Sammy Lee – Olympic Gold Medalist in Diving ( who recently passed away) could not buy a home in Orange County, because of his minority status. Mexicans were regulated to “Enclave Neighborhoods” and mostly tolerated because California which once belonged to Spain, had become a major labor source for Central Valley Farmers almost 100 years - after of course, using up all our local Native American tribe members which had encouraged by Spain to begin with. because of the complicated testing and requirements – to even register to vote. Blacks seldom voted in the Jim Crow world of both the North and the South that they lived in. Blacks in the south were still segregated in schools and even down to drinking fountains. Theraputic Abortions were being employed for rich white college girls and professional women. Women had heard about something called “The Pill” which made them safe from unwanted pregnancy. Tetracycline had been invented to supplant our antibiotic treatments array and save lots of folks from various Venereal Diseases. The Salk Vaccine had all but obliterated Polio. The US was slowly recovering from the tragedy of the Korean War. A phone call at a pay phone was 10 cents. Art Linkletter, Groucho Marx and Texaco Star Theater.Ī loaf of White Wonder Bread was 29 cents. Hugh Hefner had launched Playboy Magazine with cartoonists and poets such as Shel Silverstein while women were entering the workplace in greater numbers: with two incomes becoming required to meet the needs of the White Picket Fence Class: of Ozzie and Harriet, David and Ricky. One quote worth noting: “We just played in Southern California which is certainly a regional cultural center – and we were lucky enough to run into him while we were down there!”Īs you might recall 1959 was the end of the Eisenhower years and Richard Nixon and John Fitzgerald Kennedy were running for the office of President of the United States. The Kingston Trio Album “Live at the Hungry I” was a classic and worth getting, if you don’t have it. Their first hit came in 1958 when the pseudo cowboy song: Hang Down Your Head – “Tom Dooley” became a break-a-way hit. The Folk Singing Trio played in San Francisco to packed rooms. The contemporary scene involves a president who never got the voters’ memo, a deadly virus that strikes silently and unpredictably, an economy with more questions than answers, and a European Union fraying at the edges from the effects of Brexit and the pandemic.In 1959, the Kingston Trio came out with an album called “Live at the Hungry I”. They’re rioting in Washington (Africa), there’s strife in Iran. Italians hate Serbians (Yugoslavs), South Africans hate the Dutch.Īnd the Brits (I) don’t like anybody very much!īut we can be tranquil and thankful and proud,įor man’s been endowed with a mushroom-shaped cloud.Īnd we know for certain that some lovely day, The French hate the Germans, the Germans hate the Poles. The whole world is festering with unhappy souls. There’s hurricanes in Florida, and Texas needs rain. They’re rioting in Washington (Africa), they’re starving in Spain. I’ve changed the lyrics slightly, putting the original words in parentheses, but everything else is the original. I was listening to an old protest song from the 1960s, and with a couple of minor alterations, the Kingston Trio’s “Merry Minuet” seems especially relevant. Recent events have reminded me of the truth in the old adage: “The more things change, the more they stay the same.
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