JFK RFK MLK assasinations, Manson murders, Vietnam war, Woodstock, Chappaquiddick, Cuban missile crisis, Civil Rights, etc etc etc. I turned 13 in 1960 and finished the decade as a 22 year old US Army sergeant. It was a helluva ride.
Oh I love that song! Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion "Lawrence of Arabia", British Beatlemania Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British politician sex JFK - blown away, what else do I have to say? … We didn't start the fire It was always burning, since the world's been turning We didn't start the fire No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it
My brother had GI Joe action figures. My mom had the Beatles albums. We danced to them. I guess I am getting younger. I had the mini skirt and bell bottoms pants. Our uniforms in private school also were shorter. History repeats itself. Bell bottoms are back. Also we were the first family in my building to have color T.V in 1967 my playmates would come to our house to watch cartoons on Saturday mornings. Thanks again for the memories.
My family had the 1960s station wagon, always a Chrysler as my grandfather had a large Chrysler auto + marine dealership. But, I had the use of a 1970 Plymouth Roadrunner with Hurst shift in '83/'84 as my everyday car. What a car! I so loved it. I'd have one again except that it was about 2 miles per gallon of leaded fuel! Also, you cannot insure a car of the '70s for daily driving in California today.
'60s kid, here, and also a subscriber. I'm enjoying your vids. Looks like you're doing your research, and that's refreshing. 😎 There are other nostalgia channels that get a lot of details wrong because they skimp on the fact-checking. Keep up the good work!
The civilians at my Navy workshop used to kid a sailor, who worked at a field station across the island, to be sure he gassed up his Plymouth Roadrunner before undertaking the less than 10 mile drive between the two locations. I used popsicle sticks to fashion a prosthetic arm for my brother's G.I. Joe.
Let's see, what 10 things do I remember from the 1960's? #1 Race Riots #2 Viet Nam War Protests #3 Assassination of Bobby Kennedy #4 Soviets Crush the Prague Spring #5 The Drug Soaked Summer of Love #6 Assassination of Martin Luther King #7 Tate/Labianca Murders by the Manson Family #8 Student Riots in Paris #9 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago #10 JFK's Trip to Dallas Lotsa good times there!
I’m surprised you didn’t mention The Summer of Love in 1967. I was only vaguely aware of the hippie movement, being only seven years old in that Summer. When I became an adult in 1978, the last thing my generation wanted was to be hippies!
Other than the Vietnam War, the 60s was like a bed of roses compared to the senseless crimes, open borders, thugs, carjackings, store robberies, bad music, mass looting and over all vileness we see taking place today on the streets all the way up to the Whitehouse.
1Million BC, my 1967 GTO I inherited from my older brother KIA in 1968 Vietnam. Bell Bottom Jeans, and America's Space Programs Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo to the moon.
Funny. My littke brother had one that was worn out. When you pulled the string it said I'm gonna catch a rabbit for you. Originally I have a tough assignment for you. We concluded joe had been over in Nam doing the hallucinations thing
I love your wonderful videos looking back at our wonderful late 50s and 60s and early 70s. Is there a way to contact you to support this wonderful effort?
Color TV, my first girlfriend, my 69 Road Runner, and, of course, the music. And back then drivers waved with their entire hand, not the middle finger.
When my older Drivers Brother was KIA in 68 in Vietnam I inherited his 67 Pontiac GTO but had to wait until 1973 until I got my Texas DL after taking Drivers Ed.
Although not a muscle car the Corvette could be bought with a race engine that was rated at 430 hp but was actually more like 630 hp I remember being a remote control for the TV as I was the youngest. Watching whatever was on TV because that was all there was. (like I had a choice) Most of the shows just plain sucked in the 60s. News shows that reported the News of all things. They did not have opinion councils to explain the news to people too stupid to understand it. I barely remember scenes from Vietnam. *LANDING ON THE MOON!* the moon program was covered in school. Being with family at the dinner table and watching TV. If the phone in the kitchen rang it didn't isolate people into the twilight zone as it does today. Reading books. Listening to the radio...AM of course as FM was that weird stuff.
Some of these things will only be remembered by Americans and I'm English. I did wear mini skirts when I was at University, and I saw the Beatles live in my local theatre in 1964. I remember the moon landing and the assassination of President Kennedy. I also remember the 1966 World Cup when as a family we watched every televised match religiously in spite of having no interest in football before or since.
Connie Francis , the best female singer of all time , who was voted the number one female entertainer of the 20th century . Connie is a brave , courageous woman who payed her own way to go to Viet Nam to entertain and boost the morale of our American soldiers . While there , she performed the most important concert ever by singing God Bless America , with 25 thousand soldiers singing along with her .
To be honest, if you want to talk about the NY Yankees, you'd be better off putting them in a video about the 1950s. In the 60s, they appeared in five World Series and won two: in the 50s, they were in seven and won five (I'd have to check the exact numbers, but I think the point's been made)
Zodiac killings, haight Ashbury san fran... We had mini skirts, hit pants (short shorts) boots, long straight hair, floppy hats... We had great teen years.. i had a 1965 Riviera, boyfriend had a 64 GTO.. we married, still had both cars on our 10th anniversary but rarely drove them. I had a GMC suburban, haul kids around he had a Truck for work... Should have kept that GTO, I told him to keep it that one day it would be worth a lot... He sold both riv and GTO when our oldest started highschool
Back in the 60's, i was way too young to appreciate seeing cute girls in miniskirts, but at least I was fortunate to have seen the Moon Landing on TV with my parents. 🌕
Hippies were not early 60s. They were late mid to late 60s. Sort of a spinoff of the 50s and early 60s Beatniks. Mix it in with anti vietnam war protestors, drugs, sex and music and it became hip!/Hippy!
I watched my sister style her hair, put on her mini skirt,white boots to go out.She taught me how to dance,turned me on to The Beatles, Three Dog Night, The Guess Who. I was 8 years younger. I was born 1959 and her 1951. We are close by way of phone these days. Her 2 kids are into music. My 3 love the clothes. 60-70 kids they are but we're going to switch stuff to surprise them for bdays.
Um..The Beatles made TWO full length movies - A Hard Day’s Night & Help!….would not want the young ones to be led astray by incorrect information. Thank you, Sunny Jim!!
Do you remember where you were when you heard of JFK's assassination? I have the piece of furniture which was beside me at the time. Everytime I look at it, the same feeling comes back.
Well, in regards to the event referenced at about 3:40, protesting the criminalization of subtance use... I think the verdict is in on that one. San Francisco finally decriminalized it (so have whole states, like Oregon), and the results are nothing short of disastrous: with homeless encampments, piles of feces and used needles littering the streets. George Harrison saw the handwriting on the wall back during the sixties, during a visit to San Francisco when he saw drug users lying about in the street, in the famous Haight-Ashbury district, and it struck him that they didn't like like "enlightened" people engaging in self-discovery or having spiritual awakenings, they looked exactly like the passed-out winos he'd seen growing up in Liverpool. Addiction isn't pretty. And this inspired him to look at LSD under a microscope, where he saw that it looked like "bits of old rope" and he decided he wasn't putting that stuff in his brain anymore.
I started my career in 1969 making $1.80 per hour. I retired in 2005 making $25 per hour. Gas would have had to cost $3.75 in 2005 to equal my buying power in 1969. In 2005 gas cost around $2 per gallon. So, for me, gas was cheaper in 2005
I've been watching you tube wrong for ever. Didn't realize liking and subscribing was the "American" way. There are other countries, not JUST 'murica. I like these videos, bringing back lots of memories. But I'm not in the usa, so I better stop subscribing and liking.
My first boyfriend had to have a Camaro, and my brother a Dodge Charter in the 70s, when I was a teenager. Theses old polluters are still popular with teenagers today, but can’t pass the Smog Checks, so can’t be registered or legally driven.
Do you know how many times you used the word "iconic" before you were even two minutes into your video presentation?! It's ridiculous. This word is used by just about every single presenter when they are sharing with their viewing audience their various subjects/interests, including, for example, biographical stories, and it has become a very tired cliche. It illustrates how lazy people have become by choosing to not look for fresher, more original ways to present their narratives. Let me offer you a resource: It's called a thesaurus, which is a book of words that are similar, i.e., a book of synonyms, and you should be able to find replacement words for "iconic." I just can't watch your videos having to hear that word constantly used!
EDIT: "10 Things You Remember... If You GREW UP In The 1960s ... in the globally isolated American Bubble World and have no idea what the first "w" in "www" stands for."
JFK RFK MLK assasinations, Manson murders, Vietnam war, Woodstock, Chappaquiddick, Cuban missile crisis, Civil Rights, etc etc etc. I turned 13 in 1960 and finished the decade as a 22 year old US Army sergeant. It was a helluva ride.
Oh I love that song!
Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion
"Lawrence of Arabia", British Beatlemania
Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson
Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British politician sex
JFK - blown away, what else do I have to say?
… We didn't start the fire
It was always burning, since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it
@UmmYeahOk Yeah I started hearing in my head too.🎶🎶🎶😁
I turned 12 by the end but all this seems very memorable to me.👍🏼
I LOVE these videos! It takes me back to a time when things actually made sense! How I wish I could go back....
How fun seeing my childhood, I love the muscle cars still today too. Have a great day
My brother had GI Joe action figures. My mom had the Beatles albums. We danced to them. I guess I am getting younger. I had the mini skirt and bell bottoms pants. Our uniforms in private school also were shorter. History repeats itself. Bell bottoms are back. Also we were the first family in my building to have color T.V in 1967 my playmates would come to our house to watch cartoons on Saturday mornings. Thanks again for the memories.
My family had the 1960s station wagon, always a Chrysler as my grandfather had a large Chrysler auto + marine dealership. But, I had the use of a 1970 Plymouth Roadrunner with Hurst shift in '83/'84 as my everyday car. What a car! I so loved it. I'd have one again except that it was about 2 miles per gallon of leaded fuel! Also, you cannot insure a car of the '70s for daily driving in California today.
I wasnt around in the 60s but i grew up with my grandparents and my uncles, and much of this video i actually am familiar with..
'60s kid, here, and also a subscriber. I'm enjoying your vids. Looks like you're doing your research, and that's refreshing. 😎 There are other nostalgia channels that get a lot of details wrong because they skimp on the fact-checking. Keep up the good work!
I appreciate that!
Just stumbled upon your channel! Great work! Keep rocking bro! 🤟😝
In 61' My father and some friends drove to NY for the 61' Worlds Series. He brought us back so Souvinier Yankee Baseball caps and jackets.
Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass. I loved their music.
Taste of Honey!
I just wish herb alert had kept on with vocal songs. Loved this guy's in love with you.
Ringo kept it simple with a Bass, a Tom tom, a floor Tom tom, a snare, a Hi-hat and 2 cymbals.
Thank you for posting 👍👍
Great videos! Keep it up.
I think muscle cars are iconic _today._ Because they were popular and ubiquitous in the 1960s.
The civilians at my Navy workshop used to kid a sailor, who worked at a field station across the island, to be sure he gassed up his Plymouth Roadrunner before undertaking the less than 10 mile drive between the two locations.
I used popsicle sticks to fashion a prosthetic arm for my brother's G.I. Joe.
Yep! I Was There! Especially for Twilight Zone and the Moon Landing. Both in black and white.
I was born in 1961, I did meet flower children when I was about 10 or 11.
3:05 Thats Geo. Harrison. This is a gathering where he later said he did not want to be at.
Let's see, what 10 things do I remember from the 1960's?
#1 Race Riots
#2 Viet Nam War Protests
#3 Assassination of Bobby Kennedy
#4 Soviets Crush the Prague Spring
#5 The Drug Soaked Summer of Love
#6 Assassination of Martin Luther King
#7 Tate/Labianca Murders by the Manson Family
#8 Student Riots in Paris
#9 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago
#10 JFK's Trip to Dallas
Lotsa good times there!
I’m surprised you didn’t mention The Summer of Love in 1967. I was only vaguely aware of the hippie movement, being only seven years old in that Summer. When I became an adult in 1978, the last thing my generation wanted was to be hippies!
Their cause was underrated
What a time! Quite a tumultuous decade.
It was indeed, but it was a great time to be a kid.
Other than the Vietnam War, the 60s was like a bed of roses compared to the senseless crimes, open borders, thugs, carjackings, store robberies, bad music, mass looting and over all vileness we see taking place today on the streets all the way up to the Whitehouse.
@@matrox The borders are not open. Turn off the Fox "News" and pull your head out of your ass.
1Million BC, my 1967 GTO I inherited from my older brother KIA in 1968 Vietnam. Bell Bottom Jeans, and America's Space Programs Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo to the moon.
I had a GI Joe doll.....eerrr I mean action figure, and a 69 Road Runner.
Funny. My littke brother had one that was worn out. When you pulled the string it said I'm gonna catch a rabbit for you. Originally I have a tough assignment for you. We concluded joe had been over in Nam doing the hallucinations thing
I love your wonderful videos looking back at our wonderful late 50s and 60s and early 70s. Is there a way to contact you to support this wonderful effort?
Thanks! Contact email is in the channel description. :)
Support r fk.
Raquel welch in the bikini was on a poster, on the Prison wall in shawshank redemption
I think that was Rita Hayworth.
@@ProfessorEchoMedia
It was Rita Hayworth and Raquel Welch as the film spanned several decades. I know, I've seen it 23 times.
You left out Woodstock!
My favorite toys back then were Hot Wheels, GI Joe, and my Schwinn bicycle with a banana seat and sissy bar.
I liked the Lemmon peeler the orange karate the cotton something. So on. I said orange crate tge phone said karate. Thank phone.
Color TV, my first girlfriend, my 69 Road Runner, and, of course, the music. And back then drivers waved with their entire hand, not the middle finger.
When my older Drivers Brother was KIA in 68 in Vietnam I inherited his 67 Pontiac GTO but had to wait until 1973 until I got my Texas DL after taking Drivers Ed.
I wish I could go back to the 1960
Why?
We watched our male family members get drafted and sent to Nam. It was awful when they didn't come home.
Although not a muscle car the Corvette could be bought with a race engine that was rated at 430 hp but was actually more like 630 hp
I remember being a remote control for the TV as I was the youngest.
Watching whatever was on TV because that was all there was. (like I had a choice)
Most of the shows just plain sucked in the 60s.
News shows that reported the News of all things. They did not have opinion councils to explain the news to people too stupid to understand it.
I barely remember scenes from Vietnam.
*LANDING ON THE MOON!* the moon program was covered in school.
Being with family at the dinner table and watching TV.
If the phone in the kitchen rang it didn't isolate people into the twilight zone as it does today.
Reading books. Listening to the radio...AM of course as FM was that weird stuff.
I LOVE these videos!
Some of these things will only be remembered by Americans and I'm English. I did wear mini skirts when I was at University, and I saw the Beatles live in my local theatre in 1964. I remember the moon landing and the assassination of President Kennedy. I also remember the 1966 World Cup when as a family we watched every televised match religiously in spite of having no interest in football before or since.
I went to the games to talk to women.
What about iconic TV?
Lost in Space
Flintstones
Bewitched
Bonanza
Dark Shadows
STAR TREK!!!!!!
Ah yes, #1 on your list was The Penny Show …
That was #1 on my list, too !!
Superman George reeves and Adam west. Batman
Connie Francis , the best female singer of all time , who was voted the number one female entertainer of the 20th century .
Connie is a brave , courageous woman who payed her own way to go to Viet Nam to entertain and boost the morale of our American soldiers .
While there , she performed the most important concert ever by singing God Bless America , with 25 thousand soldiers singing along with her .
YES TO EVERYTHING ❤
What about paper dresses?
Saddle shoes?
Liddle Kiddles? Trolls?
In addition to Twilight Zone I liked Way Out,
What about the 1957 Edsel? Was that a muscle car?
Going downhill only
Actually, one of the Edsel models was fast as hell, for the day …
What about the 12 cylinder xke jag. Main thing about the 60s innovation was not limited by the corporate swamp corruption.
Thanks for adding actual captions for the Deaf
When I was in the Army I wrote love letters back home. No not my wife or girlfriend. It was to 68 396 SS Camaro.😂
I was a kid. I remember wondering what all the hullabaloo was about because, after all, we'd been headed there my entire life, ha ha.
To be honest, if you want to talk about the NY Yankees, you'd be better off putting them in a video about the 1950s. In the 60s, they appeared in five World Series and won two: in the 50s, they were in seven and won five (I'd have to check the exact numbers, but I think the point's been made)
Zodiac killings, haight Ashbury san fran... We had mini skirts, hit pants (short shorts) boots, long straight hair, floppy hats... We had great teen years.. i had a 1965 Riviera, boyfriend had a 64 GTO.. we married, still had both cars on our 10th anniversary but rarely drove them. I had a GMC suburban, haul kids around he had a Truck for work... Should have kept that GTO, I told him to keep it that one day it would be worth a lot... He sold both riv and GTO when our oldest started highschool
Back in the 60's, i was way too young to appreciate seeing cute girls in miniskirts, but at least I was fortunate to have seen the Moon Landing on TV with my parents. 🌕
Hippies were not early 60s. They were late mid to late 60s. Sort of a spinoff of the 50s and early 60s Beatniks. Mix it in with anti vietnam war protestors, drugs, sex and music and it became hip!/Hippy!
What's Your Favorite 1960s Memory Or Trend?
The Vietnam War, the Civil Rights movement, the Democratic National Convention, and numerous race riots.
The people were much nicer and being a kid at the time. I was born in 1961, best times ever. I did play with GI Joes they were GREAT!
Herb Alpert, Bert Kaempfert, James Last, other instrumental musicians. I didn’t like the Beatles and I still don’t.
I watched my sister style her hair, put on her mini skirt,white boots to go out.She taught me how to dance,turned me on to The Beatles, Three Dog Night, The Guess Who. I was 8 years younger. I was born 1959 and her 1951. We are close by way of phone these days. Her 2 kids are into music. My 3 love the clothes. 60-70 kids they are but we're going to switch stuff to surprise them for bdays.
@@glennso47I never did either. I was 8 in 1966. And my favorite song was never on Sunday by Don Costa orchestra.
Um..The Beatles made TWO full length movies - A Hard Day’s Night & Help!….would not want the young ones to be led astray by incorrect information. Thank you, Sunny Jim!!
Elvis got drafted, and got married. Rise of Richard Petty in NASCAR. SO VERY MUCH MORE COULD BE ADDED.. Wood Stock, Vietnam, Death of JFK.
Elvis was drafted in 1957
Do you remember where you were when you heard of JFK's assassination? I have the piece of furniture which was beside me at the time. Everytime I look at it, the same feeling comes back.
Some of my family probably did rely on it by then at the time
Ikaanic.
So I take it your not a ford Fan. You completely left out the FORD Mustang
Watch again. White Shelby GT 500.
The death of JFK was a tragedy in the 1960s
Woodstock
What about Woodstock? That was a major scandal to our parents.
The Beatles never become un-famous.
If you remember the 60's...Then you WERE not there!!!
Trying to figure out what you mean. I was there graduating high school in 66 and certainly remember
What about James Bond and BATMAN?
Well, in regards to the event referenced at about 3:40, protesting the criminalization of subtance use... I think the verdict is in on that one. San Francisco finally decriminalized it (so have whole states, like Oregon), and the results are nothing short of disastrous: with homeless encampments, piles of feces and used needles littering the streets. George Harrison saw the handwriting on the wall back during the sixties, during a visit to San Francisco when he saw drug users lying about in the street, in the famous Haight-Ashbury district, and it struck him that they didn't like like "enlightened" people engaging in self-discovery or having spiritual awakenings, they looked exactly like the passed-out winos he'd seen growing up in Liverpool. Addiction isn't pretty. And this inspired him to look at LSD under a microscope, where he saw that it looked like "bits of old rope" and he decided he wasn't putting that stuff in his brain anymore.
Grew up in the 50s & 60s , but not in the USA .
Cool a boomer channel!
Gas sure was not an issue back then
I started my career in 1969 making $1.80 per hour. I retired in 2005 making $25 per hour. Gas would have had to cost $3.75 in 2005 to equal my buying power in 1969. In 2005 gas cost around $2 per gallon. So, for me, gas was cheaper in 2005
What No AMC Amercan Motors muscle cars
Seriously? Not one word about the American war in Vietnam? Really?
I've been watching you tube wrong for ever. Didn't realize liking and subscribing was the "American" way.
There are other countries, not JUST 'murica.
I like these videos, bringing back lots of memories. But I'm not in the usa, so I better stop subscribing and liking.
My first boyfriend had to have a Camaro, and my brother a Dodge Charter in the 70s, when I was a teenager. Theses old polluters are still popular with teenagers today, but can’t pass the Smog Checks, so can’t be registered or legally driven.
Those old cars are not required to pass smog checks in America, not sure what country you are in.
Not "one of..." lol.
454
I think you mean 427, but yeah …
@@Clyde-2055 The 454 ci LS 5 engine was in the Chevelle SS 454.
@@TheOtherBill - The video was “if you grew up in the 60’s”. The 454 wasn’t introduced until 1970 …
@@Clyde-2055 True, it was the 1970 model year, but you could order one in mid '69 and take delivery later that same year.
I thought it was all about cars from my era. The rest is fodder.
Do you know how many times you used the word "iconic" before you were even two minutes into your video presentation?! It's ridiculous. This word is used by just about every single presenter when they are sharing with their viewing audience their various subjects/interests, including, for example, biographical stories, and it has become a very tired cliche. It illustrates how lazy people have become by choosing to not look for fresher, more original ways to present their narratives. Let me offer you a resource: It's called a thesaurus, which is a book of words that are similar, i.e., a book of synonyms, and you should be able to find replacement words for "iconic." I just can't watch your videos having to hear that word constantly used!
EDIT: "10 Things You Remember... If You GREW UP In The 1960s ... in the globally isolated American Bubble World and have no idea what the first "w" in "www" stands for."
Nucular war...