Our Music ‘62-’63 school year

Some Billboard #1 Hits

Bobby Vinton -- Roses Are Red (My Love) 

Four Seasons -- Sherry

Bobby Boris Pickett -- Monster Mash 

Four Seasons -- Big Girls Don’t Cry

Tornados -- Telstar

Steve Lawrence -- Go Away Little Girl

Rooftop Singers -- Walk Right In

Paul & Paula -- Hey Paula

Four Seasons -- Walk Like a Man

Chiffons -- He’s So Fine

Little Peggy March -- I Will Follow Him

Our Movies released ‘62-’63 school year

Lawrence of Arabia

To Kill a Mockingbird

Dr. No

Lolita

The Longest Day

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

How the West Was Won

The Birds

Days of Wine and Roses

The Manchurian Candidate

The Miracle Worker

The Music Man

Mutiny on the Bounty

State Fair

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

That Touch of Mink

April 1963 Academy Awards: “Lawrence of Arabia”; Anne Bancroft; Gregory Peck

TV Show Debuts ‘62-’63 season

The Virginian--first western to air in 90-minute installments NBC

The Jetsons--first program to air in color on ABC

The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson NBC

McHale’s Navy ABC

The Beverly Hillbillies CBS

The Lucy Show CBS

Match Game NBC

Jan 1963 - “Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom” with Marlin Perkins NBC

Feb 1963 - Julia Child’s show “The French Chef”

Apr 1963: - soap operas “General Hospital” and “Doctors”

Trip to the store ‘62-’63

Costs averaged nationwide

5 lb sugar 90 cents

gallon of milk $1.04

1 lb ground coffee 85 cents

1 lb bacon 69 cents

dozen eggs 32 cents

loaf of bread 22 cents

Hershey bar 5 cents

Cheerios 25 cents

Everyday living costs 1963

Costs averaged nationwide

Income $5,800 yearly

New house $12,650

New car $$3,233

Rent $110 monthly

Movie ticket $1.25

gallon of gasoline 29 cents

plus……..

postage stamp 5 cents

pay phone local call 10 cents

Underwood manual typewriter (pica or elite) $119.99

Polaroid 110B camera $119.99

Ladies wool coat w/African Leopard collar $59.50

Ladies silk top $10.90 w/pants $8.90

one-year tuition to Harvard $1,520

Introduced to the U.S. ‘62-’63

Pillbox hats

Smiley face

Fallout shelters

Spring break concept

Push-button telephones

Earliest version of what later became the “computer mouse”

Freeze-dried coffee by Maxwell House

Weight Watchers organization

Word “hypertext” system that eventually led to the internet

Earliest cassette tapes, used in research

Tab, Coca-Cola’s first diet drink

CVS Pharmacy

1963 Sabin’s polio oral sugar-cube vaccine replaced Salk’s shot.

Crazes and fads

Do Wop music

Surf music

Motown music

The Twist

Limbo Rock dance

Lava Lamp

Slinkies revived

Nehru jackets

Troll dolls

Easy Bake Oven

Barbie dolls

Rat Fink game

Sports during our senior year

1962 World Series champion - New York Yankees

1962 Cy Young award - Don Drysdale

1962 AL MVP - Mickey Mantle

1962 NL MVP - Maury Wills

1962 College Football #1 ranked team - USC

1962 Heisman Trophy - Terry Wayne Baker, Oregon State

1962 Pro Football champions-

    AFL -Dallas Texans    NFL -Green Bay Packers

    No Super Bowl until 1967

1963 NCAA basketball champions - Loyola

1963 NBA basketball champions - Boston Celtics

1963 Stanley Cup winner - Toronto Maple Leafs

1963 Kentucky Derby winner -Chateaugay

1963 Preakness winner - Candy Spots

Feb 1963: 1st US female world figure skating champ, Tenley Albright

Feb 1963: AFL’s Dallas Texans became KC Chiefs

Mar 1963: AFL’s NY Titans became the NY Jets

Apr 1963: Golf Masters winner - Jack Nicklaus

Willie Mays and Mickey Mantle signed 1-yr contracts for $100,000

Pro Football Hall of Fame preparing for Sept ‘63 opening in Canton, Ohio.

