In the UK, we had all the shows except the Andy Griffith show. Star Trek was on Saturdays. A neighbour had an American early 60’s Galaxy car. It looked like a ship when parked next to British cars. I went to primary school and we had a group of American kids attend as their fathers worked for oil companies that had London offices. They talked about this incredible country called America. I wanted to go there immediately. My mother never believed that I’d emigrate to the States. Many years later, with my medical career solidified, I emigrated to the US (San Francisco) and couldn’t imagine living permanently ever again in the UK. I tell people I have two homes: my biological home - UK and my philosophical home - San Francisco.
I’m 70 years old, and my first bike was a Schwinn Stingray! Silver glitter banana seat, butterfly handlebars.. AND I had the necessary raccoon tail hanging on the back !! Love Grandma Debbie
Memories of the sixties for me: white only water fountains, not able to sit at soda fountains, separate waiting areas in bus stations, separate schools, not able to go to public library until 1966, etc, but in spite of all the injustices, we still managed to have a lot of fun.
That would be difficult to endure. I grew up in the 60s in Texas just as things were changing. I never saw separate water fountains, schools or bus stations, but I did see remnants. My local movie theater had now unused separate entrances, and some buildings had three bathrooms. So glad you were able to make the best of it.
What you remember is from the south. It wasn't like that in the north. I started first grade in 1964 in an integrated school. It was NBD. No separate schools or other facilities in New England where I am from
Born in late 1958. I remember everything presented on this video... lots of things were missed, especially the Viet Nam war and the impact it had on our country. The fashions on the video did not accurately depict the 60's fashions of the when the "mod" style of bright color clothes, go-go boots, longer hair on boys/men became the rage, mini skirts or the coming of the Beatles. I remember, as most that were young then, where they were, what they were doing and how people reacted when JFK was assassinated. The moment that man walked on the moon. I remember the first transistor radio and how great it was to be able to take music with us on the go. The 60's also brought 'hippies'. I saw my first hippies in 1966 while visiting Yellowstone National park with my family. The 1960's definitely changed the course of America.
Well put❗ It was a great era and I'm fortunate to have lived it & loved it. And don't forget the music 🎵. NYC radio stations were amazing. Driving and blasting the radio with our friends ....those were the days.
I was born in 1954. The sixties was a time of great upheaval and change. Kind of like we are seeing today. There was seeming peace within the families (divorce was a scandal) and most of us remember it as great family times. But that was because people had "prescribed" positions within the society and mainly kept to their assigned roles. This applied to race separations as well as the separation of roles for the sexes. On the surface it was "happy", but it was a simmering cauldron underneath. Moms stayed at home dad went to work. Kids went to school and played safely unattended outside until dinner or dark in summer. Then came the troubles. Assassinations, young people no longer willing to do what they were told and a war that no one wanted. Divisions started to grow within the population. The old expectations were no longer the right way to go but people resisted the changes. Rather like the millennial mindset of today. I for one am glad to see the young people get up on the hind legs and demand better. I only wish that race relations had made any progress whatsoever. I don't see it. People of color are still fighting for equal treatment and the screeching bigots are still screeching. I cannot wait for the nasty old white men to croak off. I had hoped to see a better world by now. I'm pretty sure my grandchildren will get that world someday.
Thank you for that wonderful and interesting narration of that decade. Well put ❗ So much good....so much bad. And look at our country now... shameful and scary. Keep loved ones close and be kind. We will get through this ,but we will be bruised forever.
Yup. I was born in 1961 so while I didn't comprehend the first five or so years, I vividly remember the rest of that decade. Station wagons, family road trips, stingray bikes with banana seats, girls wearing skirts to school every day, and the first moon-walk. Of course, I certainly remember growing up with a click-knob black-and-white TV. My next door neighbors had a COLOR tv and it was such a big deal to my friends and I to go over and watch the Wizard of Oz in color for the first time.
We us to go to my Grandparents house several years to watch Wizard of Oz. It was like a big event/holiday when that day came around! Then one day. Finally! We got our own colored tv.
I was born in 1963 and grew up in Southern California... It was the best time because even though there was bad stuff going on there wasn't a lot of it. And we had the beach 30 minutes in one direction, the mountains about an hour-and-a-half in another direction & the desert about an hour in another. Great neighborhoods lots and lots of kids, and the schools were good back then.
I cannot believe this there was a show that overshadowed the 1960s I believe it started in 1966 it's called dark shadows with Barnabas Collins quentin Collins. And. Josette it was about vampires and werewolves and witches then there was a movie called House of dark shadows. Anyone out there remember dark. Shadows it was Huge
Born at the end of 63 so I'm on the edge of 60. I remember the moon landing and all of those TV shows. Those 3 channels were often captured using a wire hanger if your antennae broke off your TV but most of the time there was a huge antenna on a pole that went above your roof to catch the signal and you had to turn it to get one of actually 4 channels if you count PBS. Someone would go outside while someone stands at a window while someone watched the TV shouting instructions like, Go clockwise, wait stop. Go back. Stop! You passed it turn it slow the other way until I say stop, etc... 😂 I was usually the antenna turner and was terrible at it! 😅😅😅 We could only afford a black and white TV if we had one at all but we played in the dirt on our grandma's walnut orchard and would show up for supper and at dark. Otherwise, no one had any idea where we were most of the day 🤷🏽♀️
1960's baby right here!! What I remember most is Motown playing in the house, lots of civil rights events on the TV even though I was little and didn't understand a lot. Back then little kids were more innocent then and were able to do things children do.😊
I was born in 1955 so I was a young child going in the sixties. One thing that I remember the most is when I was sitting in School and over the intercom the principal let everyone know the assassination of JFK. It really didn't affect me much other than we got to go home. It wasn't until years later I understood a little more about it.
I graduated from High School in 1960. While attending University I worked as a power lineman and made $124 a week, which was middle class money in those days. Ended up getting drafted in 1965, did 3 tours of duty in Viet Nam and stayed in the Army for 31 years. I didn't really like the 1960's...probably saw too much death and upheaval, oh yeah I also was divorced in the 60's LOL! I was a Kennedy fan back then but I think in retrospect that he may have inadvertently caused many of our problems today...Like I said I wasn't a fan of the 60s. The best thing I can say is that I met my beautiful bride and married again in '67. We've been together now for 56 years.
Born in 1959 and grew up in the sixties and seventies. Oh my gosh what a wonderful time! And yes only 3 channels on the TV, they were NBC, ABC and CBS. No remotes for the TV, someone had to get up and change the channel that was on the TV set. The life and memories were just fabulous for me, and I would not trade them for anything in the world!
best decade for great cars and great neighborhoods. kids could play outside safely... grandma didnt have to worry about getting mugged walking to the store
Born in 1961. When I watch these, sure there is always a little nostalgia, but I am always struck by the middle-class viewpoint. For instance, yes, more work opportunities opened up for women, but in poorer families, many women have always worked outside of the home. Also, road trips and trailers were a luxury of the middle class (unless you lived in a trailer.) When you hear the price of goods, keep in mind the wages. Any real economic discussion needs to consider some sort of ratio that reflects the cost of goods and services in relation to income. I was young enough in the 60s to be shielded from a lot of the strife of the era. The adults in my family controlled the television and the radio, but there were some things so shocking, like assassinations, that no such control was asserted. I do remember seeing glimpses of things on the television as I walked into a room to greet a grandparent--body bags on tarmacs of soldiers' bodies being flown home, maps of Vietnam or Cambodia--but the t.v. would quickly be turned off and I didn't really have much comprehension of what I'd seen.
I was born in 1956, so I just started living the’60’s. My Brother danced with me to “Shimmy Shimmy KO KO Bop”! We lived on a small farm so we gathered eggs, planted our gardens, drank out of the garden hose, rode our bikes and went swimming in our swimming hole or swam in the lake by our house. My Cousin owned a convertible and took us for a ride. When it was evening the kids that lived close would all get together and have water balloon fights. We went camping and fishing and also went on a few hikes. Those were the Golden Days of my life. Those kind of memories make me smile. Watching this video took me back.
Us girls ALWAYS wore dresses, men wore suits.. my first car was a 65 mustang… (bought in 1974).. and I could fill it up for $2.00 !! AND cruze main on weekends!!🤣🤣 Love Grandma Debbie
Yeah, I feel bad for people that didnt get to experience American life from 1964-2001. Those were good times. Not perfect but peaceful and non-psychotic
One of my favorite memories from the 60s is watching the moon landing with my family. My grandmother said she saw so much change in her lifetime it was amazing. She was born in 1896.
I was born in 54. Just imagine, no computers, no cell phones, not many cars on the road in small towns, no air conditioners at home and in schools because I remember having to raise our windows during class and use fans. Momma hung our clothes outside. Also we walked everywhere we went if you were a child especially to the nearby stores. We had no car. Life was a lot simpler then in the 60's but also somewhat boring until we got old enough to work besides going to school. We made up games to play and had the jacks, jump ropes, paper dolls etc. That was when the times got harder. My first job at 15 was in a restaurant/drug store and we served good homecooked food. We were poor but so was most everyone else in school and in the town. I don't remember any bullying. It was fairly tranquil in our hometown. The only drugs I remember back then was glue sniffing from some kids around the neighborhood. We stayed away from all that. Mom raised 5 of us kids alone as a widower and we did just fine. She was a good mom. We were such a close family. I didn't know we were poor until I got a little older. Oh, and yes I loved the bell bottoms, the body suits, go go boots and all the rest. The fashions back then were stupendous!
I was 8 in 1960. I loved watching the memories. Yes, some things were left out but it was mostly correct as I remember them. Life was simpler then. I miss it sometimes. No internet!
I grew up in the 60s. Yes, I am that old. I vividly remember the assassinations of JFK, MLK, and RFK. I watched Jack Ruby shoot Lee Harvey Oswald on live TV. I watched the moon landing and live TV images of the event. Rock and Roll, the counter culture, psychedelics(inspired by LSD although we didn't know it at the time), the Vietnam war, anti-war and civil-rights demonstrations, the SDS, the Charles Manson murders, and more. It was a busy decade.
Born in 57 I remember all this and more. We had a station wagon and our family grew from three kids to seven. We moved every two or three years cuz my dad was in the Air Force. We all had chores to do from the time I was in first grade. Us girls had to wear dresses to school and we changed to play clothes when we got home from school. We played in the street till the lights came on then ran home for dinner. Mom never had to call us in. It wasn’t a bd time growing up. I loved the Beatles when I was in the fourth grade. My mom was crying and I remember the news was on saying JFK was shot. We watched the walking on the moon sitting in the halls at school cuz the school only had few tvs.
1962 here. The banana bikes were called that because of the long slender seats. I remember watching the first moon walk on TV. Our entertainment centered around what came on the TV each night. My dad loved to take long drives around our state. We visited many rinky dink towns in KY and most of the state parks. We dressed up in our best dresses and wore white gloves when going to church or special events.
Born on the last day of 1954. Kennedy's assassination shut my Catholic grade school down. Our school was part of the church/rectory/convent area on a big block, and the whole school went to a Mass for Kennedy and the country. I remember running from the playground to the church, crying; I was in 3rd grade. Mom and I watched his funeral on TV. Then there was Dr. Martin Luther King. Not long after, I was seeing the Vietnam War on TV. Dan Rather in a trench during a firefight, reporting... The amazing sight of seeing Star Trek on my uncle's color TV the first time. All of us being space crazy. (Dad and I read SF, and people had thought for decades that people like that *were* crazy, seriously. It was looked down on.) Getting woken up at oh dark hundred to watch space launches on TV, even if it was a school night. Whoever was outside at night seeing a small, bright, unblinking light slowly moving through the sky, bursting inside and yelling, "SATELLITE!" Yes, we'd *all* drop everything and run outside to watch it. 😄 Dad setting up his camera very carefully next to the TV, and catching a shot of Neil Armstrong setting foot on the moon. The increasing presence of the war in Vietnam. Worrying that my brother would have to go over there. He was a Navy medic, but he lucked out and spent the war stateside, at Marine Corps Base Quantico in Virginia. One of the first riots in Portland - I dunno about what, probably the war - taking place at the public HS a block and a half from my home. The violence at the 1968 Democratic presidential convention. The Black Panthers. Woodstock. Wishing the Beatles would lose popularity. (I didn't like them, and they were played bloody endlessly. Give me The Who or Rolling Stones or Moody Blues or Jimi Hendrix any day. But not Janis Joplin, who just sounded like a screaming ripsaw to me. Later, metal was *good* screaming. 😁) The 60s were weird. I was too young to be a hippie, and as a (reluctantly) good Catholic girl, wouldn't have dreamed of running off to Woodstock at 15. Teen life was not American Graffiti around me, and not every kid got a car, only richer ones. I was too young for a lot of that. A lot of the food was pretty lousy. Those disgusting gelatin salads from the 50s were still popular. Gag. TV dinners sucked. Potato chip tuna casserole reigned. Mom was a good cook, but even she succumbed to a few things. A whole bunch of other stuff, but my fun, college age times started after my HS graduation in 1973, just before disco. The 70s were fun. The 60s were angst or boring, alternatively. Didn't help that we late Boomers were a decade or so younger than the 'real' Boomers. I resent getting blamed for all that generation's mistakes, dammit. Blame us for disco, ok; but stop with the "ruining the planet with great glee" pointing. Lots of our tail-end Boomers were the first environmentalists. Our older brothers and sisters turned into the Yuppies. Frankly, I wouldn't want to re-live any of it. I like now. Computers! Not to mention I'm *still* pissed that I'll never take a regular tourist trip to the Moon, at least. We SF nuts were hoping for a Moon colony by 2000 or so.
In 1961, my dad took us to the train station to hear a Presidential candidate give a speech.. it was SENATOR John Kennedy.. I still live in the house my parents had built in 1953, here in Merced, California.. Love Grandma Debbie
The average American historically considers JFK one of the best Presidents of All Time. We were taught that in elementary school. He's an Icon and that Era in history is called Camelot. There are documentaries on it on TH-cam, which would be something to check out because of his connection to Dr. King and the Civil Rights movement, his brother Robert, the Vietnam and Korean wars, JFKs wife Jacky Kennedy (and later Onassis). That period in time was considered a turning point in the history of the country in many ways and we are affected by the policies and cultural imprints it left on the land. This is specifically true for the marginalized populations of the country.
My facorite memories were the hoola hoop, riding my bike (not the banana-seat kind), the music (most especially the Beatles), and the moon landing. Thanks for the memories, Kabir.
59' kid in Canada, we were on the outside looking in as the 60s shit storm gripped that country, some of it tried to take hold here but died on the vine we were not built the same as Americans and thanked our lucky stars every day, but it was something to see.
I was born in 1963, but my parents bought our 3 bedroom house in East Oakland for $9500 in 1961. It wasn't the house my mom wanted, but restricted covenants precluded them from buying the better home 2 blocks away. We had one tv, black and white. Did not get a color tv until 1977. My older sisters and brother did our own entertainment at home, imitating the great R&B stars of the day. We walked everywhere because dad used the car for work.
My favorite memories are falling in love and getting married. The music from the '60s still takes me back to then. It was a great time to be a teenager, especially living in southern California back then. Because of the war, some of us got married younger than most these days. (I was 17 when we married.) I recall vividly the assassinations of JFK, Martin Luther King, Jr,, and Bobby Kennedy, the unrest about civil rights and the Vietnam war. Back then it was two words: Viet Nam. I look fondly back at the '60s, and I remember bad things about that decade too. People who came of age in different decades will recall their teen years just as fondly.
The banana bike was called that because of the banana shaped seat. That style of bicycle came out of California where kids were customizing their bikes to resemble the modified motorcycles.
I remember our family driving from Omaha to Colorado in a '64 Chevy Impala with no a.c.! That's where we saw our first hippies. I also watched the early seasons of "Scooby Doo" on our b&w TV!
