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re: What was it like growing up in America in those days
Posted on 4/3/14 at 1:26 pm to RogerTheShrubber
Posted on 4/3/14 at 1:26 pm to RogerTheShrubber
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I was a kid in the middle/late 60's.
I was a teen in the middle/late 60's. I remember the adults railing about juvenile delinquency, drugs, teen pregnancy and teen suicide. This wasn't just coming from the "get off my lawn" types, either.
If you actually did have a modicum of social awareness growing pup back then, you remember the bad along with the good.
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Posted on 4/3/14 at 1:32 pm to RedRifle
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Today it seems all about guns, race, sex etc. Seems like it really was a better time.
A lot of songs from the 60s were based on these things.
Posted on 4/3/14 at 1:37 pm to justlookin
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Up to the mid 60s, it was wonderful.
What was the catalyst for negative change? The Vietnam war?
Posted on 4/3/14 at 1:38 pm to BS
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What was the catalyst for negative change? The Vietnam war?
That was only part of it. The real root of the problem was the rise of the modern progressive movement AKA "The New Left".
Posted on 4/3/14 at 1:43 pm to RedRifle
I think the 80s was the apex decade to grow up in. It had a good mix of tech, toys, Star Wars, video games, etc., but wasn't over saturated like today's kids have it. You still had to go outside.
Posted on 4/3/14 at 1:47 pm to AUCE05
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I think the 80s was the apex decade to grow up in. It had a good mix of tech, toys, Star Wars, video games, etc., but wasn't over saturated like today's kids have it. You still had to go outside
Good call. I was born in '81 and have very fond memories of my first neighborhood. Like many others, my friends and I had a "clubhouse", which was just a spot in the woods to meet and play. Kids don't do that anymore? Also, getting fussed at for getting really muddy. Good times.
Posted on 4/3/14 at 1:47 pm to justlookin
quote:you think music was better before the late 60s?
Up to the mid 60s, it was wonderful. Then everything began changing, the economy, family structure, music, religion, ect. All for the worse. Today is worse in so many ways.
Posted on 4/3/14 at 1:49 pm to AUCE05
quote:I'm 20 and we "had" to go outside until I was about 12 or so. That's when electronic shite started getting good.
I think the 80s was the apex decade to grow up in. It had a good mix of tech, toys, Star Wars, video games, etc., but wasn't over saturated like today's kids have it. You still had to go outside.
Posted on 4/3/14 at 1:51 pm to BS
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What was the catalyst for negative change? The Vietnam war?
You can't have a meaningful discussion about this without putting the Richard M. Nixon Administration front and center under the interrogation light. Hunter S. Thompson delivered a revealing snapshot view of the man in his eulogy of America's most frightening politician and most disgraced president:
If the right people had been in charge of Nixon's funeral, his casket would have been launched into one of those open-sewage canals that empty into the ocean just south of Los Angeles. He was a swine of a man and a jabbering dupe of a president. Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning. Even his funeral was illegal. He was queer in the deepest way. His body should have been burned in a trash bin.
Posted on 4/3/14 at 1:51 pm to RedRifle
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race
Never an issue in the '60's.
Posted on 4/3/14 at 1:51 pm to RedRifle
Greatest time in the history of the world
Posted on 4/3/14 at 1:52 pm to Yellerhammer5
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Never an issue in the '60's.
That was a pretty quiet decade for racial stuff.
Posted on 4/3/14 at 1:53 pm to RedRifle
It was wonderful. Life was far more simpler, less stress. Great memories. No microwaves, no cell phones, no computers, 3 channels on TV, lots of portable radios, we were happy. We walked a lot, enjoyed school dances on Friday nights. Wonderful!
Posted on 4/3/14 at 1:53 pm to Buddy Garrity
Just consider that back then, Elvis was considered a bad influence. Compare his act to the trash that's out there now & it's like Elvis was a preacher or pastor in comparision. Plus, I could get into the movie theater, get a bag of popcorn, bag of candy & a coke for $1.50 total. Guess a negative mite be that girls back then did not shave their twats, tho I was too young to confirm.
Posted on 4/3/14 at 1:54 pm to Buddy Garrity
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I'm 20 and we "had" to go outside until I was about 12 or so. That's when electronic shite started getting good.
My son is 12, has all the electronic things kids love (Xbox 360, Ipad), but he and his friends still go outside daily and usually stay there until we call him home for supper.
Posted on 4/3/14 at 1:55 pm to TigerPanzer
Posted on 4/3/14 at 1:57 pm to AUCE05
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I think the 80s was the apex decade to grow up in. It had a good mix of tech, toys, Star Wars, video games, etc., but wasn't over saturated like today's kids have it. You still had to go outside.
It's all relative. There is no golden age. Every decade had it's positives and negatives. I preferred the 90's to the 80's, but both were pretty awesome. I think the last 15 years have been very hum drum, life has become too sanitized and lethargic.
Kid growing up today will not think the same thing.
Posted on 4/3/14 at 1:58 pm to RedRifle
Posted on 4/3/14 at 1:58 pm to Darth_Vader
I wasn't outside all the time like kids were back in the day, but i spent a lot of time playing sports, fishing, and shooting stuff.
Growing up on 80 acres with a river running through it was cool.
Growing up on 80 acres with a river running through it was cool.
Posted on 4/3/14 at 1:58 pm to RedRifle
There was no internet in the 60's. Meaning no facebook, snap chat, POF, and most importantly TD.com.
Half of our current population would still be virgins.
Half of our current population would still be virgins.
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