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1 1960s POP CULTURE

2 60s SLANG Bogart= to “hog” something Jazzed=excited
Boss= a great/cool thing KYBO= bathroom (Keep Your Bowels Open) Bug out= irritate or bother Lay it on me=tell me Chinese Fire Drill= Stop at a red light and switch spots Meat=nickname for a jock/dumb guy Melvin=wedgie Chrome Dome=bald guy Primo=the best Church Key= can opener Scarf=eat really fast Cooties=illness to the “uncool” Skuzz bucket=ugly car Copasetic= everything is cool/excellent Square=uncool person Duck Tail=male hairstyle with hair slicked back Suicide knob=used so that one could drive with one hand and have the other around their date Fink=tattle tale/nark Fuzz=police Sweat hog=ugly person Gnarly/Groovy=cool

3 MUSIC British Invasion: Referred to the mass movement of UK pop music to the US in the 1960s In 1963 The Beatles performed on the Ed Sullivan Show launching this movement The Rolling Stones, The Animals, Manfred Mann, Herman’s Hermits, The Kinks, The Who, Donovan, and many more Woodstock: 3-day free music festival in the summer of 1969 in upstate New York with 500,000 people in attendance Arlo Guthrie, Joan Baez, Santana, CCR, Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, The Who, Sly and the Family Stone, Jefferson Airplane, Joe Cocker, Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young, Jimi Hendrix

4 SPORTS Muhammad Ali: Famous boxer, political activist, draft dodger, “Sportsman of the Century” "I ain't got no quarrel with them Viet Cong...No Viet Cong ever called me n*****" OLYMPIANS Tommie Smith, John Carlos, Wilma Rudolph (Track and Field), Peggy Fleming (Figure Skating), Arthur Ashe (Tennis) BASEBALL STARS Bob Gibson, Sandy Koufax, Roberto Clemente, Willie Mays, Hank Aaron FOOTBALL STARS Joe Namath, Johnny Unitas, Bart Starr, Gale Sayers, Jim Brown, “Deacon” Jones BASKETBALL STARS Bill Russell, Wilt Chamberlain, Elgin Baylor, Jerry West, Oscar Robertson

5 OTHER… Rat Pack: Originally led by Humphrey Bogart, the “Pack” consisted of Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., and Peter Lawford who acted in films and partied together Flower Power: Non-violent, peaceful movement by hippies and others Drug Culture: Recreational, psychedelic and hallucinogenic drugs such as LSD, peyote, mushrooms, and marijuana were popularized by Dr. Timothy Leary, Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles and others Charles Manson: led the “Manson Family” to murder at least 7 people Moon Landing: Apollo 11 mission which landed the first man on the moon in July of 1969


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