The 1960s
The Futuro House's Spaceship Chic: A Sci-Fi Pad Of One'...
February 20, 2019
A Futuro II photographed on the grounds of the Philadelphia International Airport in 1970. Source: Bettmann/Getty Images) This bulbous round structure is not ...
7 Things That Didn't Fly In The 1960s But Seem Tame Now
February 12, 2019
Family Riding In Convertible, 1960s. A man, woman and three children smile from a convertible while driving on a family trip, 1960s. Source: (Lambert/Getty Images)...
The Era Of Segregation: Historical Photos Of Inequality
January 26, 2019
The United States has come a long way since institutionalized segregation. Historical photos, though, are a powerful reminder of the injustice of the "separate ...
Where Did The Peace Symbol Come From?
January 23, 2019
A group of active duty American soldiers out of uniform from the group 'GIs for Peace' carry a large banner and march amid others during a protest against the war in Vietnam, Washin...
The 'Manson Girls:' Who Were They, And Where Are They N...
January 22, 2019
The young women known as the "Manson Girls" had been normal, pretty, bright teenagers, but they're remembered for the brutal murder of seven people. Susan At...
Violence At Altamont: The 'Hells Angels Stabbing' And T...
January 16, 2019
David Crosby and Graham Nash perform with Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young at the Altamont Speedway Free Festival, California, United States, 6th December 1969. S...
This Man Was Jeopardy’s First Host. Who Was Art Fleming...
January 15, 2019
Left: Art Fleming in a 'Jeopardy!' publicity photo. Right: Fleming in a cameo appearance in 'Airplane II: The Sequel' (1982). Sources: (NBC/NBCU Photo Bank vi...
The Graduate: Rare Facts About An Era-Defining Film
January 11, 2019
Released in 1967, The Graduate launched Dustin Hoffman's career -- but do you know your Graduate trivia? The movie has been endlessly analyzed as a document of the ...
Batman's Adam West, And The Sexy Love Life We Never Kne...
January 8, 2019
Left: American actor Adam West, 1967. Source: (Photo by Harry Dempster/Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images). Right Frank Gorshin as The Riddler. Source: IMDB ...
History of Driver's Ed: Simulators and Scare Films
January 4, 2019
Though it has a longer history, driver's education since the '50s has two components nobody can forget: driving simulators and scare films. The simulators were contr...
'Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid:' Why That Ending?
January 3, 2019
Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid's ending, a freeze-frame of our outlaw heroes right before they charge half of the Bolivian army, is sudden and might even mak...
History-Changing Events That Took Place In The 1960s
December 22, 2018
The 1960s brought many changes to America that changed the course of our history.In 1960, Chubby Checker brought a new dance craze, ‘The Twist.’ A quirky dance mo...
Kwanzaa: A Groovy New Holiday
December 18, 2018
Kwanzaa celebration in 2013. (David Cooper/Toronto Star via Getty Images) The groovy sixties gave us a new holiday to celebrate during the winter holiday season, in a lieu of or in additi...
'Seasons In The Sun' By Terry Jacks: A Melancholy, Catc...
December 17, 2018
Photo of Terry Jacks - CIRCA 1970: Photo of Terry Jacks Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images In 1973, Canadian musicians hadn't had much luck penetrati...
Shel Silverstein: 'Giving Tree' Author Also Wrote 'A Bo...
December 13, 2018
Photo of Shel Silverstein, 1968 (Photo by Alice Ochs/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images) Today, we remember the American writer Shel Silverstein more for his ...
They Say This Was The Worst TV Show Ever. Are They Righ...
December 8, 2018
There have been plenty of terrible sitcom ideas in the history of television, but the short-lived series My Mother The Car, a worst-show-ever candidate, was ...
Groovy Prom Songs From The ‘60s And ‘70s
December 7, 2018
High school proms are and have been an exciting American tradition for many high school students. Typically, proms are exclusively for upper class-men and have historicall...
'Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch?' Why The Four Tops Didn't Like...
December 4, 2018
Released on June 19, 1965, "I Can’t Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)" thrust The Four Tops into the mainstream with their first chart-topping hit. The qu...
The UFO Craze Of The '60s and '70s
November 30, 2018
UFOs sightings happen fairly frequently (at least according to UFO sighting witnesses), but in the 1960s and '70s, alien crafts were spotted almost every week throughout America and the...
More Than Madge the Manicurist: The Marvelous Jan Miner
November 29, 2018
Promotional portrait of American actor Jan Miner (1917 - 2004) for the radio program, 'Second Mrs. Burton,' circa 1946. (Photo by CBS Photo Archive/Getty Images) ...
Elvis Presley’s Favorite Songs …They May Not Be What Yo...
November 28, 2018
'Elvis' - The Comeback TV Special BURBANK, CA - JUNE 27: Rock and roll musician Elvis Presley performing on the Elvis comeback TV special on June 27, 1968. ...
Groovy, Sexy Waterbeds
November 27, 2018
Model lying atop the 'Pleasure Island' waterbed in 1971 designed by Aaron Donner. (Photo by Heinz Kluetmeier/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images) Throughout the 1970s, many swinging singles ...
Lisa Loring As Wednesday: 'Addams Family's Creepy, Cute...
November 24, 2018
Lisa Loring as Wednesday Addams in 1964, and during the 1980s. Source: ABC Photo Archives/ABC via Getty Images; thehollywoodstore.com On The Addams Family, Li...
Christmas Episodes From The Groovy Era
November 23, 2018
With Christmas music starting the day after Halloween and retail giants having their Black Friday sales on Thanksgiving Day, it can be quite easy to become overwhelmed by the ma...
Beatlemania: 52 True Stories About The Craziest Fans Th...
November 22, 2018
The Beatles' "Love Me Do" was released in 1962; the following year saw the release of "Please Please Me," "From Me To You," "She Loves You," "I Want To Hold Your ...
Sitcom Catchphrases You'll Never Forget As Long As You ...
November 17, 2018
Gary Coleman as Arnold Jackson, Todd Bridges as Willis Jackson on 'Diff'rent Strokes' -- Photo by: Paul Drinkwater/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank There's nothing like a ...
Groovy Era Airline Stewardesses Provided Service with a...
November 12, 2018
The Wright Brothers, Wilbur and Orville, brought the concept of air travel to the forefront with their invention of the airplane in 1903. The original airpl...
Young Buffy Sainte-Marie In The '60s: A Native American...
November 8, 2018
Buffy Sainte-Marie in a studio portrait from 1969; Buffy Sainte-Marie in concert in Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1968. Source: Jack Robinson/Hulton Archive/Getty Imag...
The '70s Bean Bag Chair: For Serious Rec Room Lounging
November 7, 2018
Bean bag chairs were standard furniture during the 1970s, and can still be found in many a rec room to this day. In the era of non-conformity, bean bag chairs co...
Remember Romper Room?
November 6, 2018
Hostess Susan Gifford of the TV show 'Romper Room' instructing the children. (Photo by Carl Iwasaki/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images) If you are a child of the sixties or seventies, you pr...
Retro Fragrances From The Groovy Era
November 4, 2018
The '60s and '70s were some really wild and crazy years. Social norms and behaviors were changing and so was fashion. As popular as fashion always was and continues to be, the out...
Conspiracy Theories of the '60s and '70s
November 3, 2018
In his 1997 movie, Conspiracy Theory, Mel Gibson played a conspiracy theorist whose life becomes endangered when one of his theories turns out to be true. But conspiracy th...
Stars And Their Cars
November 2, 2018
Classic cars and sporty style cars are not just for the rich and famous but they do include the rich and famous. Here are just a few rich and famous stars with their beloved cars. Debra Paget jus...
