This was IMHO the decade that had the most impact and changes in 10 years. 1959 to 1970 were almost a world apart.

From 1960-63, it was basically an extension of the 50's. The music was (with the exception of the Beach Boys) still doo-wop influenced, and life was more or less pretty conservative. The Civil Rights were going on. Though it was changing, there were still colored drinking fountains, etc.

JFK was in office. In fact, it would become a different world after he was killed. Like the country "lost its innocence", as I've heard it put. Then the British Invasion came in early '64, with the Beatles performing on Ed Sullivan. True teenage rebellion soon followed, with long hair and hippies. Psychedelic movies like Barbarella soon followed, as did bands that would define the sound of hard rock, such as the Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, and the Doors. This all would've been unheard of just five years before. :lol:

With the Vietnam war waging in the later part of the decade, this was an even scarier time, in a way. However, just as Doc told Clara 84 years prior (in the "Final Timeline" :) ), man would walk on the moon in July of 1969. Every trend here would continue full force into the 70's and beyond.

Do y'all have any favorite part or more thoughts on the doo-wop to moonwalk decade? :D

My favorite TV show became popular in this decade: the Twilight Zone.
I also like some other TV shows from this time period.

For music I like Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones, the yardbirds, the Beatles, the Beach boys and some other artists.

As you said before, the early 60s were basically a continuation of the 50s but its all good to me.

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My favorite band The Beatles appeared in this decade, and the greatest movie besides back to the future was made in 1964 (Dr. Strangelove).

I like the Munsters. Marilyn is so hot!! :)

The '60s was probably the most influential decade in the latter half of the 20th century. So many things have happened in that decade, include the major turn-around from Jim Crow laws to affirmative action.

The decade that probably most divided modern living from old fashioned living, though, was the 1920s. That was the decade where the radio and motion films really caught on, as well as automobiles. Many household probably had a washer by the time, even though dryers haven't been invented until the '50s. There were some hints of modern life in the 1910s, the 1900s, and even the 1890s - but those decades, for the most part, still pretty well resembled the frontier days of the 19th Century. Things like indoor plumbing and household electricity probably was around back in the 1890s - but, overall, these decades didn't resemble modern living too much.

Hear, hear! :D And here's an interesting idea from George Clayton Johnson, author of 4 TZ episodes: "The Twilight Zone played just as much a part in the Renaissance transformation of the '60s as bright-colored clothing, rock music and marijuana did. It helped to jack-space people up into a higher level."

Doo-wop had become less popular by the late '50s, but by about 1960 or 1961 it started making a nice comeback. Combining doo-wop, girl groups, the Beach Boys, the early British Invasion, and the birth of the Motown sound, Southern soul, and hard rock - as well as other sounds and artists too numerous to name - the '60s is easily my favorite musical decade ever.