stardust in your eyes...

...aahhhhh the 60's, what an exciting and dynamic time!

* architecture was undergoing a refinement of Modernism

* pop art emerges

* maurice sendak writes & illustrates Where The Wild Things Are

* college campuses become centers for debate and enlightenment

* grade schools reintroduce phonics to battle slipped education in the 50's

* the birth of skateboarding, g.i. joe, slot cars

* gender equality, bra burning, birth control pill

* elvis returns from the army
* the jetsons, the flintstones, beverly hillbillies, i dream of jeannie

* long hair, handlebar mustaches, afro's

* go-go boots, mini-skirts, hot-pants, bouffants

* the space race, orbiting the earth, the first moon walk

AND:

** the Wide World of Sports regularly broadcasted top fuel races, in between that one piece of footage of the skier wiping out on the downhill.

...if you close your eyes, you can almost smell the 100+ octane!