Back in the days when family’s ate together , without TV & cell phones & kids walked to school safely . TV shows were family oriented . Seniors remember these times ….. as being the innocent happy days . 😃
I was in the high school class of 1966. Two classmates, who had been cheerleaders throughout junior and senior high, performed a little dance with these words," We have fun, we have kicks, we're the class of '66"
The high school I attended had a tradition that each year’s class had to make up a chant and present it at pep rallies. Ours was “We’re so cool, we’re just fine, we’re the class of ‘69”
Ha! It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown premiered on my birthday when I turned 2 years old. Still love those old Peanuts cartoons. Watch them every year.
I remember the summer of 66' when my brother and I spent the summer on my grandmothers farm. Great times. It was depressing to have to go back to school.
I was a freshman in high school in 66 . So many great memories. The TV shows , the muscle cars , great music, the space age , and the down side with some of my good friends having to go to Vietnam. Thank you for your great videos and God bless 👍
Yeh...had to be tuff back then. Reminds me of a sad incident in 3rd grade in 66'. There was a girl in our class that all the kids made fun of and bullied, I never did though. I remember the teacher scolding the class to lay off her and try find out why she was being treated badly. One day the girl didn't show up and was out for about 2 weeks. Then our teacher told us her mother had died. Our teacher told us to all make cards for her and pool money to buy flowers or a gift or something. When the girl returned to school we presented her with the cards and gift. I remember her as if it happened yesterday of her trying to smile and she did have a cute smile, but she broke down in class and cried. I remember her leaving the room in tears and the teacher followed her out to console her. The class no longer made fun of her after that. But she also left the school and moved away soon after. I think that lesson woke up all the kids on how cruel they were.
Great episode. An interest fact about the University of Texas tower shooting is that police did not have guns that could reach all the way up to the bell tower. Students in nearby housing took out their deer rifles and opened fire on the shooter in the bell tower. The students allowed police the time to get up the tower.
That's interesting to hear. Pretty sure that would never happen today. lol I wonder if there is a movie or documentary about it. I've not heard about this event. Will do some googling.
skylilly1 - Yes there was a documentary that was shown on PBS a few years ago about it. It was called Tower. Also, investigators believed the man who shot from the hotel in Las Vegas into the concert a few years ago researched the UT Tower shooting since they were similar, unfortunately.
I was 7 years old that year. Great summer riding my bike, going to visit my Grandparents and fishing, my brother turned 6 and had a big birthday party with all our friends. Good summer. 👍
Batman was certainly the biggest thing I looked forward to as a small child. Kids watched it as a serious drama while adults caught all the campy humor. Great times.
So true. Watching Batman reruns as an adult I couldn't believe how humorous it was. More of a super hero spoof. As a kid I thought it was dead serious.
I was deeply disappointed as I expected a serious drama but it turned out to be a comedy lampooning my favourite super hero. I appreciate it more now but still find some episodes intellectually challenging.
The Beatles album "Revolver" came out this year. Speaking of rock music, and I know it isn't related to the video, but....a heartfelt RIP to my man Charlie Watts. He wasn't the best drummer ever, but he was definitely one of the coolest, and most laid back. He was a perfect fit for the Rolling Stones.
I agree sir. But I fear his death is the first domino to fall in a streak of "rock deaths" we will see in these last months of 2021. They are all getting old. And we are too.
What, you kiddin'? Mr.Watts could play all styles, and so many drummers aspire to sound just like him. He was certainly in the top three of British Invasion drummers back in '65, and only Steve Jordan could sit in Charlie's drum chair...
Oh man, these were my precious childhood years and my folks made sure they were great. We weren't 'rich' financially but in every other way. Even though the seeds were being sown for the shitshow we're enduring today, I never knew it...thanks, Mom and Dad!!
@@brosefmcman8264 --- *ALL first world countries, including ours, are a capitalist/socialist hybrid. Don't believe me? Take a public transit bus downtown. Get out and walk on a public sidewalk lit by public streetlights. Go into your public library, where you can read a book about it courtesy of the public education afforded you. Btw, I don't have kids but spend MANY thousands in property tax educating my neighbors' children. If that's not small 's' socialism, I don't know what is.*
@@gordon3186 The Democrats’ grab for power has led to the vile and senile shitshow which is Joe Biden: Critical Race Theory, the Southern border, and now the Afghanistan debacle....
@@jessewolf6806 --- *Grab? It almost sounds as if you think Trump won the election that morons claim was stolen from him...Critical Race Theory, the Southern border, and the Afghanistan debacle didn't originate with Joe Biden. They're all decades in the making that others are responsible for. Maybe you should consider laying off the Fox and Friends.*
@@newjerseybt Yes the big dollars were all there, but I remember as a child going door to door collecting change and proudly going with my father to the local drop off. In my city as many there was local celebrities doing it, the network would break off every once in a while for a local update. We had a person called Eddie Meath.