I was born in 1952 so the 60's were my Childhood and Teen Years! I was so lucky to grow up in a Middle Class Suburban Neighbourhood in Pennsylvania. But as the Video says the times were turbulent. I remember my Dad a WW II USAAC Veteran watching the CBS News and after Walter Cronkite's Report on Vietnam becoming an Anti-War Supporter! I remember my Mom waking me up and saying "They Shot Kennedy" And I said "That was Years Ago" and she said with tears flowing down her cheeks "No Bobby, Somebody Shot Bobby Kennedy!" The 60's were Pretty Wild! .... of course there was the Beatles, James Bond and plenty of S E X.
I was a kid in the sixties. Turbulence - look at a summary of 1968 and you'll see what they meant. I was ten that year. That TV you loved was from the 50s. Lots of fifties stuff in this video. Most families owned at least one car. I had a banana seat bike. Named for the seat shape. I remember watching Neil Armstrong take that step. It was extremely hot. I was 11. It was a good time to grow up.
Born in 1956, I remember we'd (4kids) watch The Ed Sullivan Show, and IF we were good we could stay up to watch Bonanza which was a great mix of drama suspense and a touch comedy.
A lot of those photos seem to be from the 50's, maybe really early 60's. I spent my teenage years then and as it said, it was a time of upheaval as well as creativity. The music explosion was no small thing. Listening to albums on record players back then. It also depended on where you lived. I was lucky to be in the San Francisco bay area and it was amazing. Concerts with big name bands at the Avalon and Fillmore for $5 (and not super crowded!). Bell bottoms that you sewed braid trim on the bottom and lace up sandals with really short skirts . My husband got fired from his job at a supermarket because his sideburns went below the middle of his ears. No cell phones or computers. That was good and bad. Glad I lived through it.
The 60s were bad for me as my dad died in 1966 just 2 weeks before my birthday and 3 weeks before Christmas. We as kids weren't allowed to go to my dads funeral. My moms oldest sister wouldnt let us go. I was 8 years old at the time and my dad was everything to me.
Yes cars, gas, food & homes were very low compared to today. But you also need to understand in 1965 minimum wage was $1.15. So 25 cents was a good chunk of your money.
The home run race in 1998 between Mark McGuire (St. Louis Cardinal...that's my team) and Sammy Sosa were in a heated competition on who could beat the 60s record. Mark ended up winning it with 70 home runs that year! Barry Bonds holds the title now with 73 (2001.)
Tyson was a force and probably had the most devastating punch when it landed. But Ali was so fast and could wear an opponent down. I'd love to see a fight with both in their prime!
This period is 14 years after WWII. War exacerbated the rate of change. The first five years were a time of tension with Russia, expansion of communism, the arms race with atomic weapons, and the threat of Russian missiles in Cuba. This ended with the assassination of our President. It was a very conservative time and a recovery period from the Depression and wartime. It was a very patriotic time. Beginning with the civil rights conflicts in the Southern states and the integration of public schools in the south, the second half of the sixties was full of anti establishment rhetoric, riots, anti-war marches, demonstrations and general upheaval. Even religion was up ended. It was a social free for all which left children coming home to empty houses to amuse themselves at a time when drugs became part of the hip younger set. The darker side of this period is rarely talked about. Contrary to hippie opinion, the VietNam war was extended for 6 years by all the anti-war marches shown on tv...an interview of N.VietNam general established. Drugs have cost an untold amount of money and human life. The sixties were colorful, but a disintegration of a society, only a very little part of which was improvement....the most of what you hear is myth and self agrandisement. JMO
I remember the ‘60’s being a very violent time because of clashes and murders during the civil rights and anti war protests, It was a very exciting time with the moon race and the “British Invasion” in music. Yet, it was still a simpler or very innocent time. I’m not sure I’d want to live through that decade again, but there were certain elements of that time I miss.
I was born in 1960. Thanks for the reminder how many years ago that was 😉 Obviously I remember more of the 70's but what I do remember about things that were mentioned (or not) was there were 2 specific times my mom sat us in front of the TV and made us watch. Did she think we'd remember at those ages? I don't know but I do remember! JFK's funeral and the moon landing. Not mandatory watching by mom but I do remember a lot of the other things mentioned as far as world happenings. Is this because of learning/hearing about them as I got older? No clue. As a kid we were so innocent back then....even with all the things going on in the world.
OK, well having just gently touched on the "turmoil", most of this film is clearly viewing the 1960's through "rose colored glasses"... Yes, a lot of cool things, but some really challenging things also. Focusing on lighter things that are tough to conceptualize these days: Houses with a single phone, often in the kitchen. The phone was usually not a private line, but a "party line", thus, sometimes you would pick up the phone and people from some other household would be talking on it - so, (assuming that you were polite.) you would have to hang up and wait until they were finished talking before you could make your call. (listening in was not polite - but it did happen.) Also, it cost extra to make a "long distance" call - but sometimes, usually in the evening, the long distance rates would be lower than during "business hours", so you would have to wait until the rates went down, before you called grandma, or your girlfriend away at college - where she might be in the middle of a dormitory hallway - because her dorm only had one phone. A lot of the details have changed so fundamentally, it is sometimes hard to grasp.
I was 10 years old when President Kennedy was assassinated. I remember being sent home from school and seeing adults cry. (Being a Catholic family we had identified with the first Catholic president, and I went to parochial school where he was immensely popular.) I was 14 when Martin Luther King Jr was shot in April 1968, and two months later, Robert F Kennedy was killed. So when Obama was elected president (and I voted for him), all of a sudden I felt a deep gash of fear born in the childhood trauma of my heroes being killed. But that decade also saw great music: the Beatles, the Doors, Donovan, Hermans Hermits, the Monkees - everything a teenager could ask for. The Fifth Dimentions sang, "This is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius," and we believed it. The Mamas and the Papas sang about flower children in San Francisco, and we wanted to go knowing that love is all you need. And the underground of college students passing around The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings and us high schoolers wanting to be cool imitated them and then fell into the first and best fantasy epic. And the whole family watching Star Trek and giving the episodes names to identify them. "The one where the flying egg foo young hits Spock in the back" or "The Chicago one" or "The one with the good Kirk and the bad Kirk." Lots of fun amidst lots of tragedy. One last thing: the military draft lottery by date of birth. Every senior year the boys would wait to see if their number came up. I saw the guys in my class sick with fear waiting. The last draft call was in December 1972.
Hi Kabir, just wanted to let you know that recollection road has a new video up Being a child in 1950's America and I thought you may wish to give it a look. By the way have you had a chance to look for American Drive In's yet? You went to this cinema and remained in your car to watch usually two movies per night. You parked beside a short metal pole which held two speakers. you selected one and with a cord long enough to allow you to place it in your car to hear the movie. They were a large part of America for so many years.
I was 15 in 1960 . left home in Alabama that year and moved to New York City on my own . I had a loft in the East Village and was trying to be a poet and Zen Buddhist monk and living the hippie life doing LSD, , pot , peyote ,and mescaline expanding my mind . . I lucked out with a high draft number so I wasn't drafted for Viet Nam . People who tell you they remember the 60's weren't really there , LOL
Even Tyson has famously said he couldn't have beaten Ali. I still think prime Mike against prime Mohamed would have been the fight of all time. Never heard anybody call it a "banana bike." They were a 20" bike with butterfly handlebars and a banana seat. If you were really cool, you had a sissy bar, too. The taller the sissy bar, the cooler you were. While the '60s were exciting, they could also be terrifying for a little kid. Don't forget, we had the Cuban Missile Crisis, Bay of Pigs invasion, the arms race, the constant threat of nuclear war, air raid drills, summers where there was rioting, burning and looting all over, race riots, Vietnam, the riots in Chicago, San Francisco, college protests and riots against the war. The news was pretty gnarly to watch for kids.
Born in ‘67. I barely remember much. Mostly toys and probably places we went to. I remember going to the San Jacinto monument and my great-aunt holding me as I looked out of one the glass-less windows. The people looked like ants. My mom and dad bringing us to San Jacinto park to grill and have a picnic. I don’t know where JFK would have ended up on the list but, if had the opportunity to scatter the CIA into a million pieces into the wind, he would be pretty high on my list. I don’t remember any of the Apollo missions that were televised but, I do remember my grandparents and uncle coming to Texas and, we all went to NASA’s Johnson Space Center. That was cool.
