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60s‘ Flashback Time is was, and what a time it was ‘60s‘60s‘60s FlashbackFlashbackFlashback Time It Was and What a Time It Was WILLOW CREEK PRESS® © 2010 Willow Creek Press Contents All Rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from the Pub- INTRODUCTION...7 lisher. POWER OF THE PEOPLE...9 Voices from the Sixties Published by Willow Creek Press P.O. Box 147, Minocqua, Wisconsin 54548 FADS, FASHIONS & FAVORITES...27 The fashions of this world passeth away For information on other Willow Creek Press titles, call 1-800-850-9453 LET’S ALL GO TO THE MOVIES!...35 A Remarkable Era for Film Photos on Pages 8, 10, 13, 14, 17, 22, 25 are believed to be in the public domain. 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Introduction “If you can remember anything about the sixties, you weren’t really there” -Paul Katner The above quote may apply to full-blown stoners who never really left the sixties, but most of us who were there do remember this remarkable time with both bittersweet sadness and profound fondness. We entered the epoch as innocent kids (taught to hide beneath our desks in case of nuclear attack) who took it to the streets as pugnacious teenagers and emerged from the end of this astonishing time tunnel as young adults seasoned in the sadness of war and assassinations; aspiring to ideals of civil rights at home and peace on earth. We moved on from there to careers, marriages, families, middle age, and grandparenthood. And now those beloved years are but a memory. But what memories they are! We hope you enjoy the ride! introduction 7 “We stand today on the edge of a new frontier—the frontier of the 1960’s.” -John F. Kennedy, 1961 Power of THE people John f. Kennedy “Do you realize the “And so, my fellow responsibility I carry? Americans, ask not I’m the only person what your country standing between can do for you; ask what you can do for Richard Nixon and your country.” the White House.” “forgive your “A man may enemies, but never forget die, nations their names.” may rise and “Efforts and courage fall, but an are not enough without idea lives on.” purpose and direction.” Power oF THe PEOPLe 11 MUHAMMAD AlI “If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.” “A man who views the world “It’s just a job. the same at fifty as he did Grass grows, at twenty has wasted birds fly, waves thirty years of his life.” pound the sand. “I hated every minute I beat people up.” of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your “Service to others is life as a champion.’” the rent you pay for “It’s hard to be humble when your room on earth.” you’re as great as I am.” 12 60’s flashback robert f. Kennedy “I thought they’d get one of us. But Jack, after all he’s been through, never worried about it. I thought it would be me.” “People say I am “Only those ruthless. I am who dare to fail not ruthless. And greatly can ever if I find the man achieve greatly.” who is calling me “Tragedy is a tool for the ruthless, I shall living to gain wisdom, not destroy him.” a guide by which to live.” Power oF THe PEOPLe 15 MArTIN LUTHer KING, Jr. “If physical death is the price I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.” “Darkness “At the center of cannot drive non-violence stands out darkness; the principle of love.” only light can do that. Hate “A man can’t cannot drive ride your out hate; only love can back unless do that.” it’s bent.” 16 60’s flashback Vietnam War “Tell the “I’m not going to be the first American Vietnamese president to lose a war.” they’ve got to -Richard M. Nixon, 1969 draw in their “I see light at the horns or we’re end of the tunnel.” -Walt W. Rostow, National Security Adviser, 1967 going to bomb “We should declare war on them back North Vietnam. We could into the pave the whole country and put parking strips on it and stone age.” still be home by Christmas.” -General Curtis LeMay, 1964 -Ronald Reagan, 1965 Power oF THe PEOPLe 19 “No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam war. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.” -Richard M. Nixon “Within the soul of each “Now we have a Vietnam veteran there is probably something that problem in making says, ‘Bad war, good soldier’. our power credible, Only now are Americans beginning to separate the and Vietnam is war from the warrior.” the place.” -Max Cleland -John F. Kennedy, 1961 “Vietnam was lost in “The war has already the living rooms of stretched the generation gap America—not on the battlefields so wide that it threatens to of Vietnam.” pull the country apart.” -Marshal McLuhan Senator Frank Church 20 60’s flashback “You’re either part of the “We have not solution or part of the problem.” “The sixties been told the -Eldridge Cleaver aren’t over yet, truth about “Good morning! What not until the fat oswald.” we have in mind is -Senator Richard Russell, lady gets high!” former Warren Commissioner breakfast in bed for four -Ken Kesey hundred thousand.” “The thing the sixties -Wavy Gravy at Woodstock did was to show us the possibilities and the “Those times I “I am for violence if burned my guitar non-violence means we responsibility that we continue postponing a all had. It wasn’t the was like a sacrifice. solution to the American answer. It just gave You sacrifice the black man’s problem just us a glimpse of things you love. I to avoid violence.” the possibility.” love my guitar.” -Malcolm X -John Lennon -Jimi Hendrix 22 60’s flashback Power oF THe PEOPLe 23 “I hate to advocate “The real 1960’s began on the afternoon of November “Drugs are a bet 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy’s murder drugs, alcohol, violence opened some malign trap door in American with your mind.” -Jim Morrison or insanity to anyone, culture, and all the wild bats flapped out.” -Lance Morrow but they’ve always “Of all the worked for me.” -Hunter S. Thompson things I’ve lost, I miss “Being conscious is cutting my mind through your own melodrama and being right here. Exist in the most. -Jimi Hendrix no mind, be empty, here now, “Make love, not war” and trust that as a situation -Peace slogan “Let me say at the arises, out of you will come risk of seeming what is necessary to deal with ridiculous that the “With our love that situation, including true revolutionary we could save the use of your intellect is guided by great the world.” when appropriate.” feelings of love.” -Ram Dass -George Harrison -Che Guevara 24 60’s flashback Power oF THe PEOPLe 25 “The fashion of this world passeth away” —1 Corinthians FAds, FAshioNs & Favorites “Fashion …produces beautiful things “Every generation laughs at the old which always become ugly with time.” fashions, but follow religiously the new” —Jean Cocteau —Henry David Thoreau Chinese Fire Drills F A l l o u t s h e l t e r s H e A d ba n d s Afros Drive-Ins Frilly ShirtS A m e r i c A n B A n d s tA n d Furry Ankle Bells Vests Army/Navy Go-Go Boots Surplus Clothing GRANNY Glasses Bellbottoms HAlter Tops B la c k L I g ht s HAsH 28 60’s flashback FADs, FAsHIoNs & FAVorITes 29 “Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to “In difficult times fashion is always outrageous.” do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.” —Elsa Shiapparelli —Coco Chanel HIp HuGGers Mini Skirts mood Rings Peace Symbols HitchHiking PeAce Signs PeAsAnt skIrts Ironed hAIr lAvA lAmps PoP ArT SEA Monkeys love sLogAN BUTToNs BeAds Spider Plants stroBe LigHts MAcrame Tie-Dyed T-Shirts 30 60’s flashback FADs, FAsHIoNs & FAVorITes 31 “Dance first.