Remember the 60's!...

remember the golden age of television?Star Trek and Batman,Gilligans Islands.Peace and freedom,Music,drugs?

 

lovely fantasies. the reality bears a much closer resemblence to what we have now.

many of the good things, worth remembering, largely remnants of even earlier decades, were mom and pop retailing, vertualy all retailing still having been, unionized infrstructure, virtualy all infrastructure having been, and the nonenforcement, often, in many places, nonexistence, of building codes for rural owner/builders.

percapita levels of public transportation, though already on the downward spiral that had begun not long after the ending of wwII, were still higher, then they have yet been since. i'm talking about per population, not absolete levels of service in a particular area, which in a few cases has actualy risen. you've got to realize in this context just how much lower population levels at that time really were.

the 60s WERE a time of HOPE. comming out from under the shadow of mccarthyism, and isenhours incompitance and indifference to doing anything to stem its insanity.

kennidy's nomination and subsiquent election were a real victory for everyone. young people, thanks to what happend at the end of wwII, for a time, most of the 60s, outnumbered every other age group. this gave young thinking and young people and young ideas, perhapse more political clout then they likely had ever had historicly and certainly in the history of the u.s. but it DIDN'T make them popular with the "mainstream" or even universaly among our own then age group. civil rights for example WAS a struggle. and struggles only are struggles do to overwhelming odds against and an overpowering abundance of opponents.

star trek was so wonderful, precisely because the overwhelming majority of what else was on television, was such utter and absolute crap. again, pertty much just as it is now.

it is easy in academic hindsight and wishful thinking, to paint a much rosier picture then actualy existed at the time, but it WAS a decade of hope. hope that succeeded, thanks in large part to a younger demographic, that as that demographic aged, the generation i myself was a part of, became intern very nearly the next establishment during the fallowing decade of the 70s, only to be fataly gut punched by the ragun/knomani conspiracy knee jerk against it, responsible for the tyranny we've all to some degree suffered ever since.

i can, and have, go on at great lengths, about what i would consider to have been the wonders of the 60s; n.e.t., man on the moon, and yes, even hippies, but it was NOT all tea and crumpets! not even. not by a very very very long ways.

people who got knocked down seven times got up again eight times as the saying goes, and with hope in their hearts, just as we could and must do today. looking forward and making what our future could be, instead of looking back at fantasies of what might have been. THAT is what made the 60, and THAT is what our current times require as well.

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i remember drugs and dancing rainbow teddy bears.

 

the dead had skulls and skellitons. the bears came along much later. in the late 70s or early 80s, less then a decade before garcia's demise. and the 'drug' thing came at or near the END of the 60s, NOT the beggining of them.

'the erb' was there all along granted, precisely as an alternative to becoming the kind of thoughtless alchohaulic sheep youg people saw their parents and elders as being, and wished to avoid being draged down the same mind rotting self destructive path.

acid was something the military was experimenting with in the lab in the late 50s and early 60s. it only entered popular culture with the writings of dr tim.

the mellowness was their in the 'hippie' 'counter-culture', but mellowness wasn't about drugs, it was about being harmless and creative. another of those sentiments the vested intrests of corporate media and big government were hell bent to discredit.

(and are continuing to discredit and continuing to keep everyone screwed by doing so!)

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I remember mostly tv. shows: 'Batman' ,'Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea' ,'Dr.Who', 'Do Not Adjust Your Set' ,'Get Smart',The Esso Blue Parafin t.v. commercial,'Trumpton','Danger Man'.
Music: remember when my sisters first brought home the Sgt.Pepper L.P.
I remember walks in the park,feeding ducks,sitting on the potty,same old flashbacks.

 

Green Acres rules, still catch it on Nick at Nite.


There is a intelectual foundation somewhere there, going back to the land,
Jeffersonianism, Faith in Gvmt Programs. rejection of burgeous city life.
small town values.


The 1964-65 Worlds Fair in Flushing, NYC was a forgotten part of 60's hope for the future.

 

The man from U.N.C.L.E. , anyone remember what uncle stood for ?
How about the very young Goldie Hawn, in the the bikini and body paint, go-go
dancing on "Laugh In".
.......................................Dennis......

 

united network command for law and enforcement

 

Green Acres was great. There hasn't been another sitcom with a motley crew of that many screwballs. People back in the 60s used to say that CBS stood for 'Country Bumpkin Station' since they had so many shows of rustic country humor (Hee Haw, Petticoat Junction, Green Acres, Gomer Pyle, Mayberry)

Most of those 60s shows had at least a few epsiodes of the hippie culture in them. The hipster nephew of Mr. Douglas, 'Chuck', who rigged up his tractor to go 90 MPH down the highway. The hippies on Star Trek looking for the land of eden and following a Manson-esque character leading them into doom. The militant dudes going up against Joe Friday and his buddy on a radio talk show. The flower children on Gomer Pyle who made him move the military truck because it was blocking the sunlight on the flowers (that was a young Rob Reiner playing one of the hippies, Moon Dog). The Groovy Guru on Get Smart and the rock group 'The Mosquitoes' on Gilligan's Island, named after an annoying insect (supposed to be The Beatles).

