The Arch Hall Billion Dollar Thread got me perusing (or at least browsing) old newspapers. 1962 was the era of Toddler Joel and the baby Mads and it’s increasingly odd to view those increasingly older days.
Space Flight was still puzzling to Americans, unlike a thing random billionaires do on a lark:
You could twist the night away, or at least an indeterminate portion of the night:
If you weren’t a stag, you could catch a double-feature of Guns of Navarrone and The Pirate and the Slave Girl double-feature for a buck at the drive-in.
I guess the stags had to go to the Warner Ritz:
We need an ode to the Super-Bad Seventies, too. Gen-X: REPRESENT!!
(Mike Nelson almost, but not quite, falls into that category: 1964 being the last official year of Boomer-ing. I guess we’ll never have a true Gen-X show host. But that’s what happens when your generation is like a Kraft™ single lost between two huge puffy slices of bread. You just have to suck it up and deal.)
I have access to Newspapers.com myself which I use for research; I tend to search through older papers from the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. Is that the site you use?
It was actually really annoying. IIRC, I found a site that had free archives for Southern California (the San Bernardino Sun and one of the Palm Springs area newspapers) when I was responding to What would you do with a billion dollars and a banker’s salary? and I just used that again.
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