SUDDENLY IT'S 1960return to home page
SUDDENLY IT'S 1960
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It's 1960.....and The population is 177,830,00.. .....................(more below)............................ |
Aluminum cans were brand
new and Cassius Clay (later Muhammad Ali) won his first professional
bout... John-john was born.... The Pirates won the Series and the Eagles
won the NFL championship game..... Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho is the
top grossing film in America, making $32,000,000.... James Michener wrote
"Hawaii", and an unknown group called the Beatles made their
debut in Hamburg, Germany.....  |
  John F. Kennedy narrowly defeated Richard Nixon and became the youngest man ever to be elected to the office of President.... |
Nikita Krushchev pounded his shoe
on a table at a General Assembly of the United Nations and told us,
"We will bury you!"...... The U.S. Food and Drug Adminstration
approved the sale of the birth control pill (up
to that time, the best birth control was our date's fathers and their
fathers' buddies, Smith and Wesson....webmaster's
comments)......  |
  The first weather satellite, TIROS-1 was launched and Francis Gary Powers was shot down over the Soviet Union, sparking off a U.S.-Soviet crisis..... The winter Olympics was held in Squaw Valley, California and ( to the delight of most girls and a few guys,) Elvis was discharged from the Army.... |
The Edsel died, and the D.J.
payola scandal hit the papers.... Astroturf, Librium, Rayon and the
felt-tip pen were born (or made as the case may be)..... In the summer
Olympics, Wilma Rudolf won three gold medals.... Butterfield 8, Elmer
Gantry and Exodus came out on the big screen (which
was the movies, since most of us had black and white 21" screens).....  |
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Besides, Psycho, some of the top
movies were La Dolce Vita (which none of us saw,
because we were too busy in Sunday School to go to the movies),
the Alamo, G.I. Blues, The Magnificent Seven, The Time Machine and Never
On Sunday..... |
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| Stamps were 4 cents, a dozen eggs cost $0.47, and a gallon of milk was 57 cents.... Xerox introduced the first Commercial reproduction machine and the Dow-Jones hit a high of 685.... Hurricane "Donna" hit the East Coast causing over a hundred deaths in the U.S. and the Antilles... | Our class began high school 4 years ago with 48 states and graduated this year with 50 as Hawaii became a state in August of '59....Chubby Checker gave the chiropractic profession a big boost with "Let's Do the Twist" and the subsequent dance craze that went with it. |
Candid, quick memories of 1960 (Graduates of 1960, this is for you.... send a short paragraph- or picture- to the webmaster)
| Had a 1950 baby blue Studebaker coupe, my buddy had a '50
Chevvie, and we planned a trip up and down the East Coast after
graduation. Never did make it that year. Can't figure out why
we planned it. Neither of our cars would have made it out of
Georgia, much less a couple of thousand miles.... Don Hall |
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