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In reply to the discussion: 1969 we had no cars, no computers, no phones, no money, no TVs...we had radios and our mouths and we [View all]JI7
(89,174 posts)23. People did have cars. Tv, and money. Plus people were probably more likely to personally interact
with each other because they didn't have the computers and smartphones and social media.
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1969 we had no cars, no computers, no phones, no money, no TVs...we had radios and our mouths and we [View all]
jodymarie aimee
Mar 2018
OP
Yes. Gestetner mimeograph and spirit duplicators... there were no copy machines
WheelWalker
Mar 2018
#3
Xerox machines were fairly common by '69, but they were usually in copy centers.
FarCenter
Mar 2018
#7
Yes, for a large number of copies, it was still preferable to cut a mimeograph stencil
FarCenter
Mar 2018
#62
The computer wasn't really mine, but I was one of a few people with access to a CDC 1700
FarCenter
Mar 2018
#59
No, I believe it was FORTRAN still for the 1620. It was a pretty limited machine. nt
FarCenter
Mar 2018
#112
Even in a Red State, I still hear Anti-War CCR like Fortunate Son on FM pretty often.
mr_lebowski
Mar 2018
#88
We didn't stop the war in 1969. We resisted it. It continued. Nixon was reelected in 1972
Tom Rinaldo
Mar 2018
#15
folks made $1.20 an hr then...our parents made $6Grand a year...yes 50cents a day for eats and happy
jodymarie aimee
Mar 2018
#49
In the '60s I kept a ledger of every cent I spent in college and the first years working
FarCenter
Mar 2018
#74
Around '64 a classmate lived on MacDonald's which were IIRC 15 cents for the standard gut bomb.
FarCenter
Mar 2018
#76
People did have cars. Tv, and money. Plus people were probably more likely to personally interact
JI7
Mar 2018
#23
Because the discussion is about the protesters, not 'the public at large' ... duh ...
mr_lebowski
Mar 2018
#89
I remember watching protests on TV. The difference is we didn't have 24 hr. cable.
pnwmom
Mar 2018
#96
There were large ads for it in the Village Voice, EVO, and other alternative papers.
SeattleVet
Mar 2018
#72
We didn't really stop a war. There were years of protests -- 50,000 deaths of American soldiers --
pnwmom
Mar 2018
#34
68 was the year I registered as a Democrat in order to vote for Gene McCarthy
FarCenter
Mar 2018
#56
I stand corrected. Even worse. The Democratic Party screwed up big time in '68
FarCenter
Mar 2018
#71
I took it to mean that it was *possible* to create and sustain a movement
The Velveteen Ocelot
Mar 2018
#92