1960s

Mad Men: Danger! Slippery When Soapy (Especially in Dark Shadows)

William Bradley | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Culture News, 1960s, New York, Matthew Weiner, Nelson Rockefeller, Advertising, Betty Draper, Don Draper, Conrad Hilton, Television News, Mad Men, John Lindsay, Entertainment News
William Bradley

If there's one thing we know for sure about the latest episode of Mad Men, it's this: All this soapiness can mean only one thing. People are about to die.

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Immortal

Jack Schimmelman | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: 1960s, 1960s Music, 1950s-Music, 1960s-Civil-Rights-Movement, 1960s Counterculture, Culture News
Jack Schimmelman

While still forming eyes and ears at the age of nine, Elvis wriggled his hips across the world stage. At that moment I knew that my future laid in my jiggle.

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Face It: The Incredibly Shrinking Don Draper

Michele Willens | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: 1960s, Women, Mad Men, Don Draper, Jon Hamm, Women News
Michele Willens

Jon Hamm doesn't even seem to fit in his clothes anymore. I fear Matthew Weiner has accomplished the impossible: he has turned Don Draper into a wimp. And me into a Mad Woman.

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Mad Men Through The Boomer Lens: When it Comes to Affairs, Boy, How Times Have Changed!

Steven C. Eisner | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Television, Entertainment, TV Advertising, 1960s, Pete Campbell, Lady Lazarus, Don Draper, Affairs, Mad Men, Peter Campbell, Fifty News
Steven C. Eisner

Is Weiner readying Peter's so easily turned head for the chopping block?

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The Most Independent Woman On Mad Men

Forbes Woman | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Megan Draper, Mad Men, Females in the Workplace, 1960s, Television, Female Freedom, Female Characters, Mad Men Season 5, Gender Dynamics, Women News

Did you notice the other night on Mad Men that the men were whining? The 60s were rough on everybody, except maybe the hippies who were all stoned. Bu...

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On Nostalgia: It Doesn't Come in Cycles, and It Doesn't Mean We're Miserable

Charlotte Wilder | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Mad Men, 1960s, Npr, The New Yorker, The Past, Adam Gopnick, Nostalgia, Linda Holmes, Culture News
Charlotte Wilder

There is no telling what era will capture our imaginations at any given time, and there is no reason we have to be unhappy now to want to explore or rework the past.

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Romney Says He Will "Restore" America... But, to What?

Paul Abrams | Posted 04.12.2012

Read More: Bill Clinton, Debt, 1960s, George HW Bush, Microsoft, Ronald Reagan, Tax Rates, Real Americans, Mitt Romney, Biotechnology Industry, 1950s, 1990s, 2000s, 1980s, Apple, Jimmy Carter, George W Bush, 1970s, Politics News
Paul Abrams

Mitt Romney, whose business experience enabled him to be 47th in the nation with respect to job growth when he was a one-term governor of Massachusetts, has told us that he is going to "restore" America.

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Mad Men's Master Class in American Studies Rolls on to Some Mystery Dates

William Bradley | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Culture News, Mad Men, Television, 1960s, Matthew Weiner, American Studies, New York City, Don Draper, Vietnam War, Entertainment News
William Bradley

Well, that was one of the spookier Mad Men episodes, complete with not one but two dream sequences. As always, there be some spoilers ahead discussing this episode, the aptly titled "Mystery Date."

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A Post 50 Perspective On Mad Men: My, How Things Have Changed!

Steven C. Eisner | Posted 03.30.2012

Read More: Mad Men, Advertising, Baby Boomers, 1980s, Steve-Eisner, 1960s, Advertising Agency, The MineFields, '60s, Fifty News
Steven C. Eisner

As a Baby Boomer and former ad agency head, I will be spending this "Mad Men" season commenting on how the show's themes would have played out differently had they occurred twenty years later, in 1986, when I was running my firm.

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What is it about the 60s? Mad Men and How to Succeed

Stacy Wolf | Posted 03.29.2012

Read More: Mad Men, 1960s, Frank Loesser, 1960s Broadway, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Women News
Stacy Wolf

What is it that grabs a 21st-century audience about the early 1960s?

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'Donut Dollies' Deserve Our Thanks

Doug Bradley | Posted 03.28.2012

Read More: 1960s, 1960s Music, Vietnam Veterans, Red Cross, Vietnam War. Donut Dollies, Red Cross in Vietnam, Women News
Doug Bradley

The training manual for 'Donut Dollies' instructed young women to present themselves as reminders of girlfriends, wives and sisters waiting back home for soldiers in Vietnam.

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PHOTOS: NYC Skateboarders In The 60s

Posted 02.28.2012

Read More: NY Around Town, New York Around Town, 1960s, Life Magazine, New-York-City-Skateboarding, Bill-Eppridge, Skateboarding, New York News

Before cities everywhere built skate parks, and skaters strapped GoPro cameras to the bottom of their boards, the May 1965 cover of LIFE magazine fea...

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The Biggest Deja Vu Moments Of 2011

The Huffington Post | Amy Lee | Posted 12.30.2011

Read More: 60s, 1960s, Britney Spears, Nirvana, Beavis and Butthead, Nirvana Nevermind, Tupac Shakur, Marilyn Monroe, The Beatles, Pop Up Video, Deja Vu 2011, Slidepollajax, Royal Wedding, The Muppets, Newt Gingrich, Muppets, My Week With Marilyn, Tupac Murder, Best of 2011, Tupac, All That, 1990s, The Sixties, Nirvana Nevermind 20th Anniversary, The Nineties, Pete and Pete, Clarissa Explains It All, The 90s, 90s, Ows, Royal Wedding 2011, Nickelodeon, Culture News

The past has never been as easy to cut and paste as it was in 2011. Two decades ruled this inaugural aught -- the 1990s and the 1960s. The 90s -- ...

