Do
you
remember
the 60's
Era?
Robin recalls:
The Signs of the Times:
When McDonald's signs said "more than one million
sold".
When shopping centers were closed on Sundays.
When subliminal advertising on television was
legal.
Percolated coffee
The Good Humor ice cream man dressed in white with
the change machine on his belt.
Dances: the twist, the pony, the frug, mash potato,
hully gully, the swim.
Twiggy hair cuts
"Mod"
The "Peace Sign" with two fingers.
"Far out, Maaaannnnn..."
Grooovy!
Love ins and Peace Marches....
Hippies and
Yippies
HitchHikers!
"Choppers"=Motorcycles
The assassinations of JFK, Bobby Kennedy and Martin
Luther King
Teddy Kennedy and Chappaquidick
Jesus Christ Superstar
Hair
"I'm OK, You're Okay"
Yin and
Yang
EST and Transcendental Meditation.
Be Here Now.
"Suppose they gave a war and nobody came?"
LBJ and Lady Bird
J. Edgar Hoover
Vietnam war
protesters
Civil rights breakthroughs
Alice B. Toklas
Woodstock
Manual typewriters (Example:
IBM
Selectric)
Vinyl records: 45's and 33's -- aka LP's for "long
playing". Diamond needles. Scratched and warped records. The record changer
where you could stack up to 6 records, but when on the 6th record it would
play slower. If a record was scratchy you'd put a penny on top of the diamond
head to give it weight and play through the scratches.
The
1964 World's Fair
Dr.
Timothy Leary -"Tune in, Turn on, drop out."
Abbie Hoffman
Richard Alpert aka
Baba Ram Das
Making and wearing
Tie Dye T-Shirts
Oooooommmmm
Flower-Power
Dice hanging from the rear view mirror
Your lucky
"rabbits
foot"
Wolfman Jack
Peggy Fleming
Herbert Hoover
Richard M. Nixon
Spiro T. Agnew |
Mr. Natural
 |
The old NBC Peacock and accompanying jingle
Esso=Exxon
"Put a tiger in your tank!"
Full service gas stations
S & H Green Stamps (I remember going to the store
with mom to redeem them)
The Age of Aquarius
Zap Comic Books
Candy Apple Red
Mustangs
Love Beads
"Make
Love, Not War"
The
"McCartney
Mystery" --when they said on the radio that Paul had died. We would
listen to the ongoing saga on the radio at dinner time. It was like a serial
soap opera, updated daily with clues.
Marilyn Monroe
Bobby Kennedy
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy
The Drug Culture:
Head Shops
Mr. Natural
says:
"Keep on
Truckin...."
Marijuana= Pot, Dope, Mary Jane, Hashish,
Hash Brownies, Sensimillian, Hookah Pipes, US
Bongs.
Cheech and Chong
George Carlin
Magic
Mushrooms
Uppers, Downers, Valium, Speed, LSD=Acid
Flashbacks.....
"Never trust anyone over 30."
Remember when 30 sounded
old?
