What event marked the end of the '60s?

[arcadian]

By '60s I of course mean the cultural phenomenon, marked by social upheaval, protests, hippies, war, music, etc.

[ThomWV]

1. The arrival of my Draft Notice put a quick end to a great era.

1966 - but rather than take whatever came up with the draft I enlisted in order to have at least some choice in what would happen to me. Back them if you joined the Army you got to chose one of two, either what job you would be trained for or where your first duty station would be. I chose the training option and ended up doing 3 tours in Viet Nam. So the 60's essentially ended for me on December 5th, 1966.

[Statistical]

2. 1970?

[Buzz Clik]

6. +1

:evilgrin:

[YOY]

9. +1

n/t

[Rebubula]

11. LOL...

...Came here to say this.

[robinlynne]

13. DUZY!

[arcadian]

19. Hey Captain Obvious!

Gee, couldn't see that one coming from a mile away... LOL :rofl:

[bigwillq]

24. ha ha!

:rofl: :thumbsup:

[H2O Man]

25. yep

[brendan120678]

31. Yep...I was going to put...

11:59:59 p.m., December 31, 1969.

[OneTenthofOnePercent]

35. LOL... +1

[Walk away]

3. Most of the above....

and my boyfriend cut his hair. (that happened in the seventies but the sixties overlapped a few years).

[masuki bance]

4. New Years Eve 12:00 AM January 1st, 1970 nt

[whathehell]

12. Only in the literal sense...As one who "was there", I would say about 1972-3

[arcadian]

20. Heck the '60s didn't even hit the South until 1972 or so.

[Captain Hilts]

5. '60s began with JFK's assassination and ended with Nixon's resignation. nt

[pinto]

7. Culturally, I'd say Altamont. Nationally, in some ways the withdrawal from VietNam.

Though that war still echoes...

[CTyankee]

8. As one who vividly remembers the 60s, I had to vote for the U.S. pullout from Vietnam.

I was active in the antiwar movement at the time and saw how this event was really the capstone of the decade, altho it happened in the early 70s. I would also say that ending the draft did a lot to take the steam out of the antiwar movement. It is my belief and probably always will be that the cultural events such as the music of the era was as a direct or indirect result of the Vietnam War's effects on our society. Of course, there were some phenomena not connected to the war, such as the development of the birth control pill. And some was the backlash from the 50s (hippies).

Nonetheless, the Vietnam War was the great motivator of social unrest and the bringing of change to the U.S.

[Buzz Clik]

10. The day the first hippy traded in his VW microbus for a Vanagon.

This



versus this

[arcadian]

21. or a Volvo

[Buzz Clik]

34. Do you remember the old Vanagon commercials?

The ex-hippy runs pulls up next to his old hippy friend at a stop light. The old friend is still is fine hippy form driving a microbus. The ex-hippy is now a business man with a traditional wife and snobby kids (who literally roll their eyes at the old friend) and driving a Vanagon.VW was embracing the transition, but I found it nauseating. :puke:

[MindPilot]

14. US withdrawal from Vietnam

Which of course didn't happen until 1975, but I think that was the moment that ended the "sixties" which I think actually began with John Kennedy's assassination.

[ThatsMyBarack]

15. My birth date!

January 25, 1971 is when the '70s officially started! ;)

[dysfunctional press]

16. for some people- they still haven't ended...

unfortunately.

[marylanddem]

17. John Lennon's death (or assassination) marked the end for me.

Goodbye strawberry fields forever...

[On the Road]

18. It's Difficult to Think of the 60s

as being a time when Gerald Ford was president. So I voted for Nixon resignation.

[deaniac21]

22. New years day Jan. 1 1970.

[pipi_k]

23. I can't point to just one event

Because I don't think the cultural 60s ended at the snap of the fingers. I mean, don't things like that just sort of fade away little by little, and who can tell what event was the cause of it...

[Echo In Light]

33. Agreed ... and some of the Counter Culture's best elements remain, even if denounced or ignored

[Johonny]

26. the arrival of MTV, Oprah and Reagan

sure the late 70s saw punk and new wave over take the 60s era music styles. Must of those bands still had 60s era spirit if not the sound. But it took MTV to basically kill music and American youth culture in the 1980s. The 60s generation quickly became the Me first generation.

[WI_DEM]

27. The end of the draft--once that ended people became complacent about war

because there butts or the butts of there kids were not necessarily at stake any longer.

[Morning Dew]

28. For me, the easy answer is Nixon's resignation.

The real answer is probably the advent of disco.

The sixties was ended by The Hues Corporation.


YIKES!

[KharmaTrain]

29. The Break-Up Of The Beatles...

Their voices were uniquely 60's and when they could no longer work together, it was a reflection of how times had changed.

[sinkingfeeling]

30. Other. New Year's Eve 1969.

[man4allcats]

32. The '60s are over?

:hippie: