Here is a rather "interesting" website that has a lot of very good photos of our parents during the 60's era and the "Flower Power" and Civil Rights movement.

enjoy :)

http://www.altmanphoto.com/Page7.MrSixties.html

It is very strange to find events from my own life in the history section. In fact, it is almost as strange as finding out the oldies station was playing music I both liked and remembered. While I wasn't at any of the events pictured, I like to think that Robert Altman wasn't at any of the places that I was.

In fact, it is almost as strange as finding out the oldies station was playing music I both liked and remembered.
lol

While I wasn't at any of the events pictured, I like to think that Robert Altman wasn't at any of the places that I was.
Weren't you in school like a good boy for most of the 60s?

very good photos of our parents during the 60's era
Interesting pics, though I think the 50s were more my parents thing.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by golleemollee


While I wasn't at any of the events pictured, I like to think that Robert Altman wasn't at any of the places that I was.
Weren't you in school like a good boy for most of the 60s?

I was in various schools in the sixties, starting with elementary school, and winding up with college. Of course the University of Wisconsin in Madison had it's interesting moments in the late sixties. I'd tell you all about them, but if you can remember the sixties you weren't really there.

Those pics take me back. I agree, it is strange to see my life in the history section. It was a powerfull time to be young. Our generation changed the face of this nation and the world.

I'd tell you all about them, but if you can remember the sixties you weren't really there.

Well, I was there, albeit a mere lass of 1 through 10 years of age. I can't even remember New Years 1970. Must've been asleep.

Originally posted by Echo2
Those pics take me back. I agree, it is strange to see my life in the history section. It was a powerfull time to be young. Our generation changed the face of this nation and the world.


Dunkirk is just trying to say that old folks like us are history. It was a powerful and interesting time to be young, and we did change a lot of things. We were just crazy and idealistic enough not to believe we couldn't make a difference.

I think that most groups of kids, of any era, believe they can make a difference. But life and this old world has a way of beating them down. It's sad.

The 1920's era of young folk are , in my mind, the craziest bunch ever in this country. Girls cut their hair, threw away their corsets and long skirts. smoked, drank, learned to drive. All shocking and unheard- of to the older folk. Perhaps the terrible carnage of WW I made them realize how very fleeting life can be. They were determined to enjoy themselves and did.

Until the Great Depression came along...

Sometimes I think there is no winning this game.

Something happened in the 60s, cultural history stopped and a cultural present got bigger and bigger. I remember back to when I was the same age as my son is now, 17, and I had nothing but contempt (artistically) for the music my parents listened to, the icons they 'worshipped'. Whereas, while my son has very contemporary tastes, he (and his friends) also has a deep regard for the music and culture of my youth. He spends hours with his guitar learning Who songs, early Pink Floyd, as much as he does, say, Green Day. Musically, we are living in a 40 year present. I heard a person on the radio the other day announce White Stripes' My Doorbell and, afterwards, comment that it was Led Zeppellin ringing, asking for their tune back. I remember my parents scornfully dismissing the likes of the Stones, quite sure they 'would be unheard of in five minutes', forty plus years on... Talking with my parents about music was much the same as trying to communicate with a person who only spoke a different language. I can converse with my son on common ground not because I am one of these saddoes clinging desparately to a long vanished youth but because we can.

Cool !