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Karey Pohn
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Far Out Fads, Fashions and Just Plain Fun
Far-out fads included black lights, lava lamps, day-glo, and tie dye which visually portrayed psychedelic experience;


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Sex, Drugs . . .
As previously mentioned, the advent of the birth control pill and its widespread availability enabled the Sexual Revolution to take off, and


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Rock and Roll Reigns Supreme
The 1960s produced a depth and diversity of music like no other decade, building on the past, it reached new musical heights, and although N


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Many Modes of Expression
The 1960s were a richly diverse decade musically. While rock and roll was undoubtedly the star, other genres made major contributions. At


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Disney Does it All
The 1960s were a busy decade for Disney, including innovations in animation in two and three-dimensions, as well as other areas.


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Televisions’s Tamer Fare
Television was beginning to hit its prime in the 1960s, and remained a much more conservative medium than film.


Karey Pohn
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The Silver Screen—Sexier and Shadowier
Sean Connery starring as James Bond burst onto the screens with guns blazing in Dr. No (1962), From Russia with Love (1963), Goldfinger (196


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Broadway au natural
Many musicals and plays that would later make their way to Hollywood graced the Broadway stage before appearing on the silver screen, includ


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Innovations, Discoveries and New Views Illustrated
Americans reached new technological highs in the 1960s, as many things that had before been previously only imagined became a reality.


Karey Pohn
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Doug’s Daring Demonstration
Even in the mid-1960s the computer industry could not really wrap its head around Engelbart’s ideas, because they could not conceive of peop
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