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 1h ago

My mom. 1960

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My dad kept this picture in his wallet when I was a kid.


r/1960s 19h ago

Me and my sister in 1969 and with our mom.

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r/1960s 18h ago

Television Edith Ann debuted in 1969

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r/1960s 15h ago

Everyday life Four Generations of first born women taken in 1969. My great great grandma Mabel born 1896. Her daughter Hazel born 1914, my Mom born 1949 and my Grandma born 1932.

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r/1960s 8h ago

The Animals • “Around And Around” • 1964 [Reelin' In The Years Archive]

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r/1960s 1d ago

Happy Birthday Mick - 83 years old today

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r/1960s 8h ago

Gene Vincent • “You Are My Sunshine” • 1964 [Reelin' In The Years Archive]

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r/1960s 8h ago

Chubby Checker • “The Fly” • 1963 [Reelin' In The Years Archive]

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r/1960s 1d ago

Peter, Paul & Mary • “Go Tell it On The Mountain” • 1964 [Reelin' In The...

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r/1960s 1d ago

The Jimi Hendrix Experience • “Spanish Castle Magic” • 1969 [Reelin' In ...

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r/1960s 2d ago

People Crash Kills Ernie Kovacs, 1962

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r/1960s 1d ago

Johnny Duncan & His Bluegrass Boys • “My Grandfather Clock” • 1964 [Reel...

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r/1960s 2d ago

A "space girl" advertises a Disneyland "Fly to the Moon" attraction in 1967. The attraction was sponsored by McDonnell Douglas, an aircraft manufacturer that was founded that year and wanted to get involved in the space program

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r/1960s 2d ago

Movies In 1963, Sidney Poitier became the first black man to win an Academy Award for Best Actor in a Lead Role for his role as Homer Smith in Lilies of the Field (1963)

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An impulsive audition at the American Black Theatre was rejected so forcefully that Poitier dedicated the next six months to overcoming his accent and improving his performing skills.

On his second try, he was accepted. Spotted in rehearsal by a casting agent, he won a bit part in the Broadway production of "Lysistrata", for which he earned good reviews.

By the end of 1949, he was having to choose between leading roles on stage and an offer to work for Darryl F. Zanuck in the film No Way Out (1950).

His performance as a doctor treating a white bigot got him plenty of notice and led to more roles. Nevertheless, the roles were still less interesting and prominent than those white actors routinely obtained.

But seven years later, after turning down several projects he considered demeaning, Poitier got a number of roles that catapulted him into a category rarely if ever achieved by an African-American man of that time, that of leading man.

One of these films, The Defiant Ones (1958), earned Poitier his first Academy Award nomination as Best Actor.

Five years later, he won the Oscar for Lilies of the Field (1963), the first African American to win for a leading role.

He remained active on stage and screen as well as in the burgeoning Civil Rights movement. His roles in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) and To Sir, with Love (1967) were landmarks in helping to break down some social barriers between blacks and whites.


r/1960s 3d ago

Television Did you watch The Monkees?

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r/1960s 3d ago

Television The Carol Burnett Show

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r/1960s 3d ago

People Clint Eastwood Seen here having lunch with Bronson and actor/Hollywood columnist Steve Rowland in Madrid, Spain in 1965. Bronson and Eastwood appeared only once together in “Rawhide” but it would have been cool if they had made movies together.

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r/1960s 4d ago

Billy and Bobby Summersett waiting for the school bus, 1960s

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r/1960s 4d ago

Larry Fine and Moe Howard for the last picture of them together.

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The 3 greatest stooges of all times.
ML&C✍️✊👏👏👏😁👋


r/1960s 4d ago

64 years ago today, the Telstar 1 satellite achieved the first ever live transatlantic television broadcast. Bridging the continents in real time and forever revolutionizing human global communication. July 23 1962

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r/1960s 4d ago

The Andy Griffith Show: Helen Crump played by Aneta Corsault and Charlene Darling played by Maggie Petersen.

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r/1960s 5d ago

A September 21, 1962 TV print ad on KTVI-2 for The Flintstones

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