# Why must the 1960s and earlier always be shown in muted colors?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-must-the-1960s-and-earlier-always-be-shown-in-muted-colors/738772>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [November 27, 2015, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-must-the-1960s-and-earlier-always-be-shown-in-muted-colors/738772 "2015-11-27T22:11:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2015, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-must-the-1960s-and-earlier-always-be-shown-in-muted-colors/738772/21 "2015-11-29T13:19:14Z")

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> [@j666](#):
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> Roughly [27%](http://www.indexmundi.com/united_states/age_structure.html) of the U.S. population is 55 or older and probably remember the 60’s quite well.

Of course, it HAS been said that, if you remember the sixties, you weren’t part of them… 😃

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