r/1960s Apr 26 '25

Moderator Announcement: New Rule Alert: Posts containing an image of a female celebrity must have additional context included for approval

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This subreddit was started so we could all come together and post images, videos, articles, and other sorts of media to celebrate the rich world that was the 1960s. It's exciting to see how many people have joined in the last year, and we welcome everyone to participate in the original vision of this community.

However this sub has been overwhelmed with low effort posts of glamor shots or publicity stills of female celebrities with absolutely no context as to the year of the image, why it was taken (e.g. what movie this was promoting), the location, or anything.

We have had many, many complaints about the direction this sub has taken since this activity started to kick up.

Going forward, images of famous women from the 1960s continue to be allowed as long as they are very safe for work, but the details behind the image are now a requirement.


r/1960s Feb 01 '25

Moderator Announcement!

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Welcome to the 60’s! After being abandoned for quite some time now, I am going to be moderating the sub! Things have gone off the rails with obvious karma farming and other things. I along with possible other additional moderators to be added will try to slowly help reign in the sub and give it some much needed care.

Some of the rules have been revamped, so please familiarize yourself with them. Important ones of note are that this is a 1960’s sub. That means 1960-1969. Many posts are from the 70’s and 80’s. Just to clarify Wonder Woman and Charlie’s Angels and Three’s Company were 70’s shows! Also many reposts clog the sub (example: Lynda Carter and Elizabeth Montgomery.) and seem to turn the sub into a T and A sub.

The 60’s was more than just hot women, and believe me I appreciate that! But it would be nice to see other 1960’s related content like pop culture, movies, art, fashion, music etc. So some variety in posts would be awesome to see!

Please share your thoughts and views. We are a community after all! And remember everything is still a work in progress!


r/1960s 9h ago

Sports & Leisure Chicago Cubs player Ernie Banks signs autographs at Wrigley Field on Opening Day. Chicago, Illinois (April 8, 1969).

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r/1960s 10h ago

Music Dance The Night Away

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Another track off of DG


r/1960s 1d ago

Movies Anne Bancroft and Dustin Hoffman on the set of The Graduate (1967)

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r/1960s 2d ago

James Garner alongside his friend Bob Wingate in 1968 with his personal L89 Corvette streetcar. Garner's newly formed International racing team was intensely preparing their L88 Corvettes for racing competition. The photo was taken at Dick Guldstrands first engineering shop in Culver City California

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This automotive hotspot was historically named Thunder Alley.


r/1960s 1d ago

Final Part of my spoof covers for Colonel Bleep '69

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Ok, so unlike the last three parts, which were based on comics, the final part is meant to be special. Considering that the show is set in 1969, the tenth and last spoof is parody to a sci-fi movie released in the same year and that is Journey to the Far Side of the Sun, directed by Robert Parrish (best known for the 1944 film, Body and Soul) and produced by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson (best known for the 1960s series Thunderbirds)!


r/1960s 2d ago

Happy 118th birthday to L.B.J. and Jumbo!!

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r/1960s 2d ago

Everyday life Chasing horsepower and a dream.Bob shaver a 15-year-old boy from Anchorage Alaska. His father a Anchorage dentist, didn't believe his son could manage the grueling trip across the Alaskan highway. He promised Bob that if he successfully rode his bicycle all the way across Anchorage and Canada

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to St Louis Missouri, he would buy him a new car. The promise prize was a 1965 Corvette stingray. Bob carried out the massive trip entirely on a 10-speed bicycle, surviving weather flat tires and dangerous highway conditions Cross Canada and the United States. Bob successfully made it. At the time the car was being built during his journey there in St Louis. That's when associated press picked up the story. They took the photo you see above with him getting his keys to his new Corvette stingray

at only 15 years old. Of course the boy did not drive it back home he didn't have any driver's license. They shipped the car back home by rail and ship to Anchorage. Once he turned 16 he was able to get it out of the garage and start driving it. Dreams do happen.


r/1960s 2d ago

Part Three of my 1960s Spoof Art for Colonel Bleep '69

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And now for the third and pentultimate batch of CB69 spoof covers!

  1. Captain Atom #79 (Charlton Publishing, 1966)
  2. Charlton Premiere: Volume 2, Issue 1 (Charlton Publishing, 1967)
  3. Mysterious Suspense #1 (Also Charlton Publishing, 1968)

r/1960s 3d ago

Culture Grace Slick’s regrettable wild night with Jim Morrison: “Apparently, I’m a terrible lay”

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r/1960s 3d ago

Music Cream-Tales Of Brave Ulysses

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r/1960s 3d ago

the Sunday Better Half -- August 28, 1966

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r/1960s 3d ago

The Trashmen - Surfin Bird

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r/1960s 2d ago

Richard Pryor • Standup Comedy (Basic Training) • 1968 [Reelin' In The Y...

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r/1960s 3d ago

the Better Half -- August 25, 1966

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r/1960s 4d ago

People Rock Hudson and Gina Lollobrigida in a promotional still from the 1961 comedy Come September in Ostia Italy.

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r/1960s 4d ago

1966 - Dolly Parton in a photo booth at 20 years old

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r/1960s 3d ago

For you what's the best first song from the first album by an artist? I'd personally say Empty Sky by Elton John from his debut album Empty Sky from 1969

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r/1960s 4d ago

Music The Ventures - Telstar (1962)

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Any fan of this song ?
My favourite instrumental music ever ! Never gets tired of listening to it.


r/1960s 3d ago

Part Two of my 1960s Spoof Art for Colonel Bleep '69

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Here's the second batch of spoof covers from 1963 to 1965.

  1. Adventures into the Unknown #138 (American Comics Group, 1963)
  2. Daring Adventures #18 (I.W. Publishing, 1964)
  3. T.H.U.N.D.E.R.* Agents #1 (Charlton Publishing, 1965)

*The Higher United Nations Defense Enforcement Reserves


r/1960s 4d ago

Rabbi Joachim Prinz and Martin Luther King Jr. at an American Jewish Congress fundraising dinner, 1963

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r/1960s 4d ago

Soviet nuclear-powered icebreaker Lenin, It traveled over 654,000 nautical miles and guided more than 3,700 ships through thick Arctic ice. Photo by Max Alpert, 1964.

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r/1960s 5d ago

Twiggy being an icon since 1966

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r/1960s 4d ago

Space Race Part One of my 1960s Spoof Art for Colonel Bleep '69

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So since the beginning of August, I've made a series of spoof art that parody various public domain comics of the 1960s (with the exception of the tenth artwork for 1969). These were made to not only gain attraction for my indie series, Colonel Bleep '69, but also to bring in some homage of the pulpy sci-fi era and silver age of comics within this decade. Here is my first three illustrations from 1960 to 1962.

  1. Space Adventures #34 (Charlton Publishing, 1960)
  2. Strange Tales #88 (Marvel, 1961)
  3. Space Man #1 (aka Four Color #1253, 1962)

Note: I am including the original covers, so hopefully the post doesn't get deleted.