Take Me Back to the 60's - Revisiting 60's Memories & Experiences

Ivan Seeking · Nov 20, 2007

60s trivia: Who was the little girl who ran out on the golf course to tell her dad that she didn't have any cavities?

turbo · Nov 20, 2007

IIR, the catch-phrase was "and I only had one cavity". I have no idea who it was, but if we're searching for someone the right age and a BIG smile Farrah would fit.

Ivan Seeking · Nov 20, 2007

turbo · Nov 22, 2007

Jodie Foster was born too late to have participated in an 1960's toothpaste ad campaign. Who else have you got?

Ivan Seeking · Nov 23, 2007

turbo-1 said:

Jodie Foster was born too late to have participated in an 1960's toothpaste ad campaign. Who else have you got?

After appearing as a child in several commercials, Foster won her first role in the 1970 TV movie Menace on the Mountain, followed by several Disney productions

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jodie_Foster

Ivan Seeking · Nov 25, 2007

Okay, this was THE coolest cartoon made in the sixties.
http://www.gigantor.org/

Astronuc · Nov 26, 2007

Ivan Seeking said:

Okay, this was THE coolest cartoon made in the sixties.
http://www.gigantor.org/

I thought the coolest cartoon was "Eighth Man". It was shown in the US probably about 1964.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EighthMan

I like the marionette programs like "The Thunderbirds" and "Fireball XL-5".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderbirds_(TV_series)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fireball_XL-5
http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/~bat/GA/fireball-xl5.html

hypatia · Nov 26, 2007

TV dinners that tasted like tin, cheese wiz, jiffy pop and fizzies{those little tablets you added to water}.
I was the youngest of 6, and by then old enough to help with laundry. Then gifts from the laundry Gods, permant press clothing and Tide with bleach, made my chores a breeze.

Cyrus · Dec 1, 2007

Far Star said:

For all of us of a certain age- what are your most striking memories of the 1960's?

Anyone younger than dirt, what do you think is the most interesting aspect?

Some of my favorites-cutting the waist band off Levi's (back in fashion recently). Flower Power stickers. Moby Grape. Hitchhiking to the demolition derby.

ttp://objflicks.com/TakeMeBackToTheSixties.htm

I thought about this for a few days and I think I can sum the 60's: people had more class, culture, struggle, and intellect. I would have liked to live in the 60's.

I feel like everything now-a-days reverts back to the past to be cool because we are at a void of culture right now. Turn on the TV during any holiday and you see something like the beach boys or some other safe, boring crap, that's past its time and feels cliche being played infront of a crowd. Worst of all, its not even good stuff from its time. Just old, bad garbage, being played by young people to make it seem 'hip' -yeah, right.

60's: when people would dress up and had style, first class meant first class, science was important, smoking was cool, music was fresh and innovative.

Cyrus · Dec 3, 2007

Ahhhhhhhh, first class... :approve:

http://digilander.libero.it/guido_1953/pics/miniskirts-2/big-1972-hostess-hotpants.jpg

Today you get some ugly person dressed up in conservative clothes. No thank you!

These boots were made for walkinn...

Letssss Flyyy awayyy, come flyyy awayyy...

turbo · Dec 3, 2007

Today's hype about the 60's is about sex (or the lure of sex) and some appeal to style. The truth of the 60's was that sex was available widely (thanks to contraceptives) and STDs were uncommon and easily treatable. There was no need to fantasize about some stewardess in go-go boots when you had some cute huggers jumping you at every party.

Ivan Seeking · Dec 3, 2007

I have thought that many times. I matured during the most sexually casual [and safe] period in human history. We had the pill, and STDs were only a shot away from cured.

But the popular line was still "coffee, tea, or me".

turbo · Dec 3, 2007

Ivan Seeking said:

I have thought that many times. I matured during the most sexually casual [and safe] period in human history. We had the pill, and STDs were only a shot away from cured.

But the popular line was still "coffee, tea, or me".

I didn't use that line. My younger sisters' classmates (1-3 grades back) would muckle on to me. I had crushes on some older girls, but I didn't have the time or motivation to chase them, except for a senior in my sophomore year who was a cheerleader and who sat with me on every long-distance bus-trip. She was really pretty and she was the younger sister of a guy that I used to play blues/rock with. She's 57, still as cute as hell, and we still connect when we see each other.

Ivan Seeking · Dec 3, 2007

turbo-1 said:

I didn't use that line. .

I hope not! That was only for airline stewardesses. Actually, though, I don't remember where that line comes from...something back then.

I have lost touch with all female friends from my pre-married life. I did have lunch with a childhood friend once, but she had some serious mental issues [bipolar disorder]. Get this; after we had lunch about seven years ago, she called my poor mother and started talking about when her and I would take baths together as young children. What she didn't make clear was that she was talking about our childhood! Mom was all upset and called to ask if Tsu and I were having problems.

There are a few women from my life that I would like to see again but I have no idea where they are anymore. When we moved to Oregon, most previous ties were lost. I do know that my former fiance married a marine who was injured in the barracks attack in Lebanon [what, 25 years ago now?]. Not long before they got married it was found that he had some terminal condition because of his injury and they were only giving him a few years. That was the last thing that I heard from her.

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