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When people find out that you have grownIn the 60sThey have many questions. "What did you think of the Vietnam war?" they ask. "You remember the Cuban missile crisis? Summer of love?Martin Luther King's 'I have a dream speech? All theProtests Civil Rights? "Sometimes you have meaningful answers, but if you were a kid in the 1960s, you probably have no memories of rubbing shoulders withBobby Kennedy and"Mama" Cass Elliot. Instead, what you probably remember is drink Tang, playing with your easy bake oven and watch the Beatles perform on theThe show Ed Sullivan. Here are 20 bits of nostalgia of the 60 children of the 60s will never forget.

If you were a child in 1964 and your parents owned a television, you saw the Beatles make his US debutThe show Ed Sullivan. They played five songs in all - "all my love", "until there you are you", "" She loves you, "" I seen standing there " and "i want to hold your hand." - and the whole world by changing that's because everyonewas lifestyle change.

There are not many things that appetizing about Tang. It is an orange powder that you pour in water, where it magically becomes a neon orange drink that tastes ill. And not that we care about children, but nothing about it is vaguely healthy: the first ingredient is sugar, fructose followed.

But when it was revealed that the astronautJohn Glenn had been gorging tang While making his first historic voyage around the world in 1962, every child knew it had become a dietary staple. If it was good enough for astronauts, it was good enough for us! (For the record, other astronauts are not fans.Buzz aldrinThe second man to walk on the moon, saysTang's awful.)

Althoughthis iconic doll wasfirst introduced in 1959It was not until the 60s that Barbie has frozen the list of all the girls wishes. She followed fashion pinssupermodelNoisyand soon she even routine legs. In no time, it was an unforgettable part of the culture in general.

Hosted by "American teenager in America"dick clark,American music mandate was duly view television for each childgrowing up in the 60s. The show has not only helped us discover new artists asSmokey Robinson,Stevie Wonder,Sonny and Cher, andTina TurnerBut it also taught dance crazes warm us as the loco-motion, the Watsi and mashed potatoes.

Baseball has never been as exciting as in 1961, whenRoger Maris andMickey Mantle New York Yankees were in a race neck and neck to breakBabe Ruth's Can record 60 home runs in a single season. On October 1, in the last game of the regular season, Maris hit his 61st home at home against the Boston Red Sox. AsThe New York Times Reported at the time, "a roar split by the ear is mounted as husbands standing notable for a moment to the plate, began his triumphant jog around the bases."

The flat screen TVs Hi-Tech today were inconceivable to the children of the 60 For us, TVs were huge and stored in large wooden boxes that were bulky enough to be furniture. There was enough room on the television standard for a family of four for a Thanksgiving dinner. If you wanted to move a TV in another room, you do not, unless you did not have a half-dozen guys Burly to help you lift it.

With its high-rise handlebars, banana bike looked like a chopper motorcycle, making it instantly the coolest conduct the block.First produced by SchwinnIn 1963, the children loved it because the padded seat made a more comfortable driving and it was big enough to carry more than one rider. Banana bikes lost their stamp when BMX and mountain bikes came in vogue, butBaby boomers Will never be convinced that any bike makes a more idyllic childhood than it.

Although honey honey boots have become first available in 1964, it was just untilNancy Sinatra 1966 HIT"These boots are made to walk '" that Go-Go boots have becomeThe essential element of style For girls everywhere. How could a woman reasonably be supposed to "walk on" his former little friends without any pair of these hip boots?

For the child who could not wait to grow and become responsible for their own meals, there was the Easy-Bake Oven. Kenner products released the emblematic toy in 1963, with recipes to cook your own cookies, cakes and other confectionery. According toNational Easy Bake Oven Day Website, more than 23 million Easy-Bake Ovens have been sold to date.

Although these little dolls firstinvented by a Danish Woodworker In the late 50s were supposed to be good luck, it's not really why the children of the 60s were so attracted to them. AsLife magazine Once observed, their "jumps entangled with undisciplined hair" were "soothing strangely to the touch. »

ads Explaining exactly how to make a Fluffnutter made sandwiches ring like an endless pleasure. And not only were they fun to do as incredible tasted. What is not to like about a sandwich filled with peanut butter and a ton of marshmallow duvet? As an adult, it is not uncommon to look back to these childhood meals with nostalgia and horror of equal parts.

Invented by a French technician and originally calledThe magic screen, theEtch a sketch bombarded hard when it was introduced to a toy show in Nuremberg in the 50s. But when an Ohio company bought the idea-for only $ 25,000, the magic design device, which uses a static load To move the aluminum powder and plastic beads, became a favorite remedy of all the "children of the 60s for boredom.

The 60s were a decade of reward for film enthusiasts, but some films connected with children like this 1965 Musical Rodgers and Hammerstein. The songs were very fun to sing with, and there was something about the Von Trapp family and playing them beautifully Austrian governing byJulie Andrews-What we wish we could be adopted in the family.

Tie dyeing was the Ultimate Craft Weekend project in the 60s. You could spend all day just determining the perfect placement of rubber bands on a crumpled-up t-shirt for the best psychedelic designs. The result was a basic food food that made you look like you were part ofJanis Joplin bandaged.

They were standard on most dinner tables, and a culinary contradiction for most children. On the one hand, they were Jell-o, which was great. But somewhere in this gelatin gelatin were things like fruit, marshmallow, walnuts, and-haletVegetables - even.

For the time beingChubby Checker demonstrated the twist toAmerican music mandate In 1960, he became an obsession. Children across the country have practiced the dance every chance they have obtained, as mastery of movements would release a world of instant popularity. The Checker version of "The Twist" was so huge that he reached n ° 1 onHOT TABLE 100 BILLBOARD Twice in two years, the only time that has never happened. Imagine that, in today's surrsaturated culture:The 60s were a moment when a dance song could be very popular for two consecutive years!

When Hasbro ofG.I. JoeThe action figure was introduced in 1964, he was like they had drawn in all the boy fantasies not so secret. Joe was not only difficult, he was full of grain and ricaning attitude. It looked like the kind of toy that would save Barbie and Ken a fire that is raging. We loved it to be (or at least appear) stronger than we felt in our child.

WhenMary Poppins Went out in 1964, he really had the impression of special effects in the film had reached their peak. Characters of cartoons and live-action actors interacted in the same celluloid frames, singing and dance and behaving as they coexist in the same reality. One minuteDick Van Dyke isTriggering on animated rabbitsAnd the next he and Julie Andrews are riding on turtle shells.

Thesuper ball was built by a chemist engineer when he accidentally created a mysterious plastic ball that would not stop bouncing. He sold the formula to Wham-o, which immediately recognized a bullet powered by the Zectron polymer compound would be perfect for children. They reconditioned as the "Super Ball" and sold more than 20 million toys to children in the 1960s, according toTime. They were a hot toy Wham-o could barely follow the request at some point scratching 170,000 bullets every day.

It was a time of history that no one living at the time will never be able to forget. Astronaut Neil Armstrong Called "a small step for man, a giant jump for humanity." For us all who saw him on television, it was like seeing science fiction come to life.