If You Were Born In The GROOVY Era Then You Will Rememb...
November 1, 2018
Diverse First Grade Classroom ST. LOUIS-03/17/67- A junior United Nations is present in the classes of Frazier School, Brentwood, Mo. where seventeen countries ...
New Math: The Curriculum That Failed Students And Teach...
October 26, 2018
High School students in the 1970s working on an algebra problem. (Photo by Boris Spremo/Toronto Star via Getty Images) They're two words that still scare teac...
All The Presidents' Daughters Of The 1960s And '70s
October 23, 2018
Presidential candidate John F. Kennedy holding daughter Caroline outdoors on Election Day, 1960. (Photo by Paul Schutzer/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images) Gr...
Common Practices From the Groovy Era That Would NEVER “...
October 22, 2018
According to American society’s standards of today, if you were born during or before the groovy era, you just might be lucky to be alive! The rite of pas...
Game Shows Of The '60s And '70s: TV Winners (And Losers...
October 17, 2018
Bob Eubanks on 'The Newslywed Game,' 1969. Photo by ABC Photo Archives/ABC via Getty Images From the very beginning of television, classic game shows came out...
Scary, Spooky Songs Of The Sixties And Seventies
October 15, 2018
The 1960s and 1970s were the best eras for spooky, scary novelty songs, and with Halloween just around the corner, now is a great time to remember the creepy tunes tha...
When KFC Was Kentucky Fried Chicken & The Colonel Was S...
October 14, 2018
You might have grown up on Kentucky Fried Chicken -- but you can't get it now. In fact, the name "Kentucky Fried Chicken" died in 1991, when the chain change...
The Yummy, Gummy And Sugar-Sugary Story Of Bubblegum Po...
October 12, 2018
Who remembers bubblegum pop? Chart hits like the Lemon Pipers' "Green Tambourine," the Music Explosion's "Little Bit O' Soul," and the Archies' "Sugar Sugar"...
Unforgettable Songs From The 1960s Era
October 7, 2018
Singer/Inductee Gene Chandler attends the 4th Annual Rhythm & Blues Music Hall Of Fame Induction Ceremony, August 21, 2016 in Detroit, Michigan. (Photo by Monica Morgan/Getty Im...
Brando, McQueen, Mitchum, Burton: Hollywood Bad Boys Of...
October 4, 2018
Marlon Brando as Stanley Kowalski in 'A Streetcar Named Desire'. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) We've always been interested in celebrity antics and m...
Kris Kristofferson: The Country Outlaw Who Went Hollywo...
October 1, 2018
Kris Kristofferson on the cover of his 1970 debut album 'Kristofferson,' and in the 1977 film 'Semi-Tough.' Source: (discogs.com; United Artists/Getty Images) ...
Memorable Nuggets From 1961
September 29, 2018
Harpo Marx surprising someone on the comedy television show 'Candid Camera', May 1961. (Photo by CBS Photo Archive/Getty Images) Some of the highlights from 1961 brought us some hilariou...
You Won’t Believe These College Dorm Rooms Of The 1960s
September 25, 2018
1960: Co-eds playing campus chess with the men's dorm opposite by moving big cardboard pieces into visible windows, after first plotting strategy on a real chess...
TV In The '60s: Three Channels, So Many Classic Shows
September 23, 2018
In the 1960s, you didn't have the deluxe package of premium channels and six ESPNs and on-demand everything -- you had three channels and programming happened on ...
'Please Don't Squeeze The Charmin:' How Mr. Whipple Mad...
September 18, 2018
"Please don't squeeze the Charmin," said Mr. Whipple, a store manager in a TV commercial. And TV viewers, who probably wouldn't have squeezed the Charmin, fo...
Erin Moran: From 'Happy Days' To Not-So-Happy Days
September 8, 2018
Left: Tom Bosley, Erin Moran, and Scott Baio on 'Joanie Loves Chachi.' Right: Erin Moran publicity photo cfrom 1983. Source: IMDB; Photo by Walt Disney Television via G...
