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W e l c o m e . . .
Join me as I take this random retro-romp through the sixties. I'll be revisiting significant scenes, recalling historic events, recollecting personal stories, remembering favorite songs, and reflecting on political, spiritual, and cultural trends.
Enjoy!
Enjoy!
About Me
- Rob Pollock
- Westend, Vancouver, BC, Canada
- I am a minister in the United Church of Canada, husband, and father of three young adult daughters.
1961 Album Covers
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- Republic of Congo - June 30, 1960
- "Patrice Émery Lumumba" - Elijah Kalswe
- "Chain Gang" - Sam Cooke 1960
- 1960 Cold War Realities
- "Operation Plumbbob"
- 50 Years Ago Today - Japan and Okinawa
- Patsy Cline - "Lovesick Blues" - June 1960
- June 16, 1960 - "Psycho"
- Psycho - 1960
- Retro Field Trip - The Buddy Holly Story
- The Day the Music Died
- Rocky and Friends - 1960
- 1960 - The Year of Africa
- Louis Armstrong in the Congo - 1960
- Alley-oop
- Tommy Douglas Wins Again
- Classic Tommy Douglas
- "The Beast is in Chains"
- 60's Newsreel - Eichmann Trial
- "Only the Lonely" - Roy Orbison
- "The Quarrymen" Become "The Beatles"
- "That'll Be the Day" - The Quarrymen
- "Words of Love" - Buddy Holly and the Beatles
- Happy Birthday Marilyn - June 1, 1960
- "Candle in the Wind" - Elton John
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"A Cancer Journal"
"A Cancer Journal" is a place where I share my experience of living with metastatic colon cancer.
A Cancer Journal
A Cancer Journal
"Merton in Asia"
A day-by-day "virtual pilgrimage" with 20th century Trappist Monk Thomas Merton on his 1968 journey to Asia.
Merton in Asia
Merton in Asia
"People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties.
They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas."
Bob Dylan
Pass the Beatles please!
They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas."
Bob Dylan
Pass the Beatles please!
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TTFN... Rob