time capsule

By smstar24

  • Fashion

    https://www.retrowaste.com/1960s/fashion-in-the-1960s/
    Facts:
    1) Casual dress became more unisex and often consisted of plaid button down shirts worn with slim blue jeans, comfortable slacks, or skirts. (1960)
    2) It’s almost like the 1950s bottled everyone up so much that the late 1960s exploded like an old pressure cooker. Women were showing more skin than ever before.
    3) Skirts were at the middle of the kneecaps,but by the end of 1961 only the very young continued to wear them short.

  • Transportation

    https://prezi.com/olpr6iqd7k58/transportation-and-technology-in-the-1960s/
    Facts:
    1)At this time people liked to use trains and planes, but would use cars for personal travel (so they would mostly use cars).
    2)Most popular car was a 1964 ford Mustang.
    3)Next most popular was a 1966 Chevy Camaro.

  • New Event Martin Luther King Opposes War

    https://www.pbs.org/opb/thesixties/timeline/timeline_text.html
    Facts:
    1)The Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, delivers a speech entitled “Beyond Vietnam” in front of 3,000 people at Riverside Church in New York City.
    2)In it, he says that there is a common link forming between the civil rights and peace movements.
    3) King proposed that the United States stop all bombing of North and South Vietnam.

  • Famous Actress (Marilyn Monroe)

    https://medium.com/the-nonfiction-zone/18-fascinating-facts-about-marilyn-monroe-f074ccd76f2b
    Facts:
    1)Her real name was norma mortensen
    2)She had lots of plastic surgery done
    3)Tried to commit suicide after husband died

  • Technology ( Magnavox Odyssey)

    http://www.videogameconsolelibrary.com/pg70-odyssey.htm#page=reviews
    Facts:
    1)First video game console
    2)they think of Pong, the ping-pong arcade game released by Atari
    3)Most people call this the “brown box”

  • Athlete Bobby Hull (1957-1980) but mostly famous in the 1960s

    https://www.hockey-reference.com/players/h/hullbo01.html
    Facts:
    1)Is a canadian former ice hockey player who is regarded as one of the greatest players of all time.
    2)His blonde hair, legendary skating speed, end to end rushes, and the ability to shoot the puck at very high velocity, were all a part of the player known as "The Golden Jet
    3)He won the Hart Memorial Trophy as the NHL's most valuable player twice.

  • Movie (psycho)

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054215/
    Facts:
    1)First movie to be seen with a functioning toilet.
    2)The Master of Suspense was well-known for showing up in each of his movies, and psycho was no exception.
    3)Hitchcock paid $9,000 for the film rights to Robert Bloch's novel, based on a positive review.

  • Music (the beach boys)

    https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/articles/features/10_interesting_facts_about_the_beach_boys-71011
    Facts:
    1)Before The Beach Boys They Called Themselves The Pendletones.
    2)Two Members Had to Get a Restraining Order Against Each Other
    3)Though the name and famous albums of Beach Boys portray their Surfing love, only Dennis among them was able to surf in real life.

  • President John Fitzgerald Kennedy (John F. Kennedy)

    https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/1600/presidents/johnfkennedy
    Facts:
    1)He was catholic and sense he was president the church thought they were in charge.
    2)He only won, because when he was talking to the other guy running he was confident and the other guy looked really nervous, and no one wanted a nervous president.
    3)He was the second, and also last president to be assassinated.

  • Toys

    https://www.metv.com/lists/10-most-wanted-christmas-toys-of-the-1960s
    Facts:
    1)Hot Wheels, Matchbox had been selling tiny cars since for over a decade when Mattel jumped in the game with Hot Wheels in 1968.
    2)Light Bright, When launched in 1967, Lite-Brite was billed in catalogs as "an amazing new toy that lets a child color with light."
    3)G.I Joe, An army of little plastic toy soldiers just couldn't stand up to Hasbro's mighty doll.

  • TV Show

    https://www.britannica.com/topic/Scooby-Doo Facts:
    1) Originally titled Mysteries Five, the dog who later became Scooby was originally more of a sidekick character who played the bongos 2) Scooby doo’s full name is “scoobert” and surprisingly, a lot of people don’t know that he is a great dane. 3)The song “Strangers in the Night” is what inspired scooby doo