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1969 [/color]-

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Midnight Cowboy wins the Best Picture Oscar, the first and only time an X-rated movie received the honor.

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In August, more than half a million people gather in the small, upstate New York town of Bethel (near Woodstock, N.Y.) for four days of rain, sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll. Performers include Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Joan Baez, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, Jefferson Airplane and Sly and the Family Stone.

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The FCC bans all cigarette advertising on television and radio.

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Children's Television Workshop introduces Sesame Street.

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Academy Award, Best Picture: Oliver!, John Woolf, producer (Columbia)

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Nobel Prize for Literature: Samuel Beckett (Ireland)

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more from 1969 [/color]

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The first in vitro fertilization of a human egg is performed in Cambridge, England. Background: Birth & Contraception

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ARPA (Advanced Research Projects Agency) goes online in December, connecting four major US universities. Designed for research, education, and government organizations, it is the foundation upon which the Internet will eventually be built.

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The scanning electron microscope is developed.

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The use of DDT is banned in residential areas.

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http://www.stonewallvets.org/images/sva_car/1969bluecadillac.jpg

so how'd you get around in 1969?

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I was probably on my new blue Supercycle, or getting a ride from hamburger in a 1968 VW bug.

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I was in the best, certainly the sexiest, car I have ever owned. I undoubtedly had one a couple of years older than this picture (if it comes out), but this is close. The color was a tad darker tan than in this photo.
Some asshole of a mechanic did something wrong when it was in for servicing, the carburetor caught on fire, by itself supposedly, and the engine was totaled before they noticed it in the yard and put it out.

http://www.4wheelz.net/virtual/carz/buick/1963_skylark_3/1963_buick_skylark_convertible1.jpg

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I don't know what my parents drove back then, but I'm sure I got around in a nice sleek stroller, & was toddlin' by the time I was 1!

Gone clickin'!

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Hurray! Found a photo! < chevy a b/w convertable - same body/ type as the pic>

http://www.musclecarnationals.com/gallery/impala/59impala0405.jpg

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Oh great,

The year I was drafted ...

Anon

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I forgot to mention...it was a Buick Skylark convertible.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060318/sc_nm/environment_alaska_volcano_dc_2

"Alaska volcano's Web site becomes Internet hot spot
By Yereth Rosen

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - Want to peer into the steaming summit of an erupting volcano without risking death?

Anyone with an Internet connection and a computer can do just that, thanks to about 30 cameras and other recording devices set up on Alaska's Augustine Volcano that are streaming information to a Web site hosted by the Alaska Volcano Observatory, a joint federal-state office.

The site http://www.avo.alaska.edu/activity/Augustine.php has received over 253 million hits since the start of the year, becoming a popular destination for everyone from scientists to amateur volcano buffs who want to keep tabs on the restless "

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Very cool cars, ladies!

ehBeth, thanks for the great new thread!

Anon and all ya all who were there...and for those of us who wearn't - for certain, an extrodinary era for the nation.

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Hello - kricked.

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Great cars- I saw these cars only in movies.
I got my first car in the US, because there I needed a car- public transportation wasn't that great. That was 79.

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Hi all,

Thanks ehBeth for the new thread...... Good one......

In 1969 I was in Vietnam and here is what I was driving.......

http://img123.imageshack.us/img123/4459/mohawk056xs.jpg

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I lived in the Big Easy! Didn't need a car, but I drove a 1966 Malibu, metallic blue, bought new! I got married in 69' after my boyfriend returned from Viet-Nam, 68-69, moved to Mayport, Fl. as a Navy wife. :wink:

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Good memories. Married my husband who had served in the airforce, 1966. Our son was born - 1968. We moved to our first new home in 1969. By then we'd bought a new car <a vw bug> but i didn't sell the '55 Chevy until 1971...<amazingly i found a photo of the car with the same colors! <sans the smudges> Smile

http://www.firsttraderegistry.com/forsale/pre80/chevy/55chevy7/1955%20CHEVROLET%20TOM0004.JPG

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I had gone back to college, my son in tow, and I have never had another convertible. Remember those years well, protesting the war, etc.

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All clicked on my computer.

Good to see that you got some rain, Dan. Hope it holds together until it gets past us.

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11917857/from/RSS/

"Early spring disturbing life on northern rivers
Declining days of ice could spell disaster for spring flowers, fish, animals

THE GLEN, N.Y. - The winter-old river ice is creaking and groaning, shifting position. Spring has come early to the frozen upper Hudson River, and ice-out is just around the corner.

Lilliputian wildflowers will soon line the Hudson's banks. In what are known as riverside ice meadows, an ancient cycle of ice formation and melting gives rise to swamp candles, ladies'-tresses, wood lilies and other rare, diminutive flowers."

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http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/ap/vtsl10103060108.widec.jpg

This barred owl was photographed March 5 in Vermont, but scientists suspect many have migrated from the East Coast to the Northwest, where they might be a threat to spotted owls.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11654809/

"Kill some owls to save others?

Scientists raise idea of killing barred owls to see if that helps spotted owls

Steve Legge / AP

GRANTS PASS, Ore. - With the decline of northern spotted owls at a crisis point, a group of scientists is urging the government to consider experiments that include killing some of the barred owls that have invaded spotted owl territory from British Columbia to California.

"There is nobody who wants to kill barred owls," said R.J. Gutierrez, one of the nation's leading experts on spotted owls and a professor of wildlife ecology at the University of Minnesota. "But if you really want to understand whether they are part of the problem with the recent declines in spotted owl populations, then that's what you have to do."

As the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service prepares to choose a contractor to produce a recovery plan for the spotted owl, declared a threatened species in 1990, the prospect of killing one owl to protect another will be a key issue"

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