Flashback 1963!



A typical diner of the 1950's and 60's




Hershey bar
Cost of living:


  • Gallon of gas .25¢
  • Average yearly income $5,623
  • Minimun wage $1.25
  • 1st class postage stamp .05¢
  • Pay phone (local call) .10¢
  • Hershey bar .05¢ (by 1968, this would double)
  • Popular Science magazine .35¢ per issue

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    Dick Clark on American Bandstand







    My Favorite Martian starring Ray Walston and Bill Bixby





    TV highlights of '63:


  • 04/01/1963 - Soap operas "General Hospital" & "Doctors" premier on TV
  • 04/01/1963 - NBC-TV's new daytime game show, "You don't say" begins. Show would run until 09/26/1969.
  • 05/08/1963 - James Bond movie,"Dr No" premieres in U.S.
  • 05/11/1963 - "Puff (The Magic Dragon)" by Peter, Paul & Mary hits #2
  • 05/12/1963 - Bob Dylan walks off Ed Sullivan Show
  • 09/02/1963 - CBS & NBC expand network news from 15 to 30 minutes
  • 09/07/1963 - American Bandstand moves to California and airs once a week on Saturday
  • 09/12/1963 - The CBS & ABC-TV comedy show, "Leave it to Beaver" ends. 234 episodes were filmed.
  • 09/13/1963 - ABC-TV's western series, "Cheyenne" ends with 107 shows to it's credit.
  • 09/16/1963 - "Outer Limits" premieres on ABC-TV with it's first episode, "The Galaxie Being". Show lasted until January 16, 1965 and had 49 episodes.
  • 09/17/1963 - Drama series, "The fugitive" aires on ABC-TV and runs unitl 8/29/1967. 120 episodes were made.
  • 09/18/1963 - ABC-TV's comedy, "The Patty Duke show" aires. Show runs until 08/31/1966 with 104 episodes
  • 09/24/1963 - The CBS-TV situation comedy, "Petty coat junction" aires. It would run up to 09/12/1970 and have 148 episodes.
  • 09/28/1963 - "New Phil Silvers Show," debuts on CBS-TV
  • 09/29/1963 - "Judy Garland Show," debuts on CBS-TV
  • 09/29/1963 - "My Favorite Martian," starring Ray Walston, debuts on CBS-TV. Show lasted until September 4th, 1966 and had 107 episodes
  • 12/10/1963 - 6 year old Donny Osmond singing debut on Andy Williams Show
  • 12/30/1963 - The NBC-TV game show, "Lets make a deal" aires.
    • You don't say game show




    Do not attempt to adjust your monitor...we are controling transmission...




    Do you want to keep the money, or go for whats behind curtain number 1?


     
    Top singles of '63:


    Blue Velvet (Bobby Vinton)
    Dominique (The Singing Nun)
    Fingertips--Part 2 (Little Stevie Wonder)
    He's So Fine (The Chiffons)
    Hey Paula (Paul and Paula)
    I Will Follow Him (Little Peggy March)
    My Boyfriend's Back (The Angels)
    Sugar Shack (Jimmy Gilmer & The Fireballs)
    Sukiyaki (Kyu Sakamoto)
    Walk Like A Man (The Four Seasons)     		 


     
    Movies of '63:


    It's a mad, mad, mad, mad world
    The Birds
    The Great escape
    Dr. No
    From Russia with love
    The Haunted Palace     		 


    John F. Kennedy











    Famous Deaths:


    January 29th - Robert Frost
    March 5th - Hawkshaw Hawkins (airplane crash)
    March 5th - Patsy Cline (airplane crash)
    November 22nd - John F. Kennedy (assassinated)
    November 24th - Lee Harvey Oswald (shot and killed)

    Famous Births:


    February 2nd - Pebbles Flintstone (cartoon character)
    February 9th - Travis Tritt
    February 17th - Michael "Air" Jordan
    February 20th - William Baldwin
    April 8th - Julian Lennon
    April 18th - Conan O'Brien
    June 9th - Johnny Depp
    June 15th - Helen Hunt
    August 9th - Whitney Houston
    August 22nd - Tori Amos
    November 5th - Tatum O'Neal
    November 29th - Andrew McCarthy
    December 18th - Brad Pitt
    December 19th - Jennifer Beals








    It's a girl! Pebbles Flintstone is born


    Special events of '63:


  • Touch-tone telephones are introduced.The touchtone telephone
  • FM radio is now available for cars.
  • Beginning in 1963, Marlboro cigarettes ends using tattooed sailors and athletes in their ads and begins using cowboys-Phillip Morris research shows that sales increased whenever the cowboys were used in their campaign ads.
  • The Supreme Court rules that reading verses from the Bible in public schools is unconstitutional.
  • President Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas; two days later, his accused killer, Lee Harvey Oswald, is shot and killed by Jack Ruby
  • New York renames its Idlewild airport in memory of the assassinated president.
  • The Academy award for Best Picture goes to "Tom Jones."
  • Beatlemania sweeps England
  • The Rolling Stones record their first single, "Come On."
  • Stanley H. Durwood became the father of the 'multiplex' movie theater in 1963 when he opened the first-ever mall multiplex, composed of two side-by-side theaters with 700 seats at Ward Parkway Center in Kansas City.
  • 01/12/1963 - "Go Away Little Girl" by Steve Lawrence peaks at #1
  • 02/09/1963 - 7th largest snowfall in NYC history (42.4 cm, 16.7")
  • 02/20/1963 - Willie Mays (SF Giants) signs a record $100,000 per year contract
  • 02/25/1963 - Beatles release their 1st single in US "Please Please Me"
  • 03/22/1963 - Beatles release 1st album, "Please Please Me"
  • 03/31/1963 - L.A. ends streetcar service after 90 years
  • 04/21/1963 - Beatles meet Rolling Stones for the first time
  • 05/03/1963 - Martin Luther King Jr delivers his "I have a dream" speech
  • 05/10/1963 - Decca signs Rolling Stones on advice of Beatle George Harrison
  • 06/08/1963 - American Heart Association is the first agency to campaign against cigarettes
  • 06/22/1963 - "Little" Stevie Wonder (age 13) releases "Fingertips" A silver 1964 Kennedy half dollar
  • 07/01/1963 - US postal service institutes (Zone Improvement Plan) zip code
  • 08/08/1963 - Kingsmen release "Louie, Louie," radio stations label it obscene
  • 08/31/1963 - "Hot line" between Moscow-Washington, D.C. installed
  • 09/28/1963 - "Little Deuce Coupe" by The Beach Boys peaks at #15
  • 12/30/1963 - Congress authorizes Kennedy half dollar
  • 12/31/1963 - Dear Abby show premieres on CBS radio (runs 11 years)



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