1969 a good year?

[Malo1961]

Went to a lokal market a week ago. Some festivity's were going on.
This guy looked impressive, even from behind 😎
Taken with R3m, Heliar Classic 50/2
Feel free to add other good years.

Greetings, Martin

 

[dostacos]

1969 LAST of the sexy sixties [high school grad 69]

start of the lottery draft through 1950 they drafted through #267[second lottery for 1951 my # was 212 and they did not break 100 😀]

1969 The first Man walked on the moon [one small step for {a} man, one giant leap for all mankind]

kennedy has car troubles and Mary Joe pays the price

Charlie Manson and his "friends" go a little helter skelter

WOODSTOCK need I say more?

Monty Python starts flying his circus

Mi Lai not a good morning in Viet Nam

good year for some of us and a bad for others

 

[danwilly]

The Mets won the world series.

 

[rxmd]

Definitely a good year! (Picture from this post)

 

[Ossifan]

I was three... so I'm inclined to say 1966 was a very good year... but really, they're all good years if you're alive!

Cheers!

 

[gregg]

I was born (to be celebrated in just a few days) in 1969. Nuff said...

 

[Aurelius]

I was born

Meeee tooooo 😀

 

[oscroft]

I got my first proper camera, at the tender age of 11, in 1969 - a Pentax SP500. So yes, a very good year 🙂

 

[kbg32]

January 12 - Led Zeppelin releases their first album, Led Zeppelin.
January 20 - Richard Nixon succeeds Lyndon Johnson as the 37th President of the United States of America. (My classmates cried)
February 4 - In Cairo, Yasser Arafat is appointed Palestinian Liberation Organization leader
May 26-June 2: John Lennon and Yoko Ono conduct their Bed-In
July 18 - Edward M. Kennedy drives off a bridge on his way home from a party on Chappaquiddick Island
September 24 - The "Chicago Eight" trial begins in Chicago, Illinois.
September 26 - The Beatles release (Abbey Road)
September 26 - The pilot episode of The Brady Bunch, starring Robert Reed and Florence Henderson, airs on United States TV.
October 21 - Willy Brandt becomes Chancellor of West Germany.
November 19 - Soccer great Pelé scores his 1,000th goal.

and lots more.

Yep, 1969 was a big year....

 

[pesphoto]

It was 35 years before the Red Sox would win a World Series....a very good year.

 

[dmr]

That was about the time I got interested in real photography ... I guess it was a good year. 🙂

 

[Max Power]

January 12 - Led Zeppelin releases their first album, Led Zeppelin.

and lots more.

Yep, 1969 was a big year....

I was 6 days old when the album came out...Brilliant year to be born in! Oh yeah, and there was some moon landing or something 😀

Kent

 

[Trius]

Olympus introduced the 35SP. 😀

 

[cjm]

Gap Inc. opened its first store, hence the 1969 t-shirts you see everywhere.

 

[sepiareverb]

My first camera was given to me that year, by my grandfather. An old (then) Brownie Hawkeye Flash. Still have it.

 

[Marc Jutras]

I was born in 1969 as well.

 

[Abbazz]

Olympus introduced the 35SP. 😀

And Fuji launched the G690 BL 6x9 rangefinder with interchangeable lens. A great year indeed!

Cheers,

Abbazz

 

[dostacos]

crud all you guys born in 1969, I got CAMERAS I bought in the 60s that are older than all'yall 😱

[Take off of a Bob Hope joke told on live TV at one of his golf tournaments: Bob Hope after asking a playboy bunny hold old she was "I got BALLS older than that!" then realizing what he said amended it to GOLF BALLS. the leader was putting out on the 18th and almost blew the put when the crowd roared to his gaff.]