Good Looking Boy was born in1988 in Berlin Pankow and is the son of an actr… Read Full Bio ↴Good Looking Boy was born in1988 in Berlin Pankow and is the son of an actress and a muisician.
At the age of nine he started to study classical guitar.
Later he played in various rock and hip-hop bands in berlin.
After one year passing in Paraguay, he started to work intensively with electronic music.
Influenced by bands like The Mars Volta, The Queens of the Stone Age and the Berlin Rap scene, he created his first EP called „Like Animals“, which he released on his Homelabel "Hanscrew Records".
A particular, electronic Masterpiece.
Hard, forthright and unapologetic

Rebellion Is Over
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l'interprète méhariste

2y↑1

@Aurelia Lambrecht The harsh thing at the army is not that they teach you what they want, but they insist on teaching it rapidly, russian in three months only for example, it's a brainwash!
The recrutes are nearly going nuts in the last month...
But as 15 out of 20 reach to pass their exams, at the end they say:
Congrats! See that it works? Just trust your superiors and you will become quite important for the HQ!
Welcome to the EloKa!
That was meant as a compliment for succeeding...
BTW:
What is a "shell shock"?
What does the abbreviation CPTSD stand for?
Was it a shrapnell that hit his helmet (do you call his helmet the "shell"?) or something else?
Would like to know more about it.
Did he end up as PoW?
P.S.: North africa... Did he get in contact with the camelmounted "compagnies sahariennes" of General De Gaulle or with the desert Tommies of General Patton?
Did he fight for or against that german "Feldmarshall" the french called "le fennec" cuz he was always already gone when they cruised up?
Did he take part in "Erwins Bastelstunden"?
Omaha beach... Do you mean the place on the north shore of Normandy where they once have had their longest day on duty ever (in june 1944)?
What a hell!
If so, your dad must have been one of the toughest guys ever if he had survived that!
Chapeau!

Delta Tango

4y↑1.3K

I am a Boomer who grew up poor with 8 siblings. A little background: Despite a miserable marriage, my parents stayed together and both suffered for it. We almost never had anything new. Our clothes were given to us by well-off cousins and family friends. Almost everything I owned belonged to an older brother before, yet we were relatively happy, because my parents somehow managed to buy a shack of a home, so we didn't have to stay in the projects.

I grew up during the Vietnam War and the draft. Every adult told me that when I was 17 I would be drafted and go to Vietnam. It was just the way it was for those who could not afford better or didn't have political connections. As such, I made no plans for my future, nor was I encouraged to do so.

The war was winding down as I graduated high school at 17, so I managed to avoid that, and never got drafted. I was a tech nerd when transistors were cutting edge technology, and educated myself by going to the library and taking out books every 2 weeks. I managed to make a career of technology, which I work in to this day.

I am near retirement today and have very little saved because I was never told by anyone how important it was, so I'll most likely have to work until I die or become permanently disabled, but still, I have been very lucky my whole life , considering my situation.

My point? This video only shows one aspect of a 3-dimensional society. Don't think it was all like this. No one ever interviewed anyone in my neighborhood.

Nanci Olive

1y↑3

I really enjoyed this video. Webster Groves seems like a social nightmare to me. I loved the man commenting about how everyone walks out in 1-2 step. Never anything different. Nice visual representation.

I also found very interesting how the perception of the “shop” kids being less smart and less successful. I think that perception persists today, or at least, it did when I was in high school a decade ago. & I don’t think that’s true at all.

The woman towards the end was interesting to me as well. Her comment about “if you asked me what I wanted out of life and the meaning, I wouldn’t know what to say either”. And I suppose the crux of everything is right there.

Granted, if you asked people that today, you’d probably get a lot of the same answers this documentary showed. And I think it all lies there!

Would’ve loved to meet a rebel back then in Webster Grove!

l'interprète méhariste

I know, this will look strange now in your eyes:
I knew personally an old german Luftwaffe pilot whose three daughters all three converted to accept the Jewish Messiah as their personal saviour, the redeemer of the sins of Israel and of the whole world and of their own sins.
He became my Dad in Law, would never step with only one tip on Israels ground and hated Israel to the end of his life, but his daughters love Israel and even wanna go there!
For his daughters it's the Holy Land (not Germany is their holy ground...)!
His daughters are lovely and quite irresistible characters.
Things can extremely change from one generation to another, you know...
For example my own case:
My Dad is Silesian and my Mom was from the french west coast.
From 1870 until 1945 the germans and the french had nothing better to make out of their neighborhood than to make war to each other. During three generations each generation had their own war against the others. Then in the end of the fifties or the beginning sixties General De Gaulle and Chancelor Adenauer signed a treaty about "Exchange of culture, pupils and students" for the purpose of a reconciliation.
Now, guess what happened!
The forth generation started to take part in these "students exchanges"...
Mostly the found it quite tasty...
Some had maybe a more hormonedriven misunderstanding of "reconciliation" some how overdid it and fell in love, married and got kids.
I'm one of these products of overdone "reconciliation" politics and although I never really feel at home in any country, knowing I'm somehow a bastard, somehow I thank God to be one and I'm proud to be a living sign for that this treaty was the best idea, that politicians have had since 1870! ... ;-)
In the meantime both countries got more and more into trading with each other to a point that nowadays they are forced to support each other cuz their economies are so depending on each other, that they cannot survive without the others.
I don't know if the french General and the german Chancelor planned to go that far, cuz becoming dependend is not always a good idea, but that was like a sort of bushfire:
Once lighted up it burned more or less uncontrollably... ;-)
As both sides made money and were fond of finding the tasty agricultural products of the others in their supermarkets, no one really complained... LOL!
I could imagine that it is somehow the same between Canada and the USA, isn't it?
Could one of them live without the other? Not really I guess...
Without kidding, nowadays if France goes bankrupt it will be the end of german industry and if Germany goes bankrupt, it will be the end of french industry. True!
There is a reason why they are building more and not less bridges over the rhine:
The traffic tends to increase... ;-)

lighter path

3y↑15

In 1966 I was 7 years old and growing up in MA. We didn't have much money, I lived in an unfinished bedroom on the second floor with partial insulation showing and no drywall up. In the winters it was freezing but I learned how to snuggle-wrap myself in what I considered an Indian papoose-style cacoon. It kept me very warm. College was never mentioned in my home neither was much about schooling or grades. My dad had started and owned his own company which took up his days five days a week. I was never encouraged to do either this or that with my life.

I was never told who to like or not like. I felt loved and protected, but my parents never told me they were proud of me nor showed much physical affection toward us kids. Toward each other, their kisses every single time they ever separated or came back together was obvious. In ways too numerous to mention, we absolutely knew we were loved, and wanted. All us kids and there were quite a few, felt that love deep into our being. I never worked hard at school or did much if any homework as I grew up. I could only hope by some miracle I might go to college but didn't expect it.

Fortunately, I was pretty smart, and even without homework or studying, I did better than average in most classes and even way above average in others. As adults, all of us kids have a very independent mind where we each have come to our own conclusions about life. What's common to all of us, is that we respect others, we feel empathy. We have a very strong sense of family and holidays and traditions. I can easily remember hearing my dad laugh at some joke through the years as he watched various shows on TV. I loved that sound and wanted to bring it to my own children. I think I did, for the most part. But I did always bring, without exception, was putting my family first.

This was not putting them first so I could build or mold them into something. It was to put them first so that they might feel and know they were loved just as much as I felt loved by my parents. I told my kids that I didn't care if they were a forklift driver or doctor, as long as they did what they truly enjoyed and that they did it well.

If it matters, and it shouldn't, I'm white. There were no blacks in my town. The first time I saw a black person was after getting my license and exploring the small cities by my small town. On the day I saw my first black-skinned person, who was sort of a disappointment because I couldn't see what the fuss was about, I also saw my first person urinate in public. He was white. And that has set my attitude toward people. It's not what they look like; it's what they do.

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monkeygoesbananas

4y↑3.9K

It's interesting how staying in your home town when you grow up has only recently become synonymous with "failure". For millennia our ancestors were born, had families, and died in roughly the same place unless they were forced out by some calamity. And for some reason hearing these kids say, "I'm happy here. Why would I leave? I already picked out my dream house across the street from my parents," just absolutely blows my mind.

