Am I The Only Dinosaur Here?

[Winston Carter]

I can't get out of the 60's and 70's. Loved the music, movies, clothing, hats, eyeglasses and mostly everything but Disco. Seemed like such a funner time to me.

 

[tonyb]

I’m guessing you were in your adolescence and early adulthood during those years.

 

[Winston Carter]

I’m guessing you were in your adolescence and early adulthood during those years.

Teen to 20's. It seems like the most innovated time. Things were much easier.

 

[Vampyre Master]

I agree in many ways but you have to remember, things were different then, we were free'er life was full of new ideas and dress, now society is much more constrained, critical of the unusual. We smashed through the office dress code and wore long hair. Now all I see is youtube vids telling young men how to fit in the work place, dont stand out your boss wont like it blah blah blah. I had a suit made in '68 with 14" bottoms and I've just had one made with 14" bottoms still looks great !!!

 

[Winston Carter]

I agree in many ways but you have to remember, things were different then, we were free'er life was full of new ideas and dress, now society is much more constrained, critical of the unusual. We smashed through the office dress code and wore long hair. Now all I see is youtube vids telling young men how to fit in the work place, dont stand out your boss wont like it blah blah blah. I had a suit made in '68 with 14" bottoms and I've just had one made with 14" bottoms still looks great !!!

I can't change. Loved the old bell bottoms (hip huggers). All I listen to on the radio is Classic Rock and Classic Country. I wear R Toe boots still even though square to is the rage with my Son and Nephews. I told them that was cool in the 70's. We called them harness boots or Dingo's. They think i'm strange that I won't wear a Cowboy Hat or Fedora with a brim over 2.75". They are wearing Cowboy Hats with 4" brim or bigger. I just can't change.

 

[scottyrocks]

now society is much more constrained, critical of the unusual. We smashed through the office dress code and wore long hair. Now all I see is youtube vids telling young men how to fit in the work place, dont stand out your boss wont like it blah blah blah. I had a suit made in '68 with 14" bottoms and I've just had one made with 14" bottoms still looks great !!!

On the contrary, society now is much more open as a result of the pioneering efforts you mentioned. Much of what people say, do, and act today is stuff that other folks wouldn't put up with for a second 40 years ago. Today, it seems that anything goes.

 

[EngProf]

This dinosaur prefers a somewhat earlier time era: 1950's and 1960's - that was the time I was growing up and then going to high school and college.
I had a lot of fun and good times later, also, but those were the best times. We did worry about nuclear war in the fifties (Duck and Cover!) and later worried about being sent to Vietnam in the sixties, but since neither actually happened I can remember the good stuff and ignore the bad stuff.

 

[Winston Carter]

This dinosaur prefers a somewhat earlier time era: 1950's and 1960's - that was the time I was growing up and then going to high school and college.
I had a lot of fun and good times later, also, but those were the best times. We did worry about nuclear war in the fifties (Duck and Cover!) and later worried about being sent to Vietnam in the sixties, but since neither actually happened I can remember the good stuff and ignore the bad stuff.

I was born in the 50's but my Dad ran his own business for 50 yrs. and he swore the 50's were the best ever. He went through the Depression as a kid and fought in WW2.

 

[vitanola]

Teen to 20's. It seems like the most innovated time. Things were much easier.

I was a youngster at about the same time, and simply loathed the period. I listened to hot jazz 78s in the 1970s, took my drivers test in a Flivver, and had an Orthophonic Victrola in my college dormitory room. Played some C melody sax and tenor banjo as well as a little uke. I spent my life running away from the music, clothes, cars and all pop culture of that period. Occasionally a 70s or 80s song will evoke a pleasant memory, but only occasionally. For me, 1978 can be better evoked by early Duke Ellington, or 1980 by Gene Goldkette or Sam Lanin, for that was the music that I was listening to at that time. The 1970s were the days of riding a struggle buggy coupé up the college hill in reverse, just as the early 80s bring to mind a massive apple green Paige-Detroit Eight which had jump seats but couldn't pass a filling station...I

 

[Lean'n'mean]

Seemed like such a funner time to me.

