My nostalgia goes back a little further than the hippie 60's, I day trip into the imaginary worlds of bygone yesteryear looking at photos..........here's one u may like
as pointed out by natural hi, the 60s weren't when the problems had been solved, it was when something was being done about them. it was the real hippies and not the established media, that was doing it. but even the corporat media at least covered the story, something it doesn't even do that any more. my memories of the 50s and 60s, when i was still in school, and living up in the hills along side the railroad tracks, was of passinger trains the i.c.c. made the railroads keep running before amtrak was cooked up. they still had pretty colors from when the railroads were still trying to get people to ride them in the late 40s and early 50s. there was talk of the government maintaining the tracks and letting the railroads run the trains which would have been fair since it also builds the roads for cars to drive on. but it was mostly just talk and we ended up with amtrak instead. which is still better then notrak, but still a pale shadow of what could be too. settlement patterns were still largely based on the availability of public transportation and i don't think anyone born since then entirely understands the advantages of that. =^^= .../\...