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Art Garfunkel On The 60s, Elvis And Paul Simon

www.esquire.com | Posted 12.22.2011

Read More: Quotes, Esquire, 1960s, Simon & Garfunkel, Musicians, Music, Art Garfunkel, Elvis Presley, Interview, Fifty News

Garfunkel and Paul Simon recorded just five albums before they split in 1970. Since then Garfunkel has released more than 130 solo songs and a book of...

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How My Childhood Heroes Led Me To A Life Of Sex, Drugs, And Rock And Roll

goodmenproject.com | Posted 12.21.2011

Read More: The Beatles, 1960s, John Lennon, Marijuana, The Marx Brothers, December, Sex-Drugs-and-Rock-and-Roll, Lsd, The Three Stooges, Nostalgia, Fifty News

In December of 1962 when I was eight years old, one of the few things in my life that really mattered to me, aside from the upcoming Christmas holiday...

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Pan Am & M

Ellen Dolgen | Posted 02.05.2012

Read More: Hot Flashes, Women, 1960s, Holidays, Aging, Pan Am, Perimenopause, Menopause, Travel, Menopause Symptoms, Fifty News, Hormones, ABC Pan Am, Pm&m, Perimenopause and Menopause, Fifty News
Ellen Dolgen

When you fly home for the holidays this year, you'll be in the company of crying babies and way too many Sky Mall magazines, but what you probably won't hear is friendly discussion among strangers about PM&M.

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Childhood's Musical Kernels

Susanne Mentzer | Posted 01.31.2012

Read More: Arts, Childhood Memories, 1960s, Classical Music, Folk Music, Dentist, Arts News
Susanne Mentzer

When I was little I was petrified of the dentist. I refused to open my mouth. After numerous costly visits and a severe punishment, I started to hum while the dentist probed around my teeth and gums. It calmed me.

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Pan Am Days: The British Invasion Of Rome

Carole Mallory | Posted 01.29.2012

Read More: Pan Am, 1960's, Rome, Gordon Waller, Travel Blogs, ABC Pan Am, British Invasion, Travel News
Carole Mallory

When I flew away from Rome the next morning, I thought about Gordon's charm. His wit. His long legs and long hair and how I didn't really know him at all.

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PHOTOS: Jim Morrison, Some Nudes And The LA Art Scene

Posted 11.28.2011

Read More: Photography, Photos, Slideadbigshot, 1960s, Kenneth Anger, Edward Steichen, Los Angeles 1960s, Photo Technology, Solarization, Edward Teske Photography, Los Angeles Art, Edward Teske, Los Angeles, Duotone Solarization, Jim Morrison, Arts News

Edmund Teske was an understated innovator in the field of photography.His work has been shown at the J. Paul Getty Museum twice, in 1993 and 2004 and ...

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Our Dangerous Childhood

Patricia Aranka Smith | Posted 01.09.2012

Read More: Parenting, 1960's, Childhood, Humor, Nostalgia, John F. Kennedy, Post 50, 24 Hour News Cycle, Vietnam War, Captain Kangaroo, Mr. Rogers, Barney, Amber Alert, David Brinkley, Walter Cronkite, Tsa, Breaking News, Childhood Safety, Fifty News
Patricia Aranka Smith

Childhood in my day was brutal, I tell ya. From the beginning, we were abused with cloth diapers. Not one of us sprouted water or blood from being accidentally poked by safety pins.

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D.C. In 1968-69: Yale Collection Features Rare Images (PHOTOS)

The Huffington Post | Rachel Tepper | Posted 12.31.2011

Read More: Photography, 1960s, Yale University, History, Riots, District of Columbia, Alexander Lmanian, DC News

WASHINGTON -- It's often said that D.C. is a transient city, but streets stick around long after temporary residents cycle in and out. That fact espec...

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The Evolution Of Our Closets

Posted 12.15.2011

Read More: Retro-Style, Vintage Style, Ray Ban, 1960s, Style, Missoni for Target, Fashion, Fashion Trends, Celebrities, Fifty News

If you grew up in the 1960's, chances are you're actually just as fashion-savvy today as you were then. Aside from things like jeans that showcase box...

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'Catch-22': The 50 Year Old Paradox Still Rings True

www.npr.org | Posted 12.13.2011

Read More: 1960s, Joseph Heller, Catch 22, World War 11, Books, Catch-22, 50th Anniversary, World War Ii Novels, Joseph Heller Catch 22, Fifty News

Fifty years ago, a new phrase began to make its way into American conversations: "Catch-22." Joseph Heller's irreverent World War II novel — named f...

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The Spirit of a Generation

Debra Ollivier | Posted 12.02.2011

Read More: Reinvention, 1960s, Baby Boomers, Rotary Phone, Parenting Teens, Teenage Love, Digital Age, Information Age, Feminism, Parenting post50, Star Trek, Fifty News
Debra Ollivier

We don't choose the decade we're born into. We can only hope that the collective entrepreneurial spirit of our generation can mobilize itself to create a better future not only for our kids, but for our parents and for ourselves.

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'Sgt. Pepper's' Artist Talks Art, Pop Culture & Professional Wrestling

Constantin Bjerke | Posted 10.24.2011

Read More: Exhibition, 1960s, Wrestling, Sgt Pepper, Pop Art, Craft, Gx Gallery, 60's, Andy Warhol, Art, Kendo Nagasaki, crane.tv, Beatles, Artist, Popular Culture, Celebrity, Kate Moss, Damien Hirst, Sir Peter Blake, Video, Arts News
Constantin Bjerke

Defined as the 'Andy before Warhol', Sir Peter Blake is an icon in pop-art. While he's best known for designing the cover for The Beatles' album Sgt. ...

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