Time Frame I.V.

[Bekah]

Born in '48 -  high times for the Boomers.   I was ages 8-11 for  
Elvis and the "Hit Parade" and American Bandstand and Buddy Holly's  
death (1950s).    I was  14 for Del Shannon (Runaway),  15 for the  
Supremes and the Beach Boys and the death of JFK.  (And there was all  
that "folk music"  of the day - Joan Baez and Dylan and so many  
others.)    I was 16 when the Beatles came to Ed Sullivan.    I was  
still 16 when my family moved to California and there were race riots  
in Watts and other places (until 1970) .  I was 19 for the "Summer of  
Love" in SF - and I was there for a part of it, living near (not in)  
the Haight.    I was married at 20 and got my family to babysit our  
daughter while we went (in our VW bug with decals, long hair, etc. )  
to the Golden Gate moratorium and visited friends  in Berkeley (where  
I saw Yellow Submarine for the first of a dozen times)  and at  
Catalina (a commune near USC) in LA.  I remember hearing about the  
assassinations of MLK and RFK.  I remember watching the outrage at  
the Democratic Convention on TV.   I remember hearing about Mi Lai on  
the radio as we drove back from Berkeley.  (1968).  I remember  
wishing and wishing I could be there at Woodstock and only getting to  
watch on TV.  (1969)  And then there was Kent State (1970) and ...   
it went on until the war ended.  Or was it until the draft-dodgers -  
Bush, Cheney,  Clinton, etc.  were all out of office and we refused  
to put another Vietnam era person in there.   (Obama was 13 when the  
war ended - we may be starting out fresh.)

For me - the '60s began in 1963 with the Beatles (being played, not  
being here) and the US race riots and the increased involvement in  
Vietnam (Diem's assassination) all culminating  with the death of  
JFK.  We weren't in Kansas anymore.     And the 1960s ended ..   well  
- hard telling - with a whimper,  I guess.    There are those who say  
the '60s  ended on Nov 4, 2008 in Grant Park (Chicago - where the  
1968 democratic convention had it's day)  when Barrack Obama accepted  
his election as President of the US.    I can see their point.

Bekah


On Dec 5, 2008, at 8:40 AM, kelber at mindspring.com wrote:

> My mother was a political activist, so I got taken to Ban the Bomb,  
> Anti-war and Women's Lib demos.  Being born in '57, I didn't have  
> any other exciting '60-ish lifestyle experiences 'til I got to  
> college.
>
> I'm surprised no one's mentioned the '60s as The Space Age.  I was  
> in sleepaway camp when the astronauts landed on the moon.  The damn  
> counselors wouldn't let us stay up to watch it on TV.  I remember  
> weeping in my bunk and fantasizing that the lunar landing would be  
> called off at the last minute:  "Wait, we've decided there's no way  
> we can walk on the moon without bringing along an 11-year-old girl,  
> whom we'll pick at random..."
>
> Laura
>
> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Robin Landseadel <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>
>> Sent: Dec 5, 2008 11:22 AM
>> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>> Subject: Re: Time Frame I.V.
>>
>> I was born in 1955 to parents that were absolute creatures of the
>> sixties.
>> Both my mother and father were heavily involved in the civil rights
>> activities
>> of the 60's [part one], my mother got considerably freakier and was
>> leading
>> the charge to the second half of the sixties [part two.] My mother is
>> somewhere
>> between Frenesi and Zoyd [but closer to Frenesi] and continued her
>> radical
>> ways well through the nineties. So I guess I am just a po'mo boy,
>> though my
>> story's seldom told. In any case I'll get back to the Cucumber Lounge
>> and
>> enviorns in just a moment. "It's just this little chromium switch
>> here, I don't
>> know why you people are so superstitious. . ."
>>
>> On Dec 5, 2008, at 7:54 AM, David Morris wrote:
>>
>>> I too understand, Henry, but I grabbed as much of the era as I could
>>> at that young age. . .
>