Was your generation the same as mine?

[freethrow]

I was 13 years old when the Beatles first came to America. The youth of America at that time were just starting to really take notice of how our Government was handling things and they did not like what they were seeing.. My Generation stood up and made some major nose for a few years about their concerns. Will another generation ever do so to such an extent? I sure hope so.

This is an small example of how John Lennon, several years after his initial arrival in the US, played a role. And though somewhat grubby looking, this is how a huge number of us looked. Me included. :icon_mrgreen:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=I-NRriHlLUk&feature=related

[capcat]

I'm just slightly young enough to have been out of this. About the year I would've been old enough, the war ended...thank goodness. My generation didn't officially do anything, I don't believe. Or if we did, I don't remember ;) This generation is having more of an opportunity, and I think they're making some noise.

[Terry L. Wildcat]

Some reflections of a 1946 boomer as I listen to The Who!

What a time for rock n roll...thank you Chuck Berry

Segregation :thumbdn: Coney Island in Cincinnati was whites only even in 1964 :icon_rolleyes:

:thumbup: The civil rights movement

The draft...as a young man it scared the stuff out of me

People taking to the streets to stop a war

The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, The Kinks and The Who

Rupps Runts

Just to name a few..."I hope I die before I get old"

Rock on each generation! :thumbup:

[UK78ALUM]

Some reflections of a 1950 boomer as I listen to Dion

What a time for rock n roll...thank you Alan Freed and Little Richard

Segregation :thumbdn:

:thumbup: RFK

The draft...as a young man I was too obtuse to be scared by it, and it got me.

People taking to the streets to stop a war - "The Whole World Is Watching"

The Doors, The Beach Boys, The Byrds and The Beatles,

The Dodgers - I went to the World Series in 64 and 65

Just to name a few..."California Dreamin' on such a winter's day"

Rock on each generation! :thumbup:

[Matt Dillon]

Since I was born in 1944, Terry L. Wildcat and UK78ALUM's comments pretty well sum up my memories of those times.

[BigBlue75]

Born in 1957:

JFK assassinated in Dallas
The Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show
The Huntley Brinkley Report ("Good Night David, Good Night Chet")
Red Skelton
Bobby Kennedy shot and killed
Martin Luther King
Neil Armstrong on the Moon ("One small step for man..")
Woodstock
Kent State
Dan Issel and Mike Pratts' last game
Adolph Rupp retires
Vietnam War endsThose are a few. I could go on and on if I had time to thnk about it.

[capitolkatnorm]

Born in 46 and grew up in Memphis
Elvis, Roy Rogers and Dale Evans
UK in the mid 60's- the ROTC building mysteriously burned
Fraternity parties- a model for Animal House
Otis Redding and Dock of the Bay
Spring parties at the tobacco barns
English Leather and Old Spice
Keeneland and Burgoo
Loss to Texas Western
riots in Memphis, Watts, Detroit
Vietnam bubbling in the background-Black Panthers
Beach Boys and the Beatles-Stones and Ina godda vida(sp) pounding in your head
Jimmy Hendrix and Purple Haze
Drafted after graduating-
69 in the jungle-staying alive
We all called home-"the world" because where we were wasn't in this world
Coming home- surreal feeling of is this the "real world"? women really do have round eyes-wow
Making a place in the world

[Chaz]

Since I was born in 1944, Terry L. Wildcat and UK78ALUM's comments pretty well sum up my memories of those times.
Same here. Matt, we are just more mature. :icon_mrgreen:

[BigBlue75]

but after reading your post, I just felt like I needed to say thanks for your service to our country at at time when it wasn't popular, and most importantly, welcome home. :thumbup:
(I know a lot of men who served during the Vietnam conflict and they never heard that when they got back to the states.)

[capitolkatnorm]

Big Blue-- looking back my time in service was a foundation for pretty much everything I am today. The GI bill paid for law school, my military training taught me discipline and to think before acting, I learned to respect those who disagree, change is good and will happen even if you don't want it, people are generally good, life isn't always fair, and nobody can make you mad unless you let them.-- so I've been welcomed home many times and I still appreciate it-- thanks-- Norm

[freethrow]

69 in the jungle-staying alive

My brother was there the two years before you. Thanks for your service. :thumbup:

Here is one for you.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=rd3rA89VhtA

[sardiscat]

I was 14 when the Beatles first came. I remember the '60s as a terrible time. 3 assassinations in five years. Cities being burnt down in the summers. Blacks rioting in Louisville a block away from my high school graduation at Convention Center in 1968 (nothing like a 10:00 p.m. city-wide curfew on the night you finally are through with high school). Most of those of my generation who were taking to the streets were doing so looking to get laid more than to stop the war. People I knew personally were getting killed by one thing or another right and left. The racial injustice in America that a suburban WASP kid had never known anything about--even that it existed--was hitting me in the face. And, I hurt my arm and couldn't pursue a baseball career. The last three years of that decade were the absolute pits.

[freethrow]

I was 14 when the Beatles first came. I remember the '60s as a terrible time. 3 assassinations in five years. Cities being burnt down in the summers. Blacks rioting in Louisville a block away from my high school graduation at Convention Center in 1968 (nothing like a 10:00 p.m. city-wide curfew on the night you finally are through with high school). Most of those of my generation who were taking to the streets were doing so looking to get laid more than to stop the war. People I knew personally were getting killed by one thing or another right and left. The racial injustice in America that a suburban WASP kid had never known anything about--even that it existed--was hitting me in the face. And, I hurt my arm and couldn't pursue a baseball career. The last three years of that decade were the absolute pits.

