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Do you remember the 1960s in Berlin, New Britain, and elsewhere?

Do you remember the 1960s?

Do you remember Alan B. Shepherd's first space flight on May 5, 1961?

Or where you were when you learned that President Kennedy was shot on November 22, 1963?

Or watching the Beatles first appearance on the Ed Sullivan show on February 9, 1964?

Registering with the draft?  And getting your Vietnam draft lottery number?

Coming home from college only to find that the centerfold pages of the Playboy subcription your buddy had given you for Christmas were all removed by your mother?

Hendrix playing "The Star Spangled Banner" at 5 AM on August 17th, 1969?

Using the term "groovy" for every descriptive adjective?

Smoking your first joint?

Playing Risk instead of studying for your exams?

The muscle cars from Detroit, including GTOs, 442s, Chevelle Super Sport with a 396 engine?

Your friends having to get married?

Do you remember that New Britain was considered a better place to live in than Berlin?

Calling New Britain "New Britski"?

The Lords, the Earls, the Scotties, the Band of Teens?  Tri High Y?

Before Berlin had sanitary sewers?

When the only notable landmarks in Berlin were the Victory Market, Ferndale's, and Dairy Queen?

When my dad built the Kensington Post Office in 1965?

Ferndale's ice cream parlor?

When Route 72 was the drag strip?

When New Britainites regarded Berlinites as hicks?

Raphael's, Mags, Grants, Sage Allen, and D&L in New Britain?

The Palace, Strand, Embassy, and Arch theatres?

Weddings at Shuetzen Park in New Britain?

Ken Griffen in the Ogres, Detroit Soul, and the Shandels:  rock groups of New Britain?

Do you have some memories to add to the list here?

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