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In the begining
the nation was moving right along....WWII was over and our presence throughout the world was known....Korea
and Germany....Japan
and south Pacific islands...all across the globe US troops were protecting and guarding the price of freedom....Peace....prosperity....the
average Joe was happy and raising families....proud of the achievements of the past 20 years
and people actually did care
and help their fellow man....until the Beast reared his ugly head.......
Then you had Dragnet and Mannix....The Fugative....Elliot Ness...
you had your great
heroes in Burt Lancaster....Cagny and Kirk Douglas...Steve McQueen...Jimmy Stuart...The Rat Pack and the Dirty Dozen....the
Duke...Bogart...Vic Morrow....and a thousand others....I am sure all of you have such a list because that is what it was....
It was a simplier time where your Horror Shows were The Blob... the Mummy....Vampires....The Byrds...KingKong and Godzilla...
tame stuff compared to today......
When Bob Dylan sang"the Times
they are a change'n"...he
knew what he was singing about....for change they did....The
60's changed the face of not
only America but the entire world
and into outer space....Civil unrest...political upheavals...All
across the land...from
sea to shining sea....families tore apart
over a war half a world away....riots in the streets....beatings
by Police
and National Guardsman.....Protests...demostrations
Kids leaving all they love and have and fleeing their country knowing
full well they could never return home again...or contact
their families....Selma...L.A....Detroit....Phila....
Chicago...
Atlanta....Montgomery.....Our
cities very streets and campuses were War Zones....
The music of the day was enlighting to say the least....If you want to understand the 50's and 60's....just listen
to the music.......It's all right there....no grey areas...down and dirty....the good and the ugly....What a time to be alive...crusing
the loop.....singing on street corners...American bandstand....
The Jersey Steel Pier....Motown....Soul Train....Grande
Old Opera..
The Loyyd Thaxton Show...California Dreaming.....on to the Doors... Buffalo Springfield...Crosby Stills Nash
and Young... Simon and Garfunkle... Janis...Moody Blues...The Band...Yes.... Rolling Stones...and a hundred others....God......what
a time it was.....The music just kept on coming and changing the people and the country......
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