[lil fu fu girl]

Originally Posted by alisonJ

I was born in 1958 so I was just a kid in the 60s. But I remember it as a scary time--at least I was very anxious. We lived in a university town, so there were lots of protests going on. The Viet Nam war raged on, and every night there was a body count on the news. When MLK and Robert Kennedy were both assassinated, I thought the world was coming to an end. Of course I was only 10, and I had no perspective.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

It was scary, family and friends dying in a war that just would not end. Neighborhood friends going away to war and never coming back.
Wearing "POW" and "MIA" bracelets all the time.

However one of the highlights I remember was my mother and father taking me to Haight-Ashbury in San Francisco to witness the hippie phenomena and to buy "love-beads"(do not know if anyone remembers those)!

From that point on, my fashion sense was completely changed! I recall my parents not being to happy about it either.