I was an American in the 1960`s, and not a very smart one. I quit high school in 1968 at the age of 18. To hang out with my buddies, I had no sense and I am paying for it still.
JEAN VALEE: I quit school at age 16, entered the Marine Corps at 17. Grew up in there completed High School through MCI and took College Courses. Later I went to a Community College and studied Engineering. While there I had a conversation with a professor, "I said I wish I had a Degree already." He replied; "I wish I had your Experience. Education is the SUM of your Experience." I am retired now but the last 10 years of work I consistently made $80K to $100K based on experience.
Jean Vallee I was a drop out and was very depressed because my mom died when I was 15 but I went in the army and took a GED in 1976. I think a college degree is necessary for certain fields but I wanted to be blue collar and theres nothing wrong with that. I'm curious why being a drop out made you pay for the rest of your life when there were so many good blue collar jobs.
Same here!🦄 I always just believed things would turn out ok. They never did. My parents didn't teach me that you have to MAKE things happen, I learned the hard way.
I had so much fun in the 60s. What a great decade. Being born in 1958, the sixties belonged to me. My favorite part of the era was the freedom I experienced. There was magic in the air. When ever I think about my childhood, I smile.
I agree: and felt the same way. Magic ... was in the air ...! What a cool time to be a kid / and or teenager. I seriously miss the late 60's and all of the 70's. It was ... M A G I C. Safe to hang out and play with friends past dark. Everyone watched out for one another ... everyone felt safe with a good sense of community around them. Heck; ....our food was ...SAFER...! ( Pre - Monsanto / corporate poisoning into our food sources ). I absolutely miss my "time" ... the 60's + 70's.
@@foureyedchick me too. Born in 60 and my childhood was wonderful. I played baseball and football almost everyday with friends. My dad was a great dad and loved me and gave me more then I deserved. Tv was great. Batman was a hoot. Music was amazing. But I was a kid. I wouldn't of wanted to have been drafted into Viet nam. But it was really great for me. Cheers
@@josephperreault7047 Joseph Perreault I have a need to understand how you feel so in titled to dismiss someone else's life experience. Maybe Robin Johnson experienced libra parents who let him stay out to explore. I speak from experience being born in 1955 having emotionally vacant parent. I was afforded the ability to come and go as I pleased. I left home at 13 and emerged myself in the culture of the day. My father was stationed at Army base in Oahu Hawaii I found my way to the mainland and hitch rides all over Nort America working in kitchens until I had money to move on. It was all fun and games until about 18. And I could settle down without the fear of having to be taken home. I returned to the education system and just retired from a job at my age of 65 from a caregiver of individuals with disabilities. I teach the ones who have been in State and provance run mental hospitals to deal with coping life on their own. I wouldn't trade my life for anyone else's. I don't blame anyone for instances in my life. Ifeel living as a did as a young teenager prepared me for what my future would be. It help me understand how someone moving out of one environment and slowly emerge into a new and more suitable life which is constantly evolving.
born myself in early 50's....it was a great era, for most of us....was it perfect ? No....but i would gladly go back as i am, to live the the remainder of my years.
I was born in the 60s dad was in Vietnam flying helicopters and mom a homemaker ,,,we had a very low key life ,,it was nice..mom was very good she was a nun,before she meant dad ,,,then dad came home from Vietnam and mom wanted to be a nurse so he put her through nursing school ,,and he stayed home and took care of us ..he was a lot of fun ,,we went fishing and to the park and out to eat while mom was at school ,,dad then went to school and graduated ...I was very blessed ..we all went to college and got degrees ,,so my 60s life has no drugs or anything like that ,,
In the 1950's a woman could enroll in premed. She could also qualify for Medical School.In 1968 my Family Doctor was an 82 year old woman. She had graduated Medical School in the 1920's!
Keith Wills: You are a scab on the intelligence of mankind. The Doctor, who you did not know treated many for free! She lived an upstanding personal life. Never married. She charge $2 for an office visit. She made house calls for $3 even if the cab cost $4. (she never drove a car) She was dedicated and inculcated with Divine Religious Principles. Which activity, to be sure, are devoid in your own life! SCABEROUS person; that one!!
Very few people know that not only could women be doctors in the 1950s but they could be scientists, lawyers, and congresswomen. The thing is, in GENERAL, women aren't interested in going into those fields.
My first ob-gyn was a woman. Another female doctor, a black woman, was on TV, in a weekly spot on a local show. Dr. Daphine Sprouse, and the legendary Dr. Dorothy Brown. That's two, and I believe they were the only practicing female doctors in a small city. Female doctors existed, but they were very rare.
Don't quote me on this, but I think this was regional as well as you had to go above and beyond as a woman in those fields. The fields weren't necessarily fair.
From a then kid's perspective, i LOVED the 60's! Yes, there were problems, but my memories of the people, and times overall, are excellent, relative to what i see and experience now in my mid 50's! :(
mike...agreed. I was born in 1954. The vietnam draft was called off just as I graduated high school. I loved everything a kid would like at that time....Aurora monster models, 77 sunset Strip, Mad Magazine, Famous Monsters of Filmland Magazine, cool cars, great Christmas and Halloween times, great times with the family, great times with all my baby boomer gang of friends........
@Ian Norton First off I wouldn't necessarily say rebelling against your government is a "good thing". Second , a good belt to the ass doesnt hurt every now and then, especially if you found out your child was just out rioting destroying the town, otherwise you end up with a child that thinks they deserve everything and gets offended by everything, you know, like most millenials. But id agree that punching your child or doing real harm is not right.
Having been born in 1953 I experienced discipline and had a somewhat fear inspired respect for authority but it was a fantastic time to be growing up, we didn't have any fear of being shot at school, in church, or the movie theater. So much better nowadays.
But the point is that it wasn't better. Everybody felt alienated, and were pretending to be 'normal.' Times change, it is easy to look back and say 'better' but each generation has its own skills, gifts, and challenges.
@@thehiddenyogi8557 Not only that, but if you were a woman that was unlucky enough to have an asshole husband back then, you were expected to tough it out. David Hoffman has a series of videos that do a good job explaining the 1950s and why the teenagers of the time abandoned it and created the 60s counter culture.
I’m am currently a junior in high school in Florida, and I’d like to say many, many of us are not afraid to attend school, it’s fear incited by the media for their gun movements. I wish I was born in the fifties to have lived through the 60s and 70s, and not to have to be in this God-forsaken world now. My father was born in the 50s also, and my grandfather is 89, so I have a good upbringing. Stories I hear about the past are amazing to me, sad I missed them though.
Dearest David: I cannot tell you how much I have enjoyed your videos on you tube. I am 65 years old now and live in London but I was born in San Francisco and grew up mainly in Oakland and Berkeley. While I was too young to really know about the earlier struggles of civil rights I was very aware of everything that happened after the first Kennedy assassination and remember very clearly where I was on that day and time. Being the youngest of 4 I was introduced to so many ideas and movements through my brother and sisters. I still feel an absolute fascination of those times. I remember, especially, the Vietnam marches in SF and B - I was in Telegraph Street in Berkeley when a National Guard soldier came running around the corner with a rifle and faced me head on (Peoples Park). I remember all of the assassinations - especially of MJK/ RK etc. It was absolute chaos. I used to cut high school and go to Berkeley and spend my time on the streets, record and book shops all the time. Of course, I did all the things younger people did at that time as well, if you get my meaning. Sorry, I am meandering a bit - however, thank you so very much for all of the videos of history you have provided for us. Yours David Holiday
I was there also, but I was older. You missed the cultural learning and spiritual awakening. What happened was that the Mao Marxists took over the movement of spiritual awakening, and made the sixties into rebellion. But, that god awful war in Vietnam was the fodder that ignited the Mao Marxist domination. Meanwhile, underneath the political turmoil was a lot of spiritual awakening. Sorry you missed out.
I have fond memories. Born 1955. So many adventures. Loved the tv programs. Had some funny memories, and some bad memories. Loved family holidays. Huge family get togethers. Picnics, outdoor movies.
I loved the 60s!!! My friends and I would ride our bikes down to the small local grocery store and buy a salami sandwich and a coke for 35 cents Of course we were to young to see all the turmoil going on
Oh, you say that you rode your backs down to the grocery store. Maybe that's a transcription error by Siri or some dictation system on your phone. I think you meant you rode your bike to the grocery store
Kids would bike everywhere back then. I had a red "Raleigh" Colt made in England. "Raleigh, Robin Hood and Royce Union" where the cool bikes to have.....all made in England. There were summers when I spent well over 4 hours a day on a bike. I was in the best shape of my life.
I was born 1960. As a kid from suburbia it was a great time to grow up. I played baseball in the summer football in fall. Batman was on tv. Music was great! I didn't know many ppl of color at the time but Motown brought a new and deep feeling for music I naturally loved but was very different from the white music on the radio like the Beatles. But the music was just great.
The 60s were both good & bad. Horrific child abuse like I endured was always swept under the rug, not discussed among anyone, always overlooked and awkwardly ignored. Only in the past 20 years have people been properly held accountable for child abuse. It took a long time.
Hi David, thank you for the memories and for bringing me back to a time of innocence and freedom. I lived the fifties & sixties and served 28 years in the military, 13 years at sea, deployed and/or at war. I would come back state-side, get a glimpse of Americana and be overseas again. Your videos and the way you present our past enabled me to "connect the dots" of times that I have missed, to make the transition, and to better understand what happened to our country while I was away. Thank you for your dedication, for your unbiased presentation, and for your respect of our culture during a time that truly "marked us" if not "scarred us". Thank you for "bringing me back home" and sharing all that work and effort with the YT community. May Peace be with you, Ciao, L (Disabled Veteran)
I was a child in the 1960s. Born November 1956. I loved all of the cars on the road. I was one of 4 girls. My youngest sister was born in 1970. I had an enjoyable childhood. My Dad was a Vet in WW2. I graduated in 1975 from High School. I grew up in a 3 bedroom brick ranch in the suburbs. My childhood was easier than adulthood.
Back when I was a young teacher in Aurelia, Iowa we did an entire humanities study of the sixties for my Current American History class. Back then we weren't burdened with standards and performance tests so creative teaching allowed me to utilize this series. The kids loved it. Once when we were watching a part where a young man was talking about not being an "investment or a commodity" of his parents, one of students perked up when the mother was interviewed and said, "that's my aunt!" This was such a great n complex series, touching on such fascinating issues of the culture of the time.
Born in the latter part of the '50s I experienced the '60s from a suburb of Washington, D.C. To cop a phrase from Dickens, it was the best of times, it was the worst of times. It was a "sweet spot" in history, when so much of a dynamic nature in all fields was happening, good and bad but it was so rich in history. More happened back then in 3 months than now happens in 2 - 3 years. Dynamic it was indeed.
Born in 1956 in Philadelphia, summer's in Ventnor new Jersey,hanging out on the boardwalk. Iron Butterfly.. Inagadadavida. My Parent's hated the music. My dad was in the Navy so we moved a lot.
A good film and an eye-opener about the sixties. Funnily enough, some people have already begun liking those old educational films like the Coronet-films again, including me, although they seem to have been one of the reasons for the later upcomping rebellion.
The 1960s was a result of social stagnation of the 1950s. The 50s was a time of strict conformity and materialism. America collectively got bored with itself and began reacting against the norm. The problem was, there was no healthy alternative to replace what they were rebelling against and it turned into one big battle of the generations. It's pretty much the same bs that's going on today. Eventually the waters will calm down once again and give way to another peaceful era until the next "social rebellion" happens. The cycle of human civilization.
Having been born in 1957 and in a rural farm town, the memories of my childhood didn't begin till the 60s. I just remember watching news about the Vietnam war, civil unrest, drugs, and hippies and was basically just afraid of it all. Our town was about 10 years behind everyone else. My good memories are of family, friends, and cartoons.
Hoffman you guys rocked on this. They don't even allow stuff made as real as this now. Good thing you made it then. I have an old yeah bootlegged VHS copy in my old box. Been sharing MSOTS around via your RUclips posting. Thanks Brother. Excellent. Excellent.
I see a blatant reflection of these generations in today's culture. although now it seems young people are evenly split between ultra ambitious and those who want to be more free.
@@brycebertolino7017 previous? this is still a racist country. people can't even call this shit out, and try to deal with it, without a racist white person running their fucking mouth, trying to suppress them even more.
Kelly Bluebook unfortunately they invaded the place where we had our summer cabin Rio Nido at Russian river California They basically destroyed the whole area with their garbage and bringing in their drugs People stopped coming there as a result and the area went into decay In the 80s the gays came in and restored a lot of the area Now there’s druggies everywhere in Rio Nido and it’s still beautiful but you have to watch out for your safety because of the druggies Guerneville the main town about a mile away has decayed somewhat but the gays have kept it up somewhat
Funny how much of this still applies today, and is still being said. If you just rerecorded a lot of the script in this and just swapped out a few key words you could fool someone into thinking this was about generation Y.
It’s interesting and when you think about it all of us from the 50’s and 60’s think it was wonderful because we were kids with no responsibilities. They really should have asked our parents because I’m certain they wouldn’t look back on that as the good old days.
The 60’s was a turning point for this nation. Even though there was a lot of turbulences, there was some good. Certain minority groups began to get their rights and younger people began to stand up for what’s right in this country.
and women started getting their rights too, though the biggest legal break throughs for women did not really get strong until the 70s.....Yes, all that you mention are good things indeed...
Interestingly enough, I lived it, joined the Air Force, learned a wonderful trade in the medical field, explored every educational avenue I could, even adopted the hippie lifestyle (except drugs), kept a good attitude despite the horrors of the outside world ... funnily enough, at 74 nothing's changed. I still have a good attitude (can see beauty all around me) despite what's going on in the outside world. What we focus on is what will become our reality, so it appears that there's a role for each and every one of us to be our best at. Thanks David .. you're the best at THIS.💞
Thank you Linda for this comment and other beautiful comments you have made. If your resources allow, I would sure appreciate your using the THANKS button under any of my videos including the one you have commented on. It is something new that RUclips is beta testing and would mean a great deal for my continuing efforts. David Hoffman filmmaker
I would love to see the series you have be organized into their own playlists. There are a lot of interesting things you've made! It's sad to not see it easily accessible to everyone on youtube
I was born in June 1966 in Winnipeg, Canada. My Dad was born June 1930 on a farm in Gimli (Manitoba). Mom was born July 7, 1936 (first day tv broadcast by RCA in NYC) and grew up in North End Winnipeg. I loved the late 60s as a baby. While I'd hear about the "young people" (Baby Boomers) of the day, I had my own age peer friends in my neighbourhood.
was born in the 50's, grew up in the 60's....was it perfect ? nope ! But i'd take it in a heartbeat over today ! Despite what this video has, this wasn't like it was everyday, everywhere, for everyone....just some negative highlights of a beautiful era, i mean honestly who would watch a video of the usual. I could make the same video about today, showing all negatives, but i don't....i prefer to concentrate on the positives.
I believe my video makes very clear that this clip is not talking about everyone every day and everywhere. It is specifically talking about a segment of the population and how they felt at that time. And it is not talking about all of the negatives. Just some of the challenges. David Hoffman - filmmaker
My dad was born in 1960. When he was about 20, for Christmas he bought his parents a copy of the Kama Sutra because he thought it would help them "chill out." They didn't like it. He still thinks they're kind of bummers to this day. I think this is a perfect "rebellious" story - makes me chuckle!
I'm really thrilled seeing your work, and seeing you and your family was great. I'm sure I'm not alone looking forward to more of you, your work new and old. Your work is and American treasure. Go Man Go! x
Thank you so much this Sunday morning. Some of the comments I have received this last week have been brutally nasty. Some I removed because they are Nazis. Your comment is much appreciated. David Hoffman filmmaker
Awe, you did the hard work, thanks for the replies I'm honored You ought-a make a film on the rise of the new Nazis. Put um in their place. The ignorance is almost laughable :: Have you seen the "Cool Hard Logic" channel? good for a laugh at ignorance. Anyway as a child of the sixties I enjoy the unfiltered "as much as one can" Documentation of life in the 60's 70's you have filmed and shared.
I remember back in the 1960s my mom used to have a deep fryer and used to make French Fries with it. By the 1970s she stopped using that because The news Media told her it was found to be unhealthy cooking.
@@jaworskij I know what you mean. Yet we all lived to tell the tale. My mother used to leave the dripping fat in the roast tin from our Sunday lunch. On return from school on a Monday we kids would go into the kitchen with some white bread...never brown...and dip our knives into the now congealed dripping fat and spread it onto our bread. It was a form of early pate. And it was delicious!
We were dirt poor but always had things to do ,played outside made up games like who could run the fastest or climb up trees catch fireflies in mason jars and play green light, red light . I would watch my Dad fix things like the old car we had and fix the clock or he would make things like a CB Radio or a fancy Speed boat , he had a movie camera and we have lots of Family Memories now my brother put them on CDs . We were poor but rich in a way too! Had a garden ate alot of potatoes and Cabbage Soup and abundance of Strawberries and our one uncle always gave us Deer meat in the Winter ,sure it was rough sometimes but we survived the best we could. I felt safe and loved!
@@lumity238 I had a CB radio as well. Almost as addictive as the Internet. We had no central heating...no duvets...we had the cane in school though. Ha ha...
Nursing is a real profession ,, mom had her bachelors degree in nursing and I have a Masters in nursing .my sister passed away and she had a Master’s in Nursing also ,,,so Nursing is a real profession..so is teaching ..I find that lady who said that out of touch
My sister got her nursing degrees in the 1970s. She made really good money for a long time. I mean "really good". If she chose to work Christmas eve or new Years eve she would make a weeks salary in one night.
Ignore any troll that may belittle nursing. All us three kids grew up to be doctors of one kind or another. My angel of a mother helped us in any way she could, often staying up through the night to type a paper of mine or driving me the 45 minutes to my college so that I could study just that much more before a crucial exam. She also taught me how a real lady acts, a great role model in very short supply these days. After she helped get us into professional schools, what did my Hoosier country gal mother do at about age 55? She went back to school, a community college, and earned a LPN degree and worked for a while until my father became ill. If you ask any doctor secure in their own accomplishments and any patients they'll tell you that it's the nurses who render the lion's share of patient care in hospitals. Doctors are too unreliable today and really only pop in and out to check on you. Nurses are the true heroes of the healthcare system! Trust me, I know.
I really wish I had grown up in the the 60s , I wasn't born until 1967 , I was a baby and a toddler in the late 60s , what I was around for I was too young to remember, as far as I'm concerned I missed it, I missed that whole decade, , and I resent the fact that I did miss it, I wish I was born in the late 50s so that I could have grown up in the 60s and was old enough to remember it but I wasn't, I was born too late, I missed it. .
I was born in 1954 so I got to experience some of the 1950s and all of the 1960s. Yes there were social problems and discrimination (the severity of it depending on what part of the country you lived) but all eras have their problems. For me personally the late 1950s and the 1960s were great memories for me as a kid. A lot of really cool things vanished from that era I'll bet you would have loved......drive-in movies, local Pharmacies with a soda fountain counter, The novelty of "television" and all the classic black & white TV shows, and KIDS......kids everywhere. No problem finding new friends. It was the "Baby Boom Era" .... groups of kids everywhere. Saturday mornings you would be woken to the sounds of neighborhood kids playing, screaming, basically going wild. It was so different that it seems like a dream to me now
@@tiffanifarrington4039 oh I'm sorry to say that you missed the 80s , and most of the 20th century, I missed the 50s and most of the 60s , but at least I was around for the decade of the 70s and the 80s , and to tell you the truth you didn't really miss that much, I grew up in the 70s and back then we didn't have that much, we didn't have back then what we have today, no cell phones, no home computers, no internet, no cable TV, no caller ID, no cordless phones, no VCR S, no DVD players, and it was a time of plain Jane's , short and sassy hair doos and bell bottom pants, and people were able to get welfare very easily, if you were unemployed and you had kids they gave it to you just like that, and we listened to our music on vinyl discs called records, and we listened to them on record players and turn tables, I guess it was an interesting time to be alive after all.
I was born 1n 1945. Graduated High School in 1963. Moved to L.A. in 1964 to become a singer. Got a recording contract in 1965 and appeared on a "Danny Thomas Special" . Got drafted in 1965. Had my first affair with an older woman. I was 20, she was 26. Grew my hair long. Had sideburns. Partied like I was going to die. Fell in and out of love. Looking for something that told me I was alive. Not until the late 70's did my life settle down. 1977 I fell in love. Stayed married for 40 years until death took my spouse in 2017. The 60's were tumultuous. I loved the mid late 70's far better. What memories. Some things I can't speak of. Would I do it all over again ? You bet ! In a second !
"What the hell we were doing?" Seems to be a constant statement...Can't help but feel like that statement is repeated throughout the decades. All about making the money, but they begin to lose out on creating a lifelong connection. Lack of emotional health. Life is messy, and it's clear that it shouldn't be dealt with. What's fascinating and kinda sad is how some people continue to refer these times as the, "good ole days." I see now more than ever that those people really need to let go.
I graduated from high school in 1966 and I guess I was sort of a want to be hippie. I never totally dropped out and so on but adopted someone to hippie lifestyles and like a lot of things about it. God bless you very much.
