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This is how we danced in the 60's:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8rCy173y7Y&feature=player_embedded#!

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMyCP54qVPg&NR=1&feature=fvwp]YouTube - Los Rockin Devil's - WOOLY BULLY - Bule Bule Woolly Bully - Juventud Sin Ley[/ame]

This is what our rock groups looked like performing:

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHF558u6Q_8&feature=player_embedded[/ame]
 
Oh!...hey....remmy the "wully bully" and also the Pharaoes....(the first video I could not view, tho')....
Thks for the nostalgia....:lol:
 
Here is another video, with a boyish Ted Nugent stroking the strings. Check out the dancing girls!
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UN2VNFpiGWo]YouTube - Amboy Dukes, The Journey to the Center of the Mind[/ame]
 
I don't remember that stuff at all.

In the sixties, I was a little kid and enamored of my Batman sunglasses.
 
Ed Sullivan

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIqnoRevPAw[/ame]

Not to forget Danny Kay, Topo Gigio, Midnight Express, Soul Train, The Platters and Captain Kangaroo.
 
Oh man! I'm not old enough to be a baby boomer. I was born in 1968, but, I was exposed to the music of that time; thanks to my Dad. Love the music; even today!

You guys have fun! :wave:
 
LDNanna said:
Ed Sullivan

YouTube - The Beatles The First U S Visit 9/10

Not to forget Danny Kay, Topo Gigio, Midnight Express, Soul Train, The Platters and Captain Kangaroo.
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I remember all of those. :)

My unblinking eyes were glued to the black and white TV screen the night the Beatles were on Ed Sullivan's show. We had to really pay attention back then because it was live, and there was no way to record or replay it for viewing again.
 
Long time ago. Yawn. I do remembered the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show. Ed Sullivan is a really funny looking guy back then. I miss him but never fully understand anything in the black and white T.V. Never had captioned like subtitles especially when there were foreign films. They were okay back then. Not interest in music. I like some action like Bing Crosby and Bob Hope traveling in different countries getting themselves in trouble with the natives. I love that. It is like a movie series. I wish they were on close captioned now that we have some old films put on. Not a bad idea. :cool2:
 
Bebonang said:
Long time ago. Yawn. I do remembered the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show. Ed Sullivan is a really funny looking guy back then. I miss him but never fully understand anything in the black and white T.V. Never had captioned like subtitles especially when there were foreign films. They were okay back then. Not interest in music. I like some action like Bing Crosby and Bob Hope traveling in different countries getting themselves in trouble with the natives. I love that. It is like a movie series. I wish they were on close captioned now that we have some old films put on. Not a bad idea. :cool2:
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Amazon.com: bob hope road to
 
Our black & white TV's.

My brother and I sitting in front of our TV in 1955.

Me standing in front of our TV in 1963.
 

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Reba said:
Our black & white TV's.

My brother and I sitting in front of our TV in 1955.

Me standing in front of our TV in 1963.
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Look at that hairdo of yours. Oh, the 60s. Your skirt, are they below the knees? I recall being told that the girls would get punished if their skirts were higher than their knees at the school.

I remember the old TVs, some of them were even round shaped which obstructed the view somehow.
 
Banjo said:
Look at that hairdo of yours. Oh, the 60s. Your skirt, are they below the knees? I recall being told that the girls would get punished if their skirts were higher than their knees at the school.
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Yeah, how about that teased hair with a bow! :lol:

My dress, which was red, was not a school dress. That night I was going to my "graduation" from dance school. The girls were supposed to wear party dresses,and the boys wore suits. I borrowed my dress from a friend's older sister. It's one that her mom made. I wasn't quite 13 years old.

The dances that we learned at that schools were waltz, foxtrot, limbo, bossa nova, cha cha, and twist (and it's offshoots, the mash, monkey, swim, hitchhiker). (I might be forgetting some.)

I remember the old TVs, some of them were even round shaped which obstructed the view somehow.
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The real round ones were the early color TV screens.

The one's you see in my pictures were the normal screens of that time, so I think TV programs were made to fit that ratio and shape. Of course, movies that were broadcast lost a lot, especially the CinemaScope ones.
 
Our "portable" b&w TV in 1965.
 

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Who got the microscope for Christmas???
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My brother. He also got the GI Joes but I got to play with them, too. :lol:

I got the "granny" dress and matching head scarf; that was quite the rage then. :giggle:
 
Reba said:
My brother. He also got the GI Joes but I got to play with them, too. :lol:

I got the "granny" dress and matching head scarf; that was quite the rage then. :giggle:
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In the years around 1965, I was getting chemistry set, telescope, and microscope. Wonder if this microscope had the tiny white tank to grow your own amoeba?
 
saywhatkid said:
In the years around 1965, I was getting chemistry set, telescope, and microscope. Wonder if this microscope had the tiny white tank to grow your own amoeba?
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I had a set of these too back when I was a child, although this was during the early 90s.
 
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