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Congrats Psychedelic man: Did you remember that or look it up ?

shaggie: remember Jethro (Beverly Hillbillys) when he met the flower children in the park, they were talkin about smoking. Jethro told them he smoked possum and he became their guru.........

 

Yeah. Forgot about that one. Hillbillies was another CBS country humor show, the mirror image of Green Acres.

There was one episode of Green Acres where Fred Ziffel said that his 'son', Arnold the pig, wanted to go home and watch Beverly Hillbillies.

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Remember "Father knows best" ? I was channel surfin the other night and stumbled
on " Hogan knows best" with Hulk Hogan and family. These times , they are a changing

 

I liked Green Acres ... sometimes. My favorite Green Acres episode was the time Mr. Ziffel got a telephone installed. Mr. Douglas was visiting him, and the phone rang:

Douglas - "Mr. Ziffel, your phone is ringing"
Ziffel - "Yeah, I hear it"
Douglas - "Well, aren't you going to answer it?"
Ziffel - "Son ... I had that phone put in for MY convenience"

I remember getting wasted and watching Tom and Jerry cartoons. Odd, they don't seem that funny now, but they probably weren't that funny then either if you weren't wasted.

Loved the Smothers Brothers. I liked Laugh-In, Goldie Hawn was cute and sweet but I thought she was way too skinny. I always wanted to make her a peanut butter sandwich or something.

Unfortunately, I also remember Dragnet. Man, if you think the Neo-Cons are hardasses, watch some Dragnet reruns.

 

we watched mostly what my mom wanted to watch because because my dad couldn't stand most of it and i didn't get too often to choose either.

pery como, diana shore, tony bennet, nat king cole, smothers brothers, laugh in, get smart, man from unkle, star trek, the third man, a bunch of stuff on n.e.t.(precursor to pbs, college classess, i did the bamboo brush painting series), and there were a couple of westerns, rifleman, verginian, bonanza, there were a couple of other things we watched, ed sullivan was still on, we always watched that, and laurance welk, and sing along with mitch.

not all of these were one the same seasons, but these pretymuch cover what we watched when they were. oh the hanabarbara cartoons, flintstones, augi doggy and doggy daddy, yogi bear, the there was wonderful world of disney, outer limits, twilight zone, top cat.

none of those in any particular order, just off the top of my head as i remember them.
mr ed a few times, petticoat junction, green acres, none of those were our regular fare, there was hee haw, we did watch that and beverly hillbillies.

and of course the nbc nightly news, oh there was the jimmy durante show, and a couple of those game shows, you bet your life and the $64,000 question.

she also watched, usualy when i was in school, which between the two i was happier to be, as the stomic turns, edge of fright, and something called "i remember moma".

hoh, there was the adams family and the munsters, they were both good, but i don't remember for sure what decade that was they were on. i'm sure part of it was in the 60s.

i remember we had a big old sears silvertone "table model" black and white we watched them on for years. the knobs had fallen/rotted off by the time we replaced it. she kept a pair of needle nose pliers handy to turn them with. Ha; that was our "remote". guess you could say we were kind of beverly hillbillies ourselves.

always had rabbit ears, never an antenna on the roof, until we moved up on top of the hill and had to get a super antena AND a booster box to pick up such "fringe area" reception.

in colfax and auburn we got the sacramento stations. when we were at norden we had to pick up some of them from reno.

nbc was always mom's favorite, and almost the only other station we'd watch was n.e.t.

i remember we also used to watch wide wide world with edward r murrow, and even aurthur godfry, but that was back in the 50s i think.

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Anyone ever watch Soupy Sales ?

 

Nat King Cole had a good show. It can still be seen on a Canadian jazz channel. Nowhere to be found in the U.S. The original Smothers Brothers are nowhere to be seen. It's as if uncle charlie burned the originals.

Haven't seen any re-runs of Soupy. That was the respectable era before trash TV and people grabbing each other's necks and rolling on the stage.

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Mitch Miller.

They spoofed him on the Flintstones once. He tried to woo Betty and Wilma and they bashed him over the head with their purses.

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Piney: Soupy Sales, never missed the show. Black Tooth and White Fang and all the shaving cream pies.
About that time, Soupy was voted "Best dressed man in Hollywood", not so much on the show ,but he did dress pretty sharp.......

 

Anyone remember ? " My Little Margie "

 

I barely remember "My Little Margie", but I do remember the "Gale Storm Show".