To the people who lived in 50's/60's/70's!!?

Question

Can you tell me your memories and experiences about the decade you lived in?

I would greatly appreciate it if you would give me a your full name or first name at least

This is for my AP US History Summer Assignment btw :]

P.S. im asking people this since i need people who lived in America at those decades. the only seniors i know lived in Asia :[

Answer 1

My name is Jenny Moved from arkansas to California when I was 2 My memories of the 70s and 80s are very exciting. we didn't have things like what we have today such as computers, no remotes for the t.v we had to get up and change the channel everyone played outside. also if you were in the laundrymat we had to pay a quarter to use the bathroom riding the bus was only 75 cents for a long time. candy and ice cream were about 15 or a quarter on the truck. the music was awsome especially the beattles they still play 80s music on 103.5 if you want to check it out.

            Good luck

                    J J

Answer 2

s*x, drugs and rock and roll! The 50's were a bummer, don't remember much during the sixties and the 70's were real fine.  Everyone chilled out, the music world was kicking out the best songs ever and I was happily in love.  Now I'm simply a retired old guy; happy, mellowed out and living my dreams.  

Answer 3

I was a little girl in the 60's and remember that everything in the US was SOOO big.  Appliances, cars, skyscrapers, and bee hive hairdos.  People acted as if resources were unlimited.  The left lights on when they left rooms, those skyscrapers were lit up all night long after everyone went home, TVs had few stations but were left on to entertain the furniture, people went for Sunday afternoon drives in cars that got under 10 miles per gallon and bought products in miles of packaging.  But, it was a time of innocence and rebellion.  College age kids rebuked their parents politics and social mores, resented the war in Vietnam and felt betrayed by the government sending them to fight on foreign soil in a war they neither supported nor understood.  Those feelings spilled over into the next decade and the 70's didn't really take on its own personality until it was half over and disco hit the scene.  The early part of the decade should have been a time to re-evaluate our dependence on oil during the embargo, but the shortages and long lines quickly faded from memory.  Politics was dominated by the Watergate scandal and it left it's mark on the American psyche because people realized our highest office was occupied by a mere mortal capable of the sins of deceit, corruption and dishonesty.  My name is Kittie and I am not quite a senior, yet...