Harry Kanhura

4y↑599

Well, for the Globalist it is imperative to alienate you from the land. Then you don't have roots nor principles or anything to anchor you, then you will do as you are told, and go where they want you to go.

hewhoadds

4y↑234

lol I’m from the Silicon Valley the kids growing up in, working in, and supporting these cities can not afford to live in the city they grew up it is disgraceful

Anecdote Andy here but this seems representative of the conditions of most kids I hear today

3rdJose

4y↑222

Blows ur mind that they wanna stay in their rich neighborhoods with their rich families and friends?

P

4y↑142

monkeygoesbananas This is a topic I’ve wrestled with for a while now. How did living and dying in the town a person is from become synonymous with failure? I’m sincerely asking that question again because I just purchased a house in my hometown and although that’s a big accomplishment, I still have this nagging feeling like I haven’t accomplished anything because I haven’t moved out of this town. I’m not sure if this idea that you’re a failure if you die in the town you were born in is from years and years of television watching or what.

Andrey King

4y↑80

@P congratulations on your new house. I think if you want to stay in your home town it's a splendid idea. I also intend to but after I have satisfied my wanderlust I will come home

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itsme

2y↑55

I graduated in 1972. There were the popular kids, attractive, football players, cheerleaders, prom kings and queens. There were the hippies, journalism, school newspaper, year book. There were the greasers, black clothes, greased hair, ratted hair, heavy eye makeup. And then there was the rest of us, most of us I'd say. No strong identity, no labels. We just were who we were. We weren't nonconformists, but we weren't Stepford kids either.

Shirley Langton

3y↑60

I am exactly this age, and the documentary is absolutely right. Our parents grew up in the depression, and our fathers' were in WWII, and the focus was then on stability, on money, and education which our parents never had.

Blue Waters

2y↑13

My mom's mother (my Great grandparents) lost her parents in the 1918 flu epidemic. Her brothers and sisters were split up and she was only 5. So sad. My mom had a rough life because of the depression and only finished 8th grade. She married my dad while pregnant with me at age 20. I have never had what I consider a stable home..even now at age 69. We tend to imprint our children with our patterns whether good or bad. I always had love for my mom even though her divorce made my childhood hard. She did her best as most parents usually do.

Joshua Blomfield

1y↑4

I think the context is important to consider for sure. The parents had seen some pretty serious stuff and I think the dismissal of their kids taking the burden of worldly affairs on themselves is from a place of wishing their kids could enjoy a youth that they couldn’t, and also to focus on security before spending their time demonstrating their political ideals. Of course it doesn’t nullify the impact it had on the individualism and expression of youth in that era, I think many parents were still quite uncertain of the future meaning they wanted to control its direction, by controlling their kids.

ns2110theonly

49w↑6

@Joshua Blomfield lol they weren’t controlling their kids they wanted them to have a peaceful life. As a 1963 baby I am so thankful my parents raised me this way. There’s no need to traipse the world looking to impress people.

Helm

33w

Don't you know us Boomers had it so great. I've been writing we all ate rainbow stew and drank nothing but sweet bubble up. We were as a group,swindled,lied to and cheated. And now,we are only finding out that we screwed up the world.

DisgruntledVeteran

2y↑52

I grew up in Maplewood which bordered on Webster Groves. I was a teenager during this time. Recognized many folks I knew in this video. I, not being college material - - - took the military (USMC) route out of town. Made a career of it, and got to see the entire world in the process before I was discharged in 1993 and settled in Honolulu, Hawaii. Pretty much how I remember many kids from Webster Groves.

MickeyMorandini1

38w↑4

thank you for your service

T Smith

3y↑125

This was an incredibly interesting look at how people viewed themselves at this time in upper middle-class America. It would be incredible to track these same people and see where they ended up, what they did. How many went to Vietnam? How many stayed in Webster Groves and how many moved elsewhere. Fascinating to see how they became angry once they actually stepped back and considered how other people viewed them from this snapshot. Somebody mentioned that most people weren't hippies but they received all the press - but you can see some of the dissatisfaction blossoming in this film. For instance, the mother/housewife who couldn't voice her purpose in life was a sign of underlying dissatisfaction or unfulfillment.

David Hoffman

3y↑25

Thank you for your comment. If your resources allow, I would sure appreciate your using the THANKS button under any of my videos including the one you have commented on. It is something new that YouTube is beta testing and would mean a great deal for my continuing efforts.
David Hoffman filmmaker

Robert Simon

2y↑5

@David Hoffman Did anyone follow up on what happened to these people? I bet that five or ten years later a lot of them were talking very differently. I liked the way the towns people were insulted with how their were presented. I wonder if that would be different today, in our more polarised world.

Mcityline

2y↑11

There were no hippies really. It was just a catch-all phrase for the generation. It included homeless druggies in SanFrancisco, students protesting the war in Viet Nam, and those that dropped out and joined rural communes, also don't forget the people that pushed new styles as a commercial hustle. If you don't want to hear what an individual has to say it is easy to give them a label and dismiss them.

Joy Flavell

47w↑2

@Mcityline it was a state of mind. My dad was with the space program after 20 years in the service so we moved all over usually every year to 18 months until he was sent to Cape Canaveral/Kennedy. We were comfortable middle class but also because of living different places not locked into one place or thoughts like racism. Discovered that in Alabama at 11 during desegregation under Wallace. I think our neighbors were Klan. I was and am at 70 still have that state of mind and grateful for it. I was still responsible and worked raised good kids but make no mistake both are possible and compatible. Hippies existed and still do but it's not as easy to spot us and now we're called liberals lol.

Marcia Austin

36w↑3

I was in pasadena california high school 1966 it is true about the class system in high school ibdidnt go to the dewald dance classes that we had here I was just an academic well known for liking to write papers I went to college as an English major and I hated high school it was so emotional and like grabbing on to stars to get out to go to go to college when social saw me at 23 years old and happy in college they said I looked cute but they never saI'd that in high school you don't feel yourself till you get to college and she'd immaturity great film

Dave Winfrey

2y↑94

I had 3 older sister who were all teens in 66, two were twins. One (a twin) married a Naval aviator who was in Nam for two years. They were obviously conformers, but both were killed in a 69 plane crash in the Sierra Nevada's. The other twin was a conformer as well and married a law student who became a successful Tax Attorney. They had 4 kids and are still together. My third older sister, youngest of the 3, was a hippy rebel. She left home a month before her 17th birthday and went to SF with 5 friends. She stayed there for a year and a half before calling my father and crying that her boyfriend had beaten her and thrown her from the apartment. There were 6 of us kids, but my hard working middle class father got in the car and drove from our Chicago home to San Francisco to bring home his daughter ...... She hadn't called once since she left. She came back and got a job with a dental office. About 6 months later a rich and handsome young doctor was looking at the office for rent next the one my sister worked in, and they met. The hippy is now a grandmother of 3 and still living in Bel Aire, CA with her retired cosmetic surgeon husband. He is a great guy. The lesson is that the hippy life was okay if you were a beautiful blonde that could afford to spend what should have been your junior and senior years of high school in San Fran smoking dope and dropping acid.

Dave Winfrey

2y↑8

@Tom Spencer ..... LOL.... Nah, not really. Just tellin' our history as it is, better and luckier than some families, not as blessed as others. Trust me, I would love to have been a San Fran teen for 69-71

Jen & Juice

2y↑11

So what I'm gathering is, You're implying the only reason she found success or comfort as a former hippy runaway...is because she was blonde and beautiful? And if that had not been the case, she would have continued to suffer to her poor decisions? 🤔

Perhaps her to-be husband found her interesting and free-spirited, but recognized she got wrapped up in the hype of the late-60s. It's called being young and dumb.

I know it's your story, but I don't like how you spin the narrative. Your sister is much more than a once pretty teenager who ran away, and she didn't necessarily escape her mistakes based on looks alone.

Jen & Juice

2y↑10

The Richest Man In Babylon I suppose you could say that for everyone in life. Good looking people tend to be favored, but it's unfair to attribute all of her success based upon her looks.

SunnyMane

2y↑3

Thanks for Sharing David! Really cool story lol!!

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AngelasJoys

3y↑1.9K

I wasn't a rebel. I had a full time job after school starting at 15. I wasn't from a wealthy family. Ended up married at 18 and had two kids. Bought a house and cars. I still live in the house I bought in a lovely suburb of NY. My husband passed young. I worked all my life. I raised great kids I'm very proud of and also proud I was a 60s teen. I would change the fact that we all married too young back then. Old before our time. I danced. I should have danced more.

Frances Beth Odendahl

3y↑46

Sounds nice to me. No, 18 isn't too young, Angela Joys. It is just right. I would have followed the same path as you. Life is a dance with the right partner at your side.

Frances Beth Odendahl

3y↑37

You can still dance even when you are married 😊

Snurgum Wurgum

3y↑39

It's never too late to start dancing again. It's never too late for anything. The truly blessed are those who learn this young.

Luis Durango_man

3y↑44

She regrets getting married and having kids being "too young" and not being able to "dance more" . Should've danced more, had your fun then settled down got hitched and had kids. Modern woman mindset.

Paradise 1219

3y↑14

@Luis Durango_man 🤦🤔

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Chukken

2y↑88

So interesting that the police officer was the most rebellious adult interviewed.

behrens97

45w↑1

If cops were like this today we wouldn't have such a policing problem

samuel jackson

3y↑74

My grandmother couldn't do anything her mother was so strict. My grandmother's mother died when I was almost 12.. she always dressed up neat even up until her death, but she was strict and sturdy with her beliefs. It was strange seeing how much of a grip my great grandmother's words had on my grandmother even though my grandmother was well past that age for her mother's words to hurt her. No matter how old you are your parents words always seem to have an affect on you.

Aurelia Lambrecht

2y↑72

Interesting documentary. I graduated in 1966 and grew up in a military family. At 13 years old, I went to work as a carhop while attending middle school. Having a job gave me a feeling of freedom and independence. The values instilled in my siblings and myself were important life skills that have served us throughout our lives.....

Robert Pope

2y↑8

I was raised in a military family as well and graduated from high school in 1964. I graduated from college four years later. For me, college gave me the freedom to grow as I wanted and needed to grow. I took it seriously, and I took it with joy. I began in those years what has become my life, and my field of study was so much more than that. It was the world in which I would thrive. Life happens to everyone, and we get knocked this way and that, but my rudder was in the water. Thank God.

Aurelia Lambrecht

2y↑8

@Robert Pope Your comment is appreciated, Robert. I believe that military life was an education in itself, in that we were exposed to situations that required us to be fearless...often having to 'adapt and overcome' as we had no choice but to do so...an important life skill. In my case, for example, to smoothy fit in to the new school, and struggling with my siblings and having to adjust to our shell shocked (CPTSD) ww2 suffering father who was a tanker..North Africa and Omaha Beach. Much like you have mentioned, 'your rudder was in the water.' I believe that that strength developed out of the hardships you experienced and the self discipline values and courage instilled throughout life, albeit sometimes seemingly harsh and unfair they served as a guide to create the life you built for yourself...We never gave in or gave up...Hats off to you, Friend.

l'interprète méhariste

2y↑1

SunnyMane

2y↑1

Thanks for sharing Aurelia! Feel free to share your stories on here or Tiktok!

Don Allen Jr

2y↑70

Many of these parents lived through the Great Depression, and either saw or experienced first hand what real poverty is like: a roof over their head and three meals a day wasn't a given: a good job, a house, and security is something to be appreciated, and they wanted that for their kids. These aren't rich kids: they're middle class in middle America in the 1960s. It was the children of the true elites, bored trust fund kids mostly from big East Coast cities, who drove the hipster/hippie movement, and they had utter contempt for middle class, middle Americans.

Neil Puckett

Exactly!

Cat Lily

2y↑10

I know some old hippies. They weren't all from rich families

TD-2011

Nailed it!

westtexasphantom

2y↑6

Not to mention those who lived through WWII as well, whether on the home front or the battlefields.

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Sageo

3y↑69

I can't imagine getting married right after graduating from high school but things were a lot different back then. People seemed so much more mature and well prepared for real life.

l'interprète méhariste

Well, that depends rather more likely on if you meet Mr. Right sooner or later, than of if you are 20, 25 or 30, doesn't it?

Fromulus

2y↑12

The post-high school future was pretty obvious for most students at that time. Jobs and careers were more than plentiful, and only one person per family needed to have one to live a good life.

Sticks McGregor

2y↑23

They were neither more mature nor more prepared. The societal expectations were simply different. The majority of marriages back then ended in abuse, divorce, or other calamities in which both people were unhappy

Instramark

47w

@Sticks McGregor
Absolutely

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Delta Tango

4y↑1.3K

Marina Capri

3y↑79

So, with out a doubt this documentary is not inclusively complete. I totally get that! Towards the end of the 1960s I was able to understand that by becoming a hippie. It was only then that My Consciousness woke up and I understood what was really going on around me.
Today I marvel at the stupidity of humanity.

Marina Capri

3y↑10

@1 1 , Hhmmm, could be. Que the music.

Brayden Kenney

3y↑39

I've never felt so guilty about the "okay boomer" trend in my life.

Marina Capri

3y↑33

@1 1 , Thank you for pointing out the proper spelling and usage of the word “cue”, the music.
I just don’t feel that marveling at the stupidity of 90% of humanity is bad form.

I am more embarrassed for my country after seeing the first presidential debate. I really didn’t see all of it I just couldn’t stand to see the President and former Vice President acting like juveniles. Can you imagine foreign countries seeing us behave this way with each other. I am proud we peacefully change leadership, while many others use violence. Now all of a sudden where is all the peaceful people and the peaceful demonstrations, what’s going on here?

Delta Tango

3y↑21

@Hairy Pixels Not sure exactly what you mean by that, but I blame my own ignorance for not saving. I guess I always thought I would have plenty of time. I just didn't take it seriously until recent years. I got laid off many times in my life, and honestly, I never kept track of my 401K savings after getting laid off each time, and I'm wondering what happened to all of them.

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Paul Browning

3y↑92

This is an incredible find for me. I spent my Freshman year in college at Hanover College (IND). My roomate, Jim Harwood, was from Webster Groves and IS IN THIS DOCUMENTARY!! He's the first boy shown in this clip. He was very good looking and was a pole vaulter on the Hanover track team. I played on the tennis team along with my twin brother Jim.

Melissa Jandura

3y↑3

I wish they would make a Facebook group page and tell us how things worked out for them !

TheThinkingManCan

3y↑2

What happened with the rest of his life?

Paul Browning

3y↑2

@TheThinkingManCan I don't know. I transferred from Hanover to NC State the next year. I'll try to find out.

TheThinkingManCan

3y↑2

@Paul Browning thanks. It's hard to say how much youth determines destiny. As a Gen Xer who's parents were Silent Gen, I find this era perplexing and frequently contradictory. I can imagine Jim's life turning out in many different ways.

Lucypetuniaggm

2y↑1

Cool! I’m sure he’d get a kick out of knowing this 50+ year old has survived to be revived in the 21st century. Sure would be fun to see yourself & your friends.

We boomers didn’t have the ability to record our lives like we do today. We relied on “movie cameras” with 8mm film that had to be developed & shown on projectors, the use of which was pretty much limited to Christmas & other holidays because it was a pain in the ass. Technology has enabled good & bad, but I sure wish something like the iPhone had been available to my parents & grandparents. They’re gone now, but It would be so special to be able to see them, hear their voices, see what their days were like, their interactions with friends & family, see them work with the tools & knowledge of the time, see them (and me) as they (& I) aged. Generations raised on technology will take for granted the ability to look back at something other than a faded, still photo. I hope they don’t.

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Dana & Barb Hutchison

3y↑17

I was a high school senior in 1966-67 on the West Coast of Southern California. Many of the values expressed in this film are the same and the socio-economic class is the same. We 'Baby Boomers' grew up with the values and opportunities of our parents. Our influences are well documented: Music, drugs, Vietnam, the 'Cold War', the 'Pill', etc. Shortly after 1966, things began to change, mostly due to the Vietnam War. We began to deviate from our parent's position about the war - since we were the ones getting drafted and dying in a far off land for no discernable purpose. Mr. Hoffman - thank you for this film. Please consider one from '68 or '69... I believe your viewers will see some significant differences.

