What was it like in the 60's?

[Chamba]

Sam the Sham and the Pharohs, and the Turtles, first concert, before drugs were available to rural prairie lads. Battles of the bands, miniskirts, and red necks calling ya honey if ya had some hair, $1.15 per hr to shovel chicken crap - first time I was fired for not getting my hair cut. And NIKE nuclear missles.
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yeah! mini-skirts!

 

[minds_I]

...white cotton briefs on girls instead of thongs, people cursed less, knowing the draft would get me, protests, Janis Joplin (Cray Baby), skinny-dipping at beer parties down on the riverbank, walking up to the door and rining the bell to collect your date, saying "yes sir" and No sir" to a Police Officer, Davy Crockett on Sunday's (Walt Disney's "The Wonderful World Of Color"), Saturday morning TV with my Friend Flicka and Fury and Tom Terrific, eating lunch with my mom at the counter of the Woolworth's store, Wolfman Jack, my bitchin' '64 Chevy Impala SuperSoprt, Naturlamb "skins" (men in their late 50's like myself will know exactly what I am talking about here), the Alligator Farm that used to be across the street from Knott's Berry Farm where my father once bought me a baby Alligator for a pet, secretly standing on the toe of my father's boot in 1955 (?) so I was tall enough to ride the Autopia cars at Disneyland the first day it opened, Fizzies, The Kingston Trio, going to a Led Zeppelin concert at Earl Warren SShowgrounds in Santa Barbara CA., and precisely where I was and what I was doing the moment the announcment came over the school intercom that President John F. Kennedy had been assassinated.

I would trade all the technology of today for the simplicity of fifty years ago in a flash if I could!

Hello all,

Yeha, I remember these things as well- I remember JFK- I don't recall what it was about- but for what seemed like weeks was the playing over and over again of the Zapruder (sp) film and the funeral march and little John saluting. I remember this because cartoons were not on.

I remember KIA and MIA copper and silver bracelets. I remember the nightly war report.

Disney Wonderful World of Color.

Mutual of Omaha Wild Kingdom-Marlin Perkins was doing the animal thing decades before Steve Erwin and the others.

I remember flower power.

To go back to a simpleir time would be wonderful- if only for a day.

minds_I

 

[minds_I]

Hello all,


Tutor Turtle
How about Quisp and Quake?

Rockum Sockum Robots

Gigantor

When Gilligans' Island was not a re-run

The Green Hornet

It cost a quarter to go to the show (a double feature).

I remember Bobby getting shot. I remember MLK getting shot.

Schwinn bikes.

Soda pops (RC Cola) was 16 cents for 16 oz bottles with 3 cents back on the bottle.

Halloween candy that did not have razor blades or hits of acid or some such..


But you know what I mess the most is the youth and the innocents-both are lost to me now.

minds_I

 

[MMJ Today]

Old TV programs...

Old TV programs...

Does anyone remember the 'Roger Ramjet' cartoon?

moose eater

I remember that cartoon! As well as Crusader Rabbit, Might Mouse and Tom Terrific and his loyal companion Manfred the dog. Remember how that little puff of smoke would come out of the over-turned oil funnel that served as his hat, and make him change into something else whenever he got into trouble?

I also remember the Saturday morning kids TV shows like Fury and My Friend Flicka. Sky King and Whirlybirds (my ex was in that show) was on as well as Engineer Bill and Sherrif John. I can't tell you how many times I choked on my glass of milk when playing "Red light, green light" with ol' Engineer Bill!

ATB!

 

[MMJ Today]

What's this phrase?

What's this phrase?

Does anyone recall what show this phrase is from? "Trizzle, trazzle, trozzle trome...time for zees vun (this one) to come home!"

I've had that rhythmic little spell rattling around in my head (complete with the German accent and the slurred "Z's" in place of the "th's") since I started trying to remember old TV shows! It's driving me nuts!!!

ATB!

 

[Cadillac]

Hodaka motorcycles

 

[Chamba]

Get Smart

 

[MMJ Today]

MMJ Today wrote:
>>>Does anyone recall what show this phrase is from? "Trizzle, trazzle, trozzle trome...time for zees vun (this one) to come home!"<<<

Did it have a 'Mr. Peabody' or 'Mr. Wizard' as a goofy professor with a time machine, or something like that?

I remember the line, but I can't recall for sure what it went to.

Branded. Gun Smoke. The Wild, Wild West. The Green Hornet and Kato. Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom. -BATMAN-!!!! Dark Shadows, with Quentin, Barnabas and Angelique!! Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea!!

And yeah, Hodaka motorcycles. Viva la' Super Rat!!

Cushman and Vespa scooters (I've got a 1961<?> Sears Allstate scooter by Vespa sitting as a derelict in my back yard right now!!) and Rupp mini-bikes. The Honda 50s and 70s were the proverbial new kid on the block for the wealthy kids' to have as play things.

moose eater

I used to ride a 1961 Allstate Moped in Lompoc California. That would have been like 1964 or 1965. Man...what I wouldn't give to have your old derelict one!

Great memories of that little machine...

ATB!

