A Batman-themed discotheque in early '66.
Thursday, January 29, 2015
Wednesday, January 21, 2015
Where the Bullets Fly--R.I.P. Tom Adams
British actor Tom Adams died in December of 2014. Back in '66, however, he was reprising his role as Charles Vine, the Second Best Secret Agent in the Whole Wide World, in this first of two sequels.
Thursday, January 15, 2015
Tuesday, January 13, 2015
The Flight of the Phoenix
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Although it opened in the last weeks of '65, THE FLIGHT OF THE PHOENIX was a big hit during '66.
Sunday, January 11, 2015
Laugh
A good way to guage popular trends has long been to watch the covers of Archie comics. Here. Let's take a look at the 1977 dated issues (as well as the 2 1967 issues that would have come out in late '66). Above, we see slot car racing, for instance.
Drive-in movies
Long hair
A perennial favorite--snow
bellbottoms
Classroom TV
Another old favorite--jalopy gags
And the go-to beach gag
the new beat
Swimming pools were all the rage
superheroes
loud rock groupd
The British Invasion
And finally, pop art!
