1967

The oldest Boomer is 21 years old.

Cost of the Average House: $24,600

Median Family Income: $7,200

Minimum Wage: $ 1.40/ hr.

Average Wage: $2.83

Twist ‘N Turn Barbie: buyers would trade in an old doll, and $1.50 and they would get one of the new Twist ’N Turn dolls. In May when the promotion began, 1,250,000 dolls were traded in and donated to charity.

New Car:

Austin Healey Sprite: $ 2,050

Volkswagen Beetle: $1,769

Gallon of Gasoline: 33 cents

McDonald’s Big Mac: 45 cents

TV: “The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour.” “The Carol Burnett Show,” “The Flying Nun,” “The Jonathan Winters Show,” “George of the Jungle, Animated,” “The Atom Ant/Secret Squirrel Show,” “Captain Nice,” The Final Episode of “The Fugitive.“Dragnet-revival,” “Invaders,” “Ironside,” “Guns of Will Sonnett,” “Cowboy in Africa,” “Hondo,” “Dundee and the Culhane,” “Legend of Custer,” “Gentle Ben,” “Good Morning, World,” “Mannix,” “spider-Man,” Animated. “Super Bowl,” “NYPD,” “Washington Week in Review.”

Movies: “The Graduate,” “Bonnie and Clyde,” “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner,” “In The Heat of The Night,” “Doctor Dolittle,” “Cool Hand Luke.” “I Am Curious, Yellow.”

Music: “The Graduate,” Simon & Garfunkel. The Monkees, “I’m a Believer” & “Pleasant Valley Sunday. Nancy Sinatra, “Sugar Town.” Sonny and Cher, “The Beat Goes On.” Johnny Rivers, “Baby I Need Your Loving.” The Turtles, “Happy Together.” The Mamas & the Papas, “Dedicated to the One I Love.” Aretha Franklin, “I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You” & “Respect.” Scott McKenzie, “San Francisco, Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair.” Engelbert Humperdinck, “Release Me.” Donovan, “Mellow Yellow.” Martha and the Vandellas, “Jimmy Mack.” The Royal Guardsmen, “Snoopy vs. The Red Baron.” The Buckinghams, “Kind of a Drag.” The Supremes, “Love is Here and Now You’re Gone” & “The Happening.” Neil Diamond Girl, “You’ll Be a Woman Soon.” The Temptations, “All I Need is You.” The seekers, “Georgy Girl.” Tommy James & the Shondells, “I Think We’re Alone Now.” Frank Sinatra, “That’s Life.” The Young Rascals, “Groovin.”. Aaron Neville, “Tell it Like It Is.” Peaches and Herb, “Close Your Eyes.
The Fifth Dimension, “Up Up and Away.” The Beatles, “Penny Lane” & “Strawberry Fields Forever.” Stevie Wonder, “I Was Made to Love Her.” Bobbie Gentry, “Ode to Billie Joe.” Bill Cosby, “Little Ole Man.” John Fred & His Playboy Band, “Judy in Disguise, with Glasses.” Diana Ross & the Supremes, “Reflections.” The Doors, “Light My Fire.” Gladys Knight & the Pips, “I Heard It Through the Grapevine.” The Mamas and the Papas, “Words of Love.”

May 30, 1967 –Evel Knievel jumps his motorcycle over 16 cars lined up in a row.

January 15, 1967 – The Green Bay Packers beat the Kansas City Chiefs, 35-10, in the first Super, in Los Angeles.
From the book BOOMERS How We Changed The World by Richard A. Jordan
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Sinbad Afros and Bellbottoms (This Video is sooo funny)

Hey, this must be a funny book…Those people over there are starting at you holding my book and laughing. On second thought, they must be laughing at you, because they’re just laughing that tee-heek, tee-hee kind of giggle. See, if they were actually reading my book, you would be hearing bust-out laughs coming from them by now. You think I’m playing? Try this: Open the book and start reading. No, out loud. Louder! Louder! I can’t hear you! There! Look around you-people are really laughing at you now. You always wanted to be the center of attention, to stand out in a crowd-and now here you are! See, my book has helped you and you haven’t even bought it yet. I’m good.

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Robin Williams on Carson with Jonathan Winters 1991