 

[minds_I]

Hello all,

Trizzle, trazzle, trozzle trome

That was what Mr. Wizard would say to bring Tutor Turttle back from some adventure that starts out ok but quickly gets out of hand. COnfused and helpless, Tutor Turtle screams "Help me Mr. Wizard".....Trizzle, trazzle, trozzle trome time for this one to come home.

Fractured Fairy Tales are still funny.

minds_I

 

[MMJ Today]

MMJ Today, what's not rusted on this one is red in color. There's even one of the original (in poor shape) leather panels from the seat, and the handle bars are relatively straight, though the headlight is snapped off, and laying to the side, but likely repairable. The metal that guards your knees (cowling/faring, like on the old 'Porky Pig scooter') is in pretty nice shape. The motor is likely stiff, and needing to be seriously R&Red before it might even turn over, let alone start. But it's mostly there.

I'd let you have it, but I'm fairly certain that the freight from here would do your wallet some very serious harm.

moose eater

A truly generous offer my friend...but I fear you are correct. The shipping would indeed be prohibitive. It was nice to remenisce a bit over it though. We used to try and hill climb (not big steep hills or anything) with that little machine. What a blast we had!

Thanks for the repkly and the kind offer mate...you're a good guy!

All the best to you and yours mate!

David

 

[MMJ Today]

Hello all,

Trizzle, trazzle, trozzle trome

That was what Mr. Wizard would say to bring Tutor Turttle back from some adventure that starts out ok but quickly gets out of hand. COnfused and helpless, Tutor Turtle screams "Help me Mr. Wizard".....Trizzle, trazzle, trozzle trome time for this one to come home.

Fractured Fairy Tales are still funny.

minds_I

That's it! Thank you buddy...that was driving me to distraction trying to recall that one.

ATB!

David

 

[Guest]

I think that's from the rocky and bullwinkle show, I don't remember from what cartoon though

I should have read the last page before I responded,lol. Wasn't fractured Fairy tales on Rocky and Bullwinkle?

Any of you guys wear nehru shirts?

 

[pieceofmyheart]

Nehru shirts....yes I had one or two, didn't the Beatles kinda start that?

Ed Sullivan and Topogigo

Archie comic books

Laugh In

The PLO
Kent State

 

[ndnguy]

Mimi Skirts and sex where you didn't put your life on the line. Great music, could hitchhike across the USA and not be afraid. Old school bud.

 

[doobieornot2be]

ATB!
[/QUOTE]

Love the Potweiller!

 

[MMJ Today]

ATB!

Love the Potweiller!

Thanks...me too!!

*GRIN*

ATB!

 

[WeekendSmoker]

hahah slip and slide..annac i had one of those and im not that old.. slip and slide trancends time dude.

 

[Lord Doobie]

Biggest thing about the '60's in the States was obviously the Vietnam war...and the first generation of Americans who refused to blindly march off to the other side of the world on a military strategy called the "domino theory"

Kids were diving into any college to avoid the draft...until the govt changed the law! Now, you were no longer immune. Canada had a minor invasion to which Jimmy Carter years later gave amnesty.

For a real peak at the 60's, just watch some documentaries. I've yet to see a bad one and the camera never lies.

JFK, Woodstock, Nixon, RFK, MLK, Vietnam, protests, the draft...

man...what a mess

 

[all messed up]

I remember our neighbor in uniform picking me up and tossing me around brfore he shipped out and a few weeks later his mother screaming on the front porch when he died. It seriously freaked me out.

 

[geezeressa]

JFK assasination, watched Jack Ruby shoot Oswald in real time. Everybody excited when the space rockets were launched. The Beatles, Stones, Kinks, Motown, miniskirts with stockings and garter belts (pantyhose hadn't been invented yet--a constant battle to keep the skirt covering the tops of my stockings). Dippity Do. WMCA. Vietnam on television, with the scherzo from Beethoven's 9th symphony as the theme music for the Huntley Brinkley report, and Walter Cronkite. The Fugs in Tompkins Square Park. Night Owl Cafe (Lovin Spoonful) and Cafe Wha in the Village. My boyfriend was taking guitar lessons with Jimmy James (before he went to England), AKA Jimi Hendrix. First (of many) Dead shows: Dec 1967 at Palm Gardens in NYC. Hanging in the East Village, the Fillmore East, Central Park. The Be-ins. Day-glo paint. Owsley acid, pot w LOTs of seeds...they pop when you smoke em. At Woodstock , didn't sleep for three days, just smoked hash and stayed at the Pranksters/Hog Farm stage and distributed granola to the muddy masses. Making amoebas in the light shows with water and oil and an overhead projector. the Hell's Angels and Dead at the Anderson Theater in NY, all the Angels hanging off the Nitrous Oxide tank. Juvenile hall. High school. Busted for a hash pipe. Stoned at the Chelsea Hotel...Levitate the Pentagon, go on a wild bus ride through riot police throwing tear gas trying to find coffee in downtown Washington with a live turkey on board. Patchouli and incense and macrobiotic food. We were sure that the revolution was happening and it was a lot of fun.