The America We Knew SPECIAL: July 1969
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- Опубликовано: 29 июн 2024
- You were expecting July 1976 perhaps? That's coming July 4. Meanwhile, relive some historical highlights from 55 years ago: Everything from the first moon landing to Ted Kennedy's bridge too far.
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July 1969, I was 14 years old. We had some great music. I spent many hours a day listening to rock n roll music on my little transistor radio.
That dang Rock and Roll!!
@KWizard__ As I said before, it was a great time except for one thing... the War in Vietnam. One of my neighbors went to Vietnam in 1969, and he changed so much when he returned home.
@@usmc-veteran73-77 I worked in the park department for a summer job and one of the guys had just come back from Vietnam. One day, a mower backfired and sounded like a shotgun. My friend jumped down flat on the ground. We told him everything was O.K. He explained that it was a reaction he learned in Vietnam.
@@usmc-veteran73-77how had he changed.
@dwightpowell6673 I've never forget this about him. Several of us... I was the youngest one in the group, were talking to him right after he returned home from Vietnam. One guy in the group called him a "Baby Killer." He didn't say a word, he busted the guy right in the face. Before his time in Vietnam he was a very "outgoing guy." When he returned he was very quite, and did not talk much.
When I was young and didn't even think about getting old. So many memories.
When I was young, I never expected to get old. I spent 22 years in the USMC, and didn't spend time thinking about aging due to my chosen career. Well, I'm pushing 70 and, as my grandmother used to say back in the 50s, can still cut a rug. I love this channel. Brings back lots of good memories and refreshes some I had completely forgot.
@@Dadsezso Thanks for your Service. So many things have changed since then.
My elementary school library had a poster up, written in a futuristic script. It posed the question _What will life be like in the year 2000?_
I remember thinking that is so far into the future that it doesn't even warrant thinking about, let alone making a poster about.
Even in the year 2000, I didn't think about getting old. But here I am, almost 70!
Thanks for this one. I can still remember sitting in front of the TV watching that moon landing in July 69.
Same! On a color TV no less, woo hoo! lol
@@PeterGriswald
Nope. Our TV set at that time was black and white.
And now they say it never happened.
@@Rippypooyep, still had the ol' Magnavox Console B/W with record changer on one end and radio tuner on the other! I replaced many a tube in that hulking console!
@roberthevern6169
My folks had one of those too when I was a kid. It was more a piece of furniture than electronics, solid, heavy wood. No press board or plywood in those days! 🇺🇲👍
Never forget I was 60 days from basic training and my 2 year commitment in the army! I made it a summer to remember!
I was 8 yrs old having the time of my life on summer vacation from school.
I was beginning high school & the music was devine
As a Young-in at 7 it was an exciting mixture of a child's world and Raw adulthood action, everyone my age was eager to grow up
Had all the Gemini Space stickers on my lunch box and watched all the Apollo missions on T.V.
Had Crystal Blue Persuasion on 45 played over and over thinking about the grade school crush I had on a girl a few houses down from me (got to say her name)
Sherry Mitchell 😊
Even at my age Vietnam was a very serious thing. Even though you wouldn't know by 3 channels of T.V. Dad had a Short Wave Radio that I would listen to during the night.
I recall so many nights of body counts and how brutal it was for so many of our soldiers.
Thanks for letting me share. 😊
We appreciate it, TT.
I was 7 in 1969 as well ( I turned 7 in March).
The moon landing was so awesome! I watched it on TV when it happened and many times afterwards.
I had a G.I. Joe Space Capsule,complete with a space suit.
I also had Major Matt Mason," Mattel's Man In Space".
Captain Action was still around, too. His face made him look like a man suffering from middle aged angst, but he had a great of assortment of outfits- Superman, Batman, Aquaman, Captain America, etc.
The Beatles cartoon show was still on, or at least syndicated- but my parents thought the Beatles were bad because they " did drugs". We weren't forbidden from watching the show, though.
I also had a Yellow Submarine lunchbox, so maybe my parents feelings about the Beatles was somewhat ambiguous.
1969 was a great year!
My brother and I went to our dad one evening and said we were thinking about enlisting. He said, "No, you're not. That war is a meat grinder and there's nothing to be gained. Go to college!" So we took his advice. I was eligible for the draft, however, for two years before they ended the draft. But they didn't pick my number.
