1960s POP CULTURE

60s SLANGBogart= to “hog” somethingBoss= a great/cool thingBug out= irritate or botherChinese Fire Drill= Stop at a red light and switch spotsChrome Dome=bald guyChurch Key= can openerCooties=illness to the “uncool”Copasetic= everything is cool/excellentDuck Tail=male hairstyle with hair slicked backFink=tattle tale/narkFuzz=policeGnarly/Groovy=coolJazzed=excited

KYBO= bathroom (Keep Your Bowels Open)Lay it on me=tell meMeat=nickname for a jock/dumb guyMelvin=wedgiePrimo=the bestScarf=eat really fastSkuzz bucket=ugly carSquare=uncool personSuicide knob=used so that one could drive with one hand and have the other around their dateSweat hog=ugly person

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

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*****"

OLYMPIANSTommie Smith, John Carlos, Wilma Rudolph (Track and Field), Peggy Fleming (Figure Skating), Arthur Ashe (Tennis)

BASEBALL STARSBob Gibson, Sandy Koufax, Roberto Clemente, Willie Mays, Hank Aaron

FOOTBALL STARSJoe Namath, Johnny Unitas, Bart Starr, Gale Sayers, Jim Brown, “Deacon” Jones

BASKETBALL STARSBill Russell, Wilt Chamberlain, Elgin Baylor, Jerry West, Oscar Robertson

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