I was born in 1959 so I was really just a kid but I remember everything on here. Oh and you can't talk about baseball in the 60s without talking about the 69 World Series and the Amazing Mets. I would rush home and my mom had a pizza delivered so we could have pizza & watch the game when I got home from school. They called them "banana bikes" in New York & New Jersey we called them stingrays or choppers because they looked like the chopper style motorcycles. JFK was one of the best presidents our country ever had but the best in modern American politics seconded only by Ronald Regan. They were in opposition parties but the both believed in peace through strength. JFK was a mindful leader especially after the Bay of Pigs fiasco. He used brinksmandhip and wise negotiations to keep the world from nuclear war. Regan out spent and out maneuvered publicly, the Russians and got them to end communism and brought down the Berlin wall. There's only one other president that's out maneuvered our adversaries, and people are gonna give me hell for this but too bad, and that's Trump. Imagine the message he sent to not only the Syrian President but Xi JinPing who he was eating dinner with and told Xi something like excuse me I have to go drop a MOAB on Syria so they stop using chemical weapons on their own people. Xi must have shit himself when he found out it he wasn't lying. People can hate Trump but Russia, Syria, Iran, Taliban, North Korea and China all knew if Trump says he'll do something, he'll do it. He kept us out if war and our enemies respected us. I respect that kind of leadership.
Think some classic cars went to Cuba, others tried to hold onto them. Keep stowed in old garages and such and those that kept in good shape, sometimes take them to various classic car viewings. Kennedy: I was too young to understand what was going on with Cuba. My parents! Esp Dad was a big Kennedy fan. TV’s and media: American Bandstand and The Beatles. Watching some tv shows with parents and grandparents.
7:08 Tyson was a brawler. Ali was faster. Tyson didn’t do well with going the distance. Ali could go 12 rounds. My money would be on Ali tiring Tyson like he did Foreman. Tyson was trying to knock you out in the first minutes of round 1.
That’s exactly what I was thinking. Ali “danced around the ring”so much Tyson would’ve been tired. But,What Ali couldn’t have done with Tyson is his signature “rope a dope” Ali would’ve been in trouble. I loved both boxers.
As I remember, I don't think banana seat bikes came about until the 1970's. I was born in the middle of the 60's and I have a twin brother. As I'm sure you must know, obviously, houses looked so much different than now. Lingo was a lot different as well. I'm too tired to think of more things right now. It's 2:30Am and I'm about to zonk out. Night night. 💤😔💤
I never heard of a banana bike. My first bicycle was in the 60's, and I had a banana seat. The seat was a long-curved seat, probably a second kid could be a passenger on the bike. My bicycle was a purple Schwinn and had a flower basket on the handlebars, flower banana seat. Unfortunately, I did not get to ride it too long. My older brother took it apart to make it better. He added a sissy bar to the back of the seat and the tall handlebars. It looked like the motorcycles in Easy Rider. John F. Kennedy, was a popular President. He was young and had a young family and he died young by an assassin. I remember they said, the Presidential debate, first time it was televised. Those who watched it on TV thought JFK won. Those who listened to it on the radio said Nixon won. I believe the radio listeners heard the words, the campaign promises, etc... Those who watched it on TV, saw a young handsome man against a middle-aged man that sweated. I think, people were memorized looking at a young Democrat, with make-up and not listening to the policies. By today standards, JFK would have been a moderate Republican then. His younger brother Teddy was a left Senator. Today, JFK's nephew is running for President. Robert Kennedy, son of Bobby Kennedy who was assassinated here in L.A. during one of his campaign-stop/dinner. His killer is still alive in prison. Robert was running on the Democrat party. Because of his stance on the Covid vaccination, the Democrat Party does not like him. Even his siblings and other Kennedy family members. Plus, the Democrats did not want Biden to have competition. It would divide the Democrat votes on election day. Recently, Robert Kennedy has changed his party to the Independent Party. JFK, I was too young to remember or interested in politics. I just heard; his views are more Republican than Democrat in regard to taxes. He did have a plan with the Cubans to rid them of their Dictator Castro. I do not know, put Kennedy did not to what he promised the Cubans. This was called the Bay of Pigs. The media still left leaning did not report what goes on behind the White House doors. Kennedy had back problems and on meds and like his brothers was not faithful to their wives. Those things were not reported (sign of the times) even though people knew about it. I was not a Kennedy fan as I got older. My mom was and I believe it was his youth and handsome. Kennedy son JFK, Jr. was 3 years old when his father died. The next time a child that is a boy living in the White House was Donald Trump's son Baron. I believe the 50's and early 60's were a good time to live. Back then, it was wholesome. Stay home moms, taking care of the house and kids, making homemade dinners and the family eating together at the dinner table. Children having more respect and behaved more to their elders, police, teachers, etc... You knew and acquainted with your neighbors. Patriotic. New technology and inventions. Then came the mid to late-60's.
The Vietnam war was going on during that time and it was very unpopular. We had a lot of demonstrations from those who were against the mandatory draft at that time. There was a lot of open drug use at the time and it was the time of the birth control pill so a lot more “free love” during that time.
I have looked at the lunar lander, the command module, service module and Saturn V very closely. The Apollo missions were a triumph of human engineering, determination and bravery. The Apollo missions absolutely put men on the Moon, no doubt about it. Whatever doubts you may have are due entirely to your lack of understanding. That's not an insult, no one knows everything about every subject. However, questions raised by someone else can easily be researched and in so doing all doubts laid to rest. What makes more sense, NASA spent all that time, money and effort to fake the moon landings just to win the propaganda war against the Soviet Union (who were closely watching and would have been thrilled to show the world the US was faking, which they could've easily done if it was fake) or that a handful of people lack the knowledge necessary to answer certain questions they have?
We had Black and white TV all thru the 60’s to this day, I know where I was at, and what I was doing when man landed on the moon (69) seems like forever ago! I guess it was.
Gas $.25 a gallon. McDonald’s burger $.25. Stores would give cash refund for Pepsi and Coke bottles. we would find about six bottles to make $1. $1 would cover the cost of gas to go to the beach and four burgers. Population of California, 15 million. Population of Oxnard, 40,000 (now the population is 240,000)
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Banana bikes were called that because of the shape of the seat, banana seat.
I've never heard of it called a banana bike though, just a bike with a banana seat.
In the UK, we had all the shows except the Andy Griffith show. Star Trek was on Saturdays. A neighbour had an American early 60’s Galaxy car. It looked like a ship when parked next to British cars. I went to primary school and we had a group of American kids attend as their fathers worked for oil companies that had London offices. They talked about this incredible country called America. I wanted to go there immediately. My mother never believed that I’d emigrate to the States. Many years later, with my medical career solidified, I emigrated to the US (San Francisco) and couldn’t imagine living permanently ever again in the UK. I tell people I have two homes: my biological home - UK and my philosophical home - San Francisco.
I’m 70 years old, and my first bike was a Schwinn Stingray! Silver glitter banana seat, butterfly handlebars.. AND I had the necessary raccoon tail hanging on the back !! Love Grandma Debbie
Had playing cards clipped to the spokes, we were so cool
@@mbrant4973 yes !! I remember!! My ma spanked me with the bristle side of her hairbrush for ruining her deck of cards!!🤣
Memories of the sixties for me: white only water fountains, not able to sit at soda fountains, separate waiting areas in bus stations, separate schools, not able to go to public library until 1966, etc, but in spite of all the injustices, we still managed to have a lot of fun.
That would be difficult to endure. I grew up in the 60s in Texas just as things were changing. I never saw separate water fountains, schools or bus stations, but I did see remnants. My local movie theater had now unused separate entrances, and some buildings had three bathrooms. So glad you were able to make the best of it.
The Yellow Dog Democrats in action....
What you remember is from the south. It wasn't like that in the north. I started first grade in 1964 in an integrated school. It was NBD. No separate schools or other facilities in New England where I am from
Born in late 1958. I remember everything presented on this video... lots of things were missed, especially the Viet Nam war and the impact it had on our country. The fashions on the video did not accurately depict the 60's fashions of the when the "mod" style of bright color clothes, go-go boots, longer hair on boys/men became the rage, mini skirts or the coming of the Beatles. I remember, as most that were young then, where they were, what they were doing and how people reacted when JFK was assassinated. The moment that man walked on the moon. I remember the first transistor radio and how great it was to be able to take music with us on the go. The 60's also brought 'hippies'. I saw my first hippies in 1966 while visiting Yellowstone National park with my family. The 1960's definitely changed the course of America.
