1961-65 Margaret & Family

A little travel back in time...(I'm the small one)

 

That's my mom holding me, my sister Jennifer in the red coat (and next to my mom in the other shots) and my sister Chris with the white hat. Me in the bonnet. Chris is looking very Jackie Kennedy.

 From left to right: Darlene (our cousin), Jennifer (my sister), Chris (sister), my Dad and me,
with our mom in the back. At our pool when we lived in Antioch. The only house I've ever lived in with a pool and I have no memories (OK, a couple)! Russ and I visited this spot many years
ago and the house was right next to a KFC and the pool had been cemented in. 

We left and there went the neighborhood!

 A princess from the start. 

Proof! I was a natural blonde! Ages: 3, 10, 18.

 Chris, Jennifer and me and Mopsy as a puppy. On the ranch in Stockton. 1965?

 Again, no memories of this.

1961 Fashions Pt 2

I'm currently fascinated with Breakfast at Tiffany's and the black dresses Audrey Hepburn wears in it. (I have yet to see the movie!) Here are the two that seem to be iconic from the movie.

1961 Fashions, Pt 1

Some wonderful images from Fashion-Era.com. See their website for even more photos. There were plenty of "leftovers" from the 50s through the mid-60s.

A great description of Women's fashions in 1961: 
http://www.paperpast.com/html/1961_fashion.html

Men's Fashion:

Also from
http://www.paperpast.com/html/1961_fashion.html

Men's Fashion.---The trim, easy two-button suit was the important item in men's fashions for 1962. The look established by President Kennedy was as immediately popular as the Ivy League three-button suit was 10 years earlier. The two-button suit allowed more shoulder, more lapel, and more chest room, and exposed more shirt and tie. There was also a small, growing interest in the one-button suit jacket.

Classic suiting fabrics continued to be featured, such as worsteds, cotton and synthetic cords, sharkskins, mohairs, and iridescent blends. Camel became important for fall, while shetlands and rugged tweeds dominated the leisure-wear market. Gray flannel, out of fashion for five years, returned in more durable blends. The ski-look in country clothes was as outstanding in men's sportswear as in women's. Fur-trimmed collars and fur-lined semi casual coats, as well as suede and suede-trimmed jackets, were also popular in leisure clothes. Odd jackets continued in casual wear, with more prominent patterns.

Brown for town made a surprising comeback, often with subtle stripings of black, blue, or green. High-rising slip-on shoes with square toes and new wing tips were shown for casual as well as evening wear. Stripes were popular in shirts and ties. Hats with preshaped crowns or triangular convex forms and semicasual town hats in silk and velour made fashion news.

1961 Movies

Here are a few of the big movies that came out in 1961.

From the website: http://sixties60s.com/1961movies.htm 

Some of the good ones....

The Absent-Minded Professor
One Hundred and One Dalmatians 
The Alamo

Breakfast at Tiffany's

King of Kings

Exodus
The Parent Trap
Swiss Family Robinson
A Raisin in the Sun
The World of Suzie Wong
La Dolce Vita
El Cid
The Errand Boy (Jerry Lewis)
The Ladies Man (Jerry Lewis)
Flower Drum Song
Pocketful of Miracles
Splendor in the Grass
Two Rode Together

Babes in Toyland
The Young Ones
Westside Story

And then some of the "B" movies

Reptilicus - Danish movie filmed twice in English and Danish. Miners find a dragon's tail which regenerates to reek havoc in Amsterdam.

The Pit and the Pendulum Roger Corman and Vincent Price team up for the second, and most acclaimed of the ten stylistic Edgar Allen Poe series.

Atlantis, the Lost Continent Geroge Pal's worst movie with lots of footage taken from Quo Vadis and the Naked Jungle.

 

Mothra - Toho Studios, gives us the first of ten starring the friendly monster (non larval stage).

Also a link in case you want to see the entire list of 397 movies that came out that year!


http://www.myvideostore.com/content/movies/year.html?client=&year=1961

1961 Trivia

My "big" birthday is coming up and I've been having fun researching what the world was like that year, and that day I came into the world.

Here's a newsreel from that day and also a recording of a Kennedy giving a talk that day.

What I learned on a field trip

My DD's school went to the Warm Springs Dam Fish Hatchery today and one of the things I learned was that fish are born with all the scales they are ever going to have, and they are a lot like tree rings–you can see a ring for each season they have lived, and are wider when they grow more, like in the summer.

From the Texas Parks and Wildlife site:

"Fish with bones have scales. Some fish, such as gar, have heavy, plate-like scales called ganoid scales. Other fish have thinner scales. Fish scales form rings as they grow. During the cold months, scales grow more slowly and leave a ring on the scale. Like rings on a tree, you can count rings on a scale for clues on the age of fish. This is easier to do with fish that live where winter temperatures are cooler. Fish without scales include catfish, sharks, most eels, lampreys and rays."

That's funny, 'cause when I have a really good growing season, my scales reflect it, too!

Sad week

Our beautiful golden retriever died this week in a freak accident in the house. She was running up and down the hall and through our bedroom when her head hit the door. We think she broke her neck. She was gone within a few minutes.

Goodbye Sweetie.