Conference turris::womannotes-v2

    You have a problem, as basically "the 60s" is a myth, much more so, I
    think, than "the 50s". 1967-69, for example, didn't have too much in
    common with 1960-65. It sounds like you have a late-60s theme in mind,
    "Campus Revolt." You just can't get John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and
    Dick Nixon to co-host a single coherent party.
    
    A possible theme that spans many of these years would be The Beatles,
    and one could extract numerous decor, costume, and food ideas from that.
    
    		- Bruce

    being a child of the 60's gawd forbid
    
    try anti war signs
    ban the bomb 
    protest songs
    folk songs
    flowers lots of flpwers
     game twister with variations
    

    Oh I forgot
    
    A volks wagon Beeltl in the living room is always a good conversation
    piece

    Got any bead curtains to hang in doorways? Black lights? Seems like
    Indian-Print bedspreads were popular in the late sixties too.... And
    don't forget to burn some incense!
    
    Kathy

    
    .....Uhm,  I don't think the V.W. will fit through the door.
    But, that is exactly the kind of idea that I'm looking for.
    Perhaps I could get some Volkswagon Beetle posters.
    
    I'm afraid of putting up anti-war signs.  I don't want to 
    irritate anyone who may have taken part in Vietnam, especially
    if people are drinking.   
    
    Twister sounds great!   
    
    So far, we have the soundtracks from The Big Chill.  Any other
    suggestions?  
    
    

Have you ever watched The Wonder Years?  I think it's on Tuesday
nights at 7:30 MST.  It's set in the 60's and in addition to some
horrendous clothing styles, you might get an idea what people had
around their homes back then.

Your party sounds like a fun idea!

Carla

    Well, this is what most of the parties I went to in the late
    sixties were like:
    
    Start by hanging gray wool blankets over all the windows, so the
    light doesn't get in or out.  Then light a bunch of those
    sculptured candles.  Indian-print bedspreads for curtains.  Bead
    curtains for the door.  No real furniture -- floor pillows, or
    mattresses on the floor, or maybe a beat-up couch.  Find some of
    those big wooden spools that telephone cord etc. comes on and use
    those for tables.  Make bookshelves out of unpainted, unsanded
    boards stacked across plastic milk crates or cinderblocks.  The
    only expensive item in the room should be several thousand
    dollars' worth of stereo equipment.  Put on some Hendrix, some
    Doors, some Steppenwolf, stuff like that.  I'd suggest Risk (world
    conquest via dice) as the game, but I don't think it came out
    until '71.  The drink of choice:  Cold Duck.  Or Spanada,
    depending on your budget.  Koolaid laced with Everclear is also a
    possibility.  Paper bags full of popcorn for the munchies.
    
    Sit around and say "Oh, man," a lot.  Lots of necking, with heavy
    petting in the dark corners.
    
    --bonnie

    Incense.  Don't forget the incense.  Nag Champa from Blue Pearl is
    best, but almost anything from India would do, I should think.
    
    						=maggie

    I never could smell the incense over the other things we were
    burning . . .
    
    

re: .9

Bras?  =8-)  =8-)  =8-)

Carla

BRS>    I never could smell the incense over the other things we were
BRS>    burning . . .

CB>Bras?  =8-)  =8-)  =8-)

 Actually, I believe she was referring to things you burn and pass around. :-)

 The Doctah

	 Rent a couple 60sish movies before then and get some ideas.

		Peggy Sue got Married
		Back to the Future

		(one's I can think of that have 60s parties in them)


	 kat_who_was_born_in_65_so_wouldn't_know

    Better still, instead of renting movies made in the eighties but set in
    the past, why not rent movies that were *made* in the sixties?
    "Blow Up" and "2001:  A Space Odyssey", for example.

>              <<< Note 959.13 by CSC32::M_VALENZA "Go Broncos" >>>

>    Better still, instead of renting movies made in the eighties but set in
>    the past, why not rent movies that were *made* in the sixties?
>    "Blow Up" and "2001:  A Space Odyssey", for example.


	 But 2001 doesn't give an accurate depiction of what a 60s
	 party was.  Rent 60s movies for the party, but not to get
	 ideas for the party.

	 I think we're talking two different things, aren't we?

	 kat

    aw c'mon.  Go all out.  Have a tie-dye party.
    
    Gives you something to take home with you.
    
    Drink Tang.  Debate the relative merits of Quisp and Quake.  Tape and
    watch old reruns off Nickelodeon (Nick at Nite). Reminisce about the
    cool cars (boats? - they were big enough) with the 440 V8 engines.  
    Make some posters that say things like, "If you're not part of the
    solution, you're part of the pollution".....
    
    Watch the movie "Hair".  Wear peace signs.  Say "Groovy".
    
    -Jody
    
    

	I just saw "Alice's restuarant" the other night. This would be
	a good movie to draw ideas from...

