How Would Ward and June react to the 60s?

[Tankeryanker]

A spin-off from another thread. What happened after LITB ended?

If during the 60s events happened that created a need for society to throw off the shackles of the 50s and become hip and draft card burners, what was Ward and June's reaction?

Wally would have been in college from 64-68ish. Bever would have entered college around 68-69.

Did they lock the doors and pull up the draw bridge or did they dance in the streets?

[GentlemanJim]

As I recall, the Tate/LaBianca killings scared the daylights out of a lot of people, gave strong reinforcement to the traditionalists who were dead set upon repelling the "revolution".

But that just slowed things down a bit, once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it's hard to put back.

We had certain families in the neighborhood who were notoriously "old school", who tried to keep tight reins on their children....with varying success.

One kid I recall, about 5 years older than me.....had a paper route, and he used some of his income to buy a Monkee's album. The first time he played it at home, his parents when into "air raid" mode, and thereafter he would have to bring the record down to my house, if he wanted to listen to it. (I was a "poorly supervised" child in the eyes of many of our neighbors, so opportunities such as this just naturally seemed to find me)

Many musical groups offering enlightened material back in this day were seen as "subversive" by the old guard.....and many of the traditional radio stations avoided playing "hippie music", in order to avoid inflaming sensitivities.

So, there was this radio station over in Canada, callletters CKLW.....who were playing all the blacklisted songs you couldn't get on your local radio station, here in the upper midwest.

The kid I mentioned above, I recall getting grounded for a week when his parents caught him listening to an evil Rolling Stones song on CKLW.

[CosmicCharlie]

Wally shows up on Adam 12 as a recent Military guy just back from (?) and a cute chick hitch hiking in a mini skirt steals his 1 day old sports car ...

fwiw

[GentlemanJim]

Just speculating, of course, but if he found himself suddenly saddled in the late 60's, I think that Ward would be more concerned that his family might evolve in the direction of the Partridge family, than to the Brady Bunch.

Not that the Cleaver boys had musical talent.....just the whole "psychedelic bus" trip.

[GentlemanJim]

LOL, I can see Lumpy in a Nehru jacket and shades playing some woodwind while trying to look "hip", with Violet on the tambourine, while Eddie does his best to impersonate Ravi Shankar

[visaman666]

In Still The Beaver, Lumpy was a Hare Krishna, so you aren't too far off.

[GentlemanJim]

Originally Posted by visaman666

In Still The Beaver, Lumpy was a Hare Krishna, so you aren't too far off.

I was thinking at first, that the woodwind instrument would be Fred's old highschool band Oboe, liberated without permission from the attic.

Fred at first would be hostile to the sense of being violated. But would soon reconsider, after realizing if the band was a hit, Lumpy would spend considerable time on the road, and out of Fred's misery.

So, Fred becomes a supporter, and in so doing becomes a despised enemy of June, who does NOT want her babies to hit the concert tour.

[GrtGzu]

CKLW- best.AM.channel.EVER "across the lake"...(Erie)


"good tunes.....good tunes"....

[GentlemanJim]

Originally Posted by GrtGzu

CKLW- best.AM.channel.EVER "across the lake"...(Erie)....

It's interesting to contemplate how there were blacklisted songs that the US stations declined airplay to, that stations such as CKLW were only too happy to promote.

Tuning into CKLW, in view of that, could be considered a "subversive" act.

Mostly songs with drug or psychedelic connotations, if I recall properly.

You really couldn't expect to tune in Hendrix's "Purple Haze" on the morning drive on the USA stations...lol!

Of course the "banned content" wasn't the only thing CKLW played, but they were one of the few stations available at the time where you could find it.

[GrtGzu]

We had WIXY 1260 here in Cleve. for that and them came WMMS later....On a good day with no clouds, I could tune into CKLW and listen to Motown and other tunes that weren't played on our stations on Sat-Sundays with "other programming" being scheduled...