Trivia
From the
Past
TV and Movies
Do the words "BROUGHT TO YOU IN LIVING COLOR" bring back memories? (My own kids think that I must be ancient to remember television as a black and white medium) Since many of us had only three channels that came in, we had to have watched many of the smae show. Now these same shows are the ones that our kids watch today on Nick at Night! And they wonder how we know the theme songs by heart! Remember some of these?
Gilligans Island
Leave it to Beaver
Romper Room (remember the magic mirror?)
Hazel
Lawrence Welk (not that I ever watched it!)
Green Acres
The Galloping Gourmet (Sundays…Hey, it was the only thing on in the afternoon!)
The Brady Bunch
The Partridge Family and The Monkees?
Johnny Quest
School House Rock
Doby Gillis
Family Affair
My Three Sons
Ben Casey
Flipper
Bonanza
Batman
Petticoat Junction
Styles
Think the kids wear strange looking clothes now? Take a look back at some of those old Polaroids…
To start with, Twiggy was our supermodel of the late 60's. Talk about an impossible role model for the girls! She could not have weighed 90 pounds! Along with the Twiggy look we had:
Fishnet stockings
Mini-skirts
Thigh-high boots (go-go)
Nero Collars
Hip-huggers
Fringed leather jackets and vests (the longer the fringe the better)
BELL-BOTTOMS! (Elephant bells, remember those?)
See-through blouses
CPO jackets (to cover up the see-through blouses)
Mocassins
And to accessorize
:Beads, beads, and more beads
Head bands
Chains
Patches everywhere
Chokers
Slave bracelets
Mood Rings
Buttons (see Slogans)
American Flags
John Lennon style sunglasses
And of course…
HAIR…
Some other images from the past..
Odds and Ends
(Sports, Science, Pop Icons, Hippie Days, Etc.)
Sports
Feb. 1972--Winter Olympics in Sapporo, Japan
Science
First man in space--Alan Shepherd---5/25/1961
First man to walk on the moon---7/20/1969 (I will always remember where I was)
The waterbed invented---1968
Hippie Days!
Haight Ashbury was probably where the crazy days of concerts, love-ins,
Communes, and the whole Psychedelic Scene got it's foothold. In the summer of 1965 the
Beat Movement was underway, followed closely by the Summer of Love in 1967. Flower children. Love children and Hippies were all part of this trip to San Francisco where love prevailed over violence. Free love was the 'in' thing (that was before AIDS awareness), and of course drugs. Marijuana and LSD were everywhere. Timothy Leary had quit Harvard and was the Hippie Guru. The Human Be-In was held at the Golden Gate Bridge with Leary, The Grateful Dead, Allen Ginsberg, Jefferson Airplane, and other celebrities of the times in attendance. Huge concerts were the happening thing, like the Montery Beat Festival and the all time biggie, Woodstock. The cool thing about all that was going on was that it was all done with love, and a sense of community. No way could a huge concert like that be held today without senseless acts of violence and hatred.
Send any memories you may have to djo@nokomis.net and I may include them on this page.
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