    
    

    Assassinations: JFK, RFK, MLK.
    Mustangs.  Peace signs.  Burning draft cards, B52's over No. VN
    (1st one was Feb 8, 1965).
    Joan Baez.  Yankee go home.
    The space program.
    Long hair.
    Hair.
    Discharge!
    
    ed

    wear sandals not sneakers
    paint your feet 
    make dresses out of India print spreads
    handmade bead necklaces are groovy
    
    
    Dondi

    ditto to all previous ideas, and:
    
    granny-style glasses (for your face)
    bell-bottom jeans with bottoms cuffs frayed
    lots of peace signs
    for movies made in the late 60's, how 'bout "Night of the Living
    					Dead" and "Fritz the Cat"
    sitar music (you know, the music that always accompanied the
    		drug busts on DRAGNET?)
    psychadelic lights (strobes in different colors, maybe)
    say "groovy" a lot
    
    pat:-)

    
    _Body_ painting.  Use tempera paints.  
    Did someone say strobe lights?
    Hang an American flag on the wall upside down.
    Mount a poster of Nixon or Johnson on foam board, draw a target around
      the face and use it for playing darts.
    Boone's Farm Apple Wine, forget the glasses, just pass the bottle.
    Jimi Hendrix
    Copy a Grateful Dead platter to tape and artificially "extend" one or 
      more songs by stopping the tape and moving the needle back to the
      beginning of the section you want repeated; wait and see if anyone
      says "Oh wow, they've been playing this song for hours..."
    Frank Zappa/GTO 
    Pass out love beads as party favors.
    Bake some really dense, kinda dry brownies, cut them into small pieces,
      and invite attendees into the kitchen one-at-a-time to sample them.
    
    Re: some note: Everclear!   
    Re: .12  How could anyone have been born in 1965?!  :-)
    
    CQ
    

    Re: .14 (Kath)

    Sorry, I guess we *were* talking about different things.

    Regarding movies from that era, there were a couple of good concert
    films that could provides some ideas:  "Monterrey Pop" and, of course,
    "Woodstock".  "Monterrey Pop" was the precursor to Woodstock, if I'm
    not mistaken it was filmed during the Summer of Love, and it includes
    lots of scenes of hippies at the concert.  It's a great countercultural
    artifact.

    Re: "Groovy"

    That word is stereotypically 60s, but wasn't it considered rather
    stereotypical even at the time?  I mean, outside of television and the
    movies, did anyone ever actually use the word themselves?

    -- Mike

    NO one I knew EVER said groovey. I only remember it from T.V. and a
    couple of songs. The brownies are a must, Alice B. Toklas style of
    course. We did say things like 'laid back' 'don't Bogey that joint'
    and 'faaaar F***king out'.

    Most of the other ideas are pretty good. --bonnie and I must have
    gone to the same parties.

    Make love not war posters. Motorcycles in the dining room. Cheech
    and Chong records. Face painting and patchouli oil.

    Get really loaded then go out in public and try to 'maintain' and
    see if the straights could tell (I'm sure they usually could). Day
    tripping in the park was hot.

    Hendrix is a must "I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me
    to die, so let me live my life the way I want to".

    Don't trust anyone over 30! oops, that means me! liesl    

    
    Perhaps also good as "party favors" -- smiley face buttons.  Didn't
    the smiley face first appear in San Francisco, in the early-late 60's?
    
    "1-2-3 what are we fightin' for?"
    
    CQ

    Did anybody mention lava lamps and the game "Twister"?
    
    Nanci

    Instead of "groovy", perhaps a better 60s term to use would be "The
    Establishment".  Don't forget to make "V" peace signs with your hands. 
    You could make up your very own underground paper and distribute it to
    each guest as they arrive at the party.

    -- Mike

    
    re. 9, 10  ummmm, your talking draft cards, right?
    
    you could always make up a batch of the electric-kool-aid (or is that 
    cool-aid?)
    
    re. smiley faces
    
    aren't those the jeans-cheeks patches?
    
    and remember.....have a nice day,
    
    ~robin

    If you're going to make brownies and want them straight, use some
    parsley or oregano in the batter.  But you still have to make people
    run into the kitchen for them.  :-)
    
    Sound track from Hair would be good.
    
    ed

    I think I still have my authentic 1971-issued draft card around
    somewhere, suitable for burning. I even carried it around with me
    until quite recently (when I got a new wallet and transferred
    the contents, I decided to leave the draft card out this time :-)
    I don't think I tossed it, though).
    
    I remember once using it as I.D. when writing a check at a store.
    The clerk's jaw dropped, then he broke out laughing, but he took
    it as a valid piece of I.D.
    
