Rickresource Rickenbacker Forum

Kinda cool presentation though....

http://objflicks.com/TakeMeBackToTheSixties.htm

A lot of cool memories for us superannuated characters.

But, at least in the USA, there were two separate and distinct decades during the '60s:

There was the decade we are shown in this presentation (the surface). It is dominated by Hollywood and Madison Ave.

Then there was the real decade: what was bubbling underneath. It began in earnest when awareness of the subtexts and back-stories (both of these terms were not in use at the time) grew, and people began rejecting the anesthetized and sanitized version of "culture" in favor of experimentation and writing our own rules.

Not that we did all that great as a generation...

Thanks, George. That was fun. Except I have the strongest urge now to try to find my old Princess phone and go-go boots.

I've got several around the house here.

Princess phones, I mean...when we moved in, the phones were all old pulse-dial ones, and there had never been TV cable run to this property. It took the cable company a few days, a half-dozen guys, and a helicopter to run the cable from a quarter-mile away.

On the plus side, we have a killer TV antenna that I have hooked up to my FM radio, as reception here is sketchy. Ironic, because the guy who built the house was the senior consulting engineer for the construction of Sutro Tower!

jingle_jangle wrote: because the guy who built the house was the senior consulting engineer for the construction of Sutro Tower!

Joe Alioto's great project (spell that S-W-I-N-D-L-E).
Not exactly the highest recommendation in my book. That huge roach clip didn't really improve TV reception for anybody I knew. OK, well it is still standing, at least. :lol:maybe they've since found a use for it

sorry, I tend to describe my hometown history in salty, scrappy terms just the way it's always been ...

The house is still standing, too.

We do seem to muddle through in style

kiramdear wrote:Thanks, George. That was fun. Except I have the strongest urge now to try to find my old Princess phone and go-go boots.

1964- The year that took my life in a different direction. Kira- Go Go Boots Hullaballoo and Shindig! I so remember watching those ladies and yearning. Guess thats when the hormones hit high gear Ahhhh, to be young again. Thanks for the memories

Go-go boots still make me yearn.

I was down with them until they started putting the go-go dancers in cages

Sheesh, where's that barf bucket when ya need it? Crimonymosesalready some of that stuff sounded like Dear Old Dad talking about the '30s. The only part that was missing were the stories about how we walked 5 miles to school every day in a blizzard up hill both ways in 1960. Good grief....

Go-go boots still make me giggle.

JimK

A cool look at the sixties.

They did leave out The Who and The Kinks in favor of some less venerable choices in the British Invasion scene

jingle_jangle wrote:Go-go boots still make me yearn.

Me too, Paul

OK, here you go:


These boots are made for walking ... NOT!!

I always liked the more practical version: