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Title: Comment 28 Signs Someone Lived Through The '60s
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Huffington Post
URL Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry ... ff6a?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000592
Published: Oct 27, 2015
Author: Ann Brenoff
Post Date: 2015-10-27 11:49:52 by Orwellian Nightmare
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Views: 2861
Comments: 12
1. They still remember the words to "I Want To Hold Your Hand." The fab four, as the Beatles were known, took the world by storm. Their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show on Feb. 9, 1964 was the highest rated show in TV history at the time. It's also been claimed that not a single crime was reported during the time of their performance. 2. They get the joke when someone says "what kind of world do we want to leave for Keith Richards?" Yes Kitten, he's always looked like this. 3. They remember not just Tina, but also Ike. And they especially remember singing "Proud Mary" along with them. 4. They made out to Rod Stewart singing "Maggie May." 5. And hearing him sing "Gasoline Alley" still makes them cry, especially this acapella version. 6. This was the only perfume they ever wore as a teenager. 7. And their first boyfriend wore British Sterling. 8. They only owned one pair of jeans and this is what they looked like, but dirtier. 9. Like everyone else in 1969, they remember the significance of being born on Sept. 14. It meant you were likely to be drafted into the military. The draft was conducted by lottery based on birthdays. All registrants with Sept. 14 birthdays were assigned lottery number 1. 10. They know how to spot a real ticket stub from the 1969 Woodstock Art and Music Festival. It would probably sport mud and rain stains, otherwise neither you nor the ticket were likely there. You can now find them on eBay. 11. This could have been their prom picture if they had gone, but they didn't. 12. They remember the advice Benjamin got in "The Graduate." (Invest in plastics.) But mostly they remember Mrs. Robinson. 13. They developed an older-man crush on Peter O'Toole after watching "Lawrence of Arabia" in 1962. 14. But would have to Google to see if he's still alive because they can't remember anymore. He died two years ago at age 81. 15. They decorated their teen bedroom with posters like this. 16. They had one of these. 17. And one of these. 18. And watched one of three stations on this when they were kids. 19. They would know who this was ... 20. ... if we said her boots were "made for walking." Nancy Sinatra, daughter of Frank Sinatra, is now 75. 21. They remember the early Vietnam War protests that looked like this. 22. And then spread and began looking more like this. 23. By 1969, they lived through the Days of Rage. 24. And probably remember where they were during the 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago. 25. Abbie Hoffman was their hero in the Chicago 7 trial that followed. As he once famously said, "I was probably the only revolutionary referred to as cute." He also said, "You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists." 26. They watched men's hair grow longer. 27. And women's skirts grow shorter. 28. And they thought Twiggy was the skinniest thing they had ever seen. 
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#1. To: Orwellian Nightmare (#0)
Ok,that guy in the next to last photo would have been called a fruit,even back then. I was in and out of San Francisco a couple of times on my way to and from Asia in the 65-68 time frame,and never saw any male or female dressed like that. Didn't pay much attention to the political crap in 68-69. I was too busy in pre-deployment training to go to VN,and being in VN. I left VN in Nov of 69,and didn't pay much attention to politics after that,either Entered college in 71,but by then the draft had ended so nobody gave a damn about VN anymore because there was no danger of them going,so nobody but one history professor ever tried to give me any crap about being a VN vet. SOB was actually so stupid he thought he could insult me in front of the entire class and get away with it because he was a professor. He ended up crying and I ended up booted out of school. To this very day I don't regret my actions that day. Sometimes shitheads need to be reminded they are shitheads,and nothing else is special about them. And no,I didn't lay a hand on him. I did get right up in his face and make him apologize and admit in public he was a cowardly punk and a weasel,though. I may have gotten kicked out of the school for that,but he was gone at about the same time,too. Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
OK, I give up. Who is the old broad in 19? Deborah Harry?
Si vis pacem, para bellum Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
It's Nancy with the laughing face...
Next picture shows a younger version. Nancy Sinatra.
Wow Si vis pacem, para bellum Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
Wow
Si vis pacem, para bellum Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
All those hippies made me think of these... Non auro, sed ferro, recuperando est patria
Proud Mary was a 60s song by CCR. The Ike and Tina cover version was a 70s song.
Maggie May was a 70s song, originally released as the B side of a 45. The A side was Reason to Believe.
Gasoline Alley is another 70s song. An Old Raincoat Won't Ever Let You Down barely charted in 1969 and that was Rod Stewart's only song that charted in the 60s.
My ass... When they drew the Lucky Lotto, the only goddam birthday I was worried about was MY OWN.... as long as Uncle Sam didn't want ME, I couldn't care less about the "significance" of someone elses birthday..
Meh. Most people probably recall the song was a #2 hit for Creedance Clearwater Revival in 1969. The Turners didn't play it until a year later, after someone else made an R&B version, and theirs never made it higher than #8 in the charts. Lots of stuff like that in this list. I think the list was compiled by someone born well after the Sixties.
#2. To: Orwellian Nightmare (#0)
#3. To: Stoner (#2)
OK, I give up. Who is the old broad in 19? Deborah Harry?
#4. To: Stoner (#2)
OK, I give up. Who is the old broad in 19? Deborah Harry?
#5. To: tpaine (#3)
" It's Nancy with the laughing face... "
#6. To: Orwellian Nightmare (#4)
#7. To: Orwellian Nightmare (#0)
#8. To: Orwellian Nightmare (#0)
3. They remember not just Tina, but also Ike. And they especially remember singing "Proud Mary" along with them.
#9. To: Orwellian Nightmare (#0)
4. They made out to Rod Stewart singing "Maggie May."
#10. To: Orwellian Nightmare (#0)
5. And hearing him sing "Gasoline Alley" still makes them cry, especially this acapella version.
#11. To: Orwellian Nightmare (#0)
9. Like everyone else in 1969, they remember the significance of being born on Sept. 14.
#12. To: Orwellian Nightmare (#0)
3. They remember not just Tina, but also Ike. And they especially remember singing "Proud Mary" along with them.
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