Hobbies Forget expensive computer games — everything we did was either free or really cheap. We fanatically peeled stamps off envelopes and stuck them in books. We collected pretty coloured marbles. And we knitted and crocheted like crazy. There was no need to be scared of the sun. Instead we rushed to be beside the sea at Bournemouth or Scarborough and lapped up every moment of sunshine we could in between the showers.
Type keyword s to search. Today's Top Stories. And for more up-to-date information delivered right to your inbox, sign up for our daily newsletter. Like kids today beg for their own smartphones or video game consoles, we pleaded with our parents to buy us our very own Schwinn Stingray Bikes.
With that stylish ride to get us around, we didn't need anything else—other than maybe some old wood and bricks to fashion a makeshift ramp. Yeah, it was a hospital visit waiting to happen, but we were having too much fun to care.
When kids today turn on the TV or scroll through YouTube, they can easily stumble into something that'll traumatize them for life. Hello, anything on HBO. But in the s, we never had to worry about becoming emotionally crippled by television.
We had shows like Bewitched , Gilligan's Island , The Andy Griffith Show , Bonanza , Flipper , and Ozzie and Harriet , all of which made pretty convincing cases that we lived in a gentle world with nothing to fear. We wanted to be them, to walk or maybe float in their footsteps and make our own small steps for man and giant leaps for mankind. Today's kids may find the very idea of this sandwich disgusting, but we knew better. As one '60s-era ad described this inventive combination, it created a "brand new flavor" guaranteed to "make any sandwich taste doubly delicious.
Wikipedia didn't exist in the '60s. When we needed knowledge, we went to the library and did research with an encyclopedia. And if we were lucky and our parents had a little extra cash, we might've even had a leather-bound set of Encyclopedia Britannicas at home! Was it better than the free online service kids use today? But we have a scholarly voice, an editorial process, and fact-based, well-written articles. When the first Polaroid instant cameras became available in the early '60s, we were pretty sure it was space-age technology.
By today's standards, it would seem incredibly complicated. Navy during World War II. He got his political start as a legislative assistant to then-Representative Lyndon B. Johnson and later The media frenzy over the release of documents related to the assassination of President John F.
Kennedy highlights the ongoing public fascination with JFK and his death. Do the documents add to our understanding of the assassination, the motives of the assassin, or the The public has waited nearly 26 years for the last classified documents related to the assassination of President John F.
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