I originally saw this on PBS when it came out in the early 90"s. One of the best documentaries on my generation ever. Now I find these days wondering what planet I am on. The pendulum swang the other way. What a long strange trip it has been We did bring about a lot of good changes but still have a long ways to go. The worst part is that we went from wanting to change the world to now wanting to buy it. I always Wanted my Family to be like 'Leave it to Beaver. It was nowhere near reality. What is NORMAL? Know that I have not had an definitely don't have what one would Call a normal life now.
Hi David. As you know I've mentioned many times how we came of age during an amazing period. There is one element I just recently relized that makes the 1960s different from today. Back then, at least among the differing sides of opinion I encountered, both sides loved America. Today it apppears clear that opposing sides either love or hate America. Back then both sides wanted to see improvements as we entered the second half of the 20th century, but differed in how to approach issues and moral objectives. Today it is even more divided but it is a matter of those that want to improve America as we move onward into the 21st century and those that want to overthrow and abolish America. Oh boy, I imagine the responses I may have just prompted. Continue educating, my generational friend. Be a blessing.
And so as the 50's dad climbed the corporate ladder, the higher he went, the more of a role model he was expected to be. Unhappy kids? Not permitted. Divorce? Not permitted. I remember the time well growing up in a wealthy Ivy League town. Everything was "how's the wonderful family, wonderful career, wonderful life, blah, blah?" You couldn't really say that not everything was perfect. When I first saw "Dirty Dancing", I was blown away by how true so much of that movie was in depicting that era. There was still a lot of formality in life. Introductions were often accompanied by statements of status, as in "I'd like you to meet my son, Derrick, Cornell College of Engineering, class of '76." I mean, if people still talk this way now, I'd be really surprised.:) But I lived this, and I hated it. Because what do you do as a parent if your son doesn't want to follow the script? Its going to be personally embarrassing. "I'd like you to meet my son, dave, who....um......well......(cough, cough)" and then you get these looks like you've just been excommunicated from polite company. But down the road, so many parents went through what I described that it eventually became OK. You could blame outside forces. And so as the Victorian notion of endless progress started to crack, you could always look around you and find bigger cracks somewhere else. Indeed one funny thing about it all was that the higher status parents were often having a harder time than you. Thats how it worked. And so, one day in the 1970's, a hippie turned up dead of a drug overdose on the streets of San Francisco. It turns out he was the son of the president of the Bank of Boston. Or, there was the story of a prominent Seattle area journalist's son who moved to Alaska to live like a caveman. After 20 years of trying, he finally ended it all by putting a homemade spear through his heart. But those were the tragedies that filtered back and made it easier for ordinary parents to cope with what was going on in society. It helped everyone to heal actually. By focusing on them, I'm not trying to depict the 60's as bad necessarily, especially in light of my own experiences. But the extreme changes that rocked society in such a short period of time left a lot of people feeling somewhat like a scuba diver with a bad case of the bends. Slower might have been better. I'm glad the formality and expectations of material success in life characteristic of the 50's is a thing of the past, but it did die a somewhat painful death.
But we had the best music in the 60’s, Motown, group’s from Philadelphia, The Beatles…British invasion, Rock groups. The music brought us together back then, I had a lot of fun being a teenager. Proud to be a Boomer!
The first half of the 70s was the best...better than the 60s because ppl were starting to pull their heads out of the clouds and become a little more responsible. I said a little lol.
In so many ways my family was never conformists. We were all a bit eccentric. Daddy was a mechanic for American Airlines. Mama was a Registered Nurse. The kids were pretty far apart in age. My brother is 18 years older than me, next my sister is 10 years younger than him. The next sister 8 years younger than big sister, I'm the youngest only 2 years younger than sister #2. My mom went to work intermittently between us kids when we started school. My parents made good money. They never tried to fit in, or keep up with the Jones's. They never put on airs. We were Pentecostals/ Holyrollers. Many people didn't "approve." We behaved well & it made them look bad. Politically we were Democrats, we were liberals with the full understanding of separation of church and state. We had black friends. Not just people you said hello to when seeing them occasionally. Real friends, people who you visit, & they visit you. I remember turmoil in the 60's. The Civil Rights Movement, the Vietnam war, all the protesting. Peace, Love, War, & lots of hate & savagery. My parents weren't in line with the stereotypical views of the times. They were old fashioned, not stupid. They understood the need for civil rights, & the need to look like & be an individual. Daddy wasn't enthused about mini-skirts, skimpy clothes, putting on enough make-up to last a week, everyday. I remember watching Walter Cronkite. Many boys we knew going off to fight in Vietnam, a place we never should have been. They didn't want or need our interference. I turned 11 years old in December 1970. I remember when JFK was killed, MLK too. Then Bobby Kennedy a few years later. It was a economically prosperous time. Still, so many things were a horrible mess.
Well, I always had heart, today I am socially conscious, recognizing it is Right or, Wrong, it is as simple as that thank you +David Hoffman, I always say, when it's the right time, Wisdom comes to you.
The 60s were a drag, and those who whined all through this video were largely why it sucked. Life was never easy, but those who actually had it kind of easy, actually ruined much of what wasn't broken. Objecting to the war, segregation, artificial limits was fair, but the manner that this was done in is, to me, as equally ridiculous as the rigidity of the 50s. There is a happy medium between the two. A right spot that the two generations overshot by a mile. The multitude of social problems of today are directly attributable to the 1960s, though some started in the late 50s. Drugs, drug addiction, overdoses, single moms, deadbeat dads, latchkey kids, crudeness, vulgarity, hedonism, eccentricity, irresponsibility, wanton violence, gross immaturity, entitlement, etc.... Grampa and grandma may have been boring, but they weren't codependent losers like so many of the "Me" generation and beyond turned out to be.
The 60s were ridiculous. Having ones god given rights prevented by oppressors/tyrants supported by the benefactors. Americas became liveable since the 90s. Prior to that it was trash. People didn't whine in the 60s, they called for humanity of the americas to awaken.
@@najma2613 whining was all they did in the 60s. Hell, they invented petulance, and it's 1000 times worse today. There were legit issues then. Now, issues are manufactured like plastic lawn furniture, fast, cheap, and crappy.
I didnt live through the 60's but i see todays kids protesting in a most vicious manner. I have ZERO interest in politics but if i see a group protesting about something i really feel for then il sign the petition. Protesting seems to take on a very different form than here. I saw a guy spend 6 hours questioning random people on Hollywood boulevard & he started by reading 3 minutes of statistics before asking the protester if these were issues they agree with, which POTUS was behind them & so on. Over 80% of these kids agreed with the policies/actions with much zeal until they found out it was the oppositions policy. Same number disagreed with other policies with much anger & hatred until they found out it was their parties policies.
*So the protesters of today have no message, they go with the flow & sadly have no principles. I'm 38 yrs old & i would die for many issues i feel strongly about. Ive no connection to America & know nothing about politics but human behaviour is something i know about so i know i'l get hate for this next comment but nobody can say i ever sided with one party over another~I DONT CARE WHO'S PRESIDENT~ So from a totally unbiased place i can see that the so called "LEFT" are extremely angry & thats ok. Its not healthy to be angry sometimes, but when we act on it in the ugliest way, attacking families with children at a restaurant, well we all know that no matter the issue, the next act is always worse than the last so i see, as an outsider, a group who have no problem burning the town down around them..We in Ireland never needed to have written into law what America has in its 1st amendment. We're doing fine witout it, but it's been abused **_BIG TIME_** in America. Maybe the times called for this type of amendment when they came up with it. **_But i believe we here in Ireland have more freedom of speech than Americans when it comes to saying what we believe. We have our own moral boundaries we wnt cross, like setting out to hurt someone with our words, but we can if we wanted. We can also refuse to call a dude a girl & respectfully explain i'm Catholic & as a Christian i wont turn my back on my faith, not to mention the other fact that the scientific theory & much of the sciences came from Catholics so i believe a man cant be a woman~I WONT THROW OUT THAT SCIENTIFIC FACT EITHER, and never have to worry bout cops calling or the news calling ma a racist or bigot_** ...Racism also is thrown around so much that true cases are bunched in with the fake shit.. ..Some of your amendments need amending because as long as people are told by the government what to or what not to say/do, then you'l have people protesting.. **_SOME IN VERY RARE CASES HAVE A TON OF KNOWLEDGE & SIMPLY WANT TO BE LEFT ALONE, LIKE JORDAN PETERSON_** ..But i digress...lol...l8r guys*
I was born in 1947 ; from 1952 until 1965 were the best years of my life. I grew up in the best possible time . Wouldn't trade it for anything. The time's now are disgusting. Children are horrible , because of their parents. I feel sorry for them. Parents want to be friends with their children , instead of being a parent . Yay'50's and '60's.👍👍👍💖💖💖💖
What about that Time between 1947 and 1952, don't you remember anything of it? I remember when I was seven months old and two years old 1968 and 1969. I myself was five years old in 1971.
Did you also notice, as I did many years ago, that what we call the 60s was more late 60s and early to mid 70s chronologically? Very different than the early 1960s. Nevertheless, you have captured the overall "confusion" that in an odd way I believe our generation was privileged to have experienced.
My sibling and I did not rebel - we went to school and then to work and have lives very similar to the one we had as kids in the 1950's & 1960's. Our parents indulged us but didn't spoil us and we knew how to work and do the best you can in life. And I would've been embarrassed not to have moved out and gotten on with my life in my early 20's like the kids do now where they never get their feet wet and get out and grow up. There was a lot of race discrimination back then and wages were low but if wanted a job you could find one and that job could let you buy a small, modest house and a car - not so today.
The media (T.V., Magazines, Movies, Books) were a TERRIBLE way to illustrate 'Home Life' as these were (and ARE Today) MANUFACTURED by people who had a vested interest in maintaining the 'Status Quo'.
Along with the good there was also a lot bad about the hippie movement in the 60s. There is a really great collection of essays by Joan Didion published in 1968 titled, "Slouching Towards Bethlehem" that really disturbed that myopic view of the 60s that I shared with many other children of the 80s and 90s.
I grew up in the 60's. the thing that I remember most about the running theme as I saw it was that I hardly knew a family where severe, damaging abuse wasn't going on. This was not talked about, except for a few rationalizations here and there, or when alcohol was involved.
@anarchore It may have been a component in aggregate and at large, but not all boomers parents were veterans of any war (ww2, Korea), so for example a person born in the late 50's might have had parents whose fathers were in the war, so same influence but different experience. My mother recalled that the first Fourth of July after ww2 ended men her father's age were literally traumatized by fireworks and hid under picnic tables screaming.
@@rantional8180 I don't think anyone thought that abuse was "normal" either. They only lied and were total hypocrites about it. This left kids vulnerable to predator priests and serial killers at its worst. But even though most people were fairly decent in their own behavior, their denial often caused them to downplay what other adults did to kids and hardly ever addressed the issues appropriately.
