This cutie is sporting a sweater knit dress. This is more or less how all the gals were dressing 50 years ago, in 1967. Half a century is quite a long time, and things come and go. They evolve. Here are a few things that either have or will be turning 50 in this calendar year.
The Superbowl
‘The Doors’ album
The Slurpee
Lunar Orbiter 3
The 25th amendment
The ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ ride at Disneyland
‘The Happening’ by The Supremes
The first handheld calculator prototype
The Big Mac
The first flight of a Boeing 737
The counter-top Microwave
‘The Outsiders’
The Monkees ‘Daydream Believer’
Lite Brite
Aretha Franklin’s ‘Respect’
Battleship
Nicole Kidman
The Beatles ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’
Hostess’ Ding Dongs and Ho Hos
Jimi Hendrix played his first major performance at the Monterey Pop Festival in June of 1967.
‘Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?’
The first issue of ‘Rolling Stone’
Thurdgood Marshall became the first African-American Justice on October 2nd, 1967.
The first ever ATM machine
Will Ferrell
‘Bonnie and Clyde’
“Pringles Newfangled Potato Chips”
‘Cool Hand Luke’
‘All You Need Is Love”