Summer of 1969

[bendejo]

It's been 50 years.

Landmark events of the summer of 1969:

- moon walk

- Woodstock

- Paul is dead:  For you young sprouts who weren't around look it up.  It may sound trivial and goofy, which it was, but it was a media prairie fire.

 

Also I ran away from home (17) and this time I didn't get caught, but that's only a personal landmark, I celebrated the anniversary of my escape last weekend.

And for people from NYC, the Mets, a baseball team that had been around for 7 years and won just about as many games, consistently finishing in last place, won the NL pennant (best of league) and then the World Series.  I've never been a sports fan, but even I knew this stuff.

A few weeks after that Jack Kerouac died, but I don't know if it's connected.

A few weeks after that was Altamont, the "Woodstock of bad vibes."

 

(man, smoking this medicine makes my mind wander....)

 

 

 

 

 

[LomSak27]

A little too young for Woodstock. Parents wouldn't let me borrow the car 

 

Not that summer but an event I remember well and would have ramifications.  The media jumped all over it because there it was on those nice california beaches. Santa Barbara is also a very wealthy SC community. Great photo ops. Front page National Geographic

 

January 28 – 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill: A blowout on Union Oil's Platform A spills 80,000 to 100,000 barrels of crude oil into a channel and onto the beaches of Santa Barbara County in Southern California; on February 5 the oil spill closes Santa Barbara's harbor. The incident inspires Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson to organize the first Earth Day in 1970.

[LomSak27]

BTW I'm sure I read about Torrey Canyon, and it was on the news. But news was still not worldwide like today. That was in a far off land. Amazing and tragic. Then a couple years later, right on our doorstep.

[ratcatcher]

Ah, I remember it well. Bryan Adams .

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9f06QZCVUHg

 

 

 

 

[transam]

2 minutes ago, ratcatcher said:

Ah, I remember it well. Bryan Adams .

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9f06QZCVUHg

 

 

 

 

He was only 10 in '69.....????

[ratcatcher]

1 minute ago, transam said:

He was only 10 in '69.....????

True, he sang about it in 1984, but Vancouver BC was in full hippy mode during these last years of the sixties.

[lopburi3]

Summer of 69

 

An evening drinking at the Takhli Hut, Villa, Diamond, Lotus, Starlight, Paradise, Villa Tropicana and Viking was likely.

http://www.takhli.org/bob/TakhliStripMap.html

[lamyai3]

19 hours ago, transam said:

19 hours ago, ratcatcher said:

Ah, I remember it well. Bryan Adams .

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9f06QZCVUHg

He was only 10 in '69

This is the least favourite cover my band used to do. On the other hand it was so easy to play that it was kind of like having a break... 

[tutsiwarrior]

busted fer 3 joints late 1968 and was sent down to Orange County Jail there to abide my easter holiday last year of high school 1969...the terms of probation included attending college until I turned 21 which got me out of the draft...

 

about a year later in Berkeley a pal handed me a paper grocery bag and said 'here tuts, help me with this, we gots to walk it over a few blocks to a new location...' later out on the busiest part of Telegraph Ave I said 'this is heavy, whatchoo got in here?' and he said very calmly 'oh, about 6 - 7 kilos of weed...'...being on probation at the time I got a bit nervous...he was carrying the same amount and the sun shined outta his azzhole...just two dudes walking along 'the Avenue' with their shopping from the supermarket...

 

 

[OneMoreFarang]

I was a baby at that time. But looking at the Woodstock video that looks like serious fun.