To those of you who were young in the 60’s - was it really ‘swinging’?

I was watching ‘The Grapes of Wrath’ at a local FE college , when the film was stopped and we were told about JFK.. When we all left there were loads of people on the street talking about it .

I'd arrived home from college, Dad had the TV on and he called Mum and me. We were standing up, I remember, and watched in horror.

I was sit in the kitchen listening to the radio, it was announced,
I raced through to my parents who were watching tv, I threw myself onto my father, it was only then it was announced on the tv, no rolling news in the 60’s.

It was my 17th birthday and I was out with my parents in a restaurant for a birthday meal. There was suddenly a huge crash from the kitchen area. We found out afterwards that the news had come over the radio and someone had dropped a large tray of crockery onto the floor from shock.

The whole thing seemed unbelievable at the time. Politcal assassinations were so much rarer then.

MissAdventure

I don't think swinging was allowed in our house.
My mum wouldn't have liked it.

I was an original beatnik in the early sixties.
I left home at eighteen and slept under the West pier at Brighton.
There I met up with fellow beatniks, we played guitars on the beach while holidaymakers threw us coins.
Later on I progressed to hitchhiking around the country. And then hitchedhiked to Tangier’s and smoked the local weed, called Keef. It was certainly an experience and one I won’t forget. My favourite music was Joan Baez, Bob Dylan and a lot of modern jazz. Went to Ronnie Scott’s club a few times in soho.
Forgot to mention: I had to be repatriated from Spain on way home from Tangier as lost my passport. Got stranded at the GareduNord train station in France. Got talking to a very interesting American soldier whilst there.
There’s lots more, but all I can possibly divulge.
Just to say ‘I loved the sixties. I had a blast.’.

It sounds wonderful.