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Well, I was 5 months old in July 1969 and my mom was so inspired by the moon landing she decided to do something drastic......she got her lovely long hair cut into a pixie to surprise my dad! My dad lost his shit! The rest of 69' was dedicated to growing out the pixie!!! LoL!!😂 I've seen pics and my dad was old fashioned.....she rocked the pixie cut!!! LOL!😂 Thank you Fred!❤
Your dad should have played the song Hair to her, Chantelle.
I was 2 months old myself
Men couldn't figure out why their wives wanted to look up to date for their husband's back then lol.
As always Mr Fred I’m so thankful and very glad you are willing to share your wisdom and knowledge with all of us and bring our memories of our youth back to life for so many of us! Born in 61 here and this was such a big event in our neighborhood and changed this world for ever!! God bless you my friend and happy Independence Day!!!🇺🇸🎉🇺🇸🎉
Much appreciated, LM.
I remember my daddy trying to keep me awake to watch that first step on the moon 😮 I was just fixing to be eight years old 😊 and couldn't understand why he was so excited about it I mean what's the big deal dad ? I just watched them land on Mars last week on shock theater and that was a lot more exciting to me ! But hey it was that important to him I'll stay awake 😊❤ memories ❤️
I turned 23 in 1969 but before the moon landing 😊
July 16-24. When humans land on the moon, it was the bright spot in a very dark year.
Thanks, FredFlix. 🌕
You're welcome, Luis.
Heck of a summer Fred, higlighted by the moon landing and Woodstock shortly after that, plus the weirdness of the Manson "family", Chappaquiddick, then in autumn the Altamont fiasco. Helluva way to end the '60s. Thanks for doing what you do!
You're welcome, Ernest.
gotta to ss in the miracle Mets too ! day baseball in october in the queens !
55 years...
I remember almost all of it. I was 9 and in the 3rd grade, Mrs McCrary's class. She said I read too much. What lunacy! And it caused me a few months of trouble, having to sneak to read.
I'm sure she meant well, but it was foolish of her.
It certainly was.
Oh, wow! I remember that day July 20th 1969 I was 8 and a half years old and living with my parents in Yoba Linda and I remember watching it on TV with my parents and a friend of mine. I still don't look at the moon the same after seeing the moon landing.
THANKS FRED
You're welcome, Eli.
Extra long and extra great, thanks Fred! I wish we could post photos in our comments. 2 months later, Sept 1969 my brother Duke and I wore Apollo 11 shirts on the first day of school. 😊
We all shared in that adventure, Doug.
I wrote a letter to NASA and asked them to send me some 8 X 10 color glossies. They did!
We were on vacation in Sea Side Heights Jersey when they landed on the moon. All of the air raid sirens went off when the Eagle landed. Later that night we watched Neil and Buzz walk on the moon on a black and white TV. Even though the country was divided about Viet Nam that was one of the proudest moments I experienced as a kid.
Great Fred! My father, who was a newspaper editor and writer and very into pop culture, got me out of bed to see Armstrong’s first step on CBS … glad he did. He made sure I saw it and would remember it … and so I do! I wasn’t quite four years old … but was already obsessed with astronauts and comics. I was well aware of Vietnam and hippies, too … and much of the music … remember the frightening news reports of those days clearly.
Incredible how many of these images simply could not have appeared just six or seven years earlier. Long haired rock groups would’ve been seen as aliens in 1962. Between 1965-69 the culture was completely turned upside down in a very short period of time … some changes were good, and some not so good. But fascinating in either case.
There's a bathroom on the right
It was a (heck) of a year. Thank you for the video.
You're welcome, Jeff.
I just turned 9 in June, family took an expedition in our camper, across the US. Calif. to Florida. Camped at Camp Canaveral and watched the lift off. That was quite an experience. What memories, 1969.
That's amazing, Cmon-Man. I saw Apollo 16 at the Cape. I'll never forget the sound, the vibration, the flames shooting out and being able to see the first stage fall off.
@@FredFlix Yes, when ever I see a video of any liftoff, I can still feel and hear it. It is quite a sight. Thanks for your work, it’s enjoyed and appreciated. ✌️
@@Cmon-Man You're welcome. You know, we saw something that few in this world have ever seen: A rocket carrying men to the moon. It was a rare privilege indeed.