Finally, Johnny Carson turned to face me. In the thirty years Mr. Carson and I did The Tonight Show together, I most enjoyed the first segment, a five-minute slot during which Johnny and I would sit at his desk and chat about absolutely anything of interest. It was never rehearsed. I just loved that spot. It was an opportunity for me to engage in witty repartee with the most clever, accomplished performer I had ever seen, in front of about ten million viewers. I had to be ready for anything. And this was the every first conversation we ever had. “So Ed,” he asked, “what are you doing down in Philadelphia?” I told him about all my shows. He nodded, then asked, “Where’d you go to school?” “Catholic University,
I said, “in Washington, D.C. I studied speech and drama.” “That’s great,” he said, “Very interesting. Hey, thanks for coming up. I really appreciate it.” We shook hands and I walked out of the office. I’ve waited for elevators for a longer time than this meeting took. Producer Art Stark took me into the studio where rehearsals were in progress. Carson came in a little while later and they put the tow of us on camera to see how we looked together. I looked tall, he looked smaller. “Thanks for coming up, Ed,” Stark said. “Well get in touch with you.” I got back on the train to Philly convinced I’d blown the audition, although I didn’t know what else I could have done to impress them. Maybe I shouldn’t have been so tall? I was disappointed it was obvious to me that Carson was a rising star, and I thought it would have been fun to work with him. Besides it was a paying job. Who Do You Trust? Figured to be on the air for another two seasons at least. A broadcasting year is similar to a dog’s year; it’s a multiple of a normal year. The life span of most television programs is less than four years, so two good years on a national program was very desirable. I went home convinced I had been rejected. For three weeks I didn’t hear from anyone. That is the loudest silence you will ever hear. It meant I had not gotten the job. At the same time, one of the companies in Philadelphia for whom I did commercials had chartered a plane and was giving away trips to Europe as a sales promotion. The gimmick was that Alyce and I would be along on the trip. But Alyce didn’t want to go; we had just moved into our new home and she had too much to do. We decided I would take Claudia. For some reason, though, I just didn’t feel comfortable about making the trip. It didn’t feel right. The day before we were to leave, a Friday morning, I decided not to go. Literally minutes after I’d made that decision, Art Stark called and said casually, “Ed, we’d like you to wear suits because we want to emphasize your size. The fact that you’re a big guy, you know, will play well against Johnny. Johnny’s kind of slight, so he likes to wear sport clothes…”I was a little confused. “What are you talking about?” I asked. “Didn’t anybody call you?” he continued. “You got the job. You start Monday.” On October 13, 1958, I went on the air with Johnny Carson for the first time. My job was to introduce the contestants, do the commercials, and occasionally have a brief conversation with him at the beginning of the show. I don’t remember being the slightest bit nervous when the show went on the air. It didn’t even occur to me that it might lead to something else. My biggest hope was that it would lead to a paycheck every other Friday. The first time I walked onstage to introduce our next contestants and hand the questions to Johnny, he established the nature of our television relationship, which would last more than three decades. At that time one of the most popular comic strips was “Mandrake the Magician,” and Mandrake had a big, big manservant, a gentleman’s gentleman, name Lothar. When I came out Johnny pretended not to see me and then turned suddenly and jumped back, as if I had surprised him. “Lothar,” he said, “you startled me.”
From the book For Laughing Out Loud by Ed McManhon with David Fisber
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In 1950, a red-haired comedienne named Lucille Ball faced a major decision. Lucy starred in a popular radio show, while her husband, Desi, was a successful band leader. Now they were about to risk everything in television, and Lucy was worried. Would the show succeed? Was this a career move? What if she flopped? One night, a dear friend appeared to Lucy in a dream. Carole Lombard, a comic actress who had been killed years before in a plane crash, came to Lucy with sound advice. Lombard’s words were short and sweet: “Honey, go ahead. Take a chance. Give it a whirl.”

“Getting into trouble and getting out of it will always be the essence of comedy.” Lucille Ball

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“I loved playing Lucy Ricardo. I got to act out all my childhood fantasies…..It’s so important to have what I call the enchanted sense of play…..I tried to provide hope, faith and fun.”Lucille Ball

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When The Flip Wilson Show debuted in 1970, black faces were still rare on television and black host nonexistent. Then came Flip Wilson to instant acclaim. His show ran with Marcus Welby, M.D. and the All in the Family for top spot in the ratings. His characters (like Gerldine Jones and the flock-fleecing Reverend Leroy) and catchphrases (“The devil made me do it.” “What you see is What you get!”) fixed themselves in America’s consciousness. Pop culture would never be the same. How did Clerow Wilson, a motherless Jersey City grade-school dropout, become a national celebrity, heralded on the cover of Time as “TV’s First Black Superstar”? For the first time, Kevin Cook’s Flip reveals the inside story of Wilson’s rise from rages to riches. In a candid, funny, and finally deeply moving biography of a comedian who changed the face of entertainment, Cook chronicles Wilson’s first stage appearances as a young Airman in the Air Force, his years of struggle on the Chitlin’ Circuit of segregated nightclubs, and his breakthrough on Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show. When he finally achieved his dream of hosting is own show, he staffed it with writers who would go on to greatness, including Richard Pryor and George Carlin. And with what he called his fruit-salad approach(“Something for everybody”), he brought black artists including his friend Pryor, Redd Fox, Aretha Franklin, The Jackson Five, and the Pointer Sisters into prime time by pairing them with white stars. Where else would you see Curtis “Superfly” Mayfield and Andy Criffith on the same show? Or Pryor and Buddy Hackett? Raymond Burr and Stevie Wonder, Taj Mahal and Howard Cosell, David Fost and The Supremes? The Book Flip by Kevin Cook Superfly book, real cool