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delisen

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60. Truly New fashions, Happenings, psychedelic posters

Sat Oct 19, 2024, 05:25 PM

Oct 19

colorful new gadgets, tootle loop phones. fishnet stockings, Roman sandals, Afro hair styles, long straight hair, the Black is Beautiful movement, Nehru jackets, all kinds of new sleeves styles on blouses , the London fashions from Mary Quant, hanging ashtrays, midcentury modern Scandinavian furniture, acrylic popping up everywhere, the new connections with Japanese products and clothing from India and African nations, and the general sense of a new international culture, coffee houses where people talked to each other and discussed politics and had live music, people graduating college and going into the Peace Corps, but mostly a sense of optimism, exploration, and joy.

The world went from black, white, and gray,and bland, exploded in wonderful new color and sounds, and then in a flash it was all gone.

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Your favorite thing about the 1960s? [View all] True Dough Oct 14 OP

A few more... True Dough Oct 14 #1

Yes, Raquel Welch was ONE of the best things about the 60s. House of Roberts Oct 14 #10

My birth Solly Mack Oct 14 #2

My Freshman Year in HIGH school 68-69 BOSSHOG Oct 14 #3

The music, The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, Malcolm X, Freedom Riders, Bobby Kennedy... LoisB Oct 14 #4

Earth Rise. Apollo 8. My father worked on the Apollo Program Lochloosa Oct 14 #5

That's soooo cool working on the Apollo program! electric_blue68 Oct 15 #20

If you're a space fan like me... PJMcK Oct 15 #34

I was a real fan of the space program too. Archae Oct 19 #46

I still have this hanging in my workroom PJMcK Oct 19 #47

One of the greatest photos ever taken! PJMcK Oct 15 #33

Met my future wife in 1966 49jim Oct 14 #6

My birth Island Blue Oct 14 #7

You were close to the end of The Boomer group. electric_blue68 Oct 15 #21

At the very end. I feel much more like Island Blue Oct 15 #25

That makes sense electric_blue68 Oct 15 #39

Youth questioning and defying convention. no_hypocrisy Oct 14 #8

Drugs, Sex, and Rock & Roll. I'm told. surfered Oct 14 #9

The sexual revolution was one of my favorite things from the '60s k55f5r Oct 19 #58

This message was self-deleted by its author debm55 Oct 14 #11

You could walk down the street in virtually any town in America with your pretty long hair and freaky-deaky clothes Leghorn21 Oct 14 #12

Music from Godspell. I heard it again recently and had applegrove Oct 14 #13

a pic of me in the 60's! Skittles Oct 14 #14

Don't hate me, but I loved women's clothes in the 60s. sinkingfeeling Oct 14 #15

The Music n/t Stargleamer Oct 14 #16

Riding our motorcycles to duncang Oct 14 #17

I met my husband in 1963, we were married in 1967. Tikki Oct 14 #18

The weekly neighborhood hootenanny. littlemissmartypants Oct 15 #19

Nice and descriptive, LMSP True Dough Oct 15 #22

My dodge RT and music TommieMommy Oct 15 #23

Like you... way before my time, True Niagara Oct 15 #24

I wonder what Jim Morrison True Dough Oct 15 #29

I always wonder that as well Niagara Oct 15 #31

The music BlueKota Oct 15 #26

The Beatles claudette Oct 15 #27

Birth control pills. Nt. Voltaire2 Oct 15 #28

No cell phones. Chipper Chat Oct 15 #30

Best was SarasotaDem Oct 15 #32

No cell phones! People actually looked at you and listened when you were talking to them rather Fla Dem Oct 15 #35

The "pop festivals" were totally amazing! lark Oct 15 #36

My favorite comment about the 1960s that I've stolen EverHopeful Oct 15 #37

We didn't have to worry about being gunned down by an AR-15 while sitting at our desk in Ziggysmom Oct 15 #38

Which 60s? malthaussen Oct 15 #40

Totally agree CanonRay Oct 19 #61

Music, muscle cars, and the Women's Liberation Movement LudwigPastorius Oct 15 #41

I'm glad we live in modern times, however, Elessar Zappa Oct 15 #42

NASA. Hermit-The-Prog Oct 19 #43

ask a young boy in the 60s I always wanted to be an astronaut. lapfog_1 Oct 19 #63

I was born (1966). Mad_Dem_X Oct 19 #44

Bleached-white cotton diapers. Buckeye_Democrat Oct 19 #45

Apollo ProfessorGAC Oct 19 #48

Not sure if you read the entire thread, Prof True Dough Oct 19 #49

I Saw It ProfessorGAC Oct 19 #50

Late 60s. The optimism of a new culture developing in womens rights, race equality, peace and love Demovictory9 Oct 19 #51

Victories over the Yankees and Red Sox GreenWave Oct 19 #52

That was my childhood years. Probably Klarkashton Oct 19 #53

Had a lot of fun in those days despite everything that was going on. Ocelot II Oct 19 #54

Get Smart synni Oct 19 #55

Star Trek 1966 Sequoia Oct 19 #56

Fast cars and street racing. gibraltar72 Oct 19 #57

The music... PittBlue Oct 19 #59

Truly New fashions, Happenings, psychedelic posters delisen Oct 19 #60

The feeling that my generation was going to change everything. CanonRay Oct 19 #62

I was a child in the 1960s (born in 1961). Different Drummer Oct 19 #64

First photo enid602 Oct 19 #65

Being a part of the antiwar movement with Clergy and Laity Concerned about Vietnam. Marching in Washington. CTyankee Oct 19 #66

My dad returning safe and sound from Vietnam in 1969 Redleg Oct 19 #67