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Those who were fighting for good causes.

I hated hippies when I was younger, but since I never understood them, I decided to research hippies when I grew older and it changed my perspective some. I tend to think of hippies as a continuation of the beatnik movement from the 50's, because that's when young college kids began standing up together and winning landmark court decisions. When JFK ran for President, he supported them, and they supported him in return, which is probably one reason why JFK is considered one of our best Presidents today.

I believe the hippie movement is often said to have officially began in 1964, with the free speech movement and its leaders, although the FSM was really just the culmination of events that had been ongoing for several years, imo. To quote Wikipedia on the subject:

> With the participation of thousands of students, the Free Speech Movement was the first mass act of civil disobedience on an American college campus in the 1960s.[4] Students insisted that the university administration lift the ban of on-campus political activities and acknowledge the students' right to free speech and academic freedom. The Free Speech Movement was influenced by the New Left,[5] and was also related to the Civil Rights Movement and the Anti-Vietnam War Movement.

All the leaders of the FSM eventually began using drugs and lost their way, unfortunately. Reagan became Governor of California in '66 and made a name for himself in political circles by fighting them. There's a very good documentary on Amazon Prime called Berkeley in the Sixties. I watched it back in the 90's and it might explain all of the questions you have and more, because that seems to be the main point of the documentary.

Best $10 you'll ever spend:

Schoolhouse Rock! Special 30th Anniversary Edition DVD
https://www.amazon.com/Schoolhouse-Rock-Special-30th-Anniversary/dp/B00005JKTY

> I think Run DMC and Aerosmith had a big hand in that with Walk This Way.

Yep. I'm actually a historian and college prof-- I show that video in my classes to make exactly that point. I was in college by then and off into 1920s gypsy jazz and jams bands and reggae, all the sort of weird stuff you'd never hear on radio in a small town but was all over the campus station. I'm sure if I were 5-6 years younger I too would have been watching Yo! MTV Raps! as well as whatever the metal show was called. But instead my experience was very similar to that portrayed in Fargo Rock City, though I'm a few years older than Klosterman so was really into British and German metal bands in the early 80s, rather than the LA-based American ones he saw on TV a few years later.

Huh. Apparently Netflix only has 20 episodes. You can get 23 seasons worth off of Amazon Prime. There are also a few segments you can watch for free on the PBS Kids website.

Suggestion:

Definitely need a poster of a Lamborghini Countach, preferably one with lasers and/or smoke.

Definitely need a movie poster or two.

And you gotta have at least one hair metal band poster. Or two.

And this Cure poster. You have to have it. It's basically a mandatory 80s bedroom teenager poster. 100% GenX requirement.

I tend to see the split around the turn of the century as several events that coalesced into a major societal shift (toward better or worse is up for debate:)

• Columbine Massacre (which I guess was technically Millenials, but it represented a big change in the way that society viewed young people so the blowback had strong repercussions across the environment that young people were allowed to experience.)
  
  
• Bush vs Gore Supreme Court case. I think that this one was pretty important because it was the most visible point in a long time that the system was not well understood or ... working. Prior to this, many of us just sort of assumed that all voting was the same everywhere, and that standards were in place. Maybe this was just me being young.
  
  
• 9/11 : I was attending a SUNY college (not in NYC) at the time. It seemed like EVERYONE knew at least one or two people who were in or near the towers. They kind of closed the school as an afterthought. What burned into my memory was in the hours after the chaos (maybe around 1800 that day?) where Dan Rather announced with some gravitas that there were now fighter jets patrolling the skies over NY. And then we had armed soldiers in the train stations. I'd argue that was the first real use of the "New Media" -- cnn.com barely handling the load (they stripped down the entire site to keep it online) and the whole "replay the same thing over and over" routine started there.
  
  
• Beginning the third Gulf War (2003) - For me, this was different because many, many pieces worked together that ordinarily would not. The media seemed amazingly pro-war. (As somoene who grew up in the aftermath of Vietnam, this was offputting) - I recently read America's War for the Greater Middle East and it put a lot of context around the sustained PR campaign that made selling the 2003 invasion possible. I tend to also view this as the point where the political rhetoric began scaling up.

You might want to check out the "Art of Atari" book'
https://www.amazon.com/Art-Atari-Tim-Lapetino/dp/1524101036

I remember reading this one back in the day.

https://www.amazon.com/Big-Game-Toys-38-Detective-Revolver/dp/B07GNVL7RG/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1549846312&sr=8-2-fkmr0&keywords=Big+Game+Toys+cap+gun

Takes a bit of digging to find old school styles, but theres some out there.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002Y2FFUM/ref=dp_cerb_2

There's also a [poster collection] (https://www.amazon.com/Art-Atari-Poster-Collection-Lapetino/dp/1524103020/).

Been thinking about this converter cable

That sucks. I was looking forward to getting my son a Tonka dump truck like I had. Sad to hear.

Edit: Dude, it's all good, they still make the steel: https://www.amazon.com/Tonka-Classic-Steel-Mighty-Vehicle/dp/B000PEHDFG