The 60's was a very good decade?!
Question: I say it should be The 60's were a very good decade. Am I right?
Answers: I say it should be The 60's were a very good decade. Am I right?
The 1960s was the most exciting and produced more change in our culture than any decade before or since. (The only other decade that comes close is the 1920s.)
Revolutionary change occurred in all aspects of our culture, but were most immediately obvious in the music, fashion, and magazine industries.
While there was Viet Nam, there was also the Civil Rights movement and true desegragation began in the public school systems. And don't forget, in the middle of all this turmoil the Peace Corp was created.
For the first time, magazines pulled music, art, fashion, movies, TV, and celebrity gossip together in a way unseen until his period.
There was also a great boom in the magazine industry during the 1960s. My grandfather owned a store which carried a lare magazine section. (I loved magazines, so he created the section at my urging.) Teen magazines were at their zenith. I remember the excitement of reading about celebrities like Andy Warhol and Viva being spotted at the Daisy nightclub in New York. I read Dori Previn's poem about Mia Farrow stealing her husband Andre. "Don't trust young girls with flowers....." Something like that.
Growing up in a small town in the South, the magazines opened a whole new world to me. I read everything from comic books to teen mags to my favorite "serious" magazines like "Mankind." (Which caused me to get a degree in Anthropology.)
There were also great magazines just about history and about adventure. (I still miss "Argosy.") I treated "Cosmopolitan" like it was the Bible. I remember the slick look and feel of the then-gigantic "Seventeen" mag and how excited I was when it arrived on the stands each month. I remember the smell of the new pages.
I've noticed that it's hard to find a magazine stand in a small town anymore. In fact, it's hard now to find a single magazine stand in entire counties in some regions! It's sad.
My grandfather also set up a record section in his store....once again at my urging. "The record man" arrived with new 45s and albums every three weeks on a Friday night. My grandfather would call me when the record man would show up and I'd dash to the store and get to choose anything I wanted from inside his large truck before he removed the records to set up inside the store.
Maybe I'm prejudiced, but 1967 still remains the greatest year ever when it comes to the best music in every category that was or wasn't played on the radio. The latter part of the decade was the best-ever for magazines, as far as I'm concerned.
And, for the first time, mens' styles changed as wildly as womens'. But I could go on and on and on.
I'll do you a favor and stop here.
No--it was a very turbulent decade. Ever hear of Vietnam?
No. The USA started going downhill in the 60's, after the death of JFK.
why of coarse you are right i was there and it was great. i enjoyed myself and had a good time the drugs were n't too much in then yes i guess the grass and other stuff was there but being from small home town i didnt' see much of it and i had a ball. swiming in lakes and ice skatting it was great. take care and the music was spelendid
I also believe that it is "The 60's were a very good decade. "You're right in more than one way, they at least seemed like an awesome decade, and that's the proper way to say it in a sentence. If you were to specifically name a year in the 60s, it would be different, such as "1967 was a very good decade" but since you used the 60s plurally, as in more than one year, it becomes "were" rather than "was"
ahhh the 60s...
the hippies..
the drugs
the beatles..
nice
Are you talking about the decade that lasted for 10 years?