My mother left her job at a Chevy dealership & took time off for a few months.I frequently went home for lunch.That fall I entered 3rd grade and had the worst teacher in the whole school.My mother adored her.
So much cool stuff debuted. I was way into the space program so I loved Lost in Space and Star Trek but you left Dark Shadows off the list. That show used to scare the be-jesses out of me and I loved every minute of it. And Snoopy flying around in his Sopwith Camel, then roaming the French countryside after being shot down? Priceless! And of course poor Charlie Brown. I always felt sorry for him getting all those rocks. Such fond childhood memories.
@@pastelskies8466They saidplastic toys would be "less expensive" and safer for kids; yeah, right, i still have the big metal tonka dump truck i bought my first boy back in 90. How many plastic toys fo you think survive even 5 years? EVERYTHI G now a days is designed to failure$$$$
Wow, what memories! This was the year I was old enough to join the Boy Scouts with my best friend. Watched the first Batman and Star Trek episodes! We thought the Camero was sooo cool. Simpler times. I was too young to understand the Vietnam War, but my taste in music was definitely changing. How the Grinch Stole Christmas, and It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown are still two of my favorite shows. Watch them every year on DVD. Thanks again for the fantastic video! God bless you and yours! 👍👍🇺🇸🇺🇸😊😊
1966, what a great year! This year was just my beginning to become much more aware of the larger world around me. Great Pumpkin premiered on my 10th birthday, a fact which I knew already. Sadly, I remember exactly where I was when Walt Disney died - watching the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite, with my parents and brothers as if it just happened a couple days ago.
I just stumbled upon this video. I was born in 1966 and I always assumed that it was kind of an "also ran" year when nothing important happened. I learned so much from watching this and now I realize how consequential 1966 actually was. Thank you for this great lesson!
You forgot the Beatles last concert in 1966. Ford won all three classic endurance races. And the Ford vs Ferrari War. Part one was just hitting it's peak. Patrick Troughton replaces William Hartwell as the Doctor. On Dr Who. Thunderbirds are go tv show. My mom and dad got married. The Beatles start recording on a masterpiece in November 1966.
U.S./Canadian Major Professional Sports Champions for 1966 MLB - Baltimore Orioles (first World Series title) NBA - Boston Celtics (eighth consecutive title, ninth overall) NFL - Green Bay Packers (second straight NFL title) AFL - Kansas City Chiefs (first AFL title in Kansas City, second overall). Both the Chiefs and Packers would meet in Super Bowl I on January 15, 1967. CFL - Saskatchewan Roughriders NHL - Montreal Canadiens (second consecutive Stanley Cup title, 14th overall) February 1966: The NHL granted expansion franchises to Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, San Francisco-Oakland Bay Area, Los Angeles, Minneapolis-St. Paul and St. Louis (all six new teams would commence play at the start of the 1967-68 season).
Since you are doing a great job with these flashbacks, do something on the British invasion in tribute to Charlie Watts the drummer for the Rolling Stones ,who we lost today. May he rest in peace.
Great job on this, with clear narration. I think 1966 was the year most prime time television programs were shot, and broadcast, in color. Color television was new then and color TVs were big sellers.
The Beach Boys album Pet Sounds was ground breaking although a departure from their previous years we knew we had something special all though the critics and Capital didn't know what to think of it still considered greatest album ever and when Good Vibrations came out late in 66 it blew people's mind maybe they got it now 😎
We were basically still in the 50s until around 62'. Then slowly the 60s did emerge around 66' by 68' we were fully in the the 60s turmoil, hippies, peace signs, anti war protests. Unfortunatley by the mid 70s America was in a slow downward spiral, by the 80s and 90s it lead us the the sh!thole America is now. Its a huge difference and degradation of life from 66' to today.
The problems of today were caused in the '50s by our failing to address this society's injustices. Things did not decline because of '60s turmoil, but '50s neglect.
After Kennedy was assassinated, everything changed. Early to mid and late 60's was drastically different in one 10 year time span. Events and culture overload.
@@brianarbenz7206 Those “ injustices” were addressed in the 60’s and 70’s and I would question what things you considered “ injustices”. The decline started after the assassination of JFK, the increased American involvement in Vietnam which he opposed, and the growing drug culture. After after that it was just a matter of time. 50 years. There can be no recovery from this.
