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The world today is as far removed from 1961 as it was removed from 1901 in 1961. I know that in 1961 I considered 1901 to be almost B.C.

I was 5 years old. I didn't know there was a 1901, or a 1961 either.

Been here since the mid forties. Yeah, things are different now.

I was 6, did not know much then.

I was 11, and it is a far different world

I just showed up in 1961, August to be more specific.

It seems like another world, far, far away that time forgot. Except I do remember duck tails and bee hive hair
Hairdos..😊

I remember 1961. I was 15 that year and learned to drive a stick car, my father's 1961 Ford Falcon. I couldn't wait to get my license. Yes, the world was very different from today. The last surviving Civil War veteran died in 1959 and there were lots of WW 1 veterans around in 1961. The "War" - World War II - was a recent memory. I read a lot of books written by veterans, mostly fliers.

I wish I had written down all the stories I heard from old folks, and wish I had asked my relatives born in Eastern Europe in the 1800s about their lives there.

My uncle, born in 1903, bought a house in the 1930s built by a Civil War veteran when he came back from that conflict. It stands today, and I used to play in the old post and beam barn, which stood on the banks of the Morris Canal.

Now I'm one of those old folks.

I was 1 years old but over the years it's been a steady decline from what it was like in the 70's and even the 80's were better than today's time.

I showed up in 1961 as well, in April.

Take me back to 1961. Keep it there forever. No more of this modern day BS. Society has regressed into a cesspool.

I was around in 1961 but don't remember much as mom and I were still in the first trimester.

It wasn't all rosy back then. Back then, air raid drills had meaning.

1961/ yup.

I was two years old. If you were trying to cheer us old timers up, you failed...

I been re-watching the PBS series "Downton Abbey." It deals with a British family Matron, her children, and grandchildren pre and post WW1. The Matron and her children were from the Victorian era and lived currently Edwardian era. They are born with titles and live in Downton Abby, a 17th Century mansion, with a Butler, Lady's maid, Valet, Cook, Footmen, etc. After WW1 many of these old houses had to be sold because there were not enough people willing to serve and so much opportunity in private business. Very interesting. For those of us who grew up under Eisenhower, Nixon, Regan, Limbaugh and Trump, we have seen our country and it's culture spiral down the toilette. I have no hope of seeing a meaningful return to the old fashioned American values and culture of my grandparents (Edwardian era in America) and my Parents, born post WW1.

Two things I remember about 1961. It snowed 6 inches and Hurricane Carla.

From the year 1961.

It wasn't all an arm full of roses and a basket of kittens, The cold war was in full swing and Vietnam was smoldering. But, you could buy a can of Budweiser beer for .25 cents if you were 21 ... which i was.

L.W.

I was 23 & graduated college in 1961. Seen decades of change, but nothing even close to this current bullshit!!!