Decades, Part II
Monday, December 7, 2009 at 3:41PM Yesterday I explained how I was going to start summing up every decade I have lived through. If you missed it, click here to catch up.
And now I present the swingin’ ‘60’s, a decade I’m glad to have lived through. Each link takes you to another place, so click away and have fun in the sixties! Don’t eat the brown acid!
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The 1960’s
“And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country.”
The Cuban Missile Crisis.
“I have a dream!”
“The answer is blowin’ in the wind.”
"President Kennedy died at 1 p.m. Central Standard Time. 2 o'clock Eastern Standard Time, some 38 minutes ago.”
LBJ.
“She loves you, YEAH YEAH YEAH!”
The Civil Rights Act.
Wall of sound.
Bond...James Bond.
Vietnam.
Wham-O.
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
“Winston tastes good like a cigarette should.”
Bonanza.
The Ed Sullivan Show.
“I feel GOOD!”
“I can’t get no, satisfaction.”
Veg-O-Matic.
A Hard Days Night.
The Motown Sound.
“Hey, hey, we’re the Monkees!”
Bell-bottoms.
Nehru jackets.
“Don’t squeeze the Charmin.”
“And if you knew him, you would know why we must honor him: Malcolm [X] was our manhood, our living, black manhood!”
The miniskirt.
The Munsters
“How does it feel? To be on your own. Like a ROLLING STONE.”
The Addams Family
“I have some very sad news for all of you, and I think sad news for all of our fellow citizens, and people who love peace all over the world, and that is that Martin Luther King was shot and was killed tonight in Memphis, Tennessee.”
“I think it's time we stop, children, what's that sound, everybody look what's going down.”
Counterculture.
Love Beads.
“Mom always liked you best.”
Marijuana.
LSD.
Black Panther Party.
Love-Ins.
“As he [Robert F. Kennedy] said many times, in many parts of this nation, to those he touched and who sought to touch him: ‘Some men see things as they are and say why. I dream things that never were and say why not."’
“Pet Sounds.”
“We're Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, we hope you will enjoy the show.”
Haight Ashbury.
Hippies.
“A Three Hour Tour.”
Flower Power.
Psychedelia.
Tie-dye.
Rolling Stone: All The News That Fits.
“If you’re going to San Francisco, be sure to wear some flowers in your hair.”
All-Tempa-Cheer.
"Ten Days of Resistance"
“Gimme a head with hair, long beautiful hair.
Chicago Riots
"Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me. Aren't you?"
“Space... the Final Frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds; to seek out new life and new civilizations; to boldly go where no man has gone before.”
“America: Love it or leave it.”
“Hell no, we won’t go!”
You bet your sweet bippy!
“Nixon’s The One.”
“Trust Humphrey.”
"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."
“Go ask Alice.”
“One White, One Black, One Blonde.”
Brian Jones: Dead at 27.
“I want to take you higher!”
“Don’t eat the brown acid.”
"In our case, seventy-five percent of the twenty-six shows we've done this season were censored."
Helter Skelter
Nixon.
"Just be cool down in the front there, don't push around..."
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Reader Comments (5)
It was the green acid that was bad.
Goodness, now that's a TON of links!
Thank you! This was the only decade that made any sense to me..........but i'm just a boozer that drives a bus.....what do I know?
Did David McCallum sire David Hyde Pierce?
I spent the last 54 days of this decade eating, shitting and pissing all over myself.