Well put❗ It was a great era and I'm fortunate to have lived it & loved it. And don't forget the music 🎵. NYC radio stations were amazing. Driving and blasting the radio with our friends ....those were the days.
I was born in 1954. The sixties was a time of great upheaval and change. Kind of like we are seeing today. There was seeming peace within the families (divorce was a scandal) and most of us remember it as great family times. But that was because people had "prescribed" positions within the society and mainly kept to their assigned roles. This applied to race separations as well as the separation of roles for the sexes. On the surface it was "happy", but it was a simmering cauldron underneath.
Moms stayed at home dad went to work. Kids went to school and played safely unattended outside until dinner or dark in summer. Then came the troubles. Assassinations, young people no longer willing to do what they were told and a war that no one wanted. Divisions started to grow within the population. The old expectations were no longer the right way to go but people resisted the changes. Rather like the millennial mindset of today.
I for one am glad to see the young people get up on the hind legs and demand better. I only wish that race relations had made any progress whatsoever. I don't see it. People of color are still fighting for equal treatment and the screeching bigots are still screeching. I cannot wait for the nasty old white men to croak off. I had hoped to see a better world by now. I'm pretty sure my grandchildren will get that world someday.
Thank you for that wonderful and interesting narration of that decade. Well put ❗ So much good....so much bad. And look at our country now... shameful and scary. Keep loved ones close and be kind. We will get through this ,but we will be bruised forever.
Yup. I was born in 1961 so while I didn't comprehend the first five or so years, I vividly remember the rest of that decade. Station wagons, family road trips, stingray bikes with banana seats, girls wearing skirts to school every day, and the first moon-walk. Of course, I certainly remember growing up with a click-knob black-and-white TV. My next door neighbors had a COLOR tv and it was such a big deal to my friends and I to go over and watch the Wizard of Oz in color for the first time.
We us to go to my Grandparents house several years to watch Wizard of Oz. It was like a big event/holiday when that day came around! Then one day. Finally! We got our own colored tv.
I was born in 1963 and grew up in Southern California... It was the best time because even though there was bad stuff going on there wasn't a lot of it. And we had the beach 30 minutes in one direction, the mountains about an hour-and-a-half in another direction & the desert about an hour in another. Great neighborhoods lots and lots of kids, and the schools were good back then.
I was born in 1950, so this was my coming of age decade. I remember all of this!
I cannot believe this there was a show that overshadowed the 1960s I believe it started in 1966 it's called dark shadows with Barnabas Collins quentin Collins. And. Josette it was about vampires and werewolves and witches then there was a movie called House of dark shadows. Anyone out there remember dark. Shadows it was Huge
Shout out to the super huge TV/Radio/Record player that also worked as a buffet table when our parents entertained. Those things were massive!
Born at the end of 63 so I'm on the edge of 60. I remember the moon landing and all of those TV shows. Those 3 channels were often captured using a wire hanger if your antennae broke off your TV but most of the time there was a huge antenna on a pole that went above your roof to catch the signal and you had to turn it to get one of actually 4 channels if you count PBS. Someone would go outside while someone stands at a window while someone watched the TV shouting instructions like, Go clockwise, wait stop. Go back. Stop! You passed it turn it slow the other way until I say stop, etc... 😂 I was usually the antenna turner and was terrible at it! 😅😅😅
We could only afford a black and white TV if we had one at all but we played in the dirt on our grandma's walnut orchard and would show up for supper and at dark. Otherwise, no one had any idea where we were most of the day 🤷🏽♀️
1960's baby right here!! What I remember most is Motown playing in the house, lots of civil rights events on the TV even though I was little and didn't understand a lot. Back then little kids were more innocent then and were able to do things children do.😊
I was born in 1955 so I was a young child going in the sixties. One thing that I remember the most is when I was sitting in School and over the intercom the principal let everyone know the assassination of JFK. It really didn't affect me much other than we got to go home. It wasn't until years later I understood a little more about it.
I was born in 56. So I remember it too, at my school. I miss that time in my life!
There were more than three TV stations in L.A. in the 60s. We had at least 7 VHF and 3 or more UHF stations. . .
I graduated from High School in 1960. While attending University I worked as a power lineman and made $124 a week, which was middle class money in those days. Ended up getting drafted in 1965, did 3 tours of duty in Viet Nam and stayed in the Army for 31 years. I didn't really like the 1960's...probably saw too much death and upheaval, oh yeah I also was divorced in the 60's LOL! I was a Kennedy fan back then but I think in retrospect that he may have inadvertently caused many of our problems today...Like I said I wasn't a fan of the 60s. The best thing I can say is that I met my beautiful bride and married again in '67. We've been together now for 56 years.
It was a great time to be a kid…. Loved it….!
Born in 1959 and grew up in the sixties and seventies. Oh my gosh what a wonderful time! And yes only 3 channels on the TV, they were NBC, ABC and CBS. No remotes for the TV, someone had to get up and change the channel that was on the TV set. The life and memories were just fabulous for me, and I would not trade them for anything in the world!
You forgot the other daily which gave us Monty Python and Benny Hill
Dial not daily
@@Frogbutt145 The only other channel we could get and that was if all the conditions were right was PBS and it wasn't often 😁
best decade for great cars and great neighborhoods. kids could play outside safely... grandma didnt have to worry about getting mugged walking to the store
Born in 1961. When I watch these, sure there is always a little nostalgia, but I am always struck by the middle-class viewpoint. For instance, yes, more work opportunities opened up for women, but in poorer families, many women have always worked outside of the home. Also, road trips and trailers were a luxury of the middle class (unless you lived in a trailer.) When you hear the price of goods, keep in mind the wages. Any real economic discussion needs to consider some sort of ratio that reflects the cost of goods and services in relation to income. I was young enough in the 60s to be shielded from a lot of the strife of the era. The adults in my family controlled the television and the radio, but there were some things so shocking, like assassinations, that no such control was asserted. I do remember seeing glimpses of things on the television as I walked into a room to greet a grandparent--body bags on tarmacs of soldiers' bodies being flown home, maps of Vietnam or Cambodia--but the t.v. would quickly be turned off and I didn't really have much comprehension of what I'd seen.
I was born in 1956, so I just started living the’60’s. My Brother danced with me to “Shimmy Shimmy KO KO Bop”! We lived on a small farm so we gathered eggs, planted our gardens, drank out of the garden hose, rode our bikes and went swimming in our swimming hole or swam in the lake by our house. My Cousin owned a convertible and took us for a ride. When it was evening the kids that lived close would all get together and have water balloon fights. We went camping and fishing and also went on a few hikes. Those were the Golden Days of my life. Those kind of memories make me smile. Watching this video took me back.
Us girls ALWAYS wore dresses, men wore suits.. my first car was a 65 mustang… (bought in 1974).. and I could fill it up for $2.00 !! AND cruze main on weekends!!🤣🤣 Love Grandma Debbie
God, I wish life nowadays was a lot more like the 70s, 80s and early 90s. Simpler times.
Yeah, I feel bad for people that didnt get to experience American life from 1964-2001. Those were good times. Not perfect but peaceful and non-psychotic
You and me both !!! Things was so simple, family loved time with one another, on and on. It was great !
@@kimleemoonI think that definitely depended on where you lived and who you were
One of my favorite memories is of playing " Red light, green light", as the twilight moved into night and the street lights coming on. Magic time.
1969 was not just the moon landing but also the Woodstock music festival.
One of my favorite memories from the 60s is watching the moon landing with my family. My grandmother said she saw so much change in her lifetime it was amazing. She was born in 1896.