@@rantional8180 There was a ton of unreported abuse going on back then, just look at all the scandals concerning the Catholic church coming out now, there was too much respect for authority. I personally know at least two people who reported parental abuse to their school in this period, only to have the school call their parents in and be sat down in a meeting with them " you don't abuse your child do you?" , "of course not", "good, see you later" You can imagine what happened when they got home . Things are a lot better now, abuse is finally being taken seriously, although we are a LONG way from eradicating it, but in the 50's with the norm of conformity and obedience to authority much abuse was ignored and brushed under the carpet, lots of "perfect" homes had a dark secret behind closed doors.
I experienced the sixties in my St. Louis suburban high school as an onslaught of dissipation, anger, depression, drug and a vast sullen atmosphere of ennui and cowardice.
60's was a time that if you grew up in you don't want to forget...I grew up in 60's...born in 56 but I still think 50's was better...didn't grow up then but still think it must have been great
As a woman who grew up in the 60's and 70's, I am 62 now, A woman at 15:44 said something that really ticked me off. She said that back in the day a woman had 4 choices for a job, teacher, nurse, Secretary, or flight attendant. She said she couldn't gets into the real professions. They are REAL professions. She should have said woman could not get into male dominated jobs, is th as executives, law, etc.
The one course I did poorly in was called homec. It was about homemaking. I flunked that and got top grades in everything else. They finally gave up trying to teach me to be a housewife and sent me to the agricultural courses and later equine husbandry since that was what I intended as my career. Because I didn't fit into the mold I wasn't "normal" as they put it in the video. If you didn't want the life you were expected to live you definitely didn't get spoiled at home. It gets worse when you wore the "wrong" clothing and protested the war. I had no clue at the time that we would be waging war almost every year of my life. Although I did consider Eisenhower's speech about the domestic price of war I didn't realize yet how badly our resources would be depleted by the arms industry.
One of the best documentaries, on the 60's ever. We helped to bring about positive changes an knew we could make a difference. We learned how to get along an look beyond the differences. How my generation went from wanting to change the world, to wanting to buy the world is beyond me. You can chase the supposed American dream and help make a difference at the same time. I feel like I am existing in an altered world today. I still consider myself a Hippie and I am clean an sober. I still question the Status quo an could care less about being politically correct. Am 65 an still questioning everything ✌ Yes I thought that the perfect family was Ozzie an Harriet and Leave it to Beaver. Looked good on TV but a reality. I was raised in a Military Family. Yes we did take things to an extreme, in some ways an we are paying for it now.
@@davewolf8869 yes we did take some things to an extreme and we come to realize that nothing in life is free. However we did bring about a lot of positive changes an dared to question the status quo.. We didn't walk around like mindless robots.. Sadly many in my generation got off track an came to believe that more is better, only be concerned with myself an the hell with what is going on with the world and others.. Thankfully the torch has been passed an millions are finally waking up again. We can an must take a stand against the evil an corruption in the world. To many parents are trying to buy out their kids and not teaching them responsibility. They are making far to many to become spoiled We did make a lot of positive changes.
I lived through the 60s ! my first public job was in 1967 and I made $1.25 an hour but I bought a car on those wages ! I paid the finance $15.00 a month for my first car !
I don't remember any one in my family comparing their lives to Ozzie and Harriet....We watched My Little Margie, I Love Lucy, I Married Joan, variety shows like The Rosemary Clooney show.....what else was there? I think there was a so called informationtype show named the Twentieth Century....?My grandmother loved Gunsmoke….she'd hiss and boo at the bad guys and verbally warnthem that Matt Dillon was hot on their trail!
The 60's were easy compared to now as far as money goes - and so different - traditional male and female roles are no more (yay!). The big change - the line of demarcation- from everyone living upper middle class to being borderline poverty was the gasoline shortage in the mid 70's. That was where it all changed. I was born in the mid 50's and even though we lived on the "poor" side of a small town, we had everything that the people on the "rich side" had. Every mom was home with the kids, dads went to work on the train to NYC wearing 3 piece suits and made enough to support a 3-5 kid family and pay a mortgage. Girls took home economics courses and learned how to sew a dress and cook (i hated cooking, my dress came out crooked, I hated sewing and typing, too), boys took wood shop and auto mechanics (boys NEVER took home economics and girls were not allowed to learn how to fix a car - but that's what I wanted to learn!) Nowadays, most people are only one paycheck from homelessness. Girls fix cars and men cook! No more dressing up for baseball games or church even (lol thank God!). We never had to worry in the 60's as far a money, it was the land of plenty - we were spoiled. It was a time of plenty, a time where we could think and ask pertinant questions of ourselves as we grew up and waste alot of time just procrastinating. And then there was pot. That was a definite creative mind opener, just like LSD, only milder, easier to obtain. We never ever heard of anyone taking heroin or cocaine around town. It was just pot and trips. Then the 80's struck with cocaine cowboys and speed (aka crank). All the thoughtfulness went out the window and it was party party party all night long in the discos. We though we could live forever, and now we know we can't. High blood pressure, diabetes, caregiving for our parents, trying to make ends meet. What a contrast. Ah, what the heck, let it ALL hang out! Reefer Madness!!! Lol, the REAL Darin Stevens having teen troubles! And one more thing, teens had just as much sex in the 50's and 60's - it was just all kept hush-hush. The popularity "contests" in high school were a heartbreak, the popular kids were really the ones who had problems. The quiet ones, they were much more adjusted. And became more successful in life from what I have seen! Bullying has been around for ever, and we are just now addressing it. That it just crazy. Getting bullied in the 50's and 60's - it was just a matter of fact, everyone who got bullied had to live with it. Bullying from peers, from teachers, coaches. It was rampant along with sexual molestation that nobody dared mention because they emerge never believed or some how the victim ended up getting blamed. It happened all the time back then. Thank goodness we are addressing these things today, the world is far to crowded not to. Great series, thanks for the trip down memory lane!
The 1960’s were the last dynamic decade in the American experience. It was full of hope!America was moving ahead with a lot of promise. Unfortunately the country never learned anything from the Vietnam debacle.
I was a little tyke in the 60's in a good neighborhood, all I knew was there was crazy things going on elsewhere from the TV station but figured it was far from where I lived, saw a lot of hippies and chopper bikes and mustangs and thought grown up girls where beautiful, by the 70's there where still hippies around sometimes they would be trippin out on LSD
I was sold on Ozzy &Harriet, Leave it to beaver, Lassie, Davy and Goliath, It's a wonderful life, church & bible. So, I raised my children the best I could to that way of life. Since I had no one to teach me. I finally in my 60s, Realized that I was the only one living it.
i was full spectrum 60's with an older brother who over achieved in the boy scouts, to just a year or so later sniffing glue and joy riding stolen cars. i learned after many trips to youth authority camp to conform. but not conforming was my destiny. we moved to an upper scale neighborhood. 'generation gap' was lethal, just like the ending to he movie 'easy rider'. it took years to figure out how the heck i was going to make money- and it was a lifetime of humiliation to actually do it. but looking back there appears to have been an evil control plan all along. all pervasive evil control just now being revealed.
![Twenty One Pilots - “The Line” (from Arcane Season 2) [Official Music Video]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/E2Rj2gQAyPA/mqdefault.jpg)
I was an American in the 1960`s, and not a very smart one.
I quit high school in 1968 at the age of 18.
To hang out with my buddies, I had no sense and I am paying for it still.
What did you do when you quit school and for how long? Later on did you ever find a career and start a family?
JEAN VALEE: I quit school at age 16, entered the Marine Corps at 17. Grew up in there completed High School through MCI and took College Courses. Later I went to a Community College and studied Engineering. While there I had a conversation with a professor, "I said I wish I had a Degree already." He replied; "I wish I had your Experience. Education is the SUM of your Experience." I am retired now but the last 10 years of work I consistently made $80K to $100K based on experience.
Yes , what did you do after you quit high school?
Jean Vallee I was a drop out and was very depressed because my mom died when I was 15 but I went in the army and took a GED in 1976. I think a college degree is necessary for certain fields but I wanted to be blue collar and theres nothing wrong with that. I'm curious why being a drop out made you pay for the rest of your life when there were so many good blue collar jobs.
Same here!🦄 I always just believed things would turn out ok. They never did. My parents didn't teach me that you have to MAKE things happen, I learned the hard way.
I had so much fun in the 60s. What a great decade. Being born in 1958, the sixties belonged to me. My favorite part of the era was the freedom I experienced. There was magic in the air. When ever I think about my childhood, I smile.
I am only 2 years younger than you. Being born in 1960 gives me a feeling of innocence I miss so much.
I agree: and felt the same way. Magic ... was in the air ...! What a cool time to be a kid / and or teenager. I seriously miss the late 60's and all of the 70's. It was ... M A G I C. Safe to hang out and play with friends past dark. Everyone watched out for one another ... everyone felt safe with a good sense of community around them. Heck; ....our food was ...SAFER...! ( Pre - Monsanto / corporate poisoning into our food sources ). I absolutely miss my "time" ... the 60's + 70's.
@@foureyedchick me too. Born in 60 and my childhood was wonderful. I played baseball and football almost everyday with friends. My dad was a great dad and loved me and gave me more then I deserved. Tv was great. Batman was a hoot. Music was amazing. But I was a kid. I wouldn't of wanted to have been drafted into Viet nam. But it was really great for me. Cheers
@@josephperreault7047 Joseph Perreault I have a need to understand how you feel so in titled to dismiss someone else's life experience. Maybe Robin Johnson experienced libra parents who let him stay out to explore. I speak from experience being born in 1955 having emotionally vacant parent. I was afforded the ability to come and go as I pleased. I left home at 13 and emerged myself in the culture of the day. My father was stationed at Army base in Oahu Hawaii I found my way to the mainland and hitch rides all over Nort America working in kitchens until I had money to move on. It was all fun and games until about 18. And I could settle down without the fear of having to be taken home. I returned to the education system and just retired from a job at my age of 65 from a caregiver of individuals with disabilities. I teach the ones who have been in State and provance run mental hospitals to deal with coping life on their own. I wouldn't trade my life for anyone else's. I don't blame anyone for instances in my life. Ifeel living as a did as a young teenager prepared me for what my future would be. It help me understand how someone moving out of one environment and slowly emerge into a new and more suitable life which is constantly evolving.
born myself in early 50's....it was a great era, for most of us....was it perfect ? No....but i would gladly go back as i am, to live the the remainder of my years.
