Maria Edmonds-Zediker: when I was 16

The year was 1965. I lived half the year in Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA and half in Milwaukee Wisconsin, USA.

Politics - still grieving over death of John F. Kennedy; Civil rights riots across our country; rise of Martin Luther King; anti-war protests about Viet-Nam; draft-card burning; bra burning.

Music - the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Herman's Hermits, Bob Dylan, The Temptations, Donovan, The Supremes, The Kinks, Sam Cooke, Herb Alpert, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1965_in_music]

TV - Shindig, The Farmer's Daughter, Days of Our Lives (and it's still on TV!), Lost in Space, Wild Wild West [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1965_in_television]

Books -- Most of my reading was for school. I looked at the best seller list for that year and I don't think I read any of them when I was 16.

Movies - Dr. Zhivago, Sound of Music, What's New, Pussycat? [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1965_in_television]

Special person(s) in my life - my dad, my mother's mother. I didn't have a boyfriend yet.

My heroes - John F. Kennedy, Bobby Kennedy, U Thant, Martin Luther King

My style - "Mod" - Mary Quant, Courrege, Carnaby Street. -- short A-line or baby-doll dresses, simple lines, lace collars, etc. I made a lot of my own clothes to have something that was stylish. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960s_in_fashion]

Perfume - everyday was "Wishing" by Avon, special occasion was White Shoulders, which my grandmother gave me.It's still around and it still reminds me of my grandmother.[http://thevintageperfumevault.blogspot.com/2010/06/white-shoulders-...]

Herman's Hermits: No milk today?
Ooohh I know it /them all: except: the farmers daughter and Wishing and White Shoulders of Avon!
Yeah sister!!!! :-)

So special to read, Thanks MEZ. I love the perfume memory, especially - tells us a lot about you. :-)

Nice MEZ :) We overlap. I remember "Mod" and White Shoulders and so on. I actually got a chance to shop at Carnaby Street during that era but of course had little money.

Maria, had we known Hatte when we were 16, knowing she did shop at Carnaby street (I could only dream of it) we had unfriend her! LOL

;-)

I was in London on my first trip out of the U.S. when I was 19 :)

:-) 19? allright no hard feelings! LOL