If You Had The Chance To Go Back To 1969 At The Age Of 19 Would You?

Yep, then i would be 17 in 1967, perfect

 

Sure. It was a hell of an exciting time. The war was the shits for those involved, the murders of the Kennedys, Mlk, the pentagon papers, Nixon (yes, a little later) woodstock, communes forming here there and everywhere, the Whole Earth catalog , Mother Earth News magazine showing how to live off the land, thousand of hitchhikers on the road, Patty Hearst and the bank robberies, etc,etc,etc, and yes-----REAL ACID. I was 29. The music was evolving from 3 chord 50s stuff to Pink Floyd, Steve Miller,eProcol Harum, The Stones,etc,etc. (I haven't even scratched the surface of what was going on). Hell yes I'd go back.

 

I got my first real six-string
Bought it at the five-and-dime
Played it 'til my fingers bled
Was the summer of sixty-nine
Me and some guys from school
Had a band and we tried real hard
Jimmy quit, Jody got married
I should've known we'd never get far
Oh, when I look back now
That summer seemed to last forever
And if I had the choice
Yeah, I'd always wanna be there
Those were the best days of my life
Ain't no use in complainin'
When you've got a job to do
Spent my evenings down at the drive-in
And that's when I met you, yeah
Standin' on your mama's porch
You told me that you'd wait forever
Oh, and when you held my hand
I knew that it was now or never
Those were the best days of my life
Oh, yeah
Back in the summer of sixty-nine, oh
Man, we were killin' time, we were young and restless
We needed to unwind
I guess nothin' can last forever, forever, no
Yeah
And now the times are changin'
Look at everything that's come and gone
Sometimes when I play that old six-string
I think about you, wonder what went wrong
Standin' on your mama's porch
You told me that it'd last forever
Oh, and when you held my hand
I knew that it was now or never
Those were the best days of my life
Oh, yeah
Back in the summer of sixty-nine, oh
It was the summer of sixty-nine, oh, yeah
Me and my baby in sixty-nine, oh
It was the summer, the summer, the summer of sixty-nine, yeah

 

I was 8.
Ya I'd go back to 69.
Had a sweet yellow Huffy. Banana seat tall handlebars.

 

I was 18, those were the best days of my life. So I'd go back.

 

I was -11 at that time, so no. Bit I wouldn't mind being 19 again for a summer or so.

 

You were a biker even at that tender age!

 

I WAS drafted in 1969. Good times, right?

No thank you. No internet.

 

Nope! I'm 19 right now in fact! Romanticizing the past is a dangerous game. I used to wish I could live in the 70's so that more of my peers would be on board with the new age lifestyle. But then I realized that that's all an illusion. You need to bloom where you are planted... whether that's a rose in a well tended garden or a dandelion breaking through a crack in the concrete!

 

Nah. Maybe.
Depends where I was.

 

Let's see. That would be twenty years before I was born--worse than being born yesterday! It would be unfamiliar territory, but we got through it as a country, so I suppose I could, too. But they still had the draft & registration and a war was going on. Just my luck! And would my wife go back with me? If not, sounds like a bad deal.

 

Fun question. I'd have to agree with those who said hell no tho. Seems like some fun times then for sure a crazy amount of chaos to go with it.

 

I was 17. War protests, draft protests, race riots, police looking for any chance to harass you. I don't really remember it being bad. But I also don't remember it being great ether. I do remember a few friends that I never saw again because of 'Nam.

 

I would go back, and change the things that were messed up from that time forward

 

all of them? what kind of powers do you have?

 

That it was just before the digital age is a reason to say yes for me.

 

I started reading at the first of this post, and yeah I think it was definitely a challenging time with Vietnam, the fight for civil rights, etc. I do think, though, that I would have been proud to have said I was 19 then. My birthday fell in the middle of the draft calendar as I look it up, so who knows if I would have gone or not. I am the youngest of two male children. I do often dream about Woodstock though. A lot of people who were genuinely good at heart with a strong desire for self-expression. I wish I could just walk around and interview them. Oh, and to see Country Joe and Grace Slick would have been fantastic!

 

Man walked on the moon... Mets win the World Series.. and the year my parents were born...I'd be older than my parents, so that wouldn't work..

 

Oh wow. If I'd been there woulda broken you all out.