On September the nineteenth through October the fifth, 1966, Snoopy's so-called beloved doghouse was on fire. Snoopy not only was extremely homeless, but also extremely heartbroken to say the very least actually. He lost all of his valuable possessions in the fire, including his most valuable prized possession of all time--namely a pair of pinking shears. Comic strip fans & lovers from all over the world (including the former Soviet Union) were extremely sad & heartbroken over that tragic event to say the very least actually. Earlier that very same year, Charles Schwarz also lost his art-drawing studio in a fire as well. What a pity.
I was 9 years old in 1966. My dad was in the Air Force and we were stationed at Myrtle Beach Air Base in South Carolina. It was a great place and time to be a kid then. Good, good memories.
I watched Batman every week, except one time I wouldn't finish my dinner and mom wouldn't let me watch it! I also watched Star Trek but more so when it hit syndication later. You didn't mention The Monkees TV show, also a favorite. FYI I was more a fan of the new Dodge Charger. Definately good memories of my childhood (6 at the time).
I was 4 and would run around holding a towel as a cape yelling Batman! I didnt get that it was a satire, but I certainly got Julie Newmar--my first star crush! And check this out: I wouldn't eat my cauliflower, and my parents made me sit there until it was gone. I stubbornly pouted and wouldn't touch it, and then I heard the TV....duh, duh, duh, duh, duh (then the bastards amped the volume) BATMAN! I finished before the theme was done.😏 That and getting to stay up late and watch the Gorn episode of Star Trek are among my earliest memories.
1966 was probably the last year that still seemed somewhat like the 50s, at least from a pop cultural standpoint. It was the last year that black and white cinematography was in the mainstream. A lot of kids like to ask when the world went from black and white to color. Of course, the world has always been in color, but in terms of black and white productions, 1966 would be the year. One of the last mainstream black and white movies was “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” It was released in 1966. By the autumn of 1966, most television productions had shifted to color, save for a few soap operas and game shows. It’s true that color televisions didn’t outsell black and white televisions until the early 1970s, but most shows ceased being filmed in black and white by the autumn of 1966.
Great memories! I think networks switched to color filming of all prime time shows to send a hint, hint to viewers that it's time you buy a color set. Re, movies: since then black and white movies are shot only to convey a film noir feel. And there is something oddly sensually appealing in black and white films.
Miranda did not involve a false confession. If it had been proven false, there would have been no need for a landmark decision. The whole point was that the court ruled that without the defendant having been advised of his rights, and knowingly waiving those rights, any statement he made could not be used against him.
In addition to the Texas Tower tragedy of August 1, which you mentioned, there was also another horrible crime which deserved inclusion here. The Chicago mass murder of the student nurses by Richard Speck on July 14th. It was absolutely a horrific crime and was front page news across the entire country.
In 1966, due to mixed reviews, the broadway musical show "Superman: the Musical" made its debut with Bobby Holiday as Superman and Linda Lavin as Sydney Canyon. Nine years later, it was revived, but they decided to put it on tv instead.
Batman premiered on the day I was born! And, so many of my favorite shows premiered that year! Camaro, my second favorite car after the Mustang. I used to race a 1974 Camaro in the 1980s and we won every race we were in. Although, I don't think we ever raced against a Mustang so I can't compare the two in that respect. Anyway, it was a great year!
As an indication of how our society has changed, when "Batman" premiered on ABC-TV in '66, a number of local ABC affiliated stations refused to show it, considering it too violent. Why no mention of NASA's Project Gemini flights during '66?
Also in 1966…. Family Affair starring Brian Keith and Sebastian Cabot premiered on CBS. That Girl starring Marlo Thomas and Ted Bessell premiered on ABC. Both shows ran for five seasons each.
R.I.P Dave Edward Kearns, December 3rd, 1966 - October 14th, 2017. R.I.P Doug Tamatea, March 21st, 1966 - October 14th, 2017. R.I.P Marama Tamatea, 1966-2017. R.I.P Robyn Gough, 1966-2017.
That explains why my younger brother became a Trekkie, loved Batman/Robin, probably into The Great Pumpkin ~ if I was not at work in the evening, or out with friends, I was probably in my bedroom listening to music or reading, not downstairs watching television with father and siblings.
1966 the year before, I was born. Loretta Lynn turned the the question about God into a song. I got my schooling about the Vietnam War from tv and documentaries, family and friends and many Vietnam Veterans that, I have met through the yrs with my dad and, mom, my brother and me being very active members and being a part of the veterans organizations.
In September of 1966, Filmation Studios' "The New Adventures of Superman" made its debut on CBS. Later that very same month & year, "The 1966 Miss America Beauty Pageant" was transferred from CBS to NBC-TV. And this time, it was in extremely glorious living color.