I was born in the 60s dad was in Vietnam flying helicopters and mom a homemaker ,,,we had a very low key life ,,it was nice..mom was very good she was a nun,before she meant dad ,,,then dad came home from Vietnam and mom wanted to be a nurse so he put her through nursing school ,,and he stayed home and took care of us ..he was a lot of fun ,,we went fishing and to the park and out to eat while mom was at school ,,dad then went to school and graduated ...I was very blessed ..we all went to college and got degrees ,,so my 60s life has no drugs or anything like that ,,
Thank you for sharing :)
Good for you, Beth. That's the way it was supposed to work...
Thank you for not being a degenerate Marxist.
Beth g , greetings from Ireland! You had truly wonderful parents that gave you a happy childhood
Sounds like you had good parents ⚘
In the 1950's a woman could enroll in premed. She could also qualify for Medical School.In 1968 my Family Doctor was an 82 year old woman. She had graduated Medical School in the 1920's!
Keith Wills: You are a scab on the intelligence of mankind. The Doctor, who you did not know treated many for free! She lived an upstanding personal life. Never married. She charge $2 for an office visit. She made house calls for $3 even if the cab cost $4. (she never drove a car) She was dedicated and inculcated with Divine Religious Principles. Which activity, to be sure, are devoid in your own life! SCABEROUS person; that one!!
Very few people know that not only could women be doctors in the 1950s but they could be scientists, lawyers, and congresswomen. The thing is, in GENERAL, women aren't interested in going into those fields.
My first ob-gyn was a woman. Another female doctor, a black woman, was on TV, in a weekly spot on a local show. Dr. Daphine Sprouse, and the legendary Dr. Dorothy Brown. That's two, and I believe they were the only practicing female doctors in a small city. Female doctors existed, but they were very rare.
Don't quote me on this, but I think this was regional as well as you had to go above and beyond as a woman in those fields. The fields weren't necessarily fair.
What an absolutely stupid comment regarding abuse.
Just because your problems were "worse" than someone else's doesn't mean that their problems are any less real. Be kind.
So true...but some complain about THE DUMBEST things
All your videos are WONDERFUL. Thank you for making them available to us all!
From a then kid's perspective, i LOVED the 60's! Yes, there were problems, but my memories of the people, and times overall, are excellent, relative to what i see and experience now in my mid 50's! :(
mike...agreed. I was born in 1954. The vietnam draft was called off just as I graduated high school. I loved everything a kid would like at that time....Aurora monster models, 77 sunset Strip, Mad Magazine, Famous Monsters of Filmland Magazine, cool cars, great Christmas and Halloween times, great times with the family, great times with all my baby boomer gang of friends........
I was born in 1948 and my Dad was a WWII veteran. If I had rebelled in the 60's he would have beat me within an inch of my life.
that's kind of the point. many had the same situation but rebelled anyway
coward
Indegruv you do realize that you're an idiot?
@@iloveinheretence hurrrrrrrrr
@Ian Norton First off I wouldn't necessarily say rebelling against your government is a "good thing". Second , a good belt to the ass doesnt hurt every now and then, especially if you found out your child was just out rioting destroying the town, otherwise you end up with a child that thinks they deserve everything and gets offended by everything, you know, like most millenials. But id agree that punching your child or doing real harm is not right.
Thank you for uploading this, Mr. Hoffman. Fantastic stuff, and very educational
Having been born in 1953 I experienced discipline and had a somewhat fear inspired respect for authority but it was a fantastic time to be growing up, we didn't have any fear of being shot at school, in church, or the movie theater. So much better nowadays.
@coffeeinthemorning Not only that but in the 1950s they had rifle shooting clubs as a regular extracurricular activity in some schools.
But the point is that it wasn't better. Everybody felt alienated, and were pretending to be 'normal.' Times change, it is easy to look back and say 'better' but each generation has its own skills, gifts, and challenges.
@@thehiddenyogi8557 Not only that, but if you were a woman that was unlucky enough to have an asshole husband back then, you were expected to tough it out. David Hoffman has a series of videos that do a good job explaining the 1950s and why the teenagers of the time abandoned it and created the 60s counter culture.
@coffeeinthemorning What would YOU say about the 50s compared to today?
I’m am currently a junior in high school in Florida, and I’d like to say many, many of us are not afraid to attend school, it’s fear incited by the media for their gun movements. I wish I was born in the fifties to have lived through the 60s and 70s, and not to have to be in this God-forsaken world now. My father was born in the 50s also, and my grandfather is 89, so I have a good upbringing. Stories I hear about the past are amazing to me, sad I missed them though.
Thank you, your content is very high quality, interesting and educational
Dearest David: I cannot tell you how much I have enjoyed your videos on you tube. I am 65 years old now and live in London but I was born in San Francisco and grew up mainly in Oakland and Berkeley. While I was too young to really know about the earlier struggles of civil rights I was very aware of everything that happened after the first Kennedy assassination and remember very clearly where I was on that day and time. Being the youngest of 4 I was introduced to so many ideas and movements through my brother and sisters. I still feel an absolute fascination of those times. I remember, especially, the Vietnam marches in SF and B - I was in Telegraph Street in Berkeley when a National Guard soldier came running around the corner with a rifle and faced me head on (Peoples Park). I remember all of the assassinations - especially of MJK/ RK etc. It was absolute chaos. I used to cut high school and go to Berkeley and spend my time on the streets, record and book shops all the time. Of course, I did all the things younger people did at that time as well, if you get my meaning. Sorry, I am meandering a bit - however, thank you so very much for all of the videos of history you have provided for us. Yours David Holiday
Thank you for what you have written, David.
David Hoffman filmmaker
@@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker Thank you, so much for responding.
I was there also, but I was older. You missed the cultural learning and spiritual awakening. What happened was that the Mao Marxists took over the movement of spiritual awakening, and made the sixties into rebellion. But, that god awful war in Vietnam was the fodder that ignited the Mao Marxist domination. Meanwhile, underneath the political turmoil was a lot of spiritual awakening. Sorry you missed out.
I have fond memories. Born 1955. So many adventures. Loved the tv programs. Had some funny memories, and some bad memories. Loved family holidays. Huge family get togethers. Picnics, outdoor movies.
I've been all over cyberspace looking for this content; constructive, enlightening, and far out - the puzzle pieces I've been seeking.
I loved the 60s!!!
My friends and I would ride our bikes down to the small local grocery store and buy a salami sandwich and a coke for 35 cents
Of course we were to young to see all the turmoil going on
Oh, you say that you rode your backs down to the grocery store. Maybe that's a transcription error by Siri or some dictation system on your phone. I think you meant you rode your bike to the grocery store
LilZebra I’m sorry your right I didn’t catch that
I meant bikes lol
Kids would bike everywhere back then. I had a red "Raleigh" Colt made in England. "Raleigh, Robin Hood and Royce Union" where the cool bikes to have.....all made in England. There were summers when I spent well over 4 hours a day on a bike. I was in the best shape of my life.
That'd be almost three bucks today.
You can get a salami on bagel with a pepsi here for $3.65, and it's baked.
I'll take the future.
@@inkey2 Raleigh, schmaleigh. You wanted a Schwinn Paramount.
I was born 1960. As a kid from suburbia it was a great time to grow up. I played baseball in the summer football in fall. Batman was on tv. Music was great! I didn't know many ppl of color at the time but Motown brought a new and deep feeling for music I naturally loved but was very different from the white music on the radio like the Beatles. But the music was just great.
"How Americans Who Lived It Felt About the 2020s." That's a future documentary I'd like to watch now.
traumatizing
Ass and sex on TV ,meanwhile, 50s was family and less vicious
Use low sszZZzz
The mutilation of the english language.
The 60s were both good & bad. Horrific child abuse like I endured was always swept under the rug, not discussed among anyone, always overlooked and awkwardly ignored. Only in the past 20 years have people been properly held accountable for child abuse. It took a long time.
Hi David, thank you for the memories and for bringing me back to a time of innocence and freedom.
I lived the fifties & sixties and served 28 years in the military, 13 years at sea, deployed and/or at war. I would come back state-side, get a glimpse of Americana and be overseas again. Your videos and the way you present our past enabled me to "connect the dots" of times that I have missed, to make the transition, and to better understand what happened to our country while I was away.
Thank you for your dedication, for your unbiased presentation, and for your respect of our culture during a time that truly "marked us" if not "scarred us". Thank you for "bringing me back home" and sharing all that work and effort with the YT community. May Peace be with you, Ciao, L (Disabled Veteran)
Thank you.
David Hoffman - filmmaker
I was a child in the 1960s. Born November 1956. I loved all of the cars on the road. I was one of 4 girls. My youngest sister was born in 1970. I had an enjoyable childhood. My Dad was a Vet in WW2. I graduated in 1975 from High School. I grew up in a 3 bedroom brick ranch in the suburbs. My childhood was easier than adulthood.
Back when I was a young teacher in Aurelia, Iowa we did an entire humanities study of the sixties for my Current American History class. Back then we weren't burdened with standards and performance tests so creative teaching allowed me to utilize this series.
The kids loved it. Once when we were watching a part where a young man was talking about not being an "investment or a commodity" of his parents, one of students perked up when the mother was interviewed and said, "that's my aunt!" This was such a great n complex series, touching on such fascinating issues of the culture of the time.
The guy said in this video that we could free everything, I don't know where he came from, but I had to work for everything I wanted.
He was talking about " free love" ..not free stuff
@@debibarrington8348 free drugs he said!
Born in the latter part of the '50s I experienced the '60s from a suburb of Washington, D.C. To cop a phrase from Dickens, it was the best of times, it was the worst of times. It was a "sweet spot" in history, when so much of a dynamic nature in all fields was happening, good and bad but it was so rich in history. More happened back then in 3 months than now happens in 2 - 3 years. Dynamic it was indeed.
Born in 1956 in Philadelphia, summer's in Ventnor new Jersey,hanging out on the boardwalk. Iron Butterfly.. Inagadadavida. My Parent's hated the music. My dad was in the Navy so we moved a lot.
A good film and an eye-opener about the sixties. Funnily enough, some people have already begun liking those old educational films like the Coronet-films again, including me, although they seem to have been one of the reasons for the later upcomping rebellion.
The 1960s was a result of social stagnation of the 1950s. The 50s was a time of strict conformity and materialism. America collectively got bored with itself and began reacting against the norm. The problem was, there was no healthy alternative to replace what they were rebelling against and it turned into one big battle of the generations. It's pretty much the same bs that's going on today. Eventually the waters will calm down once again and give way to another peaceful era until the next "social rebellion" happens. The cycle of human civilization.
It Ain't Me 1968 Your so right too much given and too much expected
50's and 60's was a best time of my life. Beautiful cars, great music, fashion. I still think about those wonderful days.
Having been born in 1957 and in a rural farm town, the memories of my childhood didn't begin till the 60s. I just remember watching news about the Vietnam war, civil unrest, drugs, and hippies and was basically just afraid of it all. Our town was about 10 years behind everyone else. My good memories are of family, friends, and cartoons.
