The America We Knew: April 1969

I turned 10 in April 1969. Thanks for the memories Fred.

The Moody Blues on the Threshold of a Dream.😊

WOW!!! this certainly brought back a LOT of memories!! Thanks once again, Fred, for a trip most MARVELOUS down memory lane!

Thanks for the magazine covers like CREEPY, Fred. Allow me to suggest some lessser known titles like CASTLE OF FRANKENSTEIN and/ THE MONSTER TIMES in a future video. For other comic-format magazines, MONSTERS UNLEASHED or NIGHTMARE.

I don't know how you do it Fred - the wonderful quality episodes just keep coming.
Lots of grateful folks like me (I was 8 that year BTW) sure are glad you do!
- Ed on the Ridge

Will you be staying after Sunday should've been a bigger hit. Too bad radio stations don't play it today, Better than most oldies.

Lew Alcindor was my favorite and a big influence on my basketball playing. I'd get the ball inside and think what I've seen #33 do. Two points was the result 😀

Sorry to see Joanne Woodward essentially snubbed at the Oscars. I loved "Rachel, Rachel."

The Kmart ad and its prices are incredible to behold! Tin foil? 17 cents!
We are in big trouble today folks. The dollar is being murdered. Get ready. Do what is necessary to protect yourselves from the economic depression that is coming very soon!

I saw Led Zeppelin in 1970 at the Los Angeles Forum. The tickets were 4.00 ea. for floor seats. The opening act was Black Sabbath, which included 21-year-old Ozzy Osborn.
I was 15 years old.

Feels weird to see Agnew. Also feels weird to see people being so "neutral" about Nixon. Great time capsule, Fred.

"It's a tie' a truly heart stopping moment followed by "hello, gorgeous' one of Oscars most memorable. As for the Best Picture[ consider yourself a fan, for i am not.

The month and year of my entrance into the world. Thanks Fred for the glimpse into this time as well as all of your other wonderful videos, keep em coming.

Love the Kmart add. Middleburg heights and eastlake ohio? That's in my neck of the woods.

The Dick Van Dyke Show should have continued they ended it after their 5th season in 1966 but it could have run for another 5 years very easily and it would have been in color which would have given it a new life.

Me. was....3 1/2 yrs young!!

Elephant Mountain is a lost gem of an album, good stuff as always Fred 👌

It was good times for my family. I turned 7 in April 1969. We lived in suburban Chicago and I attended a school for gifted children. The Cubs had a fantastic year (until September 😕). Life was good.

Still nothing like 60s cigarette commercials they are the best

I remember some of these, I was getting ready to start first grade in the fall.

I turned 5 in the Fall. My family vacationed in Daytona Beach in mid July. The only thing I barely remember is being on the beach with everyone looking up at the sky. I wonder why? 😉😋🙂

I was 10. Please take me back to those days!?!? I don’t like living with woke jokes like Joe Bribem and Cum Allah Hairy Ass!!!

Funny watching one guy walk up to receive the best picture awatd at the Oscar's . Today it seem the whole cast and crew go up.

fred.....i think i'm time tripping again...

This was a great time for rich tall good looking straight white men, no one else. A lot of discrimination back then

Debut album by Chicago (then Chicago Transit Authority) when they would really rock out with long jams. And Terry Kath was the heart of that band. Great guitar player, singer and songwriter who was gone far too soon. RIP.

Hello Fred. Well, April 1969 was very special for me. I was 23 years old and had been out of the Marines for one year. And I had just completed my one year probationary period with the L.A.P.D. And passed with flying colors and assigned to Central Division walking a beat Downtown. I would go on to retire in 2003 at the rank of Sergeant with 35 years of service. Thank you very much for all of these wonderful memories.

I wonder how many old Viewmasters are still floating around?

I was in the first grade in Houston, Texas. What a great time and place.

Cigarette commercials and ads were banned from TV, radio, newspapers, and magazines in 1970.

is it just me, or is it weird that the Dick Van Dyke Show had a reunion only three years after it ended?

All shall come to pass.
Bless all those that participated in the evolution of humanity.

I was only 10 in '69.
I don't remember any of the sports , political or Hollywood news.
But, some of the other stuff I remember.
One fond memory I have is always going to the corner drug store to look over the spinning comic book rack, for my favorite comics!

Thank you for this. I was 10 years old in 1969 and I remember it well and was a good year. It was long before internet, and I believe it was just before we got cable TV. in our home I was born and raised in Canada and until we got cable, I was blissfully unaware of Vietnam war and much of what was posted in this video. I did see many of the situation comedies, but all the dark side of American politics and racism did not touch my world. We had not yet become Americanized, and I believe we were happier.

I was a child in the 60s but always found dick van dyke show boring! As i did capt kangaroo romper room! Mr rogers i liked watching with my own kids!

In 1969, I was 24. Just starting my life. Now at 79, it's amost over. Nother but memories and traces of a life well lived. No regrets.......

Loved this

The year 1969 was not a great time, but we have The Dick Van Dyke/Mary Tyler Moore reunion special, Oscars, etc. but we had some great things.

Spiro Agnew! He got kicked out of office too, along with Nixon.

This was so appreciated! If Trump wins a dictatorship will be approved and America ends as we know it.

Ah, 1969. I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now.

More sports less hollywood !

Was 9 enjoying my childhood pretty much immune to the problems of the world but remember the distress that my mum experienced with RKFs and MLKs assassination.

I turned 17 that month. Our school choir sang Traces Of Love.

You gotta love Dick VanDyke, loved his show.

Ahhhhh, Thank you!

Nixon became crooked out of paranoia but unlike Trump at least he was competent...

Thought it was Rochelle Rochelle...