I was born in 54. Just imagine, no computers, no cell phones, not many cars on the road in small towns, no air conditioners at home and in schools because I remember having to raise our windows during class and use fans. Momma hung our clothes outside. Also we walked everywhere we went if you were a child especially to the nearby stores. We had no car. Life was a lot simpler then in the 60's but also somewhat boring until we got old enough to work besides going to school. We made up games to play and had the jacks, jump ropes, paper dolls etc. That was when the times got harder. My first job at 15 was in a restaurant/drug store and we served good homecooked food. We were poor but so was most everyone else in school and in the town. I don't remember any bullying. It was fairly tranquil in our hometown. The only drugs I remember back then was glue sniffing from some kids around the neighborhood. We stayed away from all that. Mom raised 5 of us kids alone as a widower and we did just fine. She was a good mom. We were such a close family. I didn't know we were poor until I got a little older. Oh, and yes I loved the bell bottoms, the body suits, go go boots and all the rest. The fashions back then were stupendous!
I was 8 in 1960. I loved watching the memories. Yes, some things were left out but it was mostly correct as I remember them. Life was simpler then. I miss it sometimes. No internet!
I grew up in the 60s. Yes, I am that old. I vividly remember the assassinations of JFK, MLK, and RFK. I watched Jack Ruby shoot Lee Harvey Oswald on live TV. I watched the moon landing and live TV images of the event. Rock and Roll, the counter culture, psychedelics(inspired by LSD although we didn't know it at the time), the Vietnam war, anti-war and civil-rights demonstrations, the SDS, the Charles Manson murders, and more. It was a busy decade.
Born in 57 I remember all this and more. We had a station wagon and our family grew from three kids to seven. We moved every two or three years cuz my dad was in the Air Force. We all had chores to do from the time I was in first grade. Us girls had to wear dresses to school and we changed to play clothes when we got home from school. We played in the street till the lights came on then ran home for dinner. Mom never had to call us in. It wasn’t a bd time growing up. I loved the Beatles when I was in the fourth grade. My mom was crying and I remember the news was on saying JFK was shot. We watched the walking on the moon sitting in the halls at school cuz the school only had few tvs.
1962 here. The banana bikes were called that because of the long slender seats. I remember watching the first moon walk on TV. Our entertainment centered around what came on the TV each night. My dad loved to take long drives around our state. We visited many rinky dink towns in KY and most of the state parks. We dressed up in our best dresses and wore white gloves when going to church or special events.
Born on the last day of 1954. Kennedy's assassination shut my Catholic grade school down. Our school was part of the church/rectory/convent area on a big block, and the whole school went to a Mass for Kennedy and the country. I remember running from the playground to the church, crying; I was in 3rd grade. Mom and I watched his funeral on TV. Then there was Dr. Martin Luther King. Not long after, I was seeing the Vietnam War on TV. Dan Rather in a trench during a firefight, reporting...
The amazing sight of seeing Star Trek on my uncle's color TV the first time. All of us being space crazy. (Dad and I read SF, and people had thought for decades that people like that *were* crazy, seriously. It was looked down on.) Getting woken up at oh dark hundred to watch space launches on TV, even if it was a school night. Whoever was outside at night seeing a small, bright, unblinking light slowly moving through the sky, bursting inside and yelling, "SATELLITE!" Yes, we'd *all* drop everything and run outside to watch it. 😄 Dad setting up his camera very carefully next to the TV, and catching a shot of Neil Armstrong setting foot on the moon.
The increasing presence of the war in Vietnam. Worrying that my brother would have to go over there. He was a Navy medic, but he lucked out and spent the war stateside, at Marine Corps Base Quantico in Virginia. One of the first riots in Portland - I dunno about what, probably the war - taking place at the public HS a block and a half from my home. The violence at the 1968 Democratic presidential convention. The Black Panthers. Woodstock. Wishing the Beatles would lose popularity. (I didn't like them, and they were played bloody endlessly. Give me The Who or Rolling Stones or Moody Blues or Jimi Hendrix any day. But not Janis Joplin, who just sounded like a screaming ripsaw to me. Later, metal was *good* screaming. 😁)
The 60s were weird. I was too young to be a hippie, and as a (reluctantly) good Catholic girl, wouldn't have dreamed of running off to Woodstock at 15. Teen life was not American Graffiti around me, and not every kid got a car, only richer ones. I was too young for a lot of that. A lot of the food was pretty lousy. Those disgusting gelatin salads from the 50s were still popular. Gag. TV dinners sucked. Potato chip tuna casserole reigned. Mom was a good cook, but even she succumbed to a few things. A whole bunch of other stuff, but my fun, college age times started after my HS graduation in 1973, just before disco. The 70s were fun. The 60s were angst or boring, alternatively. Didn't help that we late Boomers were a decade or so younger than the 'real' Boomers. I resent getting blamed for all that generation's mistakes, dammit. Blame us for disco, ok; but stop with the "ruining the planet with great glee" pointing. Lots of our tail-end Boomers were the first environmentalists. Our older brothers and sisters turned into the Yuppies. Frankly, I wouldn't want to re-live any of it. I like now. Computers! Not to mention I'm *still* pissed that I'll never take a regular tourist trip to the Moon, at least. We SF nuts were hoping for a Moon colony by 2000 or so.
In 1961, my dad took us to the train station to hear a Presidential candidate give a speech.. it was SENATOR John Kennedy.. I still live in the house my parents had built in 1953, here in Merced, California.. Love Grandma Debbie
The average American historically considers JFK one of the best Presidents of All Time. We were taught that in elementary school. He's an Icon and that Era in history is called Camelot. There are documentaries on it on TH-cam, which would be something to check out because of his connection to Dr. King and the Civil Rights movement, his brother Robert, the Vietnam and Korean wars, JFKs wife Jacky Kennedy (and later Onassis). That period in time was considered a turning point in the history of the country in many ways and we are affected by the policies and cultural imprints it left on the land. This is specifically true for the marginalized populations of the country.
My facorite memories were the hoola hoop, riding my bike (not the banana-seat kind), the music (most especially the Beatles), and the moon landing. Thanks for the memories, Kabir.
59' kid in Canada, we were on the outside looking in as the 60s shit storm gripped that country, some of it tried to take hold here but died on the vine we were not built the same as Americans and thanked our lucky stars every day, but it was something to see.
I was born in 1963, but my parents bought our 3 bedroom house in East Oakland for $9500 in 1961. It wasn't the house my mom wanted, but restricted covenants precluded them from buying the better home 2 blocks away. We had one tv, black and white. Did not get a color tv until 1977. My older sisters and brother did our own entertainment at home, imitating the great R&B stars of the day. We walked everywhere because dad used the car for work.
My favorite memories are falling in love and getting married. The music from the '60s still takes me back to then. It was a great time to be a teenager, especially living in southern California back then. Because of the war, some of us got married younger than most these days. (I was 17 when we married.) I recall vividly the assassinations of JFK, Martin Luther King, Jr,, and Bobby Kennedy, the unrest about civil rights and the Vietnam war. Back then it was two words: Viet Nam. I look fondly back at the '60s, and I remember bad things about that decade too. People who came of age in different decades will recall their teen years just as fondly.
Howard Johnson restaurants were still around when I was a kid. For a special night out we would go there and I always got a chocolate ice cream soda.
I loved Howard Johnson's chicken croquettes with fricassee sauce.
Loved the Howard Johnson clam roll (fried clams in a hot dog bun). As a kid I thought it was an amazing.
The Banana Bike had a Banana Seat. I was born in 1959 and had this bike when I was 10.
The banana bike was called that because of the banana shaped seat. That style of bicycle came out of California where kids were customizing their bikes to resemble the modified motorcycles.
I was born in 1960. I remember getting a banana bike and the Beatles being played on the beaches in California.
I was born in 1956. So I was definitely aware of everything.
There is a PBS documentary about the civil rights movement called "Eyes on the Prize." I encourage everyone who reads this to watch it.
I remember our family driving from Omaha to Colorado in a '64 Chevy Impala with no a.c.! That's where we saw our first hippies. I also watched the early seasons of "Scooby Doo" on our b&w TV!
As I told a younger friend who asked me about that period, to me the sixties are best described by the first sentence of "A Tale of Two Cities"....