I was a 9-year-old grade schooler here in suburban Philadelphia that year. I was listening to the Boss Jocks on Famous 56, WFIL, here in Philly; as well as watching Green Acres on Wednesday nights on CBS.
also on July 22, 1966 my parents got married & are still married almost 56 years this coming July Dad was 24 at the time & mom was 18 , now dad is 80 & mom is 74 coming up in April
Thanks!
Back in the days when family’s ate together , without TV & cell phones & kids walked to school safely . TV shows were family oriented .
Seniors remember these times ….. as being the innocent happy days . 😃
I was in the high school class of 1966. Two classmates, who had been cheerleaders throughout junior and senior high, performed a little dance with these words," We have fun, we have kicks, we're the class of '66"
The high school I attended had a tradition that each year’s class had to make up a chant and present it at pep rallies. Ours was “We’re so cool, we’re just fine, we’re the class of ‘69”
My class had "Beer is good, sex is great, we're the class of '78!"
Ha! It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown premiered on my birthday when I turned 2 years old. Still love those old Peanuts cartoons. Watch them every year.
It was my 1st Halloween. I was born the day Texas beat Kentucky... But I am still happy to premier the same year as The Great Pumpkin 🎃
Back when Halloween was a lot of fun and safe. No creepsters or poisoned candy.
I’m 65 and I still watch them
I was I'm 1st grade and loved the Beatles, they really had some amazing songs, great memories from my childhood, thank you.
💟☮️ Beatles 4 ever!
I remember the summer of 66' when my brother and I spent the summer on my grandmothers farm. Great times. It was depressing to have to go back to school.
60 now and I still watch The Great Pumpkin and The Grinch. Wow. Time flies.
Im 60 and i still watch Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Lies again? Jules Rimet
@@NazriB ???
@Justin Sharpe Yes
58: and I always watch the Christmas cartoons I miss those days
I was born June 1966 in the mist of everything going on in what was yet to come. Thank you for showing all of us this. It was great ✊🏾👍🏾🫂
Me too! June 30
April...
Me too February 😎
July 8th 1966 here.
June 18.
Another year that I remember VERY well.
I was a freshman in high school in 66 . So many great memories. The TV shows , the muscle cars , great music, the space age , and the down side with some of my good friends having to go to Vietnam. Thank you for your great videos and God bless 👍
My mom died in 1966 at the end of this month. Tough year for a 9 year old.
Wow that’s heartbreaking!! So sorry for your loss. I’m sure it completely changed your life!, Hope things are going well for you!!!
Yeh...had to be tuff back then. Reminds me of a sad incident in 3rd grade in 66'. There was a girl in our class that all the kids made fun of and bullied, I never did though. I remember the teacher scolding the class to lay off her and try find out why she was being treated badly. One day the girl didn't show up and was out for about 2 weeks. Then our teacher told us her mother had died. Our teacher told us to all make cards for her and pool money to buy flowers or a gift or something. When the girl returned to school we presented her with the cards and gift. I remember her as if it happened yesterday of her trying to smile and she did have a cute smile, but she broke down in class and cried. I remember her leaving the room in tears and the teacher followed her out to console her. The class no longer made fun of her after that. But she also left the school and moved away soon after. I think that lesson woke up all the kids on how cruel they were.
Sorry...had to be tough, but you became a better person because of it👍
My condolences. Hope you have some good memories.
Nicky: the girl ironically realized it took death before anyone showed her decency.
10 years old that year and I remember almost all of it :-)
I was born in 68 but I still got to grow up in an amazing era 70's 80's and ealy 90's were awesome......
I hope these keep coming. I wasn’t born til 1991 but it’s interesting to see the recent past.
As someone who was there, I'm glad you call it recent, lol. ✌🏽
I sure miss those days and earlier years too 🙂 Thanks for the memories! 👏👏👏👏👏👏😊👍👍
Great episode. An interest fact about the University of Texas tower shooting is that police did not have guns that could reach all the way up to the bell tower. Students in nearby housing took out their deer rifles and opened fire on the shooter in the bell tower. The students allowed police the time to get up the tower.
That's interesting to hear. Pretty sure that would never happen today. lol I wonder if there is a movie or documentary about it. I've not heard about this event. Will do some googling.
skylilly1 - Yes there was a documentary that was shown on PBS a few years ago about it. It was called Tower. Also, investigators believed the man who shot from the hotel in Las Vegas into the concert a few years ago researched the UT Tower shooting since they were similar, unfortunately.
The tower shooter suffered from a large brain tumor that was believed to cause massive brain malfunctions.