    --- jerry

    previous note reminded me 
    
    DRINK OF CHOICE  BOONE'S FARM WINE (APPLE,GRAPE,RASPBERRY)
    
    or anything in a twist top

    
    I'm embarassed to admit that I actually was concerned that this
    question was inappropriate for this conference.  Boy, was I 
    wrong!  You folks have given me some great ideas!!!  
    I'm definately getting a twister game, and I'll make some
    brownies, but I'm not sure I'll add oregano, (that must taste
    horrible!).  I'll have to find a Salvation Army/Goodwill Store
    or maybe even Building 19 to buy some indian print throws. 
    
    Keep the ideas coming!  I'm certain that this party will be 
    a success.   I still need more ideas on popular 60's foods.
    
    Thanks AGAIN!
    
    Darlene
    

    The movies, "I Love You, Alice B. Toklas" and "Getting Straight"
    were good 60s movies if you were into putting something on the VCR.
    
    Don't forget headbands.  I hung my guitar and my sandals on the
    wall.  I also got some trimming from a fabric store and sewed it
    down the outside seams of my jeans.  OK, I'll admit it, I sewed
    one jingle bell on each end, too.
    
    Get blacklight posters and a blacklight.  (You can have fun seeing
    who's teeth are capped!)  Keep the music high and the lights low.
    Plenty of Airplane, Janis, Velvet Underground, Ravi Shankar, Vanilla
    Fudge.  The Beatles are ok, but I associate the 60s with the San 
    Francisco scene rather than the British Invasion.  Except for the
    Animals. Get them, too.
    
    Yeah, people actually said groovy.  One of the Four Seasons called
    me a "groovy chick" once.  I think I was all of 12 then.  

I never said groovy in the 60's but I do say groovy now because no
one else does and it sounds so much smoother than "cool", which is
what I hear from lots of other people.

Hmm, I wonder why words like this all have oo's in them.

Carla

    Being a product of the West I might go with a surfing theme.  My
    fondest memories of the 60's were obviously from the early part of the
    decade.  Things like surfboards, baggies, sandals, skateboards, Chevies
    with 409 engines, Woodies, and the Beach Boys bring it back for me. 
    Cheap wine and junk food were the big things.
    
    Movie idea -- "Big Wednesday.
    
    Linda
    
    P.S.  Obviously, this party theme is better suited to warm weather.

    
    If I remember right, fondue was big back then.  And would be fairly
    easy to provide now.  Lots of chocolate fondue, too; dip strawberries,
    pound cake, etc.
    Maia
    

    In regard to food - don't forget the Wonder Bread, Hostess Twinkies,
    Little Debbies - anything that's unhealthy!
    
    Nanci

    Watch the movie "Yellow Submarine".  Find a few copies of "Fear and
    Loathing in Las Vegas"...and scatter them around on the coffee tables. 
    Try and dig up (you can generally find some at used book stores) old
    copies of LIFE and LOOK magazine to also scatter around.  
    
    -Jody
    

    For guests who aren't quite as much into the hippie scene, yet still
    want to look '60s -- teased hair and miniskirts (and I do mean mini).
    
    Some of the people I knew in the '60s used "groovy" almost as
    frequently as people I knew in the '80s used "f*ckin'".
    
    Get some Rowan and Martin Laugh In videos (do they exist??).
    
    Mid to late 60s music included the Beatles, Chicago, Rolling Stones,
    Hair (already mentioned).
    
    Food?  Other than fondue (for appetizers, main course, and dessert) I
    don't remember any food crazes of the 60s -- but we must have had 'em.
    
    Have fun!
    Karen

    for a big start why not hire the national guard to cordon off your
    house and stick dasies in the rifle barrels;)

    Food craze: there was a big surge of vegetarianism/avoid red meat
    sentiment in the late 60s.
    
    Another approach - In the first half of the party, send all the male
    school dropouts off to Vietnam. In the second half, hold a lottery, and
    send half of the remaining males off to Vietnam; _most_ of the people
    sent off in the first half get to return for the rest. { Raise your hand
    if you watched the televised draft lottery with pencil and paper in
    hand; raise your other hand if you have (fond?) memories of your draft
    physical. }

    re: "Electric" Kool-Aid
    
    Unless you want some very astonished (and probably uncomfortable)
    guests, I'd suggest using a touch of grain alcohol as the electrifying
    agent instead of the original receipe ingredient. . .
    
    Haul out the posters of Ch�, Timothy Leary, and Bobby Seale.  And
    reserve a particular 40-minute period for playing all of "Sgt.
    Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band".  Some other album possibilities
    are Jefferson Airplane's "Surrealistic Pillow", Simon and Garfunkle's
    "Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Thyme", Jimi Hendrix' "Are You
    Experienced", Cream's "Fresh Cream" or "Disraeli Gears", and The
    Doors' "Strange Days".
    
    Steve

    
    ...excuse me, but just what is this stuff called electric Kool-Aid?
    
    Should I make a large pitcher of Kool-Aid, turn on my hair dryer,
    and drop it in?      Seriously, what is it?
    
   

    re: a couple back:
    
    Raise both hands if you remember "Your" lottery number.
    
