Category 1960’s

You

It’s February 1962 – You’re A Teenager – You’re Moving To L.A. – You’ve Heard Stories – You Feel Dread

We could use some support: Become a Patron! House has been empty for a week – packed up and stuffed onto a Bekins Truck – your life – your family – your earthly possessions, heading west – forever. You and…

Long Hair

Boys With Long Hair – 1970 -Past Daily After Hours Reference Room

Subscribe: Become a Patron! – Martha Stuart: Are You Listening? – Boys With Long Hair – July 1970 – Anyone reading this who was born after 1970 will have no idea what the deal was. It was all about hair…

Sunset Strip Riots - 1966

Riot On Sunset Strip 1966 – “What Is It You Kids Want?” – Past Daily After Hours Reference Room

You know you want to: Become a Patron! – Sunset Strip Riots – The Cool Rebellion – Second Sunday – NBC Radio – 1967 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Sunset Strip – November 1966. It was bound to happen,…

A Few Words From Man Ray – Past Daily Weekend Gallimaufry

As one of the cornerstones of the Avant-Garde, Dada-Surrealist and Modernist Movements, Man Ray is probably best known for his painting, A L’Heure de L’Observatoire – Les Amoureux (Observatory Time – The Lovers) – which you can see in the…

America

You Can’t Get There From Here – Getting Around In America In 1972 – Past Daily Sunday Reference Room

Help keep us alive: Become a Patron! – NBC News: Second Sunday – Sic Transit America – June 10, 1972 -Gordon Skene Sound Collection – In the 1960s, as awareness of what was going on in our world was growing,…