If you spent your youth in the early '60s, like a lot of us did practicing baseball everyday at places like Loos School playground and then playing Friday night games at Triangle Park, then Ted Williams was your hero. Ted Williams, considered by some baseball experts, was the greatest hitter to ever play the game. In what seemed an act of divine intervention, he blasted a home run with his final swing. He retired with two American League MVP Awards, six batting titles, a career batting average of .344 and 521 home runs.
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| Bottom L -R Ernie Pierson, "The Jer", unknown, Rick Kender......2nd Row Jimmie Sachs, "Skeeter" Kender |
The first prime-time animated cartoon hit the air waves in Sept.1960....Barney Rubble and Fred Flintstone and the rest of the gang entertained kids and adults alike. Patterned after the Honeymooners, the show always started off with Fred shouting "Yabba Dabba Doo".
Although "To Kill a Mocking Bird", as I had mentioned earlier, was published in 1960, another "classic" that some of us had a chance to read....certainly not out in the open....but in the confines of a locked bedroom, a secret place behind the garage or yet back to our kingdom, at Loos School but deep in the woods behind the school......the book was "Lady Chatterley's Lover"...According to the press, it "helped usher in a new era of literary freedom"......hell, I thought it was just a book about sex.
Speaking of sex..In May, 1960, a pill received approval from the FDA and in the following 6 months over a half-million prescriptions were filled.........it was called the "miraculous tablet....we knew it as the birth control pill.
"The King": was discharged from the Army in 1960 and he recorded three No. 1. hits immediately after his release...."Stuck on You".... "It's Now or Never".....and "Are you Lonesome Tonight"......
MOVIES: SONGS:
The Apartment Chain Gang
Butterfield 8 El Paso
La Dolce Vita Save the Last Dance for Me
Elmer Gantry Theme from "A Summer Place"
Magnificent 7 "The Twist"
Ocean's 11
Where the Boys Are
TELEVISION:
The Andy Griffith Show
Candid Camera
My Three Sons
Route 66
Thriller
Other items in the news in the first year of the '60s decade included:
Lucy divorces Desi.........Gary Powers gets shot down in his U-2 plane....Dick Clark testifies to Congress about payola..........Arnold Palmer comes from behind to win the U.S. Open...............and Parkmoor Drive-In becomes the hot spot for Fairview and Colonel White students....
Life was pretty simple back then or so we thought...but on the horizon a terrible war was looming and it would divide our country..............and the Ruskies would be putting a man in space
NEXT:
1961...The Berlin Wall goes up......Freedom Riders.........and the Selectric typewriter is invented
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