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Cans that can be opened with tabs are invented by the City Beer Company Decca records turns down signing the Beatles Marilyn Monroe found dead Sean Connery lands the role of James Bond John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit the earth First fibre-tipped pens Hula hoop craze The Beatles make their first recordings. Tom Cruise is born Soviet missile bases detected in Cuba; President Kennedy demands their removal. The confrontation is the closest the U.S. and U.S.S.R. ever come to war. Crisis is resolved when Soviets agree to remove Cuban missiles in exchange for removal of U.S. missiles in Turkey. Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann executed in Israel U.S. establishes semi-permanent military presence in Vietnam Pope John XXIII convenes the Second Vatican Council, which will modernize many practices of the Catholic Church when it concludes three years later Telstar becomes the first communications satellite intended for regular service; relays television signals between North America and Europe Rachel Carson publishes Silent Spring, bringing attention to a number of environmental crises for the first time Morning sickness drug thalidomide found to be causing birth defects Phil Knight develops the first Nike running shoe   James H. Meredith, escorted by federal marshals, registers at University of Mississippi (Oct. 1). Read more: Top News Stories from 1962

     TV Shows:     Television in the 60's

I've Got a Secret, Route 66, The Flintstones, Price is Right, Ben Casey, Ed Sullivan, McHale's Navy, Combat

Then there was a situation comedy about a family of uncouth hillbillies who strike it rich and move to Beverly Hills which aired  AND became an instant hit!

 And, On Saturday mornings

 

America's First Man in Orbit ?

 Naaaaa, it was John Glenn  

Elvis has his 50th U.S. chart entry with 'Return To Sender'

U.S. Statistics

President: John F. Kennedy
Vice President: Lyndon B. Johnson
Population: 186,537,737
Life expectancy: 70.1 years
Violent Crime Rate (per 1,000): 20.2
Property Crime Rate (per 1,000): 18.6
Homicide Rate (per 100,000): 4.8

 

        Cuban Missile Crises 

Cuban Missile Crises Report    Were We Aware?

  

HEY!  What DID ever happened to Baby Jane?

 

Newsweek reported that the average woman spends 17 years raising children and 18 years helping aging parents.

The Beatles???Never Heard of  'Em

Have they been on Ed Sullivan? 

 

#1 SONGS OF 1962

 

Rock N Roll in the 60's Timeline

  MAD Magazine Cover site

            

                Top 15  Movies

                

 

1. How The West Was Won Feb. 20 MGM/UA $20.933 million	2.Lawrence of Arabia Dec. 16 Sony $20.310 million
3.The Longest Day Oct. 04 Fox $17.600 million	14.In Search of Castaways Dec. 21 Disney $9.975 million
5.The Music Man Jun. 19 WB $8.100 million	6.That Touch of Mink Jun. 14 Universal $7.924 million
7.Mutiny on The Bounty Nov. 08 MGM/UA $7.410 million	8.To Kill A Mockingbird Dec. 25 Universal $7.112 million
9.Hatari! May 24 Paramount $7.000 million	10.Gypsy May 24 WB $6.000 million
11.Boy Voyage May 17 Disney $5.000 million	12.The Interns Aug. 08 Sony $5.000 million
13.Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm Aug. 07 MGM/UA $4.832 million	14.Days of Wine and Roses Dec. 26 Warner $4.400 million
15. The Manchurian Candidate Oct. 24 MGM/UA $4.180 million

 

So, Who WAS  the Man Who Shot Liberty Valence??

Gene Pitney's Song

 

Books   

• A Time in the Sun by Jane Barry

• A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

• Fail-Safe by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler

• Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

• Twilight of Honor by Al Dewlen

• The Reivers by William Faulkner

• The Blue Nile by Alan Moorehead

• Ship of Fools by Katherine Anne Porter

• The Bull from the Sea by Mary Renault

• Uhuru by Robert Ruark

• John Adams, 1735-1826 by Page Smith

• Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck

• The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman

• George: An Early Autobiography by Emlyn Williams

• Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe? by Edward Albee

• Youngblood Hawke by Herman Wouk

• One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Alexander Solzhenitsyn; 

• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey; 

• The Thin Red Line, James Jones; 

• Happiness is a Warm Puppy, Charles Schultz

John Steinbeck :  1962 Nobel Laureate in Literature

 

 

' 62 Ford T-Bird Convertible

There were 14,531 Corvette Roadsters produced for the 1962 model year. This was the first year the 327 ci engine was available in the Corvette. Two-tone paint was no longer an option on the 1962 Corvette

 

 

"Prayer Unconstitutional in School" -  In the decision of Engel v. Vitale, the US Supreme Court ruled that state-sponsored prayer in schools was unconstitutional. The Court did not outlaw prayer in school entirely, only school-sponsored prayer. The Supreme Court decision launched a controversy that has continued unabated......

 

 Hula Hooping

 

World History Time Line

 

1962 Aviation Accidents-  Plane Crash list 1962

 

     SPORTS

1/25/62   Sonny Liston beats Floyd Patterson to become World Heavyweight Boxing Champion

12/30/62 The Green Bay Packers fought off the New York Giants in 13-degree cold and winds that gusted up to 40 miles per hour in Yankee Stadium to score a 16-7 victory for their eighth NFL championship and second in a row. The Giants lost in the championship playoff for the fourth time in five years and the tenth time in thirteen appearances. Offensive backfield coach Kyle Rote, who retired as a Giants player after the 1961 season, remarked "I never before saw a team that tried so hard and lost." 

World Series: New York Yankees over San Francisco, 4-3

 

 

Popular Cartoons   

 

Slinky™ originated from James' experience as a shipbuilder when a coil spring he was working with fell off of a shelf and began to gyrate and make slithering movements as it moved across the floor. The spring appealed to his curiosity and he devised a plan to create a toy out of it.

 

 

 

 

Top Selling ALBUMS- 1962                     

1.	The Best of Sam Cooke - Sam Cooke
2.	Peter, Paul and Mary - Peter, Paul and Mary
3.	Runaround Sue - Dion
4.	Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music - Ray Charles
5.	Sherry and 11 Others - The Four Seasons
6.	Roy Orbison’s Greatest Hits - Roy Orbison
7.	Ray Charles’ Greatest Hits - Ray Charles
8.	The Golden Hits of The Everly Brothers - The Everly Brothers
9.	Moon River and Other Great Themes - Henry Mancini
10.	Lovers Who Wander - Dion

 

 

Late Night TV Talk Shows:  The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson premiered on October 1, 1962. Skitch Henderson stayed on as band leader, but Johnny brought Ed McMahon with him as his announcer. Ed McMahon had been Johnny's announcer on the quiz show Who Do You Trust?  for the previous five years. Johnny also brought his brother, Dick Carson onboard as director. The very first guests on Johnny's new Tonight Show were Rudy Vallee, Joan Crawford, Mel Brooks, and Tony Bennett.

The show averaged 6.3 million viewers within the first week of it's premier!

 

1/26/62 The U.S. spacecraft Ranger 3 goes off course, missing the moon by 20,000 miles

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UFO Crash Las Vegas 4/18/62

7/09/62  Telstar, the first proper telecommunications satellite is put into orbit and President Lyndon B. Johnson takes the first telephone call 'from space'
 

 

 

 

"It has a good beat and you can dance to it."

 

 Dancing was a major feature of "You Know What." The kids who showed up every day "You Know What" aired every weekday afternoon for the first six years) knew all the most popular steps. The Slop. The Hand Jive. The Bop. They even invented a few - the Stroll, the Circle and the Chalypso.  

<------Remember Justine and Bob? 

 

 

Everybody knew the names of The Regulars on Bandstand. Kenny Rossi and Arlene Sullivan, Bunny Gibson and Eddie Kelly, Pat Molittieri, Carmen Jimenz, Joyce Shafer. We followed their dance steps on TV and their personal lives in Teen magazines. We sent some 15,000 fan letters each week.

 

    

                WERE WE  BEATNIKS?

                         Naaa, too young    Beatniks

OR  

HIPPIES?    29 Signs you were raised by Hippies

                 Mmmm, maybe a couple of us :-) 

 

1962 Academy Awards    infoplease.com

Best Picture

Lawrence of Arabia, Sam Spiegel, producer (Columbia)

Best Actor

Burt Lancaster, Birdman of Alcatraz

Best Actress

Anne Bancroft, The Miracle Worker

   

Older Than Dirt Quiz
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Count all the ones that you remember:

1. Blackjack chewing gum
2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water
3. Candy cigarettes
4. Soda pop machines that dispensed bottle
5. Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes
6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
7. Party lines
8. Newsreels before the movie
9. P.F. Flyers
10. Butch wax
11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix (Cherry 43460)
12. Peashooters
13. Howdy Doody
14. 45 RPM records
15. S&H Green Stamps
16. Hi-fi's
17. Metal ice trays with lever
18. Mimeograph paper
19. Blue flashbulb
20. Beanie and Cecil
21. Roller skate keys
22. Cork popguns
23. Drive-ins
24. Studebakers
25. Wash tub wringers

If you remembered all 25 

You could actually BE older than dirt!

What did things cost back 1962?

BBHQ: Prices -- What Things Cost

A can of Coke in 1962, did not exist!

Everything OLD is New Again !

"Vanilla May Be in Coke's Future"

By JUSTIN BACHMAN
.c The Associated Press

ATLANTA (April 1, 2002) - Coca-Cola is reportedly developing a vanilla-flavored version of its best-selling flagship cola, extending the company's palette of flavorings from Cherry Coke and Diet Coke with lemon. The nation's largest soft drink company has prepared samples of packaging for the new drink, which will be sold initially only in North America, according to Beverage Digest, which reported on the vanilla flavor's pending introduction in its current issue.

Coke officials declined to comment on the report. ''It is not yet an absolute certainty, but I think it's very likely that they'll launch a line extension of Coke Classic,'' Beverage Digest editor John Sicher said Monday. ''It's become very clear in the last year or two that new products and innovation are an important component of marketing and drives growth.''

 

Remember when Drug Stores had Soda Fountains?  Maybe they think we forgot that we took the bus to Union or Schenks Corners to the drug store or  just walked down to Hogan's for vanilla cokes......or lemon, lime or cherry flavored cokes?

 

 

"I can dig it; he can dig it; she can dig it; we can dig it; they can dig it; you can dig it."

   

"Did YOU dig it?"

THE CAPITAL TIMES, Friday, June 1, 1962 _____________________________________________________ Plan Monona All-Night Party The 214 members of the Monona Grove High School senior class will be guests at an all-night party at the East Side Businessmen's Assn. club on Friday, June 8.  Theodore C. Larson, 5903 Anthony Place, general chairman of the event, said the party will start at 9 p.m. and continue until 4 a.m. He is assisted in arrangements by a steering committee composed of parents of senior class officers. Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Damgaard, 403 Sethne Ct.; Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Carley, McFarland; and Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Walsvick, 4206 Winnequah rd.

More 60's pages: 

• The 60's

• Official 60's website

• Sixties museum opening

• Historical event timeline for 1962

• Lost in the Fifties

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