    Stick your tongue out if you were already 4A at the time and
    didn't need a 2S.
    
    ed

    re: .41 (Darlene)
    
    The original "electric" ingredient was d-lysergic acid diethylamide 25,
    better known as LSD-25.
    
    Steve

>    The original "electric" ingredient was d-lysergic acid diethylamide 25,
>    better known as LSD-25.

However, since LSD went out of favor, the term "electric koolaid" (and it's
derivatives, electric punch, electric jello, etc.) have been reclaimed and
redefined by the a newer generation's college drinkers as koolaid spiked
with grain alchohol (or Vodka if you can't get Everclear.)

D! (ask me for my recipe for Killer Nuclear Knox Blox sometime...)

"Timothy Leary's dead...oh, no, no, he's outside, looking in." :-)

    D!  Please give us your recipe for Killer Nuclear Knox Blox.

    
    And please tell where Everclear can be found (preferably on the east 
    coast).
    
    CQ

    We had a party a few months back to celebrate the 20th anniversary 
    of Woodstock.  It was a blast!
    
    Everyone arrived dressed as they remembered the 60s.  I wore a pair
    of skin tight black jeans, a tank top (bra-less), my short hair all
    combed forward like Joan Baez wore hers, an India print headband,
    large hoop earrings, a leather pouch tied to my belt loop (with a 
    bottle of Kama Sutra Oil inside), pink/white lipstick and bright blue 
    eyeshadow.  I had a peace sign tatooed (actually, painted) on my upper 
    arm.  I painted long sideburns and a Fu Man Chu mustache on my husband.
    
    We served cheese fondue and Spinada wine. Burned incense. Played alot 
    of Crosby, Stills and Nash and Santana. I carried my guitar around with
    me and said groovy and farrrr-out a lot. Of course we rented a
    Woodstock video but were truely disappointed to discover there are two
    parts to the concert.  We only rented part one.  
    
    Since I'm a graphic artist, I made several posters to hang around the
    house.  Too bad I just trashed them, I would have been happy to send 
    them your way.  The ones I remember making were: 
    - MAKE LOVE NOT WAR
    - NEVER TRUST ANYONE OVER 30 (crossed out the 30 and put in a 40)
    - FAROUT 
    - GROOVY 
    - FLOWER POWER (with a bright green and orange flower)
    - PEACE (a hand with a two finger peace sign)
    - TUNE IN, TURN ON, DROP OUT
    - SOCK IT TO ME
    - BITCHIN', etc. 
    
    I wish you luck with your party, sounds like lots of fun!
    
    Jodi-
    
    
    

    Name Nit - for those who are interested, the term electric kool-aid
    either came from or was popularized by Ken Keasy's book "Electric
    Kool-Aid Acid Test". This is a great read to get a feeling for the
    really wild side of the late 60's. Most of us didn't live quite that
    lifestyle and actually appeared normal much of the time. ;*)

    As for Everclear - better warn your guests. That stuff is killer
    when it comes to getting drunk. We used to have a large stainless
    steal wash tub and everyone who came to the party dumped whatever
    they had brought in (usually fruit juices) and then the everclear was
    added. It was called Kick-a-poo-joy-juice. liesl

                          -< where to get everclear? >-

Everclear is tough to find. You can't buy it in normal liquor stores.  The
only place I have ever had it was at fraternity parties, and they get it
from liquor wholesalers/distributors.

BTW: Don't, repeat DO NOT make yourself a Screwdriver at a fraternity party,
using Everclear as a substitue for Vodka since you can't find the Vodka and
are too drunk to know the difference, and too naive to know what Everclear
is (pure)...trust me on this one, I *know*!

Killer Nuclear Knox Blox... (since you asked)

Soak 4 packets of Knox in 1/4-1/2 cup cold Vodka or Gin.  Boil 2 cups of
Cranapple juice.  Add a couple of tablespoons of sugar.  Stir in the
Knox/Vodka mixture until the gelatin is disolved. (Soaking it first keeps
it from globbing up upon the addition of hot liquid.)  Add about another
1/4 to 1/2 cup liquor-of-choice (to taste.)  Poor into a baking pan
(I usually use 9x9) and chill till quite firm.  Cut into blocks.  Serve.
(You can draw decorations on with storebought frosting for extra excitement.)
(To make cleaning easier, line the pan with saran wrap first, and then
simply lift the whole mess out after it chills...tape the saran wrap in
place before pouring the hot liquid in.) (If you use Everclear, do NOT NOT
add the second 1/4 - 1/2 cup liquor.)

Be careful, you can eat the stuff like *candy* and never know what hit you.

D!

    The equivalent of Everclear ( ~195 proof grain alcohol) is actually
    sold in Texas liquor stores...or was in 1982, anyway.  Dreadful stuff.
    
    						=maggie

Seems to me that most of the suggestions have concentrated on the ten years
ranging from 1966-1970 (seemed like 10 years).

