I loved the 60's.

[LeftyFingerPop]

What I hate, however, is people who did not experience the 60's pretending they know what the fuck they are talking about.

[Symarip]

1. I watched the Wonder Years

I've seen enough.

[raccoon]

23. I never watched that show, but I remember seeing a few minutes of it, and my thought was "that boy's

hair is too long for the era."

If it was taking place in the early-mid '60's, his hair should've been shorter. Late 60's, no problem.

It seems incredible now the big deal some people and school made over boys having long hair, even Beatle-length hair.

[Deja Q]

2. The 1960s were far more than Nancy Sinatra and Beatles film clips

:(

[Peregrine Took]

3. I hated the '60's at the time but I love them now.

[Dystopian]

4. Smoking...

We smoked weed in the girls' room, and if a teacher came in, she didn't know what 'that smell' was.
What bothers me is seeing young women dressed in holey bell bottoms and trying to look like they live in a time machine...It was our generation damn it!
It was the best of times...it was the worst of times....
The music was great....I'll never give that part up....

peace~

[elleng]

5. Major factor in my maturity,

nothing to HATE, as far as I'm concerned!

[AlCzervik]

6. i hated most of the 80's but i still love a lot of the music.

i was born in 67 so i have no memory at all of the 60's. The 70's, eh, i do remember watching Nixon resign and not understanding how the president could just quit.

[Bunny]

21. Your sig line is just too funny!

:thumbsup:

[femmocrat]

7. Me too... except I can't believe they were sooooo long ago.

How did we get to be the "older" generation?

[texanwitch]

8. I loved the 60's, they my growing up years..

I went from 6 to 16 years old and had a great time.

I wouldn't trade the freedom we had to just go out and be kids all day for all the computers and video games of today.

We wouldn't have a President Obama without the 1960's.

Yes that is right.

[Celebration]

9. one summer in the 60s

skirts got WAY shorter. You kinda just had to look around and figure out you just had to hem all your skirts. So I did. I had a friend that didn't notice, and she came back to college with her skirts the "old" length. It was very funny. She looked strange until she got around to buying some more clothes.

Good gosh--got to college in 65 and the girls had hours and there was a dress code, of sorts. In 1969---oh what a difference. Great time. It was very transforming. We all had to change--hemlines and all.

[Canuckistanian]

10. I remember shooting marijuana and smoking LSD

Oh, and those nights spent discussing Indian lore with the cool guys at the local John Burch Society.

And the groovy vibe that was EVERYWHERE. it was almost like Superbowl Sunday every day.

Ah, the memories.....

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

11. I loved the 60's too...

Ofcourse the only thing I knew was I wanted boobies :evilgrin:


















Edit: I was born in 1966

[darkstar]

12. Woodstock, the Manson Family murders, and the first moon landing

were all in the same 30 day span of 1969. That's an epic month in any decade. Set against, oh, the war, urban unrest, emerging movements (gay rights, feminism, and ecological awareness), musical explosions, psychedelics, generational changes, and rapidly shifting sexual norms, it felt fragile *and* fertile.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

14. the bummer was RFK's assassination that year

[Breeze54]

13. I liked 1968/69 in the '60's!

I was 14/15, was introduced to weed and boys and Rock n'Roll and mini skirts and halter tops and fast cars and all night party's and windowpane and The Stones and The Beatles and Zepplin and had more freedom and was not in a Catholic HS anymore and was running wild and free and having a blast! :P

[Maccagirl]

15. I loved them for 3 reasons

1-It was the period of my youth.

2-As terrible and tragic as some events were-I got the sense that society was becoming more fair and equitable.

3-Freepers HATE the 60's, so they must have had something good about them.

[Bucky]

16. The 1960s--all of them--reduced to one album cover

[skooooo]

17. You don't have to experience something..

...to be able to talk intelligently about it. Otherwise, we would never be able to discuss the civil war.

There is also the argument that if you grew up during that time, you're too close to it to look at it objectively.

But don't worry, we know it was your special time and people discussing it on DU can't take it away from you.
:eyes:

[LeftyFingerPop]

19. ...

"But don't worry, we know it was your special time and people discussing it on DU can't take it away from you.
:eyes:"

I'm not worried.

:eyes: :eyes: :eyes: :eyes: :eyes: :eyes: :eyes: :eyes: :eyes: :eyes: :eyes: :think: :think: :toast: :toast: :party: :party: :party: :party: :party: O8) :hippie: :hippie: :hippie: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[skooooo]

27. oh.

Your OP sure sounded that way.

[mwooldri]

18. I was born in 1974...

... but right now I like digging up old TV programming from the 1960s, particularly stuff from ABC (Associated British Corporation), (Associated) Rediffusion, ATV (yep, Associated Television) and some BBC stuff.

The keyword for the 1960's in UK corporation-land was Associated.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

20. er, never mind

lotta boomer-bashing today. I think I'll lay low.

:hide:

[BarenakedLady]

22. 1969 was alright.

I experienced 11 months of it. :P

[LeftyFingerPop]

24. You youngin'

:D

[kwassa]

25. Here is a picture of me at Woodstock in 1969

It was a semi-famous picture in Life Magazine at the time. Google just put these pictures online the other day as part of the Life archive.

This is a group shot. I'm the guy in the glasses, looking my best after sleeping out all night in the rain. I feel safe in anonymity in posting this, as I look nothing like this now.

I can't hotlink it, so you have to click.

http://images.google.com/hosted/life/f?q=woodstock+source:life&imgurl=62c5600149542cd9

[Dystopian]

30. Very cool...

Thanks for posting that..awesome memory for you.
My best friend went to Woodstock, still has the tickets...
No one knows, but he's famous...

quote:
"I was the only one who went to Woodstock that didn't get laid."
:o

peace~

[Burma Jones]

26. I spent most of the 1960s on Campus growing up

I was born just as my Dad was starting his Bachelor's Program at Indiana University in 1960, in 1966, we then moved to Chapel Hill, where he got his Master's and then to New Orleans in 1969 for a Doctorate at Tulane.

Being a child and having the run of the UNC Campus - not to mention New Orleans, and living in Grad Student housing with tons of other kids from many many different countries all the while overhearing heated debates and just plain hanging out around Undergrads and going to big time College Football and Basketball games was as fine a way to grow up as I can imagine.......

[lazyriver]

28. I was born in 72 but learned everything I need to know about

the 60's (at least 1965-1969) from constantly listening to my fairly extensive collection of Dead tapes from that period. Are you saying there was other important stuff from that era I might have missed having not lived in it? I don't see how that's possible.:P

[Tuesday Afternoon]

29. philboy...

they're just jealous ;)