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[Paco]

it starts with a couple...

[Broomhead]

I still got my Betamax player, with it's 10' wired remote. I got it packed away with my Atari and commodor Vic-20

[Stray]

Bluray is where we are now

[Simon]

Bluray is dying too. Digital age now Stray.

[Stray]

I know I hate it. But with every bluray you get a free digital copy lol

[Cowboy]

Bluray is dying too. Digital age now Stray.

Yup

[mr117]

Got my Oppo BD 83, was cutting edge, 1000's of posts on the BD site, everyone so proud of themselves, and then the Oppo BD 93 came out!!!!

Had a Colecovision with custom controllers attached to a board with nails so I could play and beat Tron. Now my younger son has a Wii and a DS and I have my Apple products.

Oh, and never having heard this Jerry Bubbler person, I'm in no position to mock anyone for liking him.

[blkcadi]

This thread confuses me...........................lolz

[Orby]

VHS- Beta was too expensive.

The kids are always offering me an earbud (ugh) to listen to their stuff. As if I can't hear it from across the classroom while the buds are in their ears. (Of course, my hearing got blasted at the Avalon and Filmore auditoriums in the 60's, so who am I to talk?)

Are y'all referring to the Fillmore Auditorium at 1510 Clarkson Street in Denver, Colorado? If you are, I officially <3 you in a non-homosexual way.

Then again, considering y'all reference the Avalon (Ballroom), you're probably referring to the San Fran Fillmore... ah well.

This thread confuses me...........................lolz

It's a custom-title and sixties-music fest. Don't worry man, here's some LSD man.

[mr117]

Acid hash grass, acid hash grass. The mantra in front of the rock palaces (Filmore, Filmore West, Avalon, etc.) from those early entrepreneurs sitting/standing in the shadows. THOSE were the days. I turned 18 in 1965, and the next year, boy howdy!!!

Yep, SF in the 60's. It all broke loose. I imagine that's what it was like in the Roaring 20's, when all the rules went out the window and the entire culture... swiveled..and became something else.

Of course, as I explain to my students, Free Love? It wasn't free and it wasn't love. It sure was fun, though. We thought we could change the world, and the world changed us.

This isn't a thread, it's a flashback, man.

[thetoothfairy]

Quote:
Originally Posted by blkcadi
This thread confuses me...........................lolz

It's a custom-title and sixties-music fest. Don't worry man, here's some LSD man.

lmao!

[Orby]

Acid hash grass, acid hash grass. The mantra in front of the rock palaces (Filmore, Filmore West, Avalon, etc.) from those early entrepreneurs sitting/standing in the shadows. THOSE were the days. I turned 18 in 1965, and the next year, boy howdy!!!

Yep, SF in the 60's. It all broke loose. I imagine that's what it was like in the Roaring 20's, when all the rules went out the window and the entire culture... swiveled..and became something else.

Of course, as I explain to my students, Free Love? It wasn't free and it wasn't love. It sure was fun, though. We thought we could change the world, and the world changed us.

This isn't a thread, it's a flashback, man.

--What do you do for recreation?
---Oh, the usual. I bowl. Drive around. The occasional acid flashback.

Baby boomers, the Flower Power ethos, 'Nam, and Watergate... if it all had happened at any other time, it likely would have broken the nation.

Ah, history. Perhaps we should rename "free love" "ethically expensive friendship-with-benefits?"

[Paco]

Damn i missed alot of history

[mr117]

Ah, history. Perhaps we should rename "free love" "ethically expensive friendship-with-benefits?"

Less friendship-with-benefits than experimentation. Wanna do it? OK. Thanks. See ya. Trying out new lifestyles, most of which didn't work. But the people that came after us got all the freedoms, to dress the way they want, wear their hair they way they want, act the way they want. Hard-fought freedoms that they don't have to pay for. We can mock hippie, but hippie paid a lot of our (your?) bills.

In retrospect, though, some of it was a bummer, man.

The nation didn't really get broken, but we sure twisted it up (ooooh, a pun) for a while there.



"Damn i missed alot of history"

Those that do not learn from the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them. The first thing I teach in my History classes.

[Orby]

Ah, history. Perhaps we should rename "free love" "ethically expensive friendship-with-benefits?"

Less friendship-with-benefits than experimentation. Wanna do it? OK. Thanks. See ya. Trying out new lifestyles, most of which didn't work. But the people that came after us got all the freedoms, to dress the way they want, wear their hair they way they want, act the way they want. Hard-fought freedoms that they don't have to pay for. We can mock hippie, but hippie paid a lot of our (your?) bills.

In retrospect, though, some of it was a bummer, man.

The nation didn't really get broken, but we sure twisted it up (ooooh, a pun) for a while there.



"Damn i missed alot of history"

Those that do not learn from the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them. The first thing I teach in my History classes.

Much better way to put it. Perhaps it's better described as "the end to Victorian-era inhibitions?"

It, arguably (as a generational span), reflected the first time freedom of ideology was being fought over in the forefront (as opposed to tyrannical or economic oppression); also where the battlefield was both geo-political (Cold War, specifically Khrushchev versus Kennedy, Korea, Vietnam) and social (the beatniks and the hippies as a movement) simultaneously.

All, of course, far far before my time.

[confucious]

I was begenning to think there was no one older than me here (apart from thetoothfairy -but she's a lady and therefore is 'over 21).

Good on you MR117

[mr117]

Yep, Cold War (bomb shelters at school and at home in the 50's) and lies by the government (via media, schools and official statements) to students and other youth (not just about Korea - beatniks and Viet Nam- hippies, but about the very fabric of our society at that time) led to social changes more far-reaching than any of us expected or hoped for, just not always in the direction(s) we had in mind. Ooops.

And I think you are right about ideology; the Roaring 20's was more about hedonism and money. The 60's were about fundamental changes in society and life style- whether you agree with those changes or not, they did seep down into the body politic and into our social structures.

Oh, and no woman is ever older than 39. there's some kind of rule......