'd try to catch the Wolfman on the skip, too, if the stratosphere was just right...

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*KOMA*

Our local rock station (KEOS) signed-off at sunset, so KOMA was what we listened to into the night on our transistor radios. In Phoenix, weren't KRIZ and KRUX the big rock stations?

Shummy Wrote:
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Oh, yeah, Shummy...

KOMA was also really important to me. When I first moved to New Mexico, KOMA (a North American blaster from Oklahoma City) was intensely important to me...because Albuquerque (the first place I moved to) was S-O-O-O different from the Southern California I had grown up in and I frequently felt so incredibly out of place in central and southern New Mexico.

Although I actually moved to Albuquerque (because I thought I would have an easier time of finding a job there), the ostensible REASON why I moved to New Mexico in the first place was actually way south, in Alamogordo...and as I used to drive (at least weekly) from Albuquerque to Alamogordo and back, I was on those endless, deep-of-the-night rural highways, and KOMA kept me sane. I don't remember any of the KOMA d.j.'s, or any of the actual music they played either (except for the Paul Revere and the Raiders, who I would later, after I moved back to L.A., work with in a marketing capacity), but KOMA was intensely important to me at that very insecure part of my life, where I was changing my outer and my inner lives immensely, and in seemingly every possible way...despite the fact that I had NO idea where I was actually "going." :(

Thanks for including KOMA, Shummy. :D

It is an important addition to this list. :)



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Sitting on somebody's lap in the back seat of the car, because six people had to fit in the back, while three sat in the front with the middle person straddling the gear shift. If the car was an automatic, you could fit ten people in the car.

Riding in the back of a pickup truck.

Reel to reel tape recorders

Mimeograph machines

Tupperware popsicle molds

Hey tevai, I grew up in Lordsburg.

That's why I'm so godly.



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I've been through Lordsburg!!! :D

Over more than two decades (with gaps in the middle, when I ONLY lived in Southern California), I lived in:

Albuquerque, Alamogordo, Taos (part-time, in a condo, over several years), and back to Alamogordo (living there about three weeks out of every month).

(Not by choice on the Alamogordo parts: I was there because other people were there and had to be there either for jobs or for school.)

My favorite part of New Mexico, by far, is the north of New Mexico: Santa Fe on the south, up through either the villages or the Rio Grande valley, to just north of Taos, with Questa as the more-or-less northern "limit" of where I feel at home. In this northern part of New Mexico, I feel totally at home whether I'm in the towns, or the villages, or the pueblos---I'm just "home" there.

Lords is an interesting community, though. Lots of history there. :)



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