People Born In The 50s, 60s And 70s

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    Over here, we call the 1960s and 1970s the golden decades of music. I am not really that much into music but in my circle, there are music lovers. I remember when we moved to our present house and we held a sort of party, my husband's eldest brother was using the karaoke all by himself. He was an Elvis fan and expect Elvis songs, hahahaaa.

    For me, I cannot relate much to the song of the 60s because I was still a little girl. But with cars, I would say the cars in those days have great designs. Ours is a Ford Mustang that consumes a lot of gas. But who cares, gasoline was cheap in those times. We don't have drive-in theaters but the Cinerama had been here, that wide-screen theater.
     
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    Not only have I lived in two centuries, I had relatives who were alive in the nineteenth century and were still around in the 1950s and 60s when I used to listen to them talking about things they remembered from their own past.

    I personally remember when people like Picasso and Elvis were alive and appearing on TV. I also went to see the Beatles perform live onstage in my home town.
     
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    When I'm online I have the TV tuned in to the music channel that plays stuff from the 1950's. I was a teen in the '50's and the music brings back lots of memories.
     
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    I was born in the 50's and been living ever since. Just like the poster above says we're just that cool. We've learned to use the computers and cell phones to smartphones too! We go to McDonalds with our paypal debit card and order things and give a little to the donation box when we can. We walk a lot for school busses are a new thing and like Pres. Abe Lincoln we walked to school when we were in elementary to high school. When I was in my junior year in high school is when school busses came along. We wore homemade dresses and watched Grandma bake and cook all the time. Television came along when I was 8 years old. I remember it well for my Grandpa bought one and it was all mine to watch by myself for I was an only child growing up with Grandparents. Cool.
     
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    As many of the artists from our era are starting to pass I often wonder if the next generation will have as much as we have had art wise. I also find it funny the things that people said would last forever and how it all worked out. Suffice it to say the Rolling Stones appear to have made it thru. The Beatles and many other bands have just changed, some more tragically then others. Just saying....back in the day it was thought the Stones would never make it, and with the way they partied and lived life on the edge it is amazing they are still at it. That don't make them better, but it certainly makes them relevant.

    Film wise has many producers/directors done what we saw from the likes of Alfred Hitchcock or Stanley Kubrick? Will others have the likes of genius like Orson Welles or Ingmar Bergman? Only time will tell, but there definitely is genius out there. making money is one thing, but changing the tastes and thoughts of a culture is another thing.
     
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    I have a question for those of you who are older than I. I was born in 1961, and to me, it seems as if our culture and society have changed more rapidly over the past few decades. Is that a universal feeling, or do y'all feel that the major changes in how people think, feel, and act, have been occurring with the same speed since you were young?
     
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    Technology has helped the society to change more quickly. Things change almost over night it seems and you have to stay on top of the tech or get left behind no matter how old you are. We are cool.
     
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    You're right about that. I tend to resist change. I still dress as I did in the '50's. Jeans and tee shirt or flannel shirt. One of the last cars I owned and drove every day was a '67 Chevy block of rust. And yet, I was perfectly happy then.
     
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    I was born in'41 and was a teenager when ROCK&ROLL started. Chuck Berry, Elvis, Fats Domino, Buddy Holly, The Coasters, The Drifters and so many others. Now that was music.

    I also listened to Country Music. Hank Williams, Hank Snow, Johnny Cash, Marty Robbins, Johnny Horton.

    The '50s had the very best music. The '60s were good too.
     
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