(I’ve lived through)
-Professional athletes who stay with one team for life
-Sunday store closures
-Bridge parties
-Card catalogues
-Carbon paper copies
-Civil defense exercises in schools
-Open and widespread DDT spraying
-Drive-in movies
-Fire escapes on the outside of buildings and schools
-Fur coats
-Gas station attendants everywhere
-Handkerchiefs
-Hitchhiking everywhere
-Dr. house calls
-Marbles
-Clothes mending
-Home milk and bread delivery
-Boys delivering newspapers after school
-The olde nuclear family
-Penmanship widely taught and practised
-Rotary phones
-Slide rules
-Security-free airports
-Smoking everywhere
-Dogs running free everywhere
-Leaves burnt in the neighborhood in the fall
-Teenage dating
-Stockings and garter belts
-Telegrams
-Widespread, commonplace tonsillectomies
-White gloves for women
-Surf music
-Davy Crockett fad
-Hula hoop fad
-Pet turtles
-Mood rings and Pet rocks
-Twist fad
-Pocket transistor radio
-Humongous ghetto blasters
-Polaroid cameras with instant pictures
-Media spy culture and programming
-Beat culture
-Paper dresses and miniskirts
-Carnaby Street fashions
-Pop art
-Classics Illustrated comics
-Civil rights marches and protest songs
-Black-and-white movies
-American political assassinations
-Peanuts cartoons and culture
-Beatlemania
-Watergate
-Bay of Pigs and Cuban missile crisis
-U.S.-Russian Space Race
-Hootenanys and folk rock
-Drug culture and music
-60s Counter-culture
-Expo ’67
-Woodstock
-Frisbees
-Best-seller non-fiction and self-help paperbacks
-MAD magazine
-Barbies
-Rise of Superheroes in Media
-Trading cards
-TV dinners
-Soda fountains -Typewriters