Debbie

3y↑5

Just a note: Many were trying to get into college so they wouldn't be drafted. I don't remember how long that lasted. A lot of kids were fighting the draft because most were mid to lower class. That kind of thing happened in the Civil War too with draft riots going on in NYC, because you could buy your way out with $300.

MUD BUKET

3y↑56

As a current student of Webster high I can tell you with confidence that some of the aditudes that these kids have is still vary prominent in the high school

Justin Levy

3y↑3

I taught at a private high school in Houston which has the same characteristics.

Forest Gump

2y↑4

I can tell you, if they are being honest, these attitudes are still prevalent in many communities.

s c a r l e t g a l a x y

3y↑6

Thankyou so much for doing these videos David! As an artist who bases alot of her work in the 60s and 70s these videos are so helpful, keep preserving these important parts of what was once normal American life and not filtering it through an inaccurate lens, we forget that for every famous rebel there was a norm they had to rebel against, these lives were just as important and I think it's important to preserve these more mundane parts of American society

Guy Torie

4y↑1.1K

It's so interesting to hear the vocal inflections and accents of boomers and their parents during the 60s, in comparison to the way they speak now. I'm fascinated by the aging of the human voice, and videos like this provide neat insight into how my millennial speech patterns will sound when I'm my parents' age and older.

Llixgrijb

4y↑99

Imagine grandmothers with vocal fry and upspeak!

Wise Force

4y↑9

Same exact thought here.

Guy Torie

4y↑91

@Llixgrijb I am so excited to eventually witness grandmothers, and eventually great-grandmothers, with bejeweled starbucks cups, contouring, 2020 lashes, and 2020 sorority-girl-who-smokes voices. It's going to be so annoying to some people, but very endearing to others.

Roger Spacebucks

4y↑40

I hear it too. I try to explain it to people, but they think I'm just hearing a regional accent. It's definitely a different way of speaking.

Nan Moi

4y↑21

Hey, Shoelace ..Keep studying/collecting voices.. it’s really more than a cool thing. You’re recording the nuanced change. So much, maybe too much to fast, change in something ch a short time. You’re a true historian/sociologist. Latter decades will thank you. They may b so, so, so confused.
So many of us are sooooo confused now.! Good to see your comment here. Isn’t this a great channel? 🌻moi

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Bri

3y↑84

Don’t know why videos a photos from these times give me such a deep unexplainable level of sadness. I’m 25 but all of my grandparents have passed, but I just think about them living their lives back during this exact moment being recorded. I wonder what they were doing in that very moment, while being alive, young, and well.. I miss them so much.

filmgirlLisa

2y↑2

One of my biggest regrets is that I didn't sit my grandmother (who remembered everyone's history in my family) deep and detailed questions about all that she knew, understood, and learned.

l'interprète méhariste

Howdy Brie! Honestly, it's very likely that your grandparents were doing the very same things than the generations before and after them did:
Fall in love, get on their parents and their future parents in laws nerves, marry and raise up kids.
BTW:
Once your ways cross those of the right "Trowmfraulein" you are very likely to end up the same way:
Fall in love, get stubborn until the rest of the family consents to the marriage, have a great wedding party, getting domesticated by your wife and work for the rest of your life to raise your sons... ;-) LOL!
What else do you expect to do with your life?
Honestly! If the generations before you did exactly that, what I presume, what tells you, that your way will be a different one? ;-)

Alan Parker

2y↑8

I was literally 14 in Webster Groves and my brother was 16. Protest and hippie lifestyle had not come to Webster in 1966 for the most part. Certainly not to high school. Many of us did go to college but 85% is way higher than reality. After graduation, whether in college or not we all were introduced to the world and changed our outlook and opinions as did everyone from every other town in the country. The only thing I can say about Webster is that the education was high quality and you had a good start in life if you took advantage. I think graduates from that era were more successful in artistic expression endeavors than business in the end. The show was just a small part of fear mongering propaganda that was supposed to pit us against the scary threat that the sons and daughters of the middle class were going to be turned into hippie-monsters. Nixon/Agnew were on the near horizon. The show was a bust and the propagandists went back to the drawing board.

Joy L

2y↑1

My dad would have only been in elementary school at this time, but he mostly wanted to conform, and tried to get me to conform to his ideas. I guess his most rebellious thing was having a motorcycle. But it's interesting to see how many of the pressures are similar today depending on where you are, like the pressure of grades, the different groups that form in schools, and how family background often impacts how you're treated. My dad was never academic and ended up fixing TVs and computers for a while after trade school. In a way I'm glad those class systems are breaking down, but I think part of it is that it's harder to get things like cars and houses now with how expensive they are. I do wish drivers ed was taught in schools now, that's a great idea.

AmericanBorn

28w

It's absolutely my favorite documentary. We can look back today and see how simple things were back then. Not saying this is bad, it just shows how much has changed. If a 16 yr old from Webster Grove could see a 16 yr old in any city today, they would go into shock.

Suzanne Lawson

2y↑29

Wow!! I went to high school in Los Angeles in late 1960's. What a world of difference between the kids at this Missouri high school and where I went to high school. My friends and I were hanging out at night at coffeehouses and the Sunset Strip and all over Hollywood. Lived in that area so I was close to everything. It was a lot of fun!!! I wasn't a hippy but more of a flower child. We had love-ins on Sunday afternoons in Griffith Park in Los Angeles. People just hanging out in this huge park, singing, dancing, playing guitars, tambourines; dressed in all kinds of unusual garb and burning incense. It was a weekly happening! Mostly teenagers and young people in their 20's or early 30's.

michelle stein-evers frankl

2y↑2

Me too!!! Grew up in Silverlake but went to school in Alhambra as a boarder. We may have seen each other on Sunday afternoons in Griffith Park (tho no one in my family knew I was there!)

Martyna

That sounds so fun! I wish I could experience something like that. I'm 17 and that kind of stuff doesn't happen anymore at least in my area :(

radtech21

4y↑2.3K

“We asked all the 16 year olds at Webster High to answer a THIRTY-SIX PAGE questionnaire. After this, all of them wanted to rebel.”

7Steveski

4y↑51

Do you think the average student today would fill out a 36 page questionnaire?

Jeremy D

4y↑15

@7Steveski lol...the product of rebellion. Congrats everyone!!!

John Galt

4y↑19

@7Steveski Are you asking for a grant to study this question?

7Steveski

4y↑10

John Galt 😂

Alain Bourassa

4y↑18

@7Steveski they won't even fill a 36 questions questionnaire lol

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Trokonzah Freeman

2y↑2

This was really interesting to watch. And your commentary added a lot to the experience, helping to put things into perspective. You helped to shape the perspective we should take on to be able to appreciate this some 60yrs later. Thank you for this.

Sam Harrison

3y↑31

I doubt kids at the black high school down the road shared their emotional satisfaction... Interesting to hear their opinions though x Thanks for another amazing film David! Your curation of this work is incredible, and a model for archivists...

David Hoffman

3y↑1

Thank you Sam.
David Hoffman filmmaker

John F. Hebert

3y↑2

well youd be forgiven if you thought otherwise at the time. The fact that the decades after WWII had brought dramatic political and economic gains to the black american population. Black family income had risen from 56% to 80% of a comparably educated white family.

Sam Harrison

3y↑4

@John F. Hebert Things were certainly improving, but I'm sure the gap in income and other forms of equality was very obvious to African Americans at the time. And in 2021 the gap still isn't closed. Still a long way to go.

Jessica H

2y↑1

@Sam Harrison A saw a black kid in the shop class and another was next in line to see if he passed his driver test. I wonder if they interviewed them

Sam Harrison

2y↑1

@Jessica H Its so interesting! I wonder if they did, if they left them out or didnt bother to ask. David seems like a pretty cool guy, I dont think hed swing the story, but I guess the very act of choosing a school to shoot in to some decree skews the perception. Im currently reading Alexander Solsinitsyn's Gulag Archepeligo, and its so interesting to see how media on mass can miss the truth in front of its eyes - or be too scared to tell it.

