What were the 1960s like?

[hallow]

Originally Posted by ImthatIm

In the 60s I remember looking at a thing they call
a catalog(Sear and Roebucks). It doubled as a booster seat and many more
versatile needs.
A step stool, door stop, making collages.
At Christmas time it was like a Holy book.

I grew up in the 80s and 90s and even then it was the holy book. Toys and a half nude women section what more could a 10 year old ask for. Hahahah.

Originally Posted by ketzer

Maybe you just want to live in your fantasy world. Don't you know there are all kinds of reality TV shows to watch now.

Back in the 60s there were fewer channels, but probably more reality on the news. Now with reality TV programs filling that public need, the news channels are free to pick an audience and entertain it with fantasy programming instead. It's a win win.

I suppose if one is not to picky about the kind, we can say we get much more information from the TV then we did back then. All kinds of information that we can use to form our worlds within without ever having to talk to the neighbor and catch up on the gossip. Which is good because I suspect the neighbor of being one of them anyway.

I remember when the news was boring.
Your right though kids today seem so much smarter.
Back then we were still sharpening our pungi sticks on rocks.

Originally Posted by ketzer

Well now you are dating yourself.... or maybe just placing yourself.
We had the discount store weekly liturgy from which to draw our Christmas prayers from. We could even go visit heaven and walk the isles for inspiration if we wished. The best toys were always within my reach to take down and drool over. Of course there were also the department store windows, with Santa and all the elves working busily away, which we could look upon with awe and reverence as well. I can still smell the cookies Ms. Clause would be baking every year.
Them were the days....

Oh, now your bringing up my old trauma from my Mama.

Toys were rarely on her list.
She would show it after we would run over and show our prized find.
She would whip out her list like she was quick draw Mcgraw and
read it like it was the Sacred law of Moses.


Very few times did the Sacred scroll list side in our favor.

Originally Posted by hallow

I grew up in the 80s and 90s and even then it was the holy book. Toys and a half nude women section what more could a 10 year old ask for. Hahahah.

Them Holy books have power to make a blind man see.

[desert rat]

I remember listing to short wave radio . For me it was more in the 70s , but there was cool stuff on short wave . Some of it was propraganda , but it was interesting to listen to . Most of it is gone today . One thing still around to some extent are short wave number stations . No one is sure what they are for . I have some theories and will share them if asked. There is a number station movie , but I dont agree with it.
On thoes old tv consols . If you have one but nothing works but the speakers you can hook up the speakers to a blue tooth recever . Feed it with a smart phone .

Originally Posted by ImthatIm

I remember when the news was boring.
Your right though kids today seem so much smarter.
Back then we were still sharpening our pungi sticks on rocks.

It seems that way to us, but maybe that is because kids have always been so much smarter. As I recall when I was 17 or 18, I pretty much knew everything there was to know. As time went by, I realized I wasn't going to be able to get everyone else to listen to all my answers, so I went ahead and forgot much of it. Perhaps it is a shame that they would not listen to all my wisdom and create the utopian world paradise I knew was just not that hard to do.

Oh well, I still occasionally have my regrets, but I have to say that having given up on that, I am much happier knowing I don't have to argue with all those numbskulls anymore, especially that one in particular. Now I am more content to just piddle away my time putzing with smaller projects.


Remindes me of a song.

Originally Posted by ImthatIm

Oh, now your bringing up my old trauma from my Mama.

Toys were rarely on her list.
She would show it after we would run over and show our prized find.
She would whip out her list like she was quick draw Mcgraw and
read it like it was the Sacred law of Moses.


Very few times did the Sacred scroll list side in our favor.

Well, take heart, the toys, like the joy they brought, was in the end rather short lived. No longer than my then very short attention span. The anticipation was much taller then the toy, and perhaps the more valuable of the two, as I remember the anticipation much better then any particular toy.

Now that I am old enough to legitimately judge all those "kids nowadays", I have to say that we never thought to cry after opening our Christmas pile about what was missing. Something that took me aback when I have witnessed kids nowadays, opening up a pile considerably larger nowadays, than the ones I recall from Christmas mornings back in the day. Perhaps it was hearing my dad drone on about how all he ever got for Christmas was one toy and one new pair of coveralls, and he happily played with both until the one broke and the other had holes in them. Not sure how accurate that story was, but it did have an impact nonetheless.

[BigJohn]

Use to go to McDonald. I would get 5 hamburgers and a vanilla milk shake and change back from my dollar.

[BigJohn]

Grandma use to take me to the Matinees....... 25 cents. I think popcorn was 5 cents.

[desert rat]

Some thing I had all most forgot was stores for diy electronics. Walk in and mail order. There are handful still around but Amazon has put most of them out of business. I hate to think what all the tube type radios and tv I took apart as a kid would be worth today.