Same here born 1957👍👍
Hoffman you guys rocked on this. They don't even allow stuff made as real as this now. Good thing you made it then. I have an old yeah bootlegged VHS copy in my old box. Been sharing MSOTS around via your RUclips posting. Thanks Brother. Excellent. Excellent.
I see a blatant reflection of these generations in today's culture. although now it seems young people are evenly split between ultra ambitious and those who want to be more free.
What I miss about the 60s was the trust, the honesty, the love and the tolerance. Now people are suspicious of those traits.
@@loki2240 church attancde was higher
@@loki2240 those were isolated instances
@@loki2240 you are blocked for ruining the 60s
Lets take America's previous flaws, never acknowledge any improvement and perpetually magnify them.
Lefties love misery.
@@brycebertolino7017 previous? this is still a racist country. people can't even call this shit out, and try to deal with it, without a racist white person running their fucking mouth, trying to suppress them even more.
At 22:40....its Darren Stevens from Bewitched!
wow i feel like i have such a better understanding of my parents and grandparents. love your uploads and filmmaking!
So you had a good upper class peaceful life.
How I wish I could GO BACK in a time machine and live in this more INNOCENT time!
nerdygirl, me to, the mid and late fifties were my hig school years, those were the days. if you find that time machine , sell me a ticket!
got room for 1 more ?...i'd like to join ya !
Loved the 60s. We changed so much. I am still enjoying the freedom found there.
My mom and dad never knew any of those hippies ,,,they didn’t factor in my life ..I never knew about them until I grew up
Kelly Bluebook unfortunately they invaded the place where we had our summer cabin Rio Nido at Russian river California
They basically destroyed the whole area with their garbage and bringing in their drugs
People stopped coming there as a result and the area went into decay
In the 80s the gays came in and restored a lot of the area
Now there’s druggies everywhere in Rio Nido and it’s still beautiful but you have to watch out for your safety because of the druggies
Guerneville the main town about a mile away has decayed somewhat but the gays have kept it up somewhat
Funny how much of this still applies today, and is still being said. If you just rerecorded a lot of the script in this and just swapped out a few key words you could fool someone into thinking this was about generation Y.
Very interesting to see some of the raw interview footage and then see here how it was cut together.
It’s interesting and when you think about it all of us from the 50’s and 60’s think it was wonderful because we were kids with no responsibilities. They really should have asked our parents because I’m certain they wouldn’t look back on that as the good old days.
I believe my mother's parents drove over an IED in '69.
The 60’s was a turning point for this nation. Even though there was a lot of turbulences, there was some good. Certain minority groups began to get their rights and younger people began to stand up for what’s right in this country.
and women started getting their rights too, though the biggest legal break throughs for women did not really get strong until the 70s.....Yes, all that you mention are good things indeed...
@@Apollo_Blazewomen getting rights was the worst thing that happen
Interestingly enough, I lived it, joined the Air Force, learned a wonderful trade in the medical field, explored every educational avenue I could, even adopted the hippie lifestyle (except drugs), kept a good attitude despite the horrors of the outside world ... funnily enough, at 74 nothing's changed. I still have a good attitude (can see beauty all around me) despite what's going on in the outside world. What we focus on is what will become our reality, so it appears that there's a role for each and every one of us to be our best at. Thanks David .. you're the best at THIS.💞
Thank you Linda for this comment and other beautiful comments you have made. If your resources allow, I would sure appreciate your using the THANKS button under any of my videos including the one you have commented on. It is something new that RUclips is beta testing and would mean a great deal for my continuing efforts.
David Hoffman filmmaker
I would love to see the series you have be organized into their own playlists. There are a lot of interesting things you've made! It's sad to not see it easily accessible to everyone on youtube
I was born in June 1966 in Winnipeg, Canada. My Dad was born June 1930 on a farm in Gimli (Manitoba). Mom was born July 7, 1936 (first day tv broadcast by RCA in NYC) and grew up in North End Winnipeg.
I loved the late 60s as a baby. While I'd hear about the "young people" (Baby Boomers) of the day, I had my own age peer friends in my neighbourhood.
was born in the 50's, grew up in the 60's....was it perfect ? nope ! But i'd take it in a heartbeat over today ! Despite what this video has, this wasn't like it was everyday, everywhere, for everyone....just some negative highlights of a beautiful era, i mean honestly who would watch a video of the usual. I could make the same video about today, showing all negatives, but i don't....i prefer to concentrate on the positives.
I believe my video makes very clear that this clip is not talking about everyone every day and everywhere. It is specifically talking about a segment of the population and how they felt at that time. And it is not talking about all of the negatives. Just some of the challenges.
David Hoffman - filmmaker
My dad was born in 1960. When he was about 20, for Christmas he bought his parents a copy of the Kama Sutra because he thought it would help them "chill out." They didn't like it. He still thinks they're kind of bummers to this day.
I think this is a perfect "rebellious" story - makes me chuckle!
I'm really thrilled seeing your work, and seeing you
and your family was great. I'm sure I'm not alone
looking forward to more of you, your work new and old.
Your work is and American treasure. Go Man Go! x
Thank you so much this Sunday morning. Some of the comments I have received this last week have been brutally nasty. Some I removed because they are Nazis. Your comment is much appreciated.
David Hoffman filmmaker
Awe, you did the hard work, thanks for the replies I'm honored
You ought-a make a film on the rise of the new Nazis.
Put um in their place. The ignorance is almost laughable ::
Have you seen the "Cool Hard Logic" channel? good for a laugh
at ignorance.
Anyway as a child of the sixties I enjoy the unfiltered "as much as one can" Documentation of life in the 60's 70's you have filmed and shared.
David Hoffman Love your channel. It's a window into the past, beautiful!
What was wonderful about the 60s? The MUSIC!!!
I remember back in the 1960s my mom used to have a deep fryer and used to make French Fries with it. By the 1970s she stopped using that because The news Media told her it was found to be unhealthy cooking.
@@jaworskij I know what you mean. Yet we all lived to tell the tale. My mother used to leave the dripping fat in the roast tin from our Sunday lunch. On return from school on a Monday we kids would go into the kitchen with some white bread...never brown...and dip our knives into the now congealed dripping fat and spread it onto our bread. It was a form of early pate. And it was delicious!
We were dirt poor but always had things to do ,played outside made up games like who could run the fastest or climb up trees catch fireflies in mason jars and play green light, red light . I would watch my Dad fix things like the old car we had and fix the clock or he would make things like a CB Radio or a fancy Speed boat , he had a movie camera and we have lots of Family Memories now my brother put them on CDs . We were poor but rich in a way too! Had a garden ate alot of potatoes and Cabbage Soup and abundance of Strawberries and our one uncle always gave us Deer meat in the Winter ,sure it was rough sometimes but we survived the best we could. I felt safe and loved!
@@lumity238 I had a CB radio as well. Almost as addictive as the Internet. We had no central heating...no duvets...we had the cane in school though. Ha ha...
Yes What happened to the music?
I was born in the 1960s. My parents were so conflicted. My dad wanted a stay at home wife, but my mom wanted a job. They were miserable.
Nursing is a real profession ,, mom had her bachelors degree in nursing and I have a Masters in nursing .my sister passed away and she had a Master’s in Nursing also ,,,so Nursing is a real profession..so is teaching ..I find that lady who said that out of touch
My sister got her nursing degrees in the 1970s. She made really good money for a long time. I mean "really good". If she chose to work Christmas eve or new Years eve she would make a weeks salary in one night.
She probably wasn't a nurse.
@@annapaulikonis2433 why would you say that?
Ignore any troll that may belittle nursing. All us three kids grew up to be doctors of one kind or another. My angel of a mother helped us in any way she could, often staying up through the night to type a paper of mine or driving me the 45 minutes to my college so that I could study just that much more before a crucial exam. She also taught me how a real lady acts, a great role model in very short supply these days.
After she helped get us into professional schools, what did my Hoosier country gal mother do at about age 55? She went back to school, a community college, and earned a LPN degree and worked for a while until my father became ill.
If you ask any doctor secure in their own accomplishments and any patients they'll tell you that it's the nurses who render the lion's share of patient care in hospitals. Doctors are too unreliable today and really only pop in and out to check on you. Nurses are the true heroes of the healthcare system! Trust me, I know.
@@danielfronc4304 Thanks for that.
Born in ‘57. Could not participate in the rebellion but watched every moment growing up. Phenomenal time.
I really wish I had grown up in the the 60s , I wasn't born until 1967 , I was a baby and a toddler in the late 60s , what I was around for I was too young to remember, as far as I'm concerned I missed it, I missed that whole decade, , and I resent the fact that I did miss it, I wish I was born in the late 50s so that I could have grown up in the 60s and was old enough to remember it but I wasn't, I was born too late, I missed it. .
This is how I feel about the 80s. I was born in 1990
I was born in 1954 so I got to experience some of the 1950s and all of the 1960s. Yes there were social problems and discrimination (the severity of it depending on what part of the country you lived) but all eras have their problems. For me personally the late 1950s and the 1960s were great memories for me as a kid. A lot of really cool things vanished from that era I'll bet you would have loved......drive-in movies, local Pharmacies with a soda fountain counter, The novelty of "television" and all the classic black & white TV shows, and KIDS......kids everywhere. No problem finding new friends. It was the "Baby Boom Era" .... groups of kids everywhere. Saturday mornings you would be woken to the sounds of neighborhood kids playing, screaming, basically going wild. It was so different that it seems like a dream to me now
@@tiffanifarrington4039 oh I'm sorry to say that you missed the 80s , and most of the 20th century, I missed the 50s and most of the 60s , but at least I was around for the decade of the 70s and the 80s , and to tell you the truth you didn't really miss that much, I grew up in the 70s and back then we didn't have that much, we didn't have back then what we have today, no cell phones, no home computers, no internet, no cable TV, no caller ID, no cordless phones, no VCR S, no DVD players, and it was a time of plain Jane's , short and sassy hair doos and bell bottom pants, and people were able to get welfare very easily, if you were unemployed and you had kids they gave it to you just like that, and we listened to our music on vinyl discs called records, and we listened to them on record players and turn tables, I guess it was an interesting time to be alive after all.
@@rhondatuozzolo4618 well you black and you are wrong each decade had offered more tech
@@rhondatuozzolo4618 most of that came by the late 1970s
I was born 1n 1945. Graduated High School in 1963. Moved to L.A. in 1964 to become a singer. Got a recording contract in 1965 and appeared on a "Danny Thomas Special" . Got drafted in 1965. Had my first affair with an older woman. I was 20, she was 26. Grew my hair long. Had sideburns. Partied like I was going to die. Fell in and out of love. Looking for something that told me I was alive. Not until the late 70's did my life settle down. 1977 I fell in love. Stayed married for 40 years until death took my spouse in 2017. The 60's were tumultuous. I loved the mid late 70's far better. What memories. Some things I can't speak of. Would I do it all over again ? You bet ! In a second !
POP I THOUGHT THAT WAS ONLY SAID IN THE MOVIES.. CALLING FATHER POP. KIDS ARE AMAZING.
This should be mandatory viewing in every classroom.
"What the hell we were doing?" Seems to be a constant statement...Can't help but feel like that statement is repeated throughout the decades.
All about making the money, but they begin to lose out on creating a lifelong connection. Lack of emotional health. Life is messy, and it's clear that it shouldn't be dealt with. What's fascinating and kinda sad is how some people continue to refer these times as the, "good ole days." I see now more than ever that those people really need to let go.
So glad I lived through the 1950s and 1960s. And I am also glad that so many younger people hate me for it. They definitely missed out. Yep!
Rufus Keller not hate, but envy
Rufus Keller miss out on what?
You and all your baby boomer friends ruined america. I hope you’re happy.
@@notthatguy4703 how did they ruined America 🤔🤔
test jackson: did you like the style of the 50s and 60s? If you did, you can blame the boomers for us not having this style today
With all the lunacy going on with the right and the left today... it's nice to see something like this. Thank you
Sail into the Sun EXACTLY what I've been thinking
I graduated from high school in 1966 and I guess I was sort of a want to be hippie. I never totally dropped out and so on but adopted someone to hippie lifestyles and like a lot of things about it. God bless you very much.
I remember in 62 we started each day with psalms 23, we felt blessed, we praised God. Then we turned our back on God, our lose.
I never turned my back on God ! In Jesus' name....God Bless !
more like people weren't forced to conform to a backwards religion, under the threat of violence, and becoming an outcast.
I originally saw this on PBS when it came out in the early 90"s. One of the best documentaries on my generation ever. Now I find these days wondering what planet I am on. The pendulum swang the other way. What a long strange trip it has been We did bring about a lot of good changes but still have a long ways to go. The worst part is that we went from wanting to change the world to now wanting to buy it. I always Wanted my Family to be like 'Leave it to Beaver. It was nowhere near reality. What is NORMAL? Know that I have not had an definitely don't have what one would Call a normal life now.
Hi David. As you know I've mentioned many times how we came of age during an amazing period. There is one element I just recently relized that makes the 1960s different from today. Back then, at least among the differing sides of opinion I encountered, both sides loved America. Today it apppears clear that opposing sides either love or hate America. Back then both sides wanted to see improvements as we entered the second half of the 20th century, but differed in how to approach issues and moral objectives. Today it is even more divided but it is a matter of those that want to improve America as we move onward into the 21st century and those that want to overthrow and abolish America. Oh boy, I imagine the responses I may have just prompted. Continue educating, my generational friend. Be a blessing.
Always great videos. Thanks David.
And so as the 50's dad climbed the corporate ladder, the higher he went, the more of a role model he was expected to be. Unhappy kids? Not permitted. Divorce? Not permitted. I remember the time well growing up in a wealthy Ivy League town. Everything was "how's the wonderful family, wonderful career, wonderful life, blah, blah?" You couldn't really say that not everything was perfect. When I first saw "Dirty Dancing", I was blown away by how true so much of that movie was in depicting that era. There was still a lot of formality in life. Introductions were often accompanied by statements of status, as in "I'd like you to meet my son, Derrick, Cornell College of Engineering, class of '76." I mean, if people still talk this way now, I'd be really surprised.:) But I lived this, and I hated it. Because what do you do as a parent if your son doesn't want to follow the script? Its going to be personally embarrassing. "I'd like you to meet my son, dave, who....um......well......(cough, cough)" and then you get these looks like you've just been excommunicated from polite company.
But down the road, so many parents went through what I described that it eventually became OK. You could blame outside forces. And so as the Victorian notion of endless progress started to crack, you could always look around you and find bigger cracks somewhere else. Indeed one funny thing about it all was that the higher status parents were often having a harder time than you. Thats how it worked. And so, one day in the 1970's, a hippie turned up dead of a drug overdose on the streets of San Francisco. It turns out he was the son of the president of the Bank of Boston. Or, there was the story of a prominent Seattle area journalist's son who moved to Alaska to live like a caveman. After 20 years of trying, he finally ended it all by putting a homemade spear through his heart.
But those were the tragedies that filtered back and made it easier for ordinary parents to cope with what was going on in society. It helped everyone to heal actually. By focusing on them, I'm not trying to depict the 60's as bad necessarily, especially in light of my own experiences. But the extreme changes that rocked society in such a short period of time left a lot of people feeling somewhat like a scuba diver with a bad case of the bends. Slower might have been better. I'm glad the formality and expectations of material success in life characteristic of the 50's is a thing of the past, but it did die a somewhat painful death.
But we had the best music in the 60’s, Motown, group’s from Philadelphia, The Beatles…British invasion, Rock groups. The music brought us together back then, I had a lot of fun being a teenager. Proud to be a Boomer!
The first half of the 70s was the best...better than the 60s because ppl were starting to pull their heads out of the clouds and become a little more responsible. I said a little lol.
Amen to that! 70's were great!
The 60's Music was SOOO Good.
Yup
In so many ways my family was never conformists. We were all a bit eccentric. Daddy was a mechanic for American Airlines. Mama was a Registered Nurse. The kids were pretty far apart in age. My brother is 18 years older than me, next my sister is 10 years younger than him. The next sister 8 years younger than big sister, I'm the youngest only 2 years younger than sister #2. My mom went to work intermittently between us kids when we started school. My parents made good money. They never tried to fit in, or keep up with the Jones's. They never put on airs.
We were Pentecostals/ Holyrollers. Many people didn't "approve." We behaved well & it made them look bad.
Politically we were Democrats, we were liberals with the full understanding of separation of church and state. We had black friends. Not just people you said hello to when seeing them occasionally. Real friends, people who you visit, & they visit you.
I remember turmoil in the 60's. The Civil Rights Movement, the Vietnam war, all the protesting.
Peace, Love, War, & lots of hate & savagery. My parents weren't in line with the stereotypical views of the times. They were old fashioned, not stupid. They understood the need for civil rights, & the need to look like & be an individual. Daddy wasn't enthused about mini-skirts, skimpy clothes, putting on enough make-up to last a week, everyday.
I remember watching Walter Cronkite. Many boys we knew going off to fight in Vietnam, a place we never should have been. They didn't want or need our interference. I turned 11 years old in December 1970. I remember when JFK was killed, MLK too. Then Bobby Kennedy a few years later.
It was a economically prosperous time. Still, so many things were a horrible mess.
David Hoffman in the 60's asking a young man How he felt during the 60s everything was free free free
Well, I always had heart, today I am socially conscious, recognizing it is Right or, Wrong, it is as simple as that thank you +David Hoffman, I always say, when it's the right time, Wisdom comes to you.
The 60s were a drag, and those who whined all through this video were largely why it sucked.
Life was never easy, but those who actually had it kind of easy, actually ruined much of what wasn't broken.
Objecting to the war, segregation, artificial limits was fair, but the manner that this was done in is, to me, as equally ridiculous as the rigidity of the 50s.
There is a happy medium between the two. A right spot that the two generations overshot by a mile.
The multitude of social problems of today are directly attributable to the 1960s, though some started in the late 50s.
Drugs, drug addiction, overdoses, single moms, deadbeat dads, latchkey kids, crudeness, vulgarity, hedonism, eccentricity, irresponsibility, wanton violence, gross immaturity, entitlement, etc....
Grampa and grandma may have been boring, but they weren't codependent losers like so many of the "Me" generation and beyond turned out to be.
The 60s were ridiculous. Having ones god given rights prevented by oppressors/tyrants supported by the benefactors. Americas became liveable since the 90s. Prior to that it was trash. People didn't whine in the 60s, they called for humanity of the americas to awaken.
@@najma2613 whining was all they did in the 60s. Hell, they invented petulance, and it's 1000 times worse today. There were legit issues then. Now, issues are manufactured like plastic lawn furniture, fast, cheap, and crappy.
This guy gets it!
I didnt live through the 60's but i see todays kids protesting in a most vicious manner. I have ZERO interest in politics but if i see a group protesting about something i really feel for then il sign the petition. Protesting seems to take on a very different form than here. I saw a guy spend 6 hours questioning random people on Hollywood boulevard & he started by reading 3 minutes of statistics before asking the protester if these were issues they agree with, which POTUS was behind them & so on. Over 80% of these kids agreed with the policies/actions with much zeal until they found out it was the oppositions policy. Same number disagreed with other policies with much anger & hatred until they found out it was their parties policies.
*So the protesters of today have no message, they go with the flow & sadly have no principles. I'm 38 yrs old & i would die for many issues i feel strongly about. Ive no connection to America & know nothing about politics but human behaviour is something i know about so i know i'l get hate for this next comment but nobody can say i ever sided with one party over another~I DONT CARE WHO'S PRESIDENT~ So from a totally unbiased place i can see that the so called "LEFT" are extremely angry & thats ok. Its not healthy to be angry sometimes, but when we act on it in the ugliest way, attacking families with children at a restaurant, well we all know that no matter the issue, the next act is always worse than the last so i see, as an outsider, a group who have no problem burning the town down around them..We in Ireland never needed to have written into law what America has in its 1st amendment. We're doing fine witout it, but it's been abused **_BIG TIME_** in America. Maybe the times called for this type of amendment when they came up with it. **_But i believe we here in Ireland have more freedom of speech than Americans when it comes to saying what we believe. We have our own moral boundaries we wnt cross, like setting out to hurt someone with our words, but we can if we wanted. We can also refuse to call a dude a girl & respectfully explain i'm Catholic & as a Christian i wont turn my back on my faith, not to mention the other fact that the scientific theory & much of the sciences came from Catholics so i believe a man cant be a woman~I WONT THROW OUT THAT SCIENTIFIC FACT EITHER, and never have to worry bout cops calling or the news calling ma a racist or bigot_** ...Racism also is thrown around so much that true cases are bunched in with the fake shit.. ..Some of your amendments need amending because as long as people are told by the government what to or what not to say/do, then you'l have people protesting.. **_SOME IN VERY RARE CASES HAVE A TON OF KNOWLEDGE & SIMPLY WANT TO BE LEFT ALONE, LIKE JORDAN PETERSON_** ..But i digress...lol...l8r guys*
Best thing ever really enjoyed it.
Thank you for you re service!!!
I was born in 1947 ; from 1952 until 1965 were the best years of my life. I grew up in the best possible time . Wouldn't trade it for anything. The time's now are disgusting. Children are horrible , because of their parents. I feel sorry for them. Parents want to be friends with their children , instead of being a parent . Yay'50's and '60's.👍👍👍💖💖💖💖
What about that Time between 1947 and 1952, don't you remember anything of it? I remember when I was seven months old and two years old 1968 and 1969.
I myself was five years old in 1971.
@@jaworskijcan’t recollect those years being so young…..
Did you also notice, as I did many years ago, that what we call the 60s was more late 60s and early to mid 70s chronologically? Very different than the early 1960s. Nevertheless, you have captured the overall "confusion" that in an odd way I believe our generation was privileged to have experienced.
My sibling and I did not rebel - we went to school and then to work and have lives very similar to the one we had as kids in the 1950's & 1960's. Our parents indulged us but didn't spoil us and we knew how to work and do the best you can in life. And I would've been embarrassed not to have moved out and gotten on with my life in my early 20's like the kids do now where they never get their feet wet and get out and grow up. There was a lot of race discrimination back then and wages were low but if wanted a job you could find one and that job could let you buy a small, modest house and a car - not so today.
The 1960's is the best decade of the 20th century.
The media (T.V., Magazines, Movies, Books) were a TERRIBLE way to illustrate 'Home Life' as these were (and ARE Today) MANUFACTURED by people who had a vested interest in maintaining the 'Status Quo'.
Along with the good there was also a lot bad about the hippie movement in the 60s. There is a really great collection of essays by Joan Didion published in 1968 titled, "Slouching Towards Bethlehem" that really disturbed that myopic view of the 60s that I shared with many other children of the 80s and 90s.
I grew up in the 60's. the thing that I remember most about the running theme as I saw it was that I hardly knew a family where severe, damaging abuse wasn't going on. This was not talked about, except for a few rationalizations here and there, or when alcohol was involved.
@anarchore It may have been a component in aggregate and at large, but not all boomers parents were veterans of any war (ww2, Korea), so for example a person born in the late 50's might have had parents whose fathers were in the war, so same influence but different experience. My mother recalled that the first Fourth of July after ww2 ended men her father's age were literally traumatized by fireworks and hid under picnic tables screaming.
@@jamespardee6103 ...my dad was a ww2 vet.....40% disabled. AND YES....he hated fireworks
@@jamespardee6103 : That last sentence is a jewel. Love tidbits of history like that. I bet they did.
@@rantional8180 I don't think anyone thought that abuse was "normal" either. They only lied and were total hypocrites about it. This left kids vulnerable to predator priests and serial killers at its worst. But even though most people were fairly decent in their own behavior, their denial often caused them to downplay what other adults did to kids and hardly ever addressed the issues appropriately.
@@rantional8180 There was a ton of unreported abuse going on back then, just look at all the scandals concerning the Catholic church coming out now, there was too much respect for authority.
I personally know at least two people who reported parental abuse to their school in this period, only to have the school call their parents in and be sat down in a meeting with them
" you don't abuse your child do you?" ,
"of course not",
"good, see you later"
You can imagine what happened when they got home .
Things are a lot better now, abuse is finally being taken seriously, although we are a LONG way from eradicating it, but in the 50's with the norm of conformity and obedience to authority much abuse was ignored and brushed under the carpet, lots of "perfect" homes had a dark secret behind closed doors.
I experienced the sixties in my St. Louis suburban high school as an onslaught of dissipation, anger, depression, drug and a vast sullen atmosphere of ennui and cowardice.
love your channel, im british and im sure britian in the 60s was completely different?? love learning from the past from the people that lived it
Britian?? You are British?? Gareth loves the truth...you are a Brit who cannot even spell the name of your country, that's the truth.
@@weavethehawk and you're overanalyzing a RUclips comment, yet failed to realize that Britain isn't a country lol
That's Darrin from" Bewitched" at 22:44 !!
At 4:42, this same clip appeared in Linkin Park's What I've Done video.
RIP Chester Bennington and thanks for bringing us joy with your music.
🤟Rock on! And R.I.P Chester!🤟
60's was a time that if you grew up in you don't want to forget...I grew up in 60's...born in 56 but I still think 50's was better...didn't grow up then but still think it must have been great
Excellent work!
Wonderful. Thank you. ❤️
My dad and I often have discussions about the 60`S
nice. loved it
I remember the 60's. Good times and very little stress or nonsense except for "nam and Kent State asshattery.
The 1960s were especially interesting time. I am glad thst I was alive st that time (as a kid) and cab remember some of it. 💟☮️
As a woman who grew up in the 60's and 70's, I am 62 now, A woman at 15:44 said something that really ticked me off. She said that back in the day a woman had 4 choices for a job, teacher, nurse, Secretary, or flight attendant. She said she couldn't gets into the real professions. They are REAL professions. She should have said woman could not get into male dominated jobs, is th as executives, law, etc.
The one course I did poorly in was called homec. It was about homemaking. I flunked that and got top grades in everything else. They finally gave up trying to teach me to be a housewife and sent me to the agricultural courses and later equine husbandry since that was what I intended as my career. Because I didn't fit into the mold I wasn't "normal" as they put it in the video. If you didn't want the life you were expected to live you definitely didn't get spoiled at home. It gets worse when you wore the "wrong" clothing and protested the war. I had no clue at the time that we would be waging war almost every year of my life. Although I did consider Eisenhower's speech about the domestic price of war I didn't realize yet how badly our resources would be depleted by the arms industry.
I also did "homec" in high school in Ireland but it was " *home economics* ~I loved it...lol
As a millennial women, I really wish my mother taught me how to cook and sew...
One of the best documentaries, on the 60's ever. We helped to bring about positive changes an knew we could make a difference. We learned how to get along an look beyond the differences. How my generation went from wanting to change the world, to wanting to buy the world is beyond me. You can chase the supposed American dream and help make a difference at the same time. I feel like I am existing in an altered world today. I still consider myself a Hippie and I am clean an sober. I still question the Status quo an could care less about being politically correct. Am 65 an still questioning everything ✌ Yes I thought that the perfect family was Ozzie an Harriet and Leave it to Beaver. Looked good on TV but a reality. I was raised in a Military Family. Yes we did take things to an extreme, in some ways an we are paying for it now.
@@davewolf8869 yes we did take some things to an extreme and we come to realize that nothing in life is free. However we did bring about a lot of positive changes an dared to question the status quo.. We didn't walk around like mindless robots.. Sadly many in my generation got off track an came to believe that more is better, only be concerned with myself an the hell with what is going on with the world and others.. Thankfully the torch has been passed an millions are finally waking up again. We can an must take a stand against the evil an corruption in the world. To many parents are trying to buy out their kids and not teaching them responsibility. They are making far to many to become spoiled We did make a lot of positive changes.
I lived through the 60s ! my first public job was in 1967 and I made $1.25 an hour but I bought a car on those wages ! I paid the finance $15.00 a month for my first car !
I don't remember any one in my family comparing their lives to Ozzie and Harriet....We watched My Little Margie, I Love Lucy, I Married Joan, variety shows like The Rosemary Clooney show.....what else was there? I think there was a so called informationtype show named the Twentieth Century....?My grandmother loved Gunsmoke….she'd hiss and boo at the bad guys and verbally warnthem that Matt Dillon was hot on their trail!
The 60's were easy compared to now as far as money goes - and so different - traditional male and female roles are no more (yay!). The big change - the line of demarcation- from everyone living upper middle class to being borderline poverty was the gasoline shortage in the mid 70's. That was where it all changed. I was born in the mid 50's and even though we lived on the "poor" side of a small town, we had everything that the people on the "rich side" had. Every mom was home with the kids, dads went to work on the train to NYC wearing 3 piece suits and made enough to support a 3-5 kid family and pay a mortgage. Girls took home economics courses and learned how to sew a dress and cook (i hated cooking, my dress came out crooked, I hated sewing and typing, too), boys took wood shop and auto mechanics (boys NEVER took home economics and girls were not allowed to learn how to fix a car - but that's what I wanted to learn!) Nowadays, most people are only one paycheck from homelessness. Girls fix cars and men cook! No more dressing up for baseball games or church even (lol thank God!). We never had to worry in the 60's as far a money, it was the land of plenty - we were spoiled. It was a time of plenty, a time where we could think and ask pertinant questions of ourselves as we grew up and waste alot of time just procrastinating. And then there was pot. That was a definite creative mind opener, just like LSD, only milder, easier to obtain. We never ever heard of anyone taking heroin or cocaine around town. It was just pot and trips. Then the 80's struck with cocaine cowboys and speed (aka crank). All the thoughtfulness went out the window and it was party party party all night long in the discos. We though we could live forever, and now we know we can't. High blood pressure, diabetes, caregiving for our parents, trying to make ends meet. What a contrast. Ah, what the heck, let it ALL hang out! Reefer Madness!!!
Lol, the REAL Darin Stevens having teen troubles!
And one more thing, teens had just as much sex in the 50's and 60's - it was just all kept hush-hush. The popularity "contests" in high school were a heartbreak, the popular kids were really the ones who had problems. The quiet ones, they were much more adjusted. And became more successful in life from what I have seen! Bullying has been around for ever, and we are just now addressing it. That it just crazy. Getting bullied in the 50's and 60's - it was just a matter of fact, everyone who got bullied had to live with it. Bullying from peers, from teachers, coaches. It was rampant along with sexual molestation that nobody dared mention because they emerge never believed or some how the victim ended up getting blamed. It happened all the time back then. Thank goodness we are addressing these things today, the world is far to crowded not to. Great series, thanks for the trip down memory lane!
The 1960’s were the last dynamic decade in the American experience. It was full of hope!America was moving ahead with a lot of promise. Unfortunately the country never learned anything from the Vietnam debacle.
I was a little tyke in the 60's in a good neighborhood, all I knew was there was crazy things going on elsewhere from the TV station but figured it was far from where I lived, saw a lot of hippies and chopper bikes and mustangs and thought grown up girls where beautiful, by the 70's there where still hippies around sometimes they would be trippin out on LSD
I was sold on Ozzy &Harriet, Leave it to beaver, Lassie, Davy and Goliath, It's a wonderful life, church & bible. So, I raised my children the best I could to that way of life. Since I had no one to teach me. I finally in my 60s, Realized that I was the only one living it.
i was full spectrum 60's with an older brother who over achieved in the boy scouts, to just a year or so later sniffing glue and joy riding stolen cars. i learned after many trips to youth authority camp to conform. but not conforming was my destiny. we moved to an upper scale neighborhood. 'generation gap' was lethal, just like the ending to he movie 'easy rider'. it took years to figure out how the heck i was going to make money- and it was a lifetime of humiliation to actually do it. but looking back there appears to have been an evil control plan all along. all pervasive evil control just now being revealed.