I was born in 1952 so the 60's were my Childhood and Teen Years! I was so lucky to grow up in a Middle Class Suburban Neighbourhood in Pennsylvania. But as the Video says the times were turbulent. I remember my Dad a WW II USAAC Veteran watching the CBS News and after Walter Cronkite's Report on Vietnam becoming an Anti-War Supporter! I remember my Mom waking me up and saying "They Shot Kennedy" And I said "That was Years Ago" and she said with tears flowing down her cheeks "No Bobby, Somebody Shot Bobby Kennedy!" The 60's were Pretty Wild! .... of course there was the Beatles, James Bond and plenty of S E X.
Holiday Inn and Howard Johnsons...nailed it.
I was a kid in the sixties. Turbulence - look at a summary of 1968 and you'll see what they meant. I was ten that year.
That TV you loved was from the 50s. Lots of fifties stuff in this video.
Most families owned at least one car.
I had a banana seat bike. Named for the seat shape.
I remember watching Neil Armstrong take that step. It was extremely hot. I was 11.
It was a good time to grow up.
Born in 1956, I remember we'd (4kids) watch The Ed Sullivan Show, and IF we were good we could stay up to watch Bonanza which was a great mix of drama suspense and a touch comedy.
I was born in 1964, so we have home movies and photos that look like these photos.
A lot of those photos seem to be from the 50's, maybe really early 60's. I spent my teenage years then and as it said, it was a time of upheaval as well as creativity. The music explosion was no small thing. Listening to albums on record players back then. It also depended on where you lived. I was lucky to be in the San Francisco bay area and it was amazing. Concerts with big name bands at the Avalon and Fillmore for $5 (and not super crowded!). Bell bottoms that you sewed braid trim on the bottom and lace up sandals with really short skirts . My husband got fired from his job at a supermarket because his sideburns went below the middle of his ears. No cell phones or computers. That was good and bad. Glad I lived through it.
The 60s were bad for me as my dad died in 1966 just 2 weeks before my birthday and 3 weeks before Christmas. We as kids weren't allowed to go to my dads funeral. My moms oldest sister wouldnt let us go. I was 8 years old at the time and my dad was everything to me.
Yes cars, gas, food & homes were very low compared to today. But you also need to understand in 1965 minimum wage was $1.15. So 25 cents was a good chunk of your money.
The home run race in 1998 between Mark McGuire (St. Louis Cardinal...that's my team) and Sammy Sosa were in a heated competition on who could beat the 60s record. Mark ended up winning it with 70 home runs that year! Barry Bonds holds the title now with 73 (2001.)
Tyson was a force and probably had the most devastating punch when it landed. But Ali was so fast and could wear an opponent down. I'd love to see a fight with both in their prime!
It was called a banana bike because the seat was shaped a bit like a banana. I was born in 1951 graduated from high school in 1969.
I was born in 1960 so I got to grow up in the 60s AND 70s.
The seats on the bikes were known as banana seats because of the seat shapes
This period is 14 years after WWII. War exacerbated the rate of change. The first five years were a time of tension with Russia, expansion of communism, the arms race with atomic weapons, and the threat of Russian missiles in Cuba. This ended with the assassination of our President. It was a very conservative time and a recovery period from the Depression and wartime. It was a very patriotic time. Beginning with the civil rights conflicts in the Southern states and the integration of public schools in the south, the second half of the sixties was full of anti establishment rhetoric, riots, anti-war marches, demonstrations and general upheaval. Even religion was up ended. It was a social free for all which left children coming home to empty houses to amuse themselves at a time when drugs became part of the hip younger set. The darker side of this period is rarely talked about. Contrary to hippie opinion, the VietNam war was extended for 6 years by all the anti-war marches shown on tv...an interview of N.VietNam general established. Drugs have cost an untold amount of money and human life. The sixties were colorful, but a disintegration of a society, only a very little part of which was improvement....the most of what you hear is myth and self agrandisement. JMO
I remember the ‘60’s being a very violent time because of clashes and murders during the civil rights and anti war protests, It was a very exciting time with the moon race and the “British Invasion” in music. Yet, it was still a simpler or very innocent time. I’m not sure I’d want to live through that decade again, but there were certain elements of that time I miss.
I was born in 1960. Thanks for the reminder how many years ago that was 😉 Obviously I remember more of the 70's but what I do remember about things that were mentioned (or not) was there were 2 specific times my mom sat us in front of the TV and made us watch. Did she think we'd remember at those ages? I don't know but I do remember! JFK's funeral and the moon landing. Not mandatory watching by mom but I do remember a lot of the other things mentioned as far as world happenings. Is this because of learning/hearing about them as I got older? No clue. As a kid we were so innocent back then....even with all the things going on in the world.
OK, well having just gently touched on the "turmoil", most of this film is clearly viewing the 1960's through "rose colored glasses"...
Yes, a lot of cool things, but some really challenging things also.
Focusing on lighter things that are tough to conceptualize these days:
Houses with a single phone, often in the kitchen.
The phone was usually not a private line, but a "party line", thus,
sometimes you would pick up the phone and people from some other household would be talking on it -
so, (assuming that you were polite.) you would have to hang up and wait until they were finished talking before you could make your call.
(listening in was not polite - but it did happen.) Also, it cost extra to make a "long distance" call -
but sometimes, usually in the evening, the long distance rates would be lower than during "business hours",
so you would have to wait until the rates went down, before you called grandma, or your girlfriend away at college -
where she might be in the middle of a dormitory hallway - because her dorm only had one phone.
A lot of the details have changed so fundamentally, it is sometimes hard to grasp.
I was 10 years old when President Kennedy was assassinated. I remember being sent home from school and seeing adults cry. (Being a Catholic family we had identified with the first Catholic president, and I went to parochial school where he was immensely popular.) I was 14 when Martin Luther King Jr was shot in April 1968, and two months later, Robert F Kennedy was killed. So when Obama was elected president (and I voted for him), all of a sudden I felt a deep gash of fear born in the childhood trauma of my heroes being killed. But that decade also saw great music: the Beatles, the Doors, Donovan, Hermans Hermits, the Monkees - everything a teenager could ask for. The Fifth Dimentions sang, "This is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius," and we believed it. The Mamas and the Papas sang about flower children in San Francisco, and we wanted to go knowing that love is all you need. And the underground of college students passing around The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings and us high schoolers wanting to be cool imitated them and then fell into the first and best fantasy epic. And the whole family watching Star Trek and giving the episodes names to identify them. "The one where the flying egg foo young hits Spock in the back" or "The Chicago one" or "The one with the good Kirk and the bad Kirk." Lots of fun amidst lots of tragedy. One last thing: the military draft lottery by date of birth. Every senior year the boys would wait to see if their number came up. I saw the guys in my class sick with fear waiting. The last draft call was in December 1972.
This was my childhood.
I was born in 1955, that was my decade
Even Tyson said he wouldn't have a chance against Ali.
Hi Kabir, just wanted to let you know that recollection road has a new video up Being a child in 1950's America and I thought you may wish to give it a look. By the way have you had a chance to look for American Drive In's yet? You went to this cinema and remained in your car to watch usually two movies per night. You parked beside a short metal pole which held two speakers. you selected one and with a cord long enough to allow you to place it in your car to hear the movie. They were a large part of America for so many years.
Crazy that there were only a handful of options to watch on Netflix back then, too
I was 15 in 1960 . left home in Alabama that year and moved to New York City on my own . I had a loft in the East Village and was trying to be a poet and Zen Buddhist monk and living the hippie life doing LSD, , pot , peyote ,and mescaline expanding my mind . . I lucked out with a high draft number so I wasn't drafted for Viet Nam . People who tell you they remember the 60's weren't really there , LOL
Banana bike because of the seat shape.
The banana bike was so-named because of the shape of the seat, not the handlebars
Even Tyson has famously said he couldn't have beaten Ali. I still think prime Mike against prime Mohamed would have been the fight of all time.
Never heard anybody call it a "banana bike." They were a 20" bike with butterfly handlebars and a banana seat. If you were really cool, you had a sissy bar, too. The taller the sissy bar, the cooler you were.
While the '60s were exciting, they could also be terrifying for a little kid. Don't forget, we had the Cuban Missile Crisis, Bay of Pigs invasion, the arms race, the constant threat of nuclear war, air raid drills, summers where there was rioting, burning and looting all over, race riots, Vietnam, the riots in Chicago, San Francisco, college protests and riots against the war. The news was pretty gnarly to watch for kids.
