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We need to know where we have been to understand where we are going… Jeanavive

Participants of the January Multi-Generational Caf’e created a wall of memories and observations about their lives:

1930’s
World Events: Depression, the dustbowl, westward immigration, locusts, invasion of Europe by Germany/Emergence of Hitler, Lindbergh’s son’s kidnapping
Political Movements: Kristallnacht, WPA/Roosevelt years
Pop Culture: (Music, Cars, Slang, Film, Books)
Sonny Boy, Ford, Swing, WPA support to artists, foreign cars, Fred/Ginger movies

1940’s
World Events: WW11, Creation of the U.N., Born in a displaced person camp, Holocaust, Japanese Internment, Hiroshima/Nagasaki, Israel becomes a state.
Political Movements: New Deal, Jewish Immigration to U.S., draft, Labor unions organized, WPA, ACLU, Victory Gardens
Pop Culture: Top ten Hit parade, TV, Grapes of Wrath, “Little songs on big subjects”, Fireside chats, Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Bing Crosby, Musicals,

1950’s
World Events: China invades Tibet, Hungarian revolution,
Political Movements: Montgomery bus boycott, McCarthyism, Communism, Beginning of Civil Rights Movement, Hanging of the Rosenbergs.
Pop Culture: Rock n Roll, TV, “Catcher in the Rye”, “Naked in the Dead”, Pete Seeger and the Weavers, Catch 22, Leave it to Beaver, Howdy-Doody, Our Miss Brooks, Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Playhouse 90, Omnibus, Edward R. Murrow, Alistair Cooke, “On the Road”, 57 T bird.

1960’s
World Events: First computer, Assassinations of MLK, JFK, RFK, Cuban Missile Crisis, Birth control pill, Vietnam War, Woodstock, Moon Walk.
Political Movements: Free Speech, Anti-War, Feminism, United Farm Workers, Saul Alinsky organizing, Civil Rights, Peace Corps, Loss of Idealism: Nixon.
Pop Culture: Bob Dylan, Rock n Roll, Joan Baez, Supremes, Marvin Gaye, Aretha, Beatles, Stones, Betty Friedan “Feminine Mystique”, Rachel Carson ” Silent Spring”, Mary Tyler Moore, Dick van Dyke, Hippies, Flower Power, Easy Rider, Beach Boys.

1970’s
World Events: Vietnam, Cambodia,
Political Movements: Roe v. Wade, Spiritual Experimentation, Women’s Movement, Free Schools, NOW conference, Anti-War, Human Potential, Gay & Lesbian, Prop 13
Pop Culture: Apple computers, Ms. Magazine, Hippy, NLP (Neurolinguistic Programming), Holly Near, Chris Williamson, Meg Christiansen.

1980’s
World Events: U.S. engagement in Central America, SF earthquake, Fast Food, John Lennon’s assassination.
Political Movements: Nuclear Freeze, Consciousness raising groups, beyond war
Pop Culture: MTV, Nation Magazine, Computers, Wired Magazine, Bob Ross, “Love Medicine” by Louise Erdich.

1990’s
World Events: Molecular biology revolution, fall of the Berlin wall, disintegration of Soviet Union and Balkan War, fall of apartheid in South Africa
Political Movements: Rise of China, New Economy in Brazil, Birth of the World Café, Peace Movement, First Gulf War and opposition, Perot Town Halls, MoveOn. org
Pop Culture: Craig’s List, Blair Witch Project, Hip-hop, Video Games, Electronic Music, “Vagina Monologues”, Plastic Surgery

2000’s
World Events: Continuing rise of China, World Trade Center, WTC/911, Iraq Invasion and Occupation, Assassination of Benazir Bhutto, Latin America changes leaders
Political Movements: Slow Food Movement, Eco-movement,
Pop Culture: “An Inconvenient Truth”, Hybrids, I-Pod, I-Phone, Wiki, Blogging, Digital journalism, changing media, social networks - Myspace, Facebook.