So many things that we use today did not even exist in the 60s: Cell phones, Smart Phones, iPads, garage door openers, MP3 players, heated socks, cable TV,
cordless drills, etc.
But here are several links that tell us what we did have and what happened in the 1960s.
Here's what you can find at the Baby
Boomer Headquarters website.
The Sixties - A Summary - A chronological list of major 60s events
Prices - What Things Cost When I Was a Kid.... - Verbal Pictures of Our Childhood
Then and Now - Everyday Life in the Sixties
The Boomer Years - Pick a boomer year; we’ll tell you what happened
The Boomer Music - Top songs, lyrics and memories
Boomer Prime-Time TV - The Stuff We Watched
Boomer Stats -
Population statistics on the boomers
Famous Boomers - Well-known boomers who shape our
society
The Boomers, the Gen-X'ers and Beyond -
An essay comparing kids' behavior
Boomer Essays - Humorous (?) reflections of a boomer
Official Baby Boomer Qualifying Exams - See if you have the Boomer spirit
Good Times, Great Oldies Radio Stations - The sixties music lives on
Woodstock Remembered -
the real Woodstock!
To the Moon! - pictures and stories of the first moon
landing
Fashions in the 60s and 70s
Boomer Speak: - the Talk We Talked
The Boomer Peace Sign
Click on the picture below to go to a Google search all about 1960 high school class reunion (funny) links.
(I haven't clicked on every one, so just be aware of that.)
(I haven't clicked on every one, so just be aware of that.)
Below are just a few of the interesting trivia found at this next site -
(Click here ->) Pop Culture Trivia
The Harlem Globetrotters were formed in Chicago
and didn't play a game of basketball in Harlem until 1968, forty years after
they were founded.
The US Patent for Lava Lamps was permitted in
1968.
There were four mysterious submarine
disappearances. The USS Scorpion, the Israeli sub marine INS Dakar, the French
submarine Minerve and the Soviet submarine K-129 all went down.
This is another site that has more trivia
High School
Look under Labels on the right for the
many more High School Reunion posts!
High School
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