spanky & our gang---lazy days

lazy days ,,,,,my main aim was to get the song on , so put a few photos together that the children took at the wild life park

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[lactatingdog]

songs like this make an old man weep for those long lost days of his youth. ah, Betty, Betty, where are you and my youth now. how i miss you both. god, how we sped down the open highways of Illinois in the '60's listening to the greatest music ever played. the wind blowing in the car windows, swirling your hair around your beautiful face. the feel of your hand squeezing mine. the sunshine, the way it made your face glow and your smile! how it made my heart glow. all gone, gone.

[dogleg97]

When in base camp while in Nam, I would be drinking the 3.2 beer, and listen to the military radio station that played music like this. It's nice to remember something about that war that didn't include violence.

[Dicedude]

@lactatingdog It's only "gone" if you forget...

[PASCHDigiMedia]

@dogleg97 How does it feel to be betrayed by the very same government that opened the floodgates via Hart-Celler (1965 Immigration Reform Act)? Drive through neighborhoods where not one house has Old Glory on display except the "crabby well assimilated old people who can't run back to the nations of their forebearers"?

[PASCHDigiMedia]

What made this time not-so-special?

* If you were not white, you were subject to discrimination.

* If you were not female you were drafted into war under the age of majority for activities like drinking alcoholic beverages and voting.

* If you sported facial hair, you were not employable (gentlemen's agreement)

* If you did not have children by the age of twenty-five, you were ostracized as being SELFISH and not willing to fight the global demographic battle (subtle form of racism).

[PASCHDigiMedia]

What made this time special?

* US Dollar backed by gold

* Greater percentage of the workforce was unionized

* Effective border control

* Low debt to GDP ration

* US debt owned by US individuals and US corporations

* Radicals were under control. (J.Edgar Hoover's FBI , House Un-American Activities Commission, Subversive Activities Control Board, etc.)

* National defense was a non-negotiable

[Isagood100]

What a day to take a walk in the hood;

[theJetta1995]

@lactatingdog ditto brother, ditto!

[havanakings]

ITS NOT ALL GONE@LACTATINGDOG ITS STILL IN OUR HEARTS, ITS JUST THAT KNOW WE GET A THAT MELANCHOLY FEELING IN THE PIT OF OUR STOMACHS AND HEARTS AND REALLY APPRECIATE THE MUSIC WE VS WAT WE HEAR TODAY! ILL NEVER FORGET WHEN I SAW THE BEATLES THE FIRST TIME THEY APPEARED ON THE ED SULLIVAN SHOW. IT CHANGED MY LIFE AS I WENT ON TO START MY FIRST BAND GROW MY HAIR AND PISS MY OLD MAN OFF!!! THAT FEELING WIKL NEVER COME BACK AGAIN!! PEACE TO EVERYONE!!

[blabblab1212]

Remember the freedom of the 60's? I miss it.

[Ca1861]

@dancalhoun2006 I think I was 12 or 13 when I first heard this on the radio loved it then still do. re: memories it does the same thing for me too...

[dancalhoun2006]

Just thinking of those days and music, make me feel young again. It seems like yesterday. The memories will always be fresh in my mind. Many of my friends have either passed away or have grown older like me. Those still with us show age, but when I talk to them, they haven't aged one bit.