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diane smith

2y↑5

Those kids were deeply programmed to fall lockstep into debt slavery. They sounded boring, all the same.
Those people have no stories to tell compared to those who chose 'the road less traveled'. I was 16 in 1966 and have always been an independent thinker, never a follower.
Thank you sir for another glimpse at your incredible career. LOVE & HUGS

Nanci Olive

1y↑3

Kylie B

2y↑2

Thank you David Hoffman for recording all of these videos in the past for us to watch now. That was very smart and considerate of you to think of us future kids who would be curious of these things. You are a miracle and an inspiration.

DBabak H

4y↑1.1K

"What 16 year old child has any real convictions?"
2-3 years later that child is getting married, having kids, and expected to act like an adult.

S Wilson

4y↑62

I was thinking that too. Like dang y’all have marriage and a baby early

Jacob Ingerson

4y↑129

And the boys were sent to Vietnam

TB Bart

4y↑78

It's projection. When your "convictions" are fed to you without a question, all one has is blind obedience and dogma. Parrots.

Irara Meztli

4y↑34

Back in the day children grew up differently than we do now. The way our education has been changed has created long drawn adolescent mentalities..you can see it in the 60s

Ni ni

4y↑40

Right! I was born in the late 50s. At 17 I was being grounded at 18 I was a mom.

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alexander younes

3y↑27

Looking back the 60"s I feel lucky because overall there was a sense of connection and appreciation to the things used.
Like your car. Kids tuned up and did maintenance on their car and learned to use tools.
Like mowing yards for money and taking care of the mower.
I worked in a carton factory and a clothing factory as a teenager.
Very lucky to feel connected with an understanding of products and services.

Rey Nemaattori

These days things don't get fixed, it's cheaper to buy a new one

alexander younes

2y↑1

@Rey Nemaattori Cheaper financially I agree. Whether it brings more life satisfaction is debatable.

Rey Nemaattori

2y↑1

@alexander younes The stuff that broke down and I manage to fix or repair or stuff I've built from scratch, is in homestly stuff that i lile the most. It gets a real different vibe if you've put effort in fixing of broke your head about how to repair or build sth woth your own bare hands...

alexander younes

2y↑1

@Rey Nemaattori a since of accomplishment is healthy.

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Penelope Pitstop

3y↑2

My mom is a boomer and she said it was a big deal to sneak beer and cigarettes when she was a teenager. She definitely was not a hippy nor did she do any drugs in the 60's. From what she says, things were really wholesome back then. Fast forward to teenagers today. My brother's wife is a high school teacher and told me that two students had "relations" in the school bathroom AND put it on Instagram. How disgusting is that? Our youngest is 18, graduated last year, and I am glad we are done with school. (Now he's working and going to college.) Some of the things he has told me that went on at school just make me so sad.

mister tamura

2y↑9

Thank you, this is great. I suppose all of this would’ve been even better if there was a second, less wealthy city, to get a a juxtaposition. Still, I love when documentaries cover the banal and bland everyday life and thoughts of everyday people in the past — even if they’re not necessarily representing all of the country.

F. M.

2y↑135

This looks like the typical horror movie town where everyone is just perfect, but where there's a really scary secret you don't know yet.

Stoneman28

2y↑6

Kind of like the Stepfords

miss hangingrice

2y↑3

Twilight Zone!

femme music

2y↑14

the secret is bigotry

Silly Rabbit

@femme music I would bet a whole dollar that you see bigotry everywhere in 2022, so what is your point?

femme music

2y↑7

@Silly Rabbit yeah but it’s not as normalized as it was back then,

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Lacey Butterfly

2y↑2

I've been binging these videos. It makes me feel so happy to watch glimpses from the past.

To think this was NOT that long ago as it may seems for someone as young as me, it makes me feel nostalgic.

David Hoffman

2y↑4

I invite you to keep on bilging.

Piano Raves

3y↑3K

Being a boomer that didn't rebel is the most boomer thing

Kieran

3y↑82

Oh I don't think so at all

Mark Henley

3y↑176

The stereotypical ''Boomer'' are the ones that didn't rebel, since they form a majority of the Boomer population.

Facepalm Videos

3y↑113

@Mark Henley from what I know, a majority of boomers turned into stereotypical boomers, regardless of if they rebelled. I had plenty of teachers who were rebels, and now they're quite stereotypical boomers.

Can’t believe it’s not redacted

3y↑164

Being a boomer who did rebel and now hates teens who rebel is the most boomer thing

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Matthew Knoell

2y↑3

Very interesting to watch. My family comes from the other end, I grew up in California, as did my parents, and my grandparents have spent most of their lives here. I've often thought, "man it would have been great to be here in California in 1960s like my parents and grandparents. Back during the hippie era and rock n roll." But this shows a whole other side, that not every youngster was a hippie back then.

11cabadger

2y↑3

This is the Boomer life I'm familiar with. Everybody lived the way you were "supposed to live" & that "one-two, one-two idea" was very present. When we moved to LA from our "Webster Grove" community, I cried for months. But then, I started watching the news, reading magazines & newspapers, going to the beach, the mountains. No more one-two, one-two.

Never did fit in with any one group but the difference was I was accepted by all groups. The hippies were just one of many. What makes me sad is how much a lot of people are wanting to take us back to those Webster Grove days. Good for some, maybe but definitely not accepting of many. Thanks for this 👍

Red_Shell_Blastoise カメックス

3y↑1

I've been going through several of the videos here and I realize people my age should watch these videos to gain perspective on the older generations. A lot of us spend a lot of time playing the blame game without trying to understand the people were blaming our problems for. As I get older I realize 30 years from now the younger generations are just going to blame my generation for things we did or did not do. You really get a good view of people's humanity when you see how they were when they were younger

David Hoffman

miller mark

2y↑4

I watched the original broadcast in 1966. It was actually filmed in the fall of 1965. Like these kids, I was 16 at the time. I could relate to the mindset of some of these kids. Charles Kuralt narrated the program. Weeks after the broadcast, he did a follow-up, and a lot of the people, the kids and their parents, thought it was a distorted view of what life was really like in Webster Groves. Some of it they got right, I'm sure, like the feeling of freedom and independence a driver's license could bring and the pressure to do well in school in order to get into college - one's passport, they accumed, into the middle to upper-middle class life their parents enjoyed. The film can leave one with the impression that Webster Groves kids back then were narrow-minded conformists, marching in lockstep to their own peculiar drummer: on to the American Dream. Whatever that was or still is.

l'interprète méhariste

Howdy Mark! Let's hang it a lil bit lower:
Just for the practical everyday life, if you have the choice between all the work of saddling a reluctant horse with the character of a toddler every time you wanna get somewhere or just jumping into your car and turn the key to get it roaring, honestly what would you choose?
What makes less work?
What is the quicker way to get where you want?
Believe me, riding a car is far easier than riding a horse!

mark miller

@l'interprète méhariste I suppose that driving a car is easier than riding a horse. But if you're a lover of the Old West and wish to simulate what went on back then - or what you think went on based on myth - than a horse is the only way to go. Better stock up on hay.

[Blank]

2y↑4

This is so weird.
I’m a gen Z, and honestly, I always think of “people of those times” as things that simply “existed”.
But here you guys are, still alive but also watching the world with your, now unfortunately, unique perspectives.
I want to truly understand the differences of time, but nothing has changed for me in my life, since the entire world seems to have merged into one giant mess of unguided opinions (though, that’s a waste of time to be worrying about). I just want to know what it’s like to work towards a dream WITHOUT having other things outside of my personal life on my mind.
At least you guys had nukes to worry about, that’s worth worrying about. But now we have so many little worries that even large worries rarely considered, treated like a meme that “dies out”.

monkeyzuncle1

4y↑57

This is fascinating. It's funny, as they aged I think a lot of boomers kept this mentality. It was like watching my grandparents as young people. They're saying all the same things, only it's coming out of the mouths of teens in black and white.

Daniel Reilly

3y↑4

I was a kid in the 60's and was pretty much the opposite of these kids. Having said that I fully understand how they felt because that's how they were bought up. As far as I'm concerned there are only to kind of people in the world, kind and unkind, pick a side.