I was 7 years old that year. Great summer riding my bike, going to visit my Grandparents and fishing, my brother turned 6 and had a big birthday party with all our friends. Good summer. 👍
Batman was certainly the biggest thing I looked forward to as a small child. Kids watched it as a serious drama while adults caught all the campy humor. Great times.
Me too. When we were lucky we got to go to the neighbors house and watch it in color
So true. Watching Batman reruns as an adult I couldn't believe how humorous it was. More of a super hero spoof. As a kid I thought it was dead serious.
And the Green Hornet was great too.
I was deeply disappointed as I expected a serious drama but it turned out to be a comedy lampooning my favourite super hero. I appreciate it more now but still find some episodes intellectually challenging.
I still enjoy watching The Grinch to this day. Boris Karloffs voice was created for it. As well as all his other classics!
Born Jan. 4, 1966.... this is cool!😎👍💕
The TV shows of that year are everywhere today.
The Beatles album "Revolver" came out this year.
Speaking of rock music, and I know it isn't related to the video, but....a heartfelt RIP to my man Charlie Watts.
He wasn't the best drummer ever, but he was definitely one of the coolest, and most laid back. He was a perfect fit for the Rolling Stones.
I agree sir. But I fear his death is the first domino to fall in a streak of "rock deaths" we will see in these last months of 2021. They are all getting old. And we are too.
@@azmike1 don't remind me. 😁 But you're right.
PROPERTY TAXES = EXTORTION.
NO ONE HELPED. A PITTANCE OF WHAT PEOPEL GIVE YO HATE GROUPS AND FALSE PREACHERS WOULD HAVE SAVED US.
and the Beatles played there last ticketed concert
What, you kiddin'? Mr.Watts could play all styles, and so many drummers aspire to sound just like him. He was certainly in the top three of British Invasion drummers back in '65, and only Steve Jordan could sit in Charlie's drum chair...
Wow, this was very interesting. I was 5 years old in 1966.
Oh man, these were my precious childhood years and my folks made sure they were great. We weren't 'rich' financially but in every other way. Even though the seeds were being sown for the shitshow we're enduring today, I never knew it...thanks, Mom and Dad!!
What seeds would those be?
@@gordon3186 Democrats destroying every aspect of the American way of life to obtain power to institute socialism! Keep up👍
@@brosefmcman8264 --- *ALL first world countries, including ours, are a capitalist/socialist hybrid. Don't believe me? Take a public transit bus downtown. Get out and walk on a public sidewalk lit by public streetlights. Go into your public library, where you can read a book about it courtesy of the public education afforded you. Btw, I don't have kids but spend MANY thousands in property tax educating my neighbors' children. If that's not small 's' socialism, I don't know what is.*
@@gordon3186 The Democrats’ grab for power has led to the vile and senile shitshow which is Joe Biden: Critical Race Theory, the Southern border, and now the Afghanistan debacle....
@@jessewolf6806 --- *Grab? It almost sounds as if you think Trump won the election that morons claim was stolen from him...Critical Race Theory, the Southern border, and the Afghanistan debacle didn't originate with Joe Biden. They're all decades in the making that others are responsible for. Maybe you should consider laying off the Fox and Friends.*
I remember collecting money for the first Jerry Lewis Telethon. I stood up all night watching it.
You could have sat down.
@@alandoane9168
😂😂😂😂😂😂
I actually lied down, fell asleep too i am sure.
I later learned in life that all the needed money was already collected and the telethon was all theater.
@@newjerseybt
Yes the big dollars were all there, but I remember as a child going door to door collecting change and proudly going with my father to the local drop off. In my city as many there was local celebrities doing it, the network would break off every once in a while for a local update. We had a person called Eddie Meath.
I really & truly love "The Jerry Lewis Telethon" on Labor Day of every year. Good times.
My mother left her job at a Chevy dealership & took time off for a few months.I frequently went home for lunch.That fall I entered 3rd grade and had the worst teacher in the whole school.My mother adored her.
7 years old in first grade, loved watching Batman and i became a 'Star Trek' fan later in my teen years. 🖖
Same here. 👍
The year I lost
My virginity
@@jayellevanderschoor1786 I know, I was there. 😆
So much cool stuff debuted. I was way into the space program so I loved Lost in Space and Star Trek but you left Dark Shadows off the list. That show used to scare the be-jesses out of me and I loved every minute of it. And Snoopy flying around in his Sopwith Camel, then roaming the French countryside after being shot down? Priceless! And of course poor Charlie Brown. I always felt sorry for him getting all those rocks. Such fond childhood memories.
Dark Shadows was awesome.
Dark Shadows was also terrific!
Back when toys were made of metal, not plastic, bland looking junk like today.
