zombie or no
naked Twister tournaments didn’t catch on big.
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Apple Corps.
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that stupid hands up/elbows down “revolutionary drug brothers” handshake.
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“rat own, rat own, rat own” (say it fast)
Gratuitous nitpick: the Twist was early 60’s.
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Good old corfam. Baldwin used it in some of their vertical pianos for a while. Big mistake. After a few years the instruments sounded and felt like typewriters.
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Drive in movie theaters, with playgrounds in front of the screen.
Places to eat in your car, from a tray by your window, and waitress on skates.
go go boots.
My uncle’s house (ca. 1963) had a kind of primitive communications system. There was a wall console in the kitchen, with an intercom to all of the bedrooms. You could also play a radio (included in the console) in the bedrooms.
I never saw this system since-as my aunt recalls it was rarely used. I think it was made by a company called “Electrohome”-quite appropriate.
No Sonic where you are? They don’t leave the tray, but at least some locations still deliver on skates.
Operation Plowshare spanned a bit more than the late 60s, but I’d certainly call it a failed experiment.
Maybe they should have tried interferon?
Are push-button shifters really that far removed from today’s paddle shifters? The former is certainly before my time but the idea of a switch at your fingertips to click up/down through gears is still in use.
One of my favorite mad-scientist experimental projects from the 1960s which never really went anywhere is Project Pluto, the nuclear-powered, nuclear-armed, robotic cruise missile:
By the late 60’s, people began to realize that Star Trek was a better series than Lost in Space, but by then, the damage had already been done.
All of these things were pretty alive and well when I was in college about ten years ago.
I didn’t know you went to college in the 60s!
10 years ago? Nah, they’re still hip as of my college years which ended a year ago. Also, I own a pea coat and a long, thick scarf.
Etiquette lessons still exist, especially among the more well-to-do in the South. Also I went to a public middle school where we had actual dance lessons as an occasional gym activity. As for children’s clothes that are a smaller verson of adult clothes; those may have gone out of fashion by the '60s, but they weren’t an experiment. They were the norm for centuries.
Hope for a better future.
Predictions by some academics that the increase in the earth’s population would lead to worldwide starvation and the collapse of civilization. See The Population Bomb
Oh, I don’t know. Let’s check the scorecard:
Lost In Space: 3 seasons. 83 episodes. 1 movie.
Star Trek: 6 series totaling 30 seasons, with some of the series running concurrently. 725 total episodes. 11 movies plus one now in production.
I’d call Star Trek the clear winner. And now, ironically, Star Trek is owned by CBS, the network that had initially turned it down in favor of Lost In Space.