FiveM City

3y↑15

That's right kids. It doesn't matter how hard you work, what matters is what family you come from and who you know. That's the deciding factor for who becomes wealthy or not in America.

David Ryke

46w↑1

Always has been and always will be, since the time we've been swinging in trees. Its how the whole world works. Its not a bug, but a feature.

Eric Sell

46w

Wealthy or successful? Was middle-class wealthy?

L 6

46w

I partially agree. If you can focus and excel at your passion and work harder than most, you have the option to create your dream life. What you think is what you will create

gar md

46w

Well, lets adapt as necesary to achieve what the parents of those kids achieved. So our kids will be privalleged.

Eric Sell

46w

@gar md Why does "privileged" get used synonymously for success? Success based upon one's accomplishments doesn't need to be diminished. Progressive who-hah and blither-blather...

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Peter Almo

2y↑7

My goodness I love these kids! If only our society could capture a little of this attitude today, what a better country we would have!

Tiffany Allen

1y↑1

I’m curious to know what “attitude” you’re talking about. Do you think we need more conformity now? That’s mainly the vibe I got from these people but if you’re picking up something else I’d love to know.

Peter Almo

@Tiffany Allen I had to watch the video again to answer your question lol, been a while. They are wise beyond their years, they understand at 18 what people nowadays learn in your 40’s: after the “fun” is over, drinking, partying, casual relationships - life hits you smack in the face: kids, bills, hardship etc. They are expressing a desire to start the preparation at 18 for the hardships that will come later, rather than saying i’m going to party and have fun and then hopefully it will just work out after that. I feel our society would be so much stronger today if our kids still exemplified and lived out these wisdoms. I hope that answered your question.

Califabulous

3y↑32

I was 16 in 1967 in Mpls. That was the year that changed EVERYTHING! That was the year Sgt. Pepper was released and ‘67 was the summer of love. In two years, those kids are gonna look differently and probably be at a WHO concert. The late 60s were a different world.

Canine esque

Yep. Kids can change very quickly, turn on a dime. But I don't think the majority do that. Again, it's the rebels who want to experience something new. And I wonder if that rebellion is fed by exposure to art, being intrigued by explorations in human nature, etc.

Franco Pantoja

2y↑2

A lot better than being a 16 year old in 2020 like me😖

redmustang04 redmustang04

2y↑6

Everyone's different. You got to go out and go do some acid and live that hippie lifestyle. You thought 1968 was a terrible year until 2020 came along. Either way you got to live and experience many things. One thing that was different was that the cost of living didn't crush you even when you eventually got that full time job. Boomers had it way easier when it came to cost of living compared to what's happening today.

Blue Waters

2y↑2

I just said the same thing. Music and the war were big and changed our culture . I was 16 in 1970 and I was not at all like these 16 year olds. Music was everything to us and we were very aware of the war as the draft affected the many guys who were graduating.

Alexander

3y↑2

Im so happy, I found your channel.
I’ve always been curious about that era...(w/no bias attach to it.) cuz it’s important to keep an analytical perspective, or a disclaimer that they’re bias. Unlike the mainstream media, it’s a sad time in America.

DEfan

3y↑1.5K

I wish you would interview the "kids" now and see how they turned out and how their opinions changed or didn't. No right or wrong, just interesting.

Carl Bowles

3y↑80

They are old, broke and afraid. The systems of belief and security of their era crumbled.

Strangelove

3y↑15

@Little Russian Max yes

jesse wilson

3y↑46

But to allow a POC to attend “their” school or move into “their” neighborhood and all hell would break loose.

Dungeon Master

3y↑35

@jesse wilson Why would you want POCs into your neighborhood? POCs don't even want them in their neighborhood.

Ace

3y↑15

@Carl Bowles Nope, I was one of those. Not broke

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Dewey Mugyoo

3y↑1

Your channel is a real joy to watch, David Hoffman. Thank you for your passion and really hard work here.

David Hoffman

Thank you for your comment Dewey. If your resources allow, I would sure appreciate your using the THANKS button under any of my videos including the one you have commented on. It is something new that YouTube is beta testing and would mean a great deal for my continuing efforts.
David Hoffman filmmaker

Dewey Mugyoo

@David Hoffman I will do it now.

Tim Woodger

1y↑21

Considering their age of only 16yr old their mindset and demeanour is like a 25 yr old in modern times.
It’s truly amazing to see how mature and mentally forward they were at such a young age
Compared to the youth of today.

GVilleAnarcho

1y↑8

You should watch the video about kids of the same age and from the same time period, but maybe not as privileged. Maybe. The bottom line is that kids seem to be pretty similar no matter what time they grew up in. I mean, humans in general are pretty much identical. Its kinda silly to take such a tiny sample and make such grand generalizations.

Joshua Blomfield

1y↑1

@GVilleAnarcho as an early millennial who went to a relatively good school I totally agree. The majority of 15-16y/o kids at my school in mid 2000s, who weren’t there because they could throw or kick a ball, were very driven to make good grades and find a well paying career. It’s easy to place society’s failure to prepare for the future on the laziness of a minority and paint all youth with that brush.

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Chester Proudfoot

Now I need to watch the full documentary. I wish I'd known about your films/interviews sooner, I absolutely loved cultural anthropology in college (hated the physical side though!). Watching this I couldn't help but think of my own HS (mid-70s), but also when I was a kid in the 60s, and how the neighborhod familes interacted. Class, of course, always dominated. I'd love to see a 20- or 30-year follow-up (à la James Agee/Walker Evans)!

Alvin Cash

2y↑3

My older sisters, one born in 1945 the other in 1950 went to school, got jobs, got married, had children.
I was born in 1958. I did the same. Except I worked my way through college.
None of us "rebelled". I don't think I personally knew anyone who did.
The entertainment/news media has propagated a myth that most young people were tuning in, turning on, & dropping out. No they weren't.

Jeff Moncalieri

3y↑3

It would cool if they made a sequel to this film and update us on all those interviewed in the original film. Most should still be alive.

lgwappo

3y↑211

I was about 10 when this was filmed. My parents were obsessed with public image & conformity & so were my grandparents. Looking back I realize that came from fear & insecurity. Their self-esteem was rooted in social acceptance, not self-acceptance. Once I left home at 18 & spent time around functional people I began to understand how weird & unhealthy that was.

Anna Stetik

3y↑21

That's my parents. I am an 80s kid, my parents were a little older than these kids, but they still had the same mentality. It's not your happiness that matters, it's what the neighbors think that matters. I absolutely rebelled against that! However, I think some of those a decade or more younger than me went to the extreme opposite side of the spectrum. When that girl said she was happy and had nothing to complain about, I almost fell over in shock. NEVER heard that from the people who are now in their 20s or 30s - they complain about everything.

jamoca set

3y↑5

@Anna Stetik maybe that would teach us that balance is one of the most important aspects in life..

Phuckin U

3y↑7

There are problems that come with self acceptance as well

Dee See

3y↑1

@Igwappo promotes narcissism too and even malignant narcissism

lgwappo

3y↑12

Darla Markle Wrong. Teaching values to kids is good. Teaching kids to live for the approval of others is bad.

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Sheila Larkin

2y↑1

I was 16 in 1966 and looked just like those young ladies. I did not change until ‘68 while at University and my former high school classmates were coming home in body bags😔 I subsequently married 2 combat vets. Sadly, the war followed them home. Yes, we all planned different lives, didn’t happen.

l'interprète méhariste

"Subsequently married 2 combat vets", that sounds quite like the story of a dying comrade telling to the guy trying to pull him out of danger zone something like "Take my promised bride, marry her and comfort her, please, don't leave her alone! Here is the adress..." ;-)

CampSunsetGirl

Thank you for this excellent documentary. I was 16 in 1966 in Maine, graduating in 1967. There were so many life changes from 1966 - 1971 when I graduated from university. This documentary brought back many memories.

Brian F

3y↑1

Really liked seeing this. It reminds me of what a nightmare our society was and IS.
Thank you!

l'interprète méhariste

Although... they had the choice at least by learning hard at school. In former generations there were no cars, only horses, mules and donkeys (like the old Minis for the poor ones nowadays)...
That was another quality of a nightmare! LOL !