Paper Dresses: A Brief 1966 Fashion Fad
September 6, 2018
In 1966, the Scott Paper Company introduced the world to paper dresses, a type of disposable fad fashion that became a short-lived viral sensation. The Scott Paper Company was ...
“McHale’s Navy” …. They Don’t Make Them Like This Anymo...
September 5, 2018
Ernest Borgnine And Jean Willie In 'McHale's Navy 'Claudine Longet, Ernest Borgnine and Jean Willie all close for a photograph in a scene from the tel...
The Rolling Stones In The Groovy Era
August 24, 2018
The Rolling Stones English rock group The Rolling Stones, London, 1963. Left to right: Mick Jagger, Charlie Watts, Brian Jones, Keith Richards and Bill Wyman. (Photo by Terry O'Neill...
Donna Douglas As Elly May Clampett: A Hillbilly Honey i...
August 22, 2018
American viewers had plenty of bombshells with comedic chops to choose from on 1960s sitcoms -- one of the national favorites was without a doubt Donna Dougl...
Can You Still Do These 10 Dances From The 1960s?
August 7, 2018
So many great songs of the 1960s inspired their own dances. Teeny-boppers were quick to adopt the dances moves that they observed on television dance shows, like Ameri...
How To Identify A Groovy Stoner From Back In The Day
August 3, 2018
Woman Smoking Marijuana A hippie woman lights up a marijuana joint in Golden Gate Park. (Photo by © Ted Streshinsky/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images) The countercultu...
'Hogan's Heroes' Cast Included An Actual Holocaust Surv...
July 25, 2018
On Hogan's Heroes, Bob Crane's Col. Hogan and his international band of prisoners-of-war had a cozy, though adversarial, relationship with their captors, in ...
1960s Fallout Shelters: Cramped Quarters For Nuclear Fa...
July 19, 2018
Left: The National Museum of American History's recreation of the interior of a fallout shelter. Right: Model Mary Lou Minor demonstrates a $1250 backyard unit ...
What Was The Cost Of First-Class Postage Stamps In The ...
July 17, 2018
Close-up of a 10-cent US postage stamp (designed by Paul Calle) that commemorates the Apollo 11 moon landing (which occurred on July 20, 1969) and was first iss...
Random Pictures from the 60s
July 16, 2018
The '60s was a time of many historic events in the United States. Many of these changes were of a social and political nature. Most of these changes reshaped the way we lived our lives.As...
CCR's 'Bad Moon Rising' And The 1941 Movie That Inspire...
July 6, 2018
In March 1969, John Fogerty had just written a song he wasn't too sure about -- nevertheless, he went into the studio to record it with his band, Creedence C...
Trippy Photos From The 60s Of Psychedelic Everything
July 4, 2018
The groovy era was a time of cultural change, to say the least. The counterculture generation was all about new ideas, tolerance and, yes… bucking the system! That...
The Grooviest Spider-Man Memes (Inspired By The 1960s C...
June 25, 2018
Spiderman, Spiderman,Does whatever a spider can,Spins a web, any size,Catches thieves, just like flies,Look out, here comes the Spiderman!If you grew up in t...
Joanna Lumley: Swinging '60s Bond Girl Who Played Ab-Fa...
June 22, 2018
Left: Joanna Lumley, the 'Bond' girl and star of the TV series 'The Avengers' as Purdy beside an anti-war poster icirca 1965 Right: Lumley as Patsy on 'Absolute...
Cher, No Sonny: Hot Photos Of The Young Star In Her Pri...
June 20, 2018
Cher on the poster for the 1969 film 'Chastity,' and in New York City, 1974. Source: IMDB; Lynn Goldsmith/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images The performer known as C...
The Posters We Put On Our Bedroom Walls In The '60s And...
June 19, 2018
Nearly every teen bedroom in the 1960s and 1970s had posters covering all the walls. Teens created shrines to their favorite hot celebrity, favorite band, an...
Punch Buggy! (No Punch Backs!)
June 18, 2018
Beetle Sedan circa 1961: Promotional studio image of a 1962 Volkswagen Beetle Sedan. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) The Volkswagen (VW) Beetle has been quite a presence in the Un...
Macramé Of The '70s: The Softest, Shaggiest, Most '70s ...
June 15, 2018
It was the crafty craze of the '70s -- macramé! A weaving and knotting technique that made soft, shaggy, volumetric things that could be hung or worn. Macra...
1960s Cheerleaders: Rah! Rah! Rah!
June 5, 2018
ATHENS, GA - CIRCA 1960: Cheerleaders of the University of Georgia Bulldogs football team perform at Sanford Stadium in Athens, Georgia. (Photo by University of Georgia/Collegiate Imag...
Skateboarding In 1965: Americans Fall For Sidewalk Surf...
June 1, 2018
Left: Patti McGee, the first Woman's National Skateboard Champion, does a handstand on her skateboard, California, early 1965. Right: Opening sequence of 'Skate...
Rare Walmart Photos: How We Shopped In The '60s & '70s
May 30, 2018
Today, Walmart is ubiquitous. In 2019, there are 4,769 Walmart stores in the United States, and a recent study found that 95% of American consumers buy something...
Astro, Benji, Checkers: Famous Dogs Of The '50s, '60s A...
May 23, 2018
Veterok, one of two dogs (the other was Ugoloik) launched into space by the Soviets in 1966. This pair of pups set the record for longest stretch in space, at 2...
Tang, The Astronauts' Drink That NASA Didn't Invent
May 22, 2018
There's nothing like a celebrity endorsement to give your brand that cool factor -- just ask the makers of Tang. Astronauts drank it in space in the 1960s, and ever...
U.S. Presidents Who Served In The White House During Th...
May 9, 2018
United States Presidents of the '60s and '70s were among a demographic of men that were young enough to grasp the concept of change but old enough to impleme...
We All Wish Our Parents Bought Us These Valuable Vintag...
April 6, 2018
For years and years kids have loved their toys. Very early children’s toys were made of metal or wood and were heavy and clunky. Many toys were homemade in...
Here Comes The Judge, And More Groovy Cars from the '60...
March 28, 2018
The names command reverence now: Mustang, Chevelle, Charger, GTO, Corvette. In the 1960s, American car buyers fell in love with speed and power. Manufacturer...
What Kinds Of Toys Were Kids Playing With In The 1960s?
March 27, 2018
Dad on the floor playing w. his 3-yr-old son who is sitting in the middle of circular toy railroad track, watching an electric train go around in living room at th...
Simon & Garfunkel's 'Mrs. Robinson:' Where Did You Go, ...
March 20, 2018
Simon & Garfunkel's song "Mrs. Robinson" is almost inseparable from the 1967 film The Graduate, in which it appears. Mrs. Robinson is one of the main charact...
The Skin-Tight Dress Marilyn Monroe Wore For Kennedy's ...
March 15, 2018
Actress Marilyn Monroe sings "Happy Birthday" to President John F. Kennedy at Madison Square Garden, for his upcoming 45th birthday. Source: Bettmann / Getty ...
Why Jackie Kennedy Refused To Remove Her Blood-Stained ...
March 14, 2018
November 22, 1963: President John F. Kennedy and his wife Jackie, who is holding a bouquet of roses, just after their arrival at the airport for the fateful dri...
Eric Clapton Almost Replaced George Harrison In The Bea...
March 8, 2018
CIRCA 1974: Rock and roll guitarist Eric Clapton performs onstage with a Fender Stratocaster electric guitar wearing a gas station attendant jump suit in circa ...