Wow, maybe it is a good thing that I didn't move back to this area until my senior year? I was in Connecticut through my junior year and other than the assassination's I had little to none of what you experienced. Got back here in late 68 and I guess that bad stuff had eased off because it wasn't that bad.

Since I had lived on the east coast I saw a lot more of the marches and protests. The coasts always seem to have more of that sort of thing.

[RP_McMurphy]

Is Rogain, Viagra and all the other old man ailments required to post here. If so where's Wildcat Larry?

[Terry L. Wildcat]

UK78ALUM, The draft was about to get me but fortuneately a very good friend had been checking out the Army Reserves and we both joined together in 1968...another memory was wearing a short-hair wig to meetings in Ft. Thomas for six years...boy, did that thing itch :eek:

[matt colvin]

Wow, awesome thread you all, and as BB75 said, thank you veterans so much for your service.

[gerntz]

I was 13 years old when the Beatles first came to America. The youth of America at that time were just starting to really take notice of how our Government was handling things and they did not like what they were seeing.. My Generation stood up and made some major nose for a few years about their concerns. Will another generation ever do so to such an extent? I sure hope so.

This is an small example of how John Lennon, several years after his initial arrival in the US, played a role. And though somewhat grubby looking, this is how a huge number of us looked. Me included. :icon_mrgreen:



I really think Vietnam was the prime, but not exclusive, driver of all that - noticing government, music, stnading up. The 2nd factor was probably that there were so many of us boomers compared to our parents with these 3-10 kids families that they couldn't control us. Though my 50s memories as a kid are hazy, seems like a woman under 40 was out of step if she wasn't pregnant.

[UKcat]

"Ina godda vida(sp) pounding in your head"

Iron Butterfly!

Lord, how I miss that song. We would play it on the 8 track tape player, riding down the street in Bardstown in our '68 GTO with the windows down and the sound cranked up as loud as those cheapy speakers would go!!! I loved every minute of it !!!:icon_mrgreen:

[RP_McMurphy]

Historic events I remember-

72 Olympics

Watergate

Nixon's resignation

Fall of Saigon

Bicentennial

[BOURBON TOWN CAT FAN]

Fall of Berlin Wall

End of Cold War

Reagan Revolution

Tiananmen Square

Chernobyl

Mount St Helens

Personal Computers

Atari

MTV

Hair Bands

The Cosby Show

Twin Towers (Bowie/Turpin) Final Four in 84 to Sutton Era

[Wildcat Larry]

Is Rogain, Viagra and all the other old man ailments required to post here. If so where's Wildcat Larry?
You rang? :icon_lol:

Well, I was born in 1949, and yep, I've lived in seven decades. :eek:

Went to UK from 67-71.

The Beatles ...... 'nuff said
ROTC Building burning ... thought it was the Student Center when I first looked that way
Throwing Frisbee with undercover Lexington cops after UK classes were cancelled
Getting out of my Statistics final because of the cancellation
Cruisin' around Jerry's Drive-in ..... in high school
Rupp's Runts and Dan Issel, Mike Pratt and company
Stoll Field
Standing in line in the snow waiting to get into Memorial Coliseum to watch the Cats play UT and LSU
Mrs. Robinson
Holding on dearly to my student draft deferment
My birthday getting picked #312 in the draft lottery my junior year
Tear gas in the patio of the Student Center
Ray Mears and Stu Aberdeen and unicycles
Texas Western and Jacksonville :icon_sad:
Dicky Lyons, Rick Norton, Sam Ball, Larry Sieple and Rick Kestner
From pegged pants to bell-bottoms
Make love, not war

[UK78ALUM]

You rang? :icon_lol:



LOL! That likely went right over the heads of anyone under 55 years old.

Maynard G Krebs and "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis".

Maynard went on to be stuck on his own island, whatever happened to Dobie?

[Wildcat Larry]

http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/6796/bobdwyane9ms.jpg

[matt colvin]

http://photos-a.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sctm/v10/222/82/12920324/n12920324_30398464_204.jpg

Well, I don't have any other pictures on my computer right now, so this is as much as I can currently share.

This is my Mom and Dad during their senior year of high-school, 1964 at Meade Memorial. Dad, who I have mentioned before, went on to play at Lee's College in Jackson, Kentucky. He was drafted to 'Nam.

Although I miss these two so very much, I must say that their influence upon me is undeniably great. They were great parents. And I believe they represented "their" generation quite well :thumbup:

[capcat]

^
Nice looking couple, Matt, and it's not hard to tell that they did a good job as parents.

[Terry L. Wildcat]

You rang? :icon_lol:

Well, I was born in 1949, and yep, I've lived in seven decades. :eek:

Went to UK from 67-71.

The Beatles ...... 'nuff said
ROTC Building burning ... thought it was the Student Center when I first looked that way
Throwing Frisbee with undercover Lexington cops after UK classes were cancelled
Getting out of my Statistics final because of the cancellation
Cruisin' around Jerry's Drive-in ..... in high school
Rupp's Runts and Dan Issel, Mike Pratt and company
Stoll Field
Standing in line in the snow waiting to get into Memorial Coliseum to watch the Cats play UT and LSU
Mrs. Robinson
Holding on dearly to my student draft deferment
My birthday getting picked #312 in the draft lottery my junior year
Tear gas in the patio of the Student Center
Ray Mears and Stu Aberdeen and unicycles
Texas Western and Jacksonville :icon_sad:
Dicky Lyons, Rick Norton, Sam Ball, Larry Sieple and Rick Kestner
From pegged pants to bell-bottoms
Make love, not war

Excellent :thumbup: I also thought it was the Student Center that was ablaze.