Soul Wailer

1y↑1

What made it seem nightmarish to you?

Roma Erb

2y↑4

As a light sculptor in the middle of the Show Me state, Thank you for sharing and showing this!
It puts life in perspective. It is troubling to know that more than fifty percent of the students admitted to cheating and realizing those students raised children who are the same age as I am, puts a new blush on Jan 6. Leaving me to wonder if some of those students would have been better off letting barnyard animals raise their children. Thanks again for sharing!

DrBeeSpeaks

@10:24 It was so cute to see them learning the Waltz as kids led to them cutting loose as adults. 🤣❤️ @12:49 I love how he said he takes pride it what he builds!

Michael The American Patriot

3y↑219

It would be interesting to see a sequel of this program that shows where all of those individuals are living and what they're doing, or what they did for a career they were planning for in 1966.

Raquel

3y↑1

Yes

DIVERGENT Senior

3y↑4

I graduated in 66z

40 year reunion was interesting.

Some were still happily married to high school sweetheart.

Michael The American Patriot

@DIVERGENT Senior Reunions are interesting that's for sure.

l'interprète méhariste

@DIVERGENT Senior For sure I'll stay married to my highschool sweetheart until I die.
As she was a swabian Fraulein, until this day I don't have any really strong reason to complain about this decision. I would choose the same Fraulein again, only I wouldn't drive her lil red car like if it was an army truck and scare her to death with my driving stile any more, I would try to adopt to a more civil way of conduct now! ... ;-)

DIVERGENT Senior

@l'interprète méhariste Congratulations! I am envious of people who found "their person" at all, let alone early in life.

I was not that lucky, but managed to escape unjaded by not finding a soul mate. I have had a a long, happy and adventurous life.

I wish you continued love for all time.

low-key Righteous

2y↑1

Hey David I just subscribed to your channel after realizing I've watched multiple videos of yours without realizing the videos I watched were yours. I like your style and interest in which you direct your attention to . I like hearing/ reading about the 60's .. thanks for the interesting videos

Shane Bruce

Thank you David for capturing this moment in history

Carl Stenger

Thanks for a very interesting video. I'm a boomer, but a little bit younger than the folks in the documentary. I saw that particular generation and I (along with all my friends at the time) looked up to and bought into that lifestyle. Sadly though, my generation saw all that innocence virtually blown up as the war in Viet Nam and the protests of the late sixties took the place of the more peaceful and wholesome life that the crowd born just before us enjoyed.

L Rogers

2y↑1

30 years ago I found this video at the Museum of TV and Radio in NYC, I thought it was fun, long before reality tv existed. I actually rented a copy on vhs from an educational film company in Manhattan and made my own copy on a vcr. I forgot to take it back to the film company and the guy called and yelled at me. I used to show it at parties in the early 90's in Brooklyn. The original is in color and there is a sequel.

Arkybark

2y↑1

It would be interesting to see this by political voting patterns, especially in the US. As a teen, I wasn't in any political or social movement that could have been called rebellious. When I still lived at home, that wouldn't have worked, but like many others as I got out of my "native" environment I developed new ideas that some of my friends, even those who "rebelled"" back then would think rebellious now. The ones who stayed in their own circle over 50 years never learned enough to challenge anything. That's why you see all of those memes like...We didn't have seat belts when we were growing up, but we survived....

l'interprète méhariste

@TimeWarpChroniclez Perfect question! Wanna see if anyone really has an answer...
YouTube is somehow funny! ... ;-)

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4y↑107

These mini documentaries are so slept on, I can’t get enough! You’re absolutely perfect as a host for this too, insights are great and your voice & vibe fit the whole “documentary with heart” type thing amazingly.

The algorithm that leads people to your channel comes and goes, but these videos are timeless and evergreen so they can blow up years later and bring new waves of people here. Keep up the quality content Dave!

David Hoffman

4y↑7

Thank you!

Chris Potempa

3y↑23

I really liked the cop and his take on what he saw going around in his world at that time.

JustaGuy

3y↑33

Kudos to those who didn't want to be like their parents. Thank you for paving the way for non conformity, individuality and free expression.

Hyacinth Lynch

2y↑5

Which has resulted in the mess we have in our society right now.

Santé LaNeal

1y↑1

Crazy to see my parents era as teenagers and to know and understand how their perception was developed and to see why they are stuck in their ways the boomer generation really is a stubborn generation

ComradeCat

3y↑2

Thanks for uploading these its really cool to see perspectives from this time instead of just articles of videos of people in 2021 making broad generalizations of the 1960s. It would be really cool to see international footage of teenagers from the 1960s, like how was the counter culture in Germany? Here you had GI Joe/father knows best dads but in Germany most dads would have been former Wehrmacht soldiers (and a decent chunk of SS/fanatical nazi dads)

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rainingtrees

2y↑38

I've learned from this video that Boomers grew up in an incredibly different time. They grew up with good living conditions, with the possibility to provide for their future families. Their biggest fear was GRADES lol. I'm truly happy for the Boomers, that seems like a lovely time to be alive. I see why they still have faith in capitalism; it's served them well most their lives.

Sifirela

2y↑9

Capitalism was really never a bad thing to have, it was when monopoly corporations started taking over America where mom and pop stores closed due to people choosing big over genuine businesses that helped the local man.

Jonathan S.

2y↑2

@Mando Having doubts in today's capitalism doesnt make someone a socialist. You really need to get that into your head.

Seb Fontana

2y↑1

I graduated in 66, I worried about the draft/Vietnam than being able to succeed which I did ok.

Katy Watson

2y↑2

Some of us Boomers were five and under in 1966

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Abrahem Samander

4y↑37

I love the way that shop class boy describes his work. It’s honestly very inspiring, he has great conviction. I hope he lived a great life.

Vegeta

Man I wish my parents would understand that's how I felt about my video games 😔

jeffrey schmidt

3y↑1

@Vegeta lmao

Greg p

3y↑2

Did you see the lathes and machine shop in the background. 16 years old today wouldn't have the mental capacity to begin to get a grasp on that equipment.

Shari Dyer

That somewhat describes the outlook of my two older sisters, but not me. By high school, unlike them, I had already been in a small, private, co-ed college prep school. It was fairly liberal. The teachers made a far more lasting impact on me than those in the very big public high school I later attended. The high school scene made absolutely no sense to me. Reading Alan Watts did.

featherstone

2y↑6

Thank you for another interesting piece on the 60s. I really didn't expect the end: Why would the community be upset about the documentary - when it just showed what in their own eyes would be successful education? Obviously something was hidden below the surface. And, interestingly, the cop being the only one who sensed it. I often found cops being good sociologists and that's no surprise really as they deal with society's problems on a daily basis.

Robert Pope

As a sixties teen myself, I enjoyed this a great deal. It left me laughing. This is the dark side of the sixties--lol!!!

sunshinelively

2y↑1

It’s great that time was taken to make films like this. No one made any films about real GenXers. At least not that I know of. Our teenage years were a total free for all!

Al Locke

2y↑1

That was fascinating...they were 7 or 8 years older than I was. I grew up in the NYC area so it was virtually impossible not to hear or see a lot different viewpoints.

Cesar

3y↑99

I love your “show don’t tell” approach to journalism. You’ll occasionally explain things in an unbiased way, but mostly you let the recordings talk.

David Hoffman

3y↑23

Thank you for noticing.
David Hoffman Filmmaker

SmittenKitten

2y↑1

This was fascinating. A time capsule everyone should see.

Hannah

3y↑2

David, you are a treasure to us. Thank you for all of your videos. They are so important.

David Hoffman

Thank you Hannah. If your resources allow, I would sure appreciate your using the THANKS button under the video. It is something new that YouTube is beta testing
David Hoffman filmmaker

Jeff Spicoli

Very interesting. Grew up in Chesterfield, MO which is about 10 miles west of Webster Groves. Very similar backgrounds and perceptions up through the 80s into the 90s when I lived there and it still is like that; if not worse nowadays. St. Louis and her areas are quite territorial and competitive. It's all about where you went to high school. :)

Alessa Pirelli

2y↑6

One of the most surprising things I noticed was that these 16-year olds were articulate compared to today's teens; no "likes", "ums", "you knows". Without texting, iPhones, Twitter and the Internet, these teens had to verbalize all communications with family, friends, teachers, and society.

