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.
1
The Superbowl
2
‘The Doors’ album
3
The Slurpee
4
Lunar Orbiter 3
5
Lunar Orbiter 3
6
The ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ ride at Disneyland
7
‘The Happening’ by The Supremes
8
The first handheld calculator prototype
9
The Big Mac
10
The first flight of a Boeing 737
11
The counter-top Microwave
12
‘The Outsiders’
13
The Monkees ‘Daydream Believer’
14
Lite Brite
15
Aretha Franklin’s ‘Respect’
16
Battleship
17
Nicole Kidman
18
The Beatles ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’
19
Hostess’ Ding Dongs and Ho Hos
20
Jimi Hendrix played his first major performance at the Monterey Pop Festival in June of 1967.
21
‘Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?’
22
The first issue of ‘Rolling Stone’
23
Thurdgood Marshall became the first African-American Justice on October 2nd, 1967.