I remember the 60's clearly. A lot happened.
Prime for prime, Tyson could take Ali, but he'd have his hands full doing it.
Thanks Kabir woke up feeling good and then you reminded how old I am because I was born in 1958😢 😂
Born in ‘67. I barely remember much. Mostly toys and probably places we went to. I remember going to the San Jacinto monument and my great-aunt holding me as I looked out of one the glass-less windows. The people looked like ants. My mom and dad bringing us to San Jacinto park to grill and have a picnic.
I don’t know where JFK would have ended up on the list but, if had the opportunity to scatter the CIA into a million pieces into the wind, he would be pretty high on my list.
I don’t remember any of the Apollo missions that were televised but, I do remember my grandparents and uncle coming to Texas and, we all went to NASA’s Johnson Space Center. That was cool.
But banana bike was for the seats
I was born in 1959 so I was really just a kid but I remember everything on here. Oh and you can't talk about baseball in the 60s without talking about the 69 World Series and the Amazing Mets. I would rush home and my mom had a pizza delivered so we could have pizza & watch the game when I got home from school.
They called them "banana bikes" in New York & New Jersey we called them stingrays or choppers because they looked like the chopper style motorcycles.
JFK was one of the best presidents our country ever had but the best in modern American politics seconded only by Ronald Regan. They were in opposition
parties but the both believed in peace through strength. JFK was a mindful leader especially after the Bay of Pigs fiasco. He used brinksmandhip and wise negotiations to keep the world from nuclear war. Regan out spent and out maneuvered publicly, the Russians and got them to end communism and brought down the Berlin wall. There's only one other president that's out maneuvered our adversaries, and people are gonna give me hell for this but too bad, and that's Trump. Imagine the message he sent to not only the Syrian President but Xi JinPing who he was eating dinner with and told Xi something like excuse me I have to go drop a MOAB on Syria so they stop using chemical weapons on their own people. Xi must have shit himself when he found out it he wasn't lying. People can hate Trump but Russia, Syria, Iran, Taliban, North Korea and China all knew if Trump says he'll do something, he'll do it. He kept us out if war and our enemies respected us. I respect that kind of leadership.
Ali every time. Even Tyson said he'd get stomped by Ali.
Think some classic cars went to Cuba, others tried to hold onto them. Keep stowed in old garages and such and those that kept in good shape, sometimes take them to various classic car viewings.
Kennedy: I was too young to understand what was going on with Cuba. My parents! Esp Dad was a big Kennedy fan.
TV’s and media: American Bandstand and The Beatles. Watching some tv shows with parents and grandparents.
This was fun but if you are going to ask us all of these questions, maybe you should do a LIVE. Two thumbs up!
Banana bike because the seat was shaped a bit like a banana. Those were still around when I was a kid in the 80s.
Tyson himself said that Ali was the greatest boxer of all time.
This was spot on. The bike seat was sort of shaped like a banana.
they were called banana seat bikes
7:08 Tyson was a brawler. Ali was faster. Tyson didn’t do well with going the distance. Ali could go 12 rounds. My money would be on Ali tiring Tyson like he did Foreman. Tyson was trying to knock you out in the first minutes of round 1.
That’s exactly what I was thinking. Ali “danced around the ring”so much Tyson would’ve been tired. But,What Ali couldn’t have done with Tyson is his signature “rope a dope” Ali would’ve been in trouble. I loved both boxers.
Stonewall was in 1969 and was the first well publicized time that gays fought back against oppression.
As I remember, I don't think banana seat bikes came about until the 1970's.
I was born in the middle of the 60's and I have a twin brother. As I'm sure you must know, obviously, houses looked so much different than now. Lingo was a lot different as well. I'm too tired to think of more things right now. It's 2:30Am and I'm about to zonk out. Night night. 💤😔💤
I remember watching the moon landing in class
I never heard of a banana bike. My first bicycle was in the 60's, and I had a banana seat. The seat was a long-curved seat, probably a second kid could be a passenger on the bike. My bicycle was a purple Schwinn and had a flower basket on the handlebars, flower banana seat. Unfortunately, I did not get to ride it too long. My older brother took it apart to make it better. He added a sissy bar to the back of the seat and the tall handlebars. It looked like the motorcycles in Easy Rider.
John F. Kennedy, was a popular President. He was young and had a young family and he died young by an assassin. I remember they said, the Presidential debate, first time it was televised. Those who watched it on TV thought JFK won. Those who listened to it on the radio said Nixon won. I believe the radio listeners heard the words, the campaign promises, etc... Those who watched it on TV, saw a young handsome man against a middle-aged man that sweated. I think, people were memorized looking at a young Democrat, with make-up and not listening to the policies. By today standards, JFK would have been a moderate Republican then. His younger brother Teddy was a left Senator. Today, JFK's nephew is running for President. Robert Kennedy, son of Bobby Kennedy who was assassinated here in L.A. during one of his campaign-stop/dinner. His killer is still alive in prison. Robert was running on the Democrat party. Because of his stance on the Covid vaccination, the Democrat Party does not like him. Even his siblings and other Kennedy family members. Plus, the Democrats did not want Biden to have competition. It would divide the Democrat votes on election day. Recently, Robert Kennedy has changed his party to the Independent Party. JFK, I was too young to remember or interested in politics. I just heard; his views are more Republican than Democrat in regard to taxes. He did have a plan with the Cubans to rid them of their Dictator Castro. I do not know, put Kennedy did not to what he promised the Cubans. This was called the Bay of Pigs. The media still left leaning did not report what goes on behind the White House doors. Kennedy had back problems and on meds and like his brothers was not faithful to their wives. Those things were not reported (sign of the times) even though people knew about it. I was not a Kennedy fan as I got older. My mom was and I believe it was his youth and handsome. Kennedy son JFK, Jr. was 3 years old when his father died. The next time a child that is a boy living in the White House was Donald Trump's son Baron.
I believe the 50's and early 60's were a good time to live. Back then, it was wholesome. Stay home moms, taking care of the house and kids, making homemade dinners and the family eating together at the dinner table. Children having more respect and behaved more to their elders, police, teachers, etc... You knew and acquainted with your neighbors. Patriotic. New technology and inventions. Then came the mid to late-60's.
The Vietnam war was going on during that time and it was very unpopular. We had a lot of demonstrations from those who were against the mandatory draft at that time.
There was a lot of open drug use at the time and it was the time of the birth control pill so a lot more “free love” during that time.
Take a look at the pictures of the "moon lander". A serious look at it.
I have looked at the lunar lander, the command module, service module and Saturn V very closely. The Apollo missions were a triumph of human engineering, determination and bravery. The Apollo missions absolutely put men on the Moon, no doubt about it. Whatever doubts you may have are due entirely to your lack of understanding. That's not an insult, no one knows everything about every subject. However, questions raised by someone else can easily be researched and in so doing all doubts laid to rest.
What makes more sense, NASA spent all that time, money and effort to fake the moon landings just to win the propaganda war against the Soviet Union (who were closely watching and would have been thrilled to show the world the US was faking, which they could've easily done if it was fake) or that a handful of people lack the knowledge necessary to answer certain questions they have?
I think the 90's there was a lot more PED use in baseball. Tyson vs. Ali in their prime would have been amazing. Two totally different styles.
Can't believe they left out Woodstock & the '69 Miracle Mets.
"Banana" bikes had those long "Banana" seats.
The Steroids Era of Baseball (the late 1980’s to late 2000’s a memorable time) 😂
I don't know if Ali could have beaten Tyson. It would have been difficult. But Tyson was so strong.
We had Black and white TV all thru the 60’s to this day, I know where I was at, and what I was doing when man landed on the moon (69) seems like forever ago! I guess it was.
Gas $.25 a gallon. McDonald’s burger $.25.
Stores would give cash refund for Pepsi and Coke bottles. we would find about six bottles to make $1.
$1 would cover the cost of gas to go to the beach and four burgers.
Population of California, 15 million.
Population of Oxnard, 40,000 (now the population is 240,000)