Most things appear better looking back. I was around in the 60's & 70's & yes, they were great but so were the 80's, 90's & early 2000's........I think when we hit 50, we naturally start to look back with our rose tinted spectacles, to a time that appeared more idyllic.....but if we were able to go back as we are now, we would be bored stiff & puzzled by how anyone thought these were great times. .....even though we are now anesthetized by the net, there is still so much more to do nowadays compared to the past. I don't think we were more free back then, we just had fewer responsiblties, more energy & enthousiasm & like the youth of today, we were less aware of legal & social constraints that encumber our aging mindsets.
If we are selective in our memories & concentrate on the frivolous, such as music & fashion we risk forgeting more crucial elements of that period; the 60's & 70's weren't that great if you were of an ethnic minority, gay or a woman.......things aren't perfect today & there will always be some who try to hinder social progress but you have to admit, many things are much better today than they were way back when. For a start, you wouldn't have been able to express your opinions & woes to the whole wide world. Thankyou who ?.....thankyou 2018

 

[LizzieMaine]

For a start, you wouldn't have been able to express your opinions & woes to the whole wide world.

Well now, I wouldn't say that.

 

[HadleyH1]

I can't get out of the 60's and 70's. Loved the music, movies, clothing, hats, eyeglasses and mostly everything but Disco. Seemed like such a funner time to me.

Many of us love the 60s and 70s....50s and 40s too... hehe

also the 20s and 30s ....I know I do

you are not a dinosaur at all.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Am I a dinosaur? Heck, they should put me in the next Jurassic Park movie!

 

[MisterCairo]

they should put me in the next Jurassic Park movie!

My favourite JP movie is the one where they go to the island with dinosaurs on it, and have to escape from the dinosaurs.

 

[LizzieMaine]

 

[scottyrocks]

Cattassic Park.^

 

[HadleyH1]

I want to be a dinosaur.................grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

nah joking~

 

[GHT]

I can't get out of the 60's and 70's. Loved the music, movies, clothing, hats, eyeglasses and mostly everything but Disco. Seemed like such a funner time to me.

A Dinosaur? You? Surely not? You might be unfamiliar with a few of the Britspeak expressions in this, but you'll get the gist of it.

 

[OldStrummer]

I'm probably in the same age range as you. I graduated high school in 1969. I've read that people tend to "bond" with the music and cultural artifacts of their impressionable years. I'm a little damaged, in that I not only enjoy the music of the late 60s and early 70s, particularly that of the "British invasion" and the San Francisco sound of that time, but I also find listening to modern "adult contemporary" (read: electronic instrumental) highly enjoyable.

There's another side to the story of that time, though. I just finished watching Ken Burns's 10-episode saga, "The Vietnam War." I remember how divisive that war was. Images of executions, naked children burned by napalm, dead students at Kent State contrast the "Summer of Love" and Woodstock. John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr. Robert F. Kennedy, all dead at the hands of assassins. Much of the turmoil of that time inspired the music: For What It's Worth (Buffalo Springfield), Ohio (Crosy, Stills & Nash), and music inspired the turmoil (terrorist underground group the Weathermen took their name from Bob Dylan's "Subterranean Homesick Blues). The two factions of that era defined many of us.

Now, we're in our sixties and seventies. We've seen a lot over the last fifty years: Man landing on the moon. The fall of the Berlin Wall. The invention of electronic musical instruments (Moog was ahead of his time). And, of course, cell phones and the Internet. We are now the old-timers and for better or worse, the younger generation is taking over.

 

[KILO NOVEMBER]

On the contrary, society now is much more open as a result of the pioneering efforts you mentioned. Much of what people say, do, and act today is stuff that other folks wouldn't put up with for a second 40 years ago. Today, it seems that anything goes.

Unless, of course, your views are orthogonal to the now-prevailing orthodoxy. Plus ça change, ...