The â60s Teen ×
By David Cohea, ReMIND Magazine
High school life in 1960 was very different from the decade’s end in 1969. Starting off, things were much like the conservative 1950s, with car culture and mom-and-pop fashions much the order of the day.
Early in the decade, three trends caught on with teens. First there was monster mania, with many of the classic Universal monster films now on television; bubble gum wrappers and lunch boxes; and the radio crawling with novelty hits like “Monster Mash” by Bobby “Boris” Pickett (1962) and “My Son, the Vampire” by Allan Sherman (1964). Standing amid the horrors of the hit TV show