What a SPECIAL time to have been alive!
Amen to that!
@@markcornish2519 😀👍
Probably the best month and summer of my life.......I was 9 years old.
I pasted newspaper clippings of the space program starting in the early 60s. The excitement surrounding the moon landing was huge. There's never been anything else like it. Bad Moon Rising always makes me think of American Werewolf in London. Ted Kennedy was a classic example of someone with power and money escaping responsibility.
So cool as always Fred! I just turned four that month, and only have memories of experiencing these monumental events and great music and rising stars some years later, but the wonder of it all never fades for me, and thanks for helping to keep it that way! How surreal to hear David Brinkley's commentary today, 50 plus years later, not just contemplating that historical event, but also the horrible part of history, that would soon take place the following month, and all the events that we have all experienced in our world since that time, and realizing how much has thankfully not faded away. I've said it before I know, but one great thing now is being able to share this journey back together!🤟
Thanks, tigre. That Brinkley comment was eerie.
I liked Brinkley, but seeing these clips now makes him seem to have plenty of 'attitude.' I remember he smoked like a chimney, too.
I was three years old when they walked on the moon and I can barely remember it. Or I think I remember it somewhat, but anyway another great one Fredflix. I really love these. Thanks.
You're welcome, HLJ. I was lucky I was 14 and remember it very well, plus the anticipation leading up to it.
I vividly remember watching the moon landing in glorious black and white.
Being just 5, I was more excited about getting a day off from school!
Thanks Fred 👍
Good stuff again, Fred. Bad Moon Rising was the latest addition to my 45rpm record collection along with Kick Out the Jams in 1969. Also, your Life and Look magazines are in my collection. Always look forward to your videos. Keep it up.
Thanks again, very interesting subjects on this one. I was 10, loved the space program because my dad worked on it. With a company that worked with NASA
That's very cool, Mark.
❤❤❤ this awesome Fred thank you
Thanks Fred for another great video I was two weeks from turning 18 when we landed on the moon I remember watching it on tv with my family like it was yesterday keep em coming 😊
I will, Bob.
Thank you for this memorable collection of music and images from 1969. I was 14 and loved every song you included (still do!) Wonderful job in capturing the era’s zeitgeist. It was a wild decade but pales in comparison to today. The 80s in hindsight were a good decade but sadly there’s no going back. Thanks again for fantastic videos!
Omg i was 10 yrs old,,going to the grade..i was skinny,gawking looking kid,,but has good times too..i remember when they landed on the moon..it was a very big event..we all watched it in color..
I see what you did there Fred, you couldn't wait to get this one out in the first hour of the first day of the 55th anniversary month of Apollo 11. I remember watching it on TV like it was yesterday. Where does the time go? 👍👍👍👍
I even posted it before midnight, Robert, before I went to bed.
You need to have a job with the
Library of Congress!😊 Great compilation!!
Thanks, Benjamin.
Top notch stuff. I remember being at the grandparents watching the Moon landing. Nothing else. So very tired. Not much else to say but Thanks Fred.
I took a 300 mile trip on Greyhound. It was the worst trip EVER.
Hmm! For just a minute I thought that sinister music in the Western Electric commercial was going to turn into one for Hai Karate Aftershave! Haha!
I was ten. Good times.
Another great video, Fred. 14 years old that summer. Thanks from the Spidey #36 guy!
The Looter!
Loving the music my friend. Keep it up.
I will as long as YT allows it, Debbie. I wanted to use In the Year 2525 with this but I couldn't.
What a wonderful way to start my day, thank you Fred!!!
You're welcome, Bridget.
Outstanding flashback 55
Thanks, Eli.
👍thx Fredflix for the post
Awesome video, Fred!
Thank you for another great video!
You're welcome, Jan.
I’ve probably said here before that my father’s team worked on the lunar module that landed on the moon. The TRW employees’ kids were envied because we got round stickers with Snoopy dancing, captioned “Eyes on the Stars.” Another member of that team was engineer Judith Cohen, mother of actor Jack Black.
You mean Jack Black 😂
@@rhondaeverett8284 Yes, changed. Insomniac here.
his mama would be disappointed in him..he endorses sleepy joe..
Cool connections!
@@danparker1976you also thought President Obama was an immigrant didn't you?
