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The 1960s have become synonymous with all the new, exciting, radical, and subversive events and trends of the period, which continued to develop in the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s and continue today as we look fondly back at the coolest decade of all!
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FRANK ABIGINALE JR 1964: CATCH ME IF YOU CAN
Frank Abagnale Jr, 16 years old, lives happily in 1964 New Rochelle, New York with his father Frank Abagnale Sr and French mother Paula. When a loan for Frank Sr. is denied at Chase Manhattan Bank, due to a series of IRS tax frauds by Frank Sr, the f...
ANN ARBOR IN THE 60\'S MOVIE
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.JFK, MLK, LBJ, and RFK. Hawks, doves, panthers, and pigs. Black power, red power, brown power, and flower power. Folk rock, garage rock, acid rock, and throwing rocks. Sit-ins, teach-ins, love-ins, ...
RETRO:KIMMER AND JR HALLOWEEN TOUR AROUND YPSILANTI
A body found yesterday afternoon on a Superior Township farm was tentatively identified as that of a 19-year-old Eastern Michigan University coed who disappeared without a trace July 9."This report in the Ann Arbor News on Tuesday, August 8th, 1967 d...
40 YEARS MICHIGAN COED MURDERS PART 2
Karen Sue Beineman, 18, of Grand Rapids, Michigan. She was an EMU freshman attending summer classes. She had just sent a note to her parents assuring them she was being careful, but then accepted a ride on a motorcycle from a man she did not know. Sh...
HARRY BENNETTS CASTLE
Retrokimmer and her brother JR went to visit Harry Bennett's Castle Sunday and we shot the front view. It is very lovely now. Nowhere on the property did we spy any lions or tigers...Here is a great post I found on the Henry Ford Heritage BlogInspire...
JOHN NORMAN COLLINS: KELