The Sixties

[Tink]

It was a in my opinion the greatest decade. I was 5 when it began and 15 when it ended. We had toy replica guns, some were pretty accurate with corks and you could get good with the bazooka. We got to ride in old cars with mohair seats. We had "street outlaws" and to a 15-16 year old, street racing was the ultimate. We watched Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon on TV, what could top that?

 

[Jim 68cuda]

It was a in my opinion the greatest decade. ... We watched Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon on TV, what could top that?

Having a device that fits in our pockets that has the ability to access all the accumulated knowledge of mankind and using it to look at pictures of cats.

Growing up in the 60's i was always into cars. My Mom told me once that she bought a toy gun for me but never gave it to me because she figured I wouldn't be interested. A couple years ago my brother and I were cleaning out my Mom's attic and found that Johnny Seven One Man Army toy gun still in the original box. Heres a link to the pictures I took the one and only time I took it out of the box.
Johnny Seven | Facebook

 

[CanCritter]

when l was five was was playin in castles and bunkers...base brat...we came back to Canada 69 and watched the moonlanding couple days later in Toronto...anyway got back in time to watch the end of the muscle car era...was the best of times

 

[commando1]

The 60's car era is something that will never be topped regardless of what comes along.
Hellcats can't even get a rise out me. Faster? Sure, More exciting? Doesn't even come close.

 

[Xenon]

ahhhhhh... *sigh* nostalgia...............
Real street racing....
Muscle cars .....
Cruise nights (where ppl actually CRUISED the streets/parking lots)
5$ race or watch at local drag strip....
25 cent burgers from Carrols.....
No damn traffic cameras.. Cops had to actually SEE you break the law...
Lacquer paint and wild paint schemes....

 

[69CoronetRT]

Boy the way Glenn Miller played........

JFK, MLK, RFK, Medgar Evers, Malcom X, Watts riots, '68 Democratic Convention, Cuban missile crisis, Manson murders, Selma, Vietnam, Six Day war, Church bombings, Freedom rider murders, lack of civil rights, Bay of Pigs, '68 Olympics, Tet offensive, "I will not seek nor will I accept...", Berlin wall.

61 in 61, AFL, First Super Bowl, the Beatles, the Stones, the Doors, Woodstock, LSD, Miracle Mets, Civil Rights act, Space Race, Man on the Moon, rise of the machines from Detroit, Summer of Love, Mary Poppins, The Longest Day, Bonnie and Clyde, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, the Pill, Vatican II,

those were the days..

 

[67-Fury]

The Art, Culture, Music, Cars. Were all the best in the mid, Late 60s. All this stuff is Garbage now. A Time when you Could go, Drop Acid, Take Quaaludes And go see Jimi Hendrix, Drive there in a 69 Superbee.

The 60s was Very long on Substance and Short on style. Sadly it is the other was around now. Todays world is very Consumer, Trite. People have Lack of Character Now. Everyone is P.C and Stupid. No Originality anymore. No imagination. We have progressed a lot since then, which is good but we also have gotten Worse in ways,

 

[detmatt]

I wish I could have witnessed some of it firsthand but that would mean I was really old like most of you codgers. I had a great time growing up in the '70s and '80s.

 

[traintech55]

The 60's was the best decade, from great cars, great music, people cared about one another, the only thing I can think of to top all that is Long hair, mini skirts, and go go boots. (On a woman of course).

 

[Mopars & Missiles]

......The 60's was the best decade,.... mini skirts, and go go boots. (On a woman of course).

FINALLY, someone besides me remembers the ......mini skirts........OMG! take me back, PLEASE!!

 

[Big_John]

Sorry, the sixties weren't all tits and ice cream.

I can remember going down to the basement of my school in the second grade and squatting down next to the wall for the air raid drill... Lot's of fear for everyone and terrifying for a kid my age that kind of understood what was going on. In high school, I remember when my friend's brother Billy didn't come home from the war.

Music was good, cars were great and yea, Armstrong was on the moon... It wasn't all good though.

 

[commando1]

It wasn't all good though.

The United States was the mightiest empire on Earth. Now we're in a race to the bottom to replace Mexico, Brazil, and India.

 

[Big_John]

The United States was the mightiest empire on Earth. Now we're in a race to the bottom to replace Mexico, Brazil, and India.

IMHO, the only debate is when this trip into hell started and there's some good arguments that it began even before the sixties.

 

[commando1]

IMHO, the only debate is when this trip into hell started and there's some good arguments that it began even before the sixties.

I truly believe FDR was one of the worst presidents ever for introducing Socialism into the fabric of daily life. That may be the start which doomed the peak of our society 30 years later. Takes time to snowball.

 

[bluefury361]

The 60's was a very turbulent and bittersweet time for me. I was young & dumb, took things as they came. Started driving in 1964 and being a car guy in Detroit was a very exciting thing. I wish I had the presence of thought at the time to pay closer attention. I just assumed nothing would ever change. That's the sweet.
The Bitter,...... Viet Nam, 1968/69. I came back, forever changed, Nothing would ever be the same. It took me 10 years to get my head screwed on back straight. I'm cool with everything that happened now but still find it hard to take life seriously. I'm still trying to cram all I would like to do into a time not long enough to do it.
I've learned to act on life's opportunity's and adjust to the consequences.

 

[Flatlander]

The United States was the mightiest empire on Earth. Now we're in a race to the bottom to replace Mexico, Brazil, and India.

To have an Empire means conquering other countries. Which ones have the US conquered?

 

[Mopars & Missiles]

........Sorry, the sixties weren't all tits and ice cream.........

It's a real shame you didn't "get" any, but some of us had a really great time!

 

[67Monaco]

Ah the sixties, I've got a few uncles and a father in law that would argue it sucked monkey balls. You know, dredging through the jungle not trying to get killed and all. Then to come home and be spat upon by the very people that sent them to said jungle. Great times from what I hear.

 

[67Monaco]

I truly believe FDR was one of the worst presidents ever for introducing Socialism into the fabric of daily life.

Said the site's loudest cheerleader for socialism...

 

[commando1]

To have an Empire means conquering other countries. Which ones have the US conquered?

THE DEFINING CHARACTERISTICS OF GREAT EMPIRES
Centralized leadership and an efficiently run government that controls people of different religions, languages, ethnic origins, and cultures,i.e, diverse population

Uniform currencies and standards of weights and measures that simplified tax collection, government finance, and trade

Required service from their citizens

Possession of weapons and military technology superior to those of their enemies.

Uniform legal codes

Patronized learning (literature, arts, philosophy) and advanced technology

Elaborate public works

Instilled a sense of strong allegiance and spirit of public service in the people

THE DECLINE AND FALL OF EMPIRES

Failure of leadership

Bureaucratic corruption

Inequitable economic burdens

Regional, racial, or ethnic tensions

Decline of spirit of allegiance to the empire, especially martial spirit

Collapse of the economy, costly technology and the expense of maintaining large projects

Moral decline

Doubts over the ideology and/or escapist or otherworldly religions

External enemies

Overextension of the empire