Euthanasia Dumbwaiter

1y↑3

They probably had classes that taught them to speak. But compared to 100 year ago, those same 16 year olds from the 1960s would sound inarticulate. You sound inarticulate and “dumbed down in terms of language” when compared to the past. Same with me.

Also, Gen Z slang is actually really complicated. That’s the reason people hate it. It doesn’t make sense to them which likewise makes them angry and more likely to attack it to protect their egos. Hearing someone use “like, um, uh” also might offend you for similar ego and mirror neuron reasons (you were criticized for using that language and so you criticize others for using it, without realizing this is the only reason it bothers you and is not a reason set in stone or with any deeper motivation or meaning behind it).

Elizabeth Frier

2y↑1

It was hard to relate to these midwestern, suburban teenagers.
I'm a babyboomer, however I just turned 10 years old in 1968... Now 6 years doesn't really mean much now, but of course then it would have been huge...
I do remember the conservative style of clothing worn at that time. In elementary school, I wore 'school clothes', sneakers were forbidden (you brought them to school on gym days) but the dress code standards gradually changed.
My life was sooo very different. My high school was structured towards academic excellence, focusing on science and mathematics. And there was an entrance exam, even though it's a public school. It was a haven (imho) for gifted students. I walked to school, as I lived very close, but many students traveled from all the boroughs of NYC. We all were well versed as how to use the public transportation system - especially the NY subway. If one wanted to take driver's ed, we'd have to do at another school, as it wasn't on offer at ours.
We didn't hold dances or proms, but we did have science fairs where winners could get awards and partial scholorships to university.
99% of my graduating class continued on to college after graduation.
I did wear bellbottoms, earth shoes,my hair was really long (to my waist), silver jewelry - so had the trappings of 'hippie wear'. More a fashion statement than a social revolutionary...
My grandparents always lived close by, so I grew up on the ethos of the Depression and the War (WW II). We weren't poor, but frugality was the rule of the day. And recycling, whether clothes, paper or kitchen scraps was just normal.

Ben Hadden

3y↑418

I would totally watch a Netflix period drama based on the characters in this documentary.

hobog

3y↑16

We already have that, it's called Mad Men

Arch-Cheriea Strachan

Same

Milton

3y↑8

@hobog thats about middle age people these are teens.

michelle guidry

Madmen

Nikita

Definitely.

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One of Many

Wow. They say a picture is worth a thousand words... and this is a LOT of pictures! As a 42 year old, this explains VOLUMES.
Thank you so much for this series!

David Hoffman

Jim Kasprzak

When I was a teenager, I asked my father, "Did you go to Woodstock?"

He said, "No, because I had a little boy to take care of." (That would be me.)

But even though he didn't participate in the 60's counterculture, he still sympathized with their ideals. And he still does today at 80 years old.

Jeffery Ampey

David this was amazing!! Thank you so much. I’m 34 years old just came across your channel in the past week and I’m HOOKED!! Can’t wait to see more.

David Hoffman

There are almost 2000 posts on my channel. I think you will find much to enjoy or at least find provocative. Thank you Jeffrey.
David Hoffman filmmaker

Poetry Jones

Another fascinating glimpse into times past. I love your channel. 🙏🏼🌹 (14:20 - that cop actually seemed a voice of reason after listening to the parent interviews.)

John

3y↑126

This was in the middle of my high school years. These kids were much more affluent than most of the kids I knew. Most of the kids in my town were from blue collar families whose dads worked in the steel mill, nickel plant or grain elevators. Our parents were laborers. The doctor's and lawyer's kids were more or less like the kids in the film, but the rest were a lot more earthy. These were the children of Ozzie and Harriet. We were the children of Archie Bunker. If you hadn't told me, I'd have thought this was a documentary of the 50s not the 60s.
An interesting documentary would be about what happened to these kids 50 years later.

Veruca Gash

3y↑7

I would love to see that documentary! Thank you for sharing your perspective about this era.

little qb

3y↑5

the outsiders and the socs

Eric Nelson

@John Great post.

Mohammad Abdul Farooqi

3y↑1

it was early to mid-60s sir

Thomasuki267

3y↑4

They bogged down the Senate and suggested Obama was born in Kenya to keep every penny.

lighter path

3y↑15

Stephanie Romer

Amazing. I never knew people were motivated like this. It’s like seeing an animated museum exhibit. Thanks so much for this ❤️‍🔥👍🏻

Wade Gibson

You are a great man! We chatted on line about this “ lazy generation” my words, we chatted and I listened. Well watching every one of your videos, and learning, and still listening. Keep teaching david

David Hoffman

Thank you so much Wade for your comments.

Bill Brimmer

This was terrific. I graduated from high school in 1967. This all sounds familiar in terms of the students.

Share Greats

Super footage. I as German, born in 1960, didn't get anything across of that. But to learn about this in retrospect is nevertheless interesting. And much of what happened in the US rubbed off on Germany years after it emerged in America. Striking is at a second glance that almost all people shown here were slender and had good figures. Not a single fat person can be seen in the film. This is different nowadays as I hear from all sides.

THWB

3y↑339

I'm among the oldest Gen Zers here, 1998, some may even think we're Millennials but as a teen during the 2010s decade, I grew up watching these 1960s documentaries about teenagers and it really was amazing to see how teenagers no matter which era it is, they're all the same. Some are moody, some are rebellious, some are depressed, some want to be perfect, some don't give a damn.

LeBe

2y↑9

And some think only of sex and drugs.

Justin W King

2y↑2

98? You're the youngest of them all.

haludae

2y↑32

@Justin W King ??????? youngest Gen Zers are like 10 years old

Justin W King

2y↑1

@haludae You're right, I was mistaken. I guess I had my terms mixed up.

Ian Thomas

2y↑5

Buddy, what you just said is the most mature thing I've read on the subject of generational comparison.

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Robert Moir

I actually miss the 1960s as well as I do the 1970s Such great times Things are so different now In some ways good

Shah Riyad

2y↑14

"This documentary makes us look like spoilt brats!"
Me in 2021: "That's why it's a good one."

Wes H

2y↑1

Another brilliant documentary my friend! 🙌 We should all make damn sure none of our daughter's ever, EVER, have to tolerate the sexist stereotypes of our past!

Sean Clancy

2y↑16

Well spoken teens, but unfortunately, their parents neglected that someone has to build the houses they live in and fix the cars they drive, and the skill set involved in these trades is unique and to be valued. These skilled trades were undervalued and we are now paying the price in that we have a surplus of people who can analyze an IPO, but are clueless if their sink backs up. As a professional (who has taught shop), I would be proud if my son became a skilled red seal tradesperson.

husky3g

2y↑1

Agreed! I'm a millennial and I see this as well. It's an institutional failure of schools that push every young person away from the idea that making money and survival is more important than being educated. You can know 10,000 things, but if those 10,000 things can't help you survive, pay bills, make money and build a life for yourself, what good does it do you? Trade skills pay. Useless degrees do nothing but waste your time and money.

For thousands of years, humans have worked, built and survived by hard labor. Now, suddenly, every teacher criticizes anyone who doesn't want to get a college degree when in fact, I have no degree and make more money and have a better life than most of my peers from high school and college who graduated with degrees. I make more money than my wife and even she has a degree because I went into a vocation and trade that took me less than 3 months to finish.

Millenials and zoomers also have this expectation to be making $50,000+ per year right after high school or college. There isn't any business that can sustain paying inexperienced people who barely know their job that much money. Experience is more valuable than education in trades and experience pays much better.

Boomers criticize millenials and zoomers as lazy and unmotivated and to be honest, by and large, they are correct. Most of my friends are either employed part-time and have no drive to get better jobs or they are unemployed still living with their parents. I have gotten my best friend TWO good paying jobs and he quit both within 6 months due to laziness. Calling in every day, leaving early. It's a damn shame how lazy my generation is.

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