This was great, thanks buddy, keep up the good work!
You're welcome, TJ.
That was one small step for Fred, one giant leap for FredFlix.
"a Fred"
@@2nostromo That missing "a" always bugged me since i first heard it. lol
That's awesome, MaxStax!
I was 4. I do remember the Moon landing.
Many were taking trips in the Summer of 1969.Armstrong and Aldrin to the Moon.Mary Jo Kopechne to the bottom of Chappaquiddick River.The trip taken by the 500,000 of Woodstock Nation.Topping them all were the fans of the New York Mets who rose from a depth much lower than Mary Jo and much higher than that of Woodstock.
Didn’t hee haw debut in July 1969? One of the most important comedy variety series in history because it was really the antithesis of the show it replaced, the smothers Brothers
We loved watching Hee Haw at my grandma's farm.
as a 4 year old on the 5th of july i dont recall to much of the moon landing but i had the GI Joe with space suit and lunar capsule shortly after and it opened up a kids imagination does that exist for a kid today? i cant wait for aug 69 thats gonna "rock"✌☮ !!!
11:15 good to see Mancini speak favorably about another musician.
Pete,Julie, and Link still rule in 2024.
I have Easy Rider on DVD found it at good will thrift store.
Hook, line, and sinker!
Nine years later Frank Reynolds and Peter Jennings would share anchor duties on ABC World News Tonight
good one !!
Thanks, Dace.
For the record, I believe it really happened.
9:00 well, no wonder she ended up in Love Story.
That Westinghouse refrigerator, why is the meat just in the drawer not wrapped??? lol ugh. 😮
No one would have done that in 'real life,' but then, no one had a fridge that fancy.
Kristin Wiig in Miss Universe 1969!
And that's even more impressive when you consider she was born in 1973!
The announcer said, "every girl's a winner!" But that's not how I remember it. The losers had to stand there and keep smiling, while enduring the agony of defeat.
Summer between 1st and 2nd grade. Watched it with my Dad. I knew I was seeing history. I couldn’t get enough Apollo. I’d hazard a guess most if not all of the deniers and conspiracists were not yet born when Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins did it.
Gee, just think the next month would be when Woodstock would happen. Far out
My Uncle Nicky Hopkins played with the Airplane at Woodstock as a guest pianst!
@@PeterGriswald Nicky was legendary!!!
After Easy Rider came out, hippies started saying, "Hey man, let's just live off the land!" But it didn't work out very well for the commune folk. I mean, I'm sure they enjoyed it for awhile.
The more things change…
Wow, a paper bikini. when good ideas grow on tress. Who's 'great idea' was that?
Walter Cronkite's reaction to the moon landing says so much. The day after the landing, one of our local newspaper The Sun changed their mast head to The Moon for that one day. (Still have a copy)
So.... July 1969 was a slow news month I see. Man landing on the moon and safely returning to earth, Chappaquiddick, the ongoing war in Vietnam, yet another war in the Middle East... what was there to discuss?
The Manson murders one month later.
A lot happened that year wow, we found a crab the size of a car wheel and send it too dads work place, it scared the hell out off them, it was still alive and kicking hehe.
I did not realize that the Chappaquiddic happened in 1969.
That was awesome..
55 years ago this month. I was getting ready to start third grade. My dad let me stay up all night for the Moon landing.😊
Not saying there weren't any problems back then, There were. But damn I sure wish we could back and stop some things when they were in their infancy!
8:00 Where's Peter Tork??
He quit.
👍
I was 3 at the time of the moon landing..my mom went outside to see if she could she the astronauts on the moon
Remember the film "Why do men create?"
Dennis Hopper became a conservative Republican and Ali McGraw is now 85.
I had forgotten about the paper bikinis, but wow, that TV commercial of Ali McGraw was the closest thing we had to seeing a nude model. Sneaking a peek at Playboy would be a few years later.
I saw 69 spray-painted everywhere and wondered, why? I was 13.
And now that I have suggested that the lyrics are "there's a bathroom on the right..." you will never sing it properly again! 😆
Cry for the past because the future you ALL have allowed is a nightmare....
Yeah, and you have nothing to do with it! Entitled crybaby!
2024, America Put Men in the Ladies Room
Real women
Has a African American ever walked on the the moon?
Kennedy up to no good