@@pastelskies8466They saidplastic toys would be "less expensive" and safer for kids; yeah, right, i still have the big metal tonka dump truck i bought my first boy back in 90. How many plastic toys fo you think survive even 5 years? EVERYTHI G now a days is designed to failure$$$$
Wow, what memories! This was the year I was old enough to join the Boy Scouts with my best friend. Watched the first Batman and Star Trek episodes! We thought the Camero was sooo cool. Simpler times. I was too young to understand the Vietnam War, but my taste in music was definitely changing. How the Grinch Stole Christmas, and It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown are still two of my favorite shows. Watch them every year on DVD. Thanks again for the fantastic video! God bless you and yours! 👍👍🇺🇸🇺🇸😊😊
So many things happened the year I was born! Cool!
1966, what a great year! This year was just my beginning to become much more aware of the larger world around me. Great Pumpkin premiered on my 10th birthday, a fact which I knew already. Sadly, I remember exactly where I was when Walt Disney died - watching the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite, with my parents and brothers as if it just happened a couple days ago.
I met Walter Cronkite at a Christmas party a few years before he passed. I wish I knew his significance but I was only around twelve or so.
I just stumbled upon this video. I was born in 1966 and I always assumed that it was kind of an "also ran" year when nothing important happened. I learned so much from watching this and now I realize how consequential 1966 actually was. Thank you for this great lesson!
I was born in 1966 and my parents got married this year. Going to send this video to my mom, as yesterday was their anniversary.
You forgot the Beatles last concert in 1966. Ford won all three classic endurance races. And the Ford vs Ferrari War. Part one was just hitting it's peak. Patrick Troughton replaces William Hartwell as the Doctor. On Dr Who. Thunderbirds are go tv show.
My mom and dad got married. The Beatles start recording on a masterpiece in November 1966.
Another great video looking back at the good old days with Recollection Road👍👍
Some of the best years for Christmas the 60s and early 70s.
I was born in 1966. Interesting to see what was happening then.
Likewise.
I was in the Marine Corps stationed in Camp LeJeune, North Carolina.
1966, a year that changed my life when I was drafted into the Army.
Glad you survived & Thank You for your service. 🇺🇲
Thankyou for serving our country
The passing of Walt Disney was a sad one.
U.S./Canadian Major Professional Sports Champions for 1966
MLB - Baltimore Orioles (first World Series title)
NBA - Boston Celtics (eighth consecutive title, ninth overall)
NFL - Green Bay Packers (second straight NFL title)
AFL - Kansas City Chiefs (first AFL title in Kansas City, second overall).
Both the Chiefs and Packers would meet in Super Bowl I on January 15, 1967.
CFL - Saskatchewan Roughriders
NHL - Montreal Canadiens (second consecutive Stanley Cup title, 14th overall)
February 1966: The NHL granted expansion franchises to Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, San Francisco-Oakland Bay Area, Los Angeles, Minneapolis-St. Paul and St. Louis (all six new teams would commence play at the start of the 1967-68 season).
I was conceived on this year. I imagine that "Bus Stop" by the Hollies was playing in the background.
Wow, i just realized that i got to see the first run of all those shows mentioned!
So glad I subscribed to this wonderful channel ❤
The Catwoman in the photo is Lee Meriwether, not Julie Newmar,,, both lovely ladies 😎💋
Class of 1966 here...nice video.
This was great. Thank you! ☮️💟
1966 was my favorite childhood year.
'66 was certainly a good year. Skirts were getting shorter & the music was getting louder. As a young teenaged boy, I enjoyed them both.
Born April 13th, 1966, Tacoma WA.
O, the memories... thank you so much! 😃
"Revolver" (The Beatles) Garage and Garage/Psych. 1966 was (and remains) my favorite year for sound.
I was born in Jan of 65 so don't recall much of 66. Cool to look back on what was going on then. Thanks for the video and keep up the good work!
WoW what a big year- thank you sooo much RR I luv all of the vids- so many memories! ❤
Since you are doing a great job with these flashbacks, do something on the British invasion in tribute to Charlie Watts the drummer for the Rolling Stones ,who we lost today. May he rest in peace.
There was a nationwide airline strike that lasted for approx. 1 month in Aug.'66.There was a final uptick in train & bus ridership that month.
Great job on this, with clear narration. I think 1966 was the year most prime time television programs were shot, and broadcast, in color. Color television was new then and color TVs were big sellers.
Wow, I don't know all of the things that went on while I was growing up. In this year I was 5 and I would turn 6 later that year.
The Beach Boys album Pet Sounds was ground breaking although a departure from their previous years we knew we had something special all though the critics and Capital didn't know what to think of it still considered greatest album ever and when Good Vibrations came out late in 66 it blew people's mind maybe they got it now 😎
This was the year I graduated from high school. A great year.
My birth year. Certainly was a mixed-up time, wasn't it? 😅
I was four. My family returned from a Pacific posting that year.
I was born 2/3/66.All downhill from there.Lol!Thanks for the memories
Got married in 1966. God was relevant then and He is today! This world could surely use some changes.
I’m old, but there were some amazing things that happened the year I was born!
We were basically still in the 50s until around 62'. Then slowly the 60s did emerge around 66' by 68' we were fully in the the 60s turmoil, hippies, peace signs, anti war protests. Unfortunatley by the mid 70s America was in a slow downward spiral, by the 80s and 90s it lead us the the sh!thole America is now. Its a huge difference and degradation of life from 66' to today.
By design.
The problems of today were caused in the '50s by our failing to address this society's injustices. Things did not decline because of '60s turmoil, but '50s neglect.
After Kennedy was assassinated, everything changed. Early to mid and late 60's was drastically different in one 10 year time span. Events and culture overload.
You need to edit you comments before posting. I see a slight amount of dyslexia.
@@brianarbenz7206 Those “ injustices” were addressed in the 60’s and 70’s and I would question what things you considered “ injustices”. The decline started after the assassination of JFK, the increased American involvement in Vietnam which he opposed, and the growing drug culture. After after that it was just a matter of time. 50 years. There can be no recovery from this.
On September the nineteenth through October the fifth, 1966, Snoopy's so-called beloved doghouse was on fire. Snoopy not only was extremely homeless, but also extremely heartbroken to say the very least actually. He lost all of his valuable possessions in the fire, including his most valuable prized possession of all time--namely a pair of pinking shears. Comic strip fans & lovers from all over the world (including the former Soviet Union) were extremely sad & heartbroken over that tragic event to say the very least actually. Earlier that very same year, Charles Schwarz also lost his art-drawing studio in a fire as well. What a pity.
I graduated from high school in 1966. I was a fish in the Corps at Texas A&M in the fall.
I was 9 years old in 1966. My dad was in the Air Force and we were stationed at Myrtle Beach Air Base in South Carolina. It was a great place and time to be a kid then. Good, good memories.
I watched Batman every week, except one time I wouldn't finish my dinner and mom wouldn't let me watch it! I also watched Star Trek but more so when it hit syndication later. You didn't mention The Monkees TV show, also a favorite. FYI I was more a fan of the new Dodge Charger. Definately good memories of my childhood (6 at the time).
I was 4 and would run around holding a towel as a cape yelling Batman! I didnt get that it was a satire, but I certainly got Julie Newmar--my first star crush! And check this out: I wouldn't eat my cauliflower, and my parents made me sit there until it was gone. I stubbornly pouted and wouldn't touch it, and then I heard the TV....duh, duh, duh, duh, duh (then the bastards amped the volume) BATMAN! I finished before the theme was done.😏 That and getting to stay up late and watch the Gorn episode of Star Trek are among my earliest memories.
“Definitely “. You must be a very cultured person. Batman, Star Trek and the Monkees.
@@nicholasschroeder3678 what torture.
1966 was a BIG year for television shows.
Awesome! I was born in 1966
On AUG 29, 1966, The Beatles performed their last show as a live touring band at Candlestick Park in SF.
A great year for the automobile...i love my 66 mustang.
On August 29th, the Beatles played their last paid live show at Candlestick Park in San Francisco. It was the official end of Beatlemania.
1966 was probably the last year that still seemed somewhat like the 50s, at least from a pop cultural standpoint. It was the last year that black and white cinematography was in the mainstream. A lot of kids like to ask when the world went from black and white to color. Of course, the world has always been in color, but in terms of black and white productions, 1966 would be the year. One of the last mainstream black and white movies was “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” It was released in 1966. By the autumn of 1966, most television productions had shifted to color, save for a few soap operas and game shows. It’s true that color televisions didn’t outsell black and white televisions until the early 1970s, but most shows ceased being filmed in black and white by the autumn of 1966.
Good observations Joseph, the 1960s were a decade that turned this country up side down.
Great memories! I think networks switched to color filming of all prime time shows to send a hint, hint to viewers that it's time you buy a color set. Re, movies: since then black and white movies are shot only to convey a film noir feel. And there is something oddly sensually appealing in black and white films.
In 1967 color television sets were being pushed hard by the makers and dealers. Everyone was switching over to color sets by then.
I was drafted into the military in 1966. I joined the Navy and was scared to death the whole 4 years I was in. I got out in 1970.
This was the year I turned 14 and started high school in the fall.
Don't know what you guys think, But 66 had its problems like any decade, But for me personally, It was a great time, the TV and cinema were magical.
I was eleven years old.My Daddy was in the U.S.Air Force.We were stationed in France.Transferred to England in August 1966.
I graduated from high school, and started college, in 1966.
Miranda did not involve a false confession. If it had been proven false, there would have been no need for a landmark decision. The whole point was that the court ruled that without the defendant having been advised of his rights, and knowingly waiving those rights, any statement he made could not be used against him.
Correct on the latter, sister told me same thing when she was in law school.
Got married in September '66 and off to Vietnam November 30th. Memorable to say the least!
Thankyou for your service
Also married in September 1966. Went to Viet Nam in '69. My firstborn son was just a few months old at the time. Returned home safely.
In addition to the Texas Tower tragedy of August 1, which you mentioned, there was also another horrible crime which deserved inclusion here. The Chicago mass murder of the student nurses by Richard Speck on July 14th. It was absolutely a horrific crime and was front page news across the entire country.
In 1966, due to mixed reviews, the broadway musical show "Superman: the Musical" made its debut with Bobby Holiday as Superman and Linda Lavin as Sydney Canyon. Nine years later, it was revived, but they decided to put it on tv instead.
Batman premiered on the day I was born! And, so many of my favorite shows premiered that year! Camaro, my second favorite car after the Mustang. I used to race a 1974 Camaro in the 1980s and we won every race we were in. Although, I don't think we ever raced against a Mustang so I can't compare the two in that respect.
Anyway, it was a great year!
The Pontiac Firebird and Mercury Cougar also were introduced in the fall of '66.
great work ! you put these together so well, sound tracks (music) also flawless. keep going !!!
As an indication of how our society has changed, when "Batman" premiered on ABC-TV in '66, a number of local ABC affiliated stations refused to show it, considering it too violent. Why no mention of NASA's Project Gemini flights during '66?
June 7th 66 the beginning of my three-year vacation into the US army.
Got out in one piece.🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲
Thankyou so much for your service
Also in 1966…. Family Affair starring Brian Keith and Sebastian Cabot premiered on CBS. That Girl starring Marlo Thomas and Ted Bessell premiered on ABC. Both shows ran for five seasons each.
My sister born in 1965 had a Buffy dress & a Mrs. Beasley doll.
@@samanthab1923 My cousin was born in 1967, since she was a little girl, she also used to have a Mrs. Beasley doll too.
@@samanthab1923My sister had a Mrs Beasley doll it was cute
R.I.P Dave Edward Kearns, December 3rd, 1966 - October 14th, 2017.
R.I.P Doug Tamatea, March 21st, 1966 - October 14th, 2017.
R.I.P Marama Tamatea, 1966-2017.
R.I.P Robyn Gough, 1966-2017.
R.I.H David Edwarden Sheaun, November 21st, 1922 ~ December 27th, 1966.
The Railway Lining Controlling Lands 1966 - David Edwarden Sheaun's Demise.
I was born in 66 on December 29th,,,,,interesting 😀 I feel like I’m the last part of this video😀
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I was 11
I was 1.
That explains why my younger brother became a Trekkie, loved Batman/Robin, probably into The Great Pumpkin ~ if I was not at work in the evening, or out with friends, I was probably in my bedroom listening to music or reading, not downstairs watching television with father and siblings.
Born in June of 66 in San Francisco California.
1966 the year before, I was born. Loretta Lynn turned the the question about God into a song. I got my schooling about the Vietnam War from tv and documentaries, family and friends and many Vietnam Veterans that, I have met through the yrs with my dad and, mom, my brother and me being very active members and being a part of the veterans organizations.
In September of 1966, Filmation Studios' "The New Adventures of Superman" made its debut on CBS. Later that very same month & year, "The 1966 Miss America Beauty Pageant" was transferred from CBS to NBC-TV. And this time, it was in extremely glorious living color.
I remember mama picking out a Magnavox color tv console for the World Series.
I was a 9-year-old grade schooler here in suburban Philadelphia that year. I was listening to the Boss Jocks on Famous 56, WFIL, here in Philly; as well as watching Green Acres on Wednesday nights on CBS.
"I wanna farm, Lisa! I wanna get my hands dirty!" Then, fife music.
Man....I sure do miss Jerry Lewis
also on July 22, 1966 my parents got married & are still married almost 56 years this coming July Dad was 24 at the time & mom was 18 , now dad is 80 & mom is 74 coming up in April
I was at Dizzyland the day small world opened saw Walt in person, last public appearance before he passed.