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The Question of Time: What Was Life Like in 1963?
Brokeback_Dev:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on February 14, 2007, 01:57:07 pm ---How do you guys remember back to age 2??
Gay awareness started to happen with "glam rock" in the late 1970s. It was fashionable for men to wear makeup and be bisexual...if you were a rock star anyway!! That was when David Bowie became Ziggy Stardust.
There were lots of gays and bis in the crowd I used to hang with in the 1970s. But it was a crowd of actors, artists, musicians, theater people, and waitpersons (mostly the latter LOL).
I recently read John Schlesinger's reminiscences as an openly gay movie director. His movie, the X-rated Midnight Cowboy, won Best Picture in 1968. Some of the gay parts of the movie were excised or toned down but other parts were preserved.
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Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars was awesome. The '70's rocked.
Originally, Im from the Jersey Shore and my best friend's dad owned a huge hotel and bar. We hung around there a lot. At night the guys in the band wore make up, long hair and sparkly platform shoes. They were too cool.
But something you said brings back something i remember so vividly and have often think about, my mom and dad singing "Orange Juice on Ice is Nice" from the movie Midnight Cowboy. I was 9 and still think of it when i drink my orange juice always with ice. hehehe
David In Indy:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on February 14, 2007, 01:57:07 pm ---How do you guys remember back to age 2??
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I remember President Kennedy's assassination and I wasn't quite 2 years old when it happened. But I do remember it. Mom always told me I was thinking about something else. I never could convince her otherwise. I guess I remember it because it was so traumatic for my parents. It scared me.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: David925 on February 15, 2007, 12:01:36 am ---I remember President Kennedy's assassination and I wasn't quite 2 years old when it happened. But I do remember it. Mom always told me I was thinking about something else. I never could convince her otherwise. I guess I remember it because it was so traumatic for my parents. It scared me.
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It was very scary for a small child. You didn't know what it all meant. I was 5 years old--lined up for dismissal from afternoon kindergarten when the school principal made an announcement over the public address system--and I was scared, couldn't wait to get home to my mother. I remember thinking it meant the Russians were coming!
Front-Ranger:
I was not a small child then...you guys are making me feel ancient! But I was a naive girl in junior high school, and the person who told me about the assassination was Kirstie Alley, who was in my class.
Marge_Innavera:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on February 15, 2007, 09:37:10 am ---It was very scary for a small child. You didn't know what it all meant. I was 5 years old--lined up for dismissal from afternoon kindergarten when the school principal made an announcement over the public address system--and I was scared, couldn't wait to get home to my mother. I remember thinking it meant the Russians were coming!
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I was 13, very immature for 13 even at that time, and had used a slight cold as an excuse to stay home that Friday and finish some kind of book report I'd been putting off, so I wouldn't have to work on it over the weekend. The first thought I remember having when it came on the TV was "this is the end of my childhood." And it was. It was like a door slamming.
In the story, Ennis and Alma are married in December of 1963; in the movie it's in November. In the movie version, they married either right before the assassination happened or right after. If it was right after, or December, they married at a time when the country was in a huge upheaval and on the cusp of some very big changes.
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