Foreign leaders during our senior year

France - President Charles de Gaulle

Spain - Prime Minister Francisco Franco

United Kingdom - Prime Minister Harold Macmillan

Canada - Prime Minister John Diefenbaker

Mexico - President Mateos

Cuba - Prime Minister Fidel Castro

India - Prime Minister Nehru

Soviet Union - Premier Nikita Khrushchev

News then, history now

Sept ‘62: UN announced world population was 3 billion

    Wal-Mart had started opening stores (first store July)

    Ringo Starr replaced Pete Best as the Beatles drummer

    “My Fair Lady” closed in NYC after 2,715 performances

Oct ‘62: Barbra Streisand signed her first recording contract

     Beatles released their first record “Love Me Do”

     Cuban missile crisis

     The Bridge of the Americas opened in Panama

Nov ’62: Post Office announced plans to implement a zip code

Dec ‘62: Vaughn Meader’s “1st Family” album goes #1 for 12 weeks

Jan ’63  “Mona Lisa” painting began American tour

Feb ’63  1st flight of a Boeing 727 jet

Mar ‘63   Beatles released first album “Please Please Me”

Apr ’63   Winston Churchill became 1st honorary citizen of U.S.

May ‘63   1st American to climb Mount Everest, James Whittaker

Births during our senior year

Sep ’62 - Melissa Sue Anderson (Mary, Little House on the Prairie)

Oct ’62 - Evander Holyfield (champion boxer)

Nov ’62 - Demi Moore (actress)

Nov ’62 - Jon Stewart (comedian)

Jan ’63 - Michael Jordan (NBA superstar)

Jan ’63 - Larry the Cable Guy (comedian)

Jan ’63 - Seal (singer/songwriter)

Jan ’63 - Pebbles Flintstone (fictional cartoon character)

Mar ’63 - Miss America 1983

Apr ’63 - Conan O’Brien (late night talk show host)

Deaths during our senior year

Sep ’62 - e e cummings (American poet)

Oct ’62 - Hattie McDaniel (actress, Gone With the Wind)

Nov ’62 - Eleanor Roosevelt (former first lady)

Dec ’62 - Charles Laughton (English actor)

Jan ’63 - Robert Frost (American poet)

Mar ’63 - Patsy Cline (country singer)

Mar ’63 - Davey Moore (boxer, died in ring when ko’d)

Apr ’63 - Henrietta Kreis (Wallenda aerialist, fell)

Fort Smith and Arkansas our senior year

Northside High School enrollment - 2,300 students

    Largest high school in the state

    527 graduating seniors

Population of Fort Smith - appx 53,000

Population of Arkansas - appx 1,800,000

Mayor of Fort Smith - Bob Brooksher

Governor of Arkansas - Orval Faubus

Remember these Fort Smith stores and places of business?

    Shipley Donut shops - Grand Ave and Towson Ave

    Quick Freeze Food Locker - near downtown

        --Customers without home freezers stored their meat.

    Prince Drug Store - Towson Ave near Dodson Ave

        --the best ever ice cream cones

    Elmer Cook Real Estate

    Wise Radio & TV Supply - Towson Ave

        --Replaced many TV tubes (remember feathers?)

    Cooley Drug Store - Rogers Ave

    Patrick Shoe Store - Garrison Ave

    Kerwins Sporting Goods

   Midwest Sporting Goods

    R.M.B. Produce, wholesale

        --Remember what we said the R, M, B stood for?

    Lou Faye’s Shoppe (“ladies fashions for the fashionable”)

    Hunt’s Dept Store - downtown

    Boston Store - downtown

    Tilles dress shop - downtown

    Elmore's Record Shop - downtown

   "Doc" Miller Photography - near downtown

    Mitchell’s Studio - Grand Ave

    OTASCO - downtown and Phoenix Village

    Rogers School Supply - near the high school

    Mellie’s Beauty College - near downtown

    Holiday Lanes - bowling alley off Towson Ave

    Winton’s IGA - grocery store on Rogers near Greenwood Ave

    Piggly Wiggly Supermarkets - double green stamps on Wednesdays

    T.G.&Y. variety stores - Phoenix Village and near Creekmore Park

         --Remember what we said the T, G, Y stood for?

    Kress dime store - downtown

        --built in Fort Smith 1911 and closed in 1974