For 1960-1966 you should drive a Chevy station wagon and dress like David
Eisenhower (or JFK and Jackie).

RE .39 etc. - watching the lottery (it was my first year of grad school, with 
grad deferments cancelled) - it was so "interesting" seeing my birthday show up
at #16. Yes, indeedy. Thank goodness for migraines and (after several rounds 
with the draft board) IV-Fs... 

RE fondue - wasn't that '70s?

Don't forget beads. The real small kind, for both men and women.

And Nehru jackets!

    My fingers are a little slow, but I'll list these in case they 
    been mentioned:
    
    Movies to rent:  Easy Rider
                     I Love You Alice B. Toklas
    Say things like  "flower power"  and "psychedelic"
    peace signs
    flower power flowers (like the kind you stick on the bottom of
         the bathtub)
    paisley, esp. in pukey shades of green and yellow
    "Jesus Christ Superstar"
    Drop acid
    
    Nancy
    
    

    And remember to discuss the "important" literature of the day,
    like "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy and "Stranger in a Strange
    Land".  Do you grok?
    
    Steve
    
    P.S.  'nuther album classic just crept outta my cranial woodwork:
    	   The Mamas and Papas (first album)

    
    Macrame.  Long macrame belts and necklaces. (with beads of course)
    
    RE: groovy.  We used to use "Groovy" all the time.  But I was in
    	junior high.

    I remember wandering around New Hope, Pennsylvania on week-ends 
    in the early 60's wearing red slacks, and a gold, loose 
    overblouse of some rough woven cotton with hand embroidered 
    flowers (badly done).  I had hip length hair hanging in my face 
    with a bright headband, beads made of seeds, and bare feet.  
    New Hope is sort of an artist's colony, and I did not stand out 
    at all.
    
    It was important in some circles to wear things that looked 
    home-made, thus irregular embroidery, and cloth that looked 
    like the first attempt by someone who had raised her own sheep 
    or flax.  Men were hairy: untrimmed beards and mustaches.  It 
    was in to look uncombed and unwashed, even to be unwashed.  I 
    don't recommend reproducing that aroma for your party, even with 
    incense to cover up.
    
    For an authentic aroma, burn some sage in addition to your incense.  
    Burning sage smells enough like pot to startle some people.  If 
    you live in eastern Massachusetts I can tell you where to get it.
    
    I remember long dresses in little flower prints, that looked a lot 
    like nightgowns.  I once wore a cotton nightgown and beads to a 
    party, with flowers in my hair.  FLowers were everywhere, to wear
    and to decorate.  "Natural" flowers were in: daisies, tiny 
    chrysanthemums, violets, roses, not exotic florist creations.
    
    I still have the headbands and some old posters.  And memories
    
    Pat

    Just remembered...
    
    From my junior high days (66/67):
    
    - Poor Boy tops (blouses with ribs)
    - White, calf-high GoGo boots
    - Slave chains (bracelets)
    - Fluorescent socks (mine were orange)
    - A-frame skirts and mini-skirts (usually rolled up at the waist) :^)
    - Blue mascara, white/pink lipstick, bright blue eyeshadow
    - Fish-net nylons, Cinnamon colored nylons 
    - Long, straight bangs
    
    Boy, this is fun!
    Jodi-
     

    Is there room for seriousness, too? The nostalgia kick is indeed fun
    (including for me), but there was lots of serious stuff too, which you
    might want to _allude_ to, at least (or would it just evoke snickers?).
    
    > Civil rights. This came of age as a _national_ issue in the 60s, and
    a lot of progress was made, though unfinished progress. Lots of people,
    black and white, were beaten or killed for things we now take for
    granted (most of the time).
    
    > The peace movement fundamentally changed the way most people think
    about the government and international relations and national
    consensus, even for those who were not "anti war."
    
    > "Women's liberation" sure has roots deep into the 60s.
    
    > Likewise the new respect for nature/environment/natural resources
    (starting with Rachael Carson).
    
    Quite likely one can't work this line of thought gracefully into a
    perfectly reasonable _nostalgia party_, but I sometimes think we focus
    too much on the silly aspects of the past, as if there weren't very
    serious issues too, and as if our own times aren't even sillier. 
    
    For what it's worth,
    
    		- Bruce
    

    Take my word for it as one who was there, fondue came in in the '60s. 
    (Dating myself now) I was married in 1968 and received my first fondue
    pot as a wedding gift.  When we gave parties, we used a cheese fondue 
    mixture and bread dippers as appetizers, oil and wine mixtures with
    beef steak dippers as main courses, and chocolate mixtures with pound
    cake and/or fruit dippers as desserts (not all at the same party, of 
    course - but probably only because it would have necessitated cleaning 
    out the sole fondue pot and refilling it between each course).
    
    Re. a few back - how could I have forgotten the white go-go boots! Such
    memories!
    
    Other activities - dragging main (called crusin' in some locales), A&W
    root beer (we were the innocents - no hard stuff for us), 3.2 beer for
    the more adventurous, imitating the Jackie Kennedy look, complete with
    pill box hat and wrist-length gloves for special occasions.  Early in the
    decade, knee socks worn with penny loafers and pleated skirts with
    matching sweater sets.  The really cool guys in the first half of the
    decade (at least in my home town) wore black chinos with WHITE socks
    and black loafers and "ivy league" (i.e., lots of buttons) oxford 
    shirts.
    
    Karen
    

    > Likewise the new respect for nature/environment/natural resources
    >(starting with Rachael Carson).

Heh heh, this just made me think of something.  Rachel Carson wrote one
book (can't remember the name) where she took a whole bunch of pictures of
her 5 year old Nephew and talked about the beauty of the world and a child's
natural wonder...ever wonder what happened to the nephew?  He's a tech-writer,
working for my mother at Prime Computer.  :-)  (And still embarrased about
the nude picture of him published in a book that got such a wide circulation.)

D!

    The "sixties" is really two eras.  There's the early sixties, the
    Beatles half, when people wore beehive hairdos and cruised the
    main drag, and there's the late part, the Vietnam War part, which
    starts in 1967 and runs through the 1972 elections.  They have
    quite different moods and fashions and customs, so you probably
    should settle on one half or the other. 
    
>    Most of the other ideas are pretty good. --bonnie and I must have
>    gone to the same parties.

    It sounds like it!  Did I run into you at a Chicano rights
    convention in Denver?  Or at an all-night party in a Seattle hotel
    for Model UN in 1971, where a delegate from Missouri was trying to
    balance the water pipe on his nose?  Or the typical
    evening-after-laying-out-the-school-paper dinner at our school
    paper, when we'd all sit around somebody's dorm room passing a
    pipe around?  
     
>BTW: Don't, repeat DO NOT make yourself a Screwdriver at a fraternity party,
>using Everclear as a substitue for Vodka since you can't find the Vodka and
>are too drunk to know the difference, and too naive to know what Everclear
>is (pure)...trust me on this one, I *know*!
    
    Gee, I'm glad to hear somebody else did this!  Except it wasn't a
    fraternity party.  It was the night of the 1972 elections, while
    Tricky Dicky was handing George McGovern's ass to him on a
    platter. . . 
    
    re: burning -- bras, of course.  
    
    Another alternate fad dress style is the outdoor look -- long
    straight hair, hoop earrings, and headband, of course, but with a
    blue chambray work shirt (embroidery optional), bell-bottom jeans
    (embroidered or patched), and for shoes either wafflestompers
    (ankle-high hiking boots with vibram soles) or shitkickers
    (logging boots).
    
    There's also the ultraliberated look -- sweatshirt, no bra, short
    hair, jeans, sandals, no makeup (women only).
    
    In 1968 I saved all my babysitting and lawn-mowing money for
    months to get a really groovy outfit:  a green a-line miniskirt
    with wide belt and a huge gold buckle, a tailored shirt in green
    striped cloth with white collar and cuffs, silver hoop earrings
    big enough to wear as bracelets, and white knee-high vinyl gogo
    boots.  I also had a pair of purple crushed velvet hiprider jeans,
    and a see-through blouse.  And no, you don't wear a bra, or a
    teddy, under a see-through blouse.
    
    I don't remember eating in the late '60's.  I think I survived on
    hamburgers, brownies, and popcorn.  And lots of liquids. :)  Most
    of us were into "natural" foods and only got high on unprocessed
    herbs and alcohol . . . 
    
    You should have at least one person who's deep into Bhuddism or
    who's sitting yoga with a real guru.
    
    Books -- _Electric Koolaid Acid Test_, _One Flew Over the
    Coockoo's Nest_, Rachel Carson's _Silent Spring_, Vonnegut's
    _Slaughterhouse 5_, Joseph Heller's _Catch-22_. 
    
    Another movie that hasn't been mentioned:  MASH.  
    
    I assume you aren't planning on doing anything illegal, so you
    wouldn't need to know about how to make a snow pipe . . .
    
    --bonnie

    In re: .59
    
    I think it was called "The Sense of Wonder."
    
    		- b.c.

    Reading this topic really makes me nostalgic for my "lost youth."
    :-)
    
    I don't know if anyone mentioned the record, "In Da Garda Da Vida"
    (spelling????) by Iron Butterfly, but that seems like a classic
    60's song to me.  Also, the movie "The Graduate" seems like a classic
    60's movie to watch.  Also, Bob Dylan was a big influence in the
    60's.  Any 60's party has to have something to do with Dylan.
    
    Somebody mentioned a serious touch-Martin Luther King's "I Have
    A Dream" speech symbolizes the spirit of the 60's to me, also. 
    You could always pass out copies of that (for a serious touch)!
    :-)  (I just rented the movie "Do The Right Thing" and I love the
    picture shown at the end of the movie, of MLK and Malcolm X smiling
    and shaking hands-that would make a great 60's poster symbolizing
    the civil rights movement, which was a big, serious part of the
    60's.)
    
    It really is true that what I (and most people) tend to think of
    as the 60's took place from 1967 through 1972.  In fact, I just
    realized that I experienced most of the 60's from 1970-1972. (as
    far as sex, drugs & rock'n'roll & dressing like a hippie)
    
    My daughter recently dragged out my high school year book (1967),
    and we all still looked like geeks.  The girl who was chosen the
    "Betty Crocker Homemaker of the Year" (can you believe that?) had
    on a truly unfortunate pair of glasses.  Looks like a picture that
    should be in a National Lampoon.  I also noticed that some of the
    girls had listed "Housewife" as their ambition.  My, how Politically
    Incorrect that seems now! :-)  (to say nothing of being economically
    unfeasible)
    
    Lorna
    

    THE dance of the sixties was The Twist!!  Borrow a Chubby
    Checker record and sprain your spine.  Then there was the Limbo
    (how loowww can you go?!!).  For those who don't remember,
    the Limbo is dancing in a line under a pole (or broomstick...)
    held by two volunteers.  Each time the line goes under, the pole
    is lowered.  I think that 22 inches was my record.  
    
    Refer to your SO as "my old man" or "my old woman", as in 
    "This is my old man, John", "My old woman is over there mixing
    the drinks".  
    
    Have fun!!
    
    Pat

    Other dances included the Swim, the Bunny Hop, the Pony and the Mouse
    (done by Soupy Sales).  Weren't Hula-hoops big in the sixties, too?  Oh
    - and Barbie dolls came out in the sixties.
    
    Nanci

    Some of us are showing our Youth. The Bunny Hop was already at least
    middle aged in the 60s, and I'm pretty sure the Limbo was, too, I don't
    know some of those others. The Hula Hoop was old hat, as was Barbie.
    I'm pretty sure Barbie had a major birthday roll by recently, and it
    seems like it was 40 or more. Anyone remember?  If we don't watch out
    here, someone will want headgear at this party to be Davy Crockett
    hats!
    
    			- Bruce

    
    >>- and Barbie dolls came out in the sixties.
    
    fer real?!?  they certainly don't fit the stereotypes(-;

    Well, I was certainly doing the Limbo at parties in 
    1962-1963.  I can't swear that it didn't start before
    1960, but it wasn't at any parties I went to in the 50's.
    We may have been slow to catch the fad.  It is easy for me 
    to remember exactly when the sixties began, because I 
    graduated from college in 1960.  I just ask myself "Did I 
    do that in college?"
    
    Pat

    Barbies came out in the 60's, albeit the early sixties.  I got one the
    first year they came out and I was 6 or 7 so it must have been '62 or
    '63.  I recently had a discussion about this with my mom since my 5
    year old is currently "heavily into" Barbies, as she puts it.
    
    What about Slinky's, Silly Putty and Troll dolls?  Anybody remember
    when they came out?
    
    Nanci

    Barbie dolls were introduced in 1959.
    
    What a schizophrenic decade.
    
                                        cathy
                                        

    I'm pretty sure that troll dolls came out in the early 60s.
    
    B

    Hey, remember mood rings? I can't recall when they came out but it
    seems 60s to me. Also, tarot cards and mandalas and anything , like
    mystical, ya know?

    I can remember trucking around in granny dresses and chukka boots
    wearing a long fake fur I got at the Goodwill. And remember those
    long skirts made out of jeans that were cut open?

    This topic has really set the memories flying for me. I'm with those
    who think of 1967-1972 as "the 60s". Though I was pretty much still
    a hippy till around 1975. I also count my "back to the land, earth
    mother" phase as part of the 60s even though it happened in the 70s.
    I can't believe I used to grow sprouts and make all my own bread.

    Remember the dance clubs back then with moving pictures on the walls
    of things like colored water and oil?

    As for the serious side. One of the reasons for the crazy clothes
    and wild life styles was a rejection of what we percieved as the phony
    hypocritical standards the older generation. liesl
    

    In re: .68 (& .69)
    
    I'm still not persuaded on Barbie (though no thoughtful soul gave ME
    one as a kid). I just _know_ that Jackie Kennedy was modeled after
    Barbie, and not vica versa! And it CAN'T have been only her 25th
    anniversary that happened recently, can it?
    
    Slinkys and Silly Putty are definitely older. I'm not sure I have any
    idea what a Troll Doll is.
    
    			- Bruce
    
    (Would you guess, from all this, that I used to be a professional
    historian? I don't know, maybe it shows, and you'd be right. But I
    haven't been for the last few careers.)
    

    
    The troll dolls are coming back, the 12 year old next door got
    three of them for Christmas.  They don't look any different from 
    the ones I had as a kid.  Troll dolls for those who don't know,
    are short, squatty, naked little people with large round eyes and
    a pudgy nose and long hair the stands straight up on their head.  
    
    The mood ring (which I still have) I think came out in the early
    70's (72/73).
    
    Jodi-
    
    
    

    
    	You might put up a sign on your front door that says "Draft
    	Counceling" (My draft lottery number was 1) or "Drop-in Center".
    	poster that says "Today is the first day of the rest of your life"
    	in DayGlo.
    
    	Maybe a Hookah pipe.
    
    	Anyone remember Strawberry Glenn wine?
    
    	Guy

    Hula Hoops were '50's.
    
    Most of the Space Program was '60's.  If anyone wants a technological
    slant.
    
    ed

    The first edition of Barbie was actually called Midge.  She came out in
    1957.  I know because my babysitter gave me her Barbie collection when
    I moved away, and it was "impressed" on her "posterior"....
    
    -Jody
    

    
    I remember doing the jerk, the frug, the freddie and the monkey.
    Wasn't there also something called the funky chicken?  These are
    probably post-1963 because I don;t think I started dancing till I was
    around 13 or so.

    ...and the hully-gully if that hasn't been mentioned.
    
    Also, "mod", and the "Twiggy" look.  Sassoon hairdo.  Mini-skirts and
    go-go boots.  Volkswagen bugs.  Mondrian and Andy Warhol.  Sargeant
    Pepper's. Hashish, marijuana.  I think acid (LSD) came later.
    
    Strings of glass beads hung in doorways.  Posters.  Music.  Pillows on
    the floor.
    
    Please forgive repeats....just joining this note.
    
    grins,
    Marge
    class of '64
    
    

    re a few back on troll dolls.....
    
    We used to call them "wishniks", perhaps you know
    them by that name. I remember something about stroking
    their hair and making a wish...it was supposed to come true.
    didn't for me, tho.
    
    pat:-)
    

    O.K., O.K.  I stand corrected.  
    
    :-(  ...and I always thought my mom knew EVERYTHING!
    
    Nanci

    But I would venture to say that Barbie's (official) b-day was in 1959.
    I bought the 30th Anniversary Barbie Magazine for a friend last fall...
    as a joke.
    
    What about white sweatshirts with names in big black letters?  ANNETTE!
    
    Davy, Davy Crockett, King of the wild frontier...
    
    
    Nancy

    Stick straight hair was "in" back in the '60s.  I had hair almost to my
    waist but it had a wave in it.  After I washed it and it dried (blow
    dryers weren't yet popular) my mother would iron it, all the while
    saying "I don't believe I'm doing this".  A lot of others ironed their
    hair too.
    
    P.
    

    In re: .81, .83
    
    Davy Crockett wasn't just fifties, he was _early_ fifties.
    
    And, at least where I was, POW & MIA bracelets didn't really make it
    big until well into the seventies.
    

    "Davy Crockett wasn't just fifties, he was _early_ fifties."
    
    Sometime after Oct. '54, though.
    
    ed

    I would say to bleach some dungarees, especially put some holes
    in the leggs......
    
    You'll need some bandannas and the women biggggg hoop earrings and
    wear your hair really straggley (like you haven't washed it in a
    couple of days.
    
    Also say "Hey Man What's Happening" alot, or "Hey Dude Do you want
    to smoke some reefer. (or ciggarettes)....
    
    
    
    Sandy
    
    

    oh, and say,
    
    "Would you believe" from "Get Smart"
    
    It goes like this:
    
    "I got chased by an elephant.  Would you believe a St Bernard?
    Would you believe a Chihuahua."
    
    With a little imagination you can make up your own.
    
    ed

    I saw a reference in here to Fillmore.  Isnt' that also the name of the
    concert emporium in San Francisco that was big in the '60s.  Fillmore
    West, I believe.  I used to have a Peter Maxx poster for a Jefferson
    Airplane concert there.  
    
    I know the party is now past, but for the "next one" :^) you could have
    somebody act like cops and raid the place, or (I'm sorry if this has
    been mentioned) you could all rendezvous ahead of the party at a given
    corner gas station... don't reveal the location of the party...caravan
    there instead.  
    
    grins,
    Marge_havin'_fun_rememberin'

    
    You gotta have
    
    o an Easy Rider video
    
    o returning VN vet in Class A greens to abuse and cuss at.
    
    o leather fringe jacket with matching boots
    
    o Deja Vu, by CSN&Y
    
    o hitchhiking cross country, getting stranded in Kimball, Nebraska.
    
    o attending Green Power Sunday Love-In for breakfast, and the LA 
      Buddhist Temple for lunch.
    
    o copies of the LA Free Press.
    
    o Pandora's Box (anyone remember where this popular LA hangout used to
      be?)
    
    o "Summer Rain"(Johnny Rivers), "I'd like to get to know you" (Spanky
      and Our Gang), Magical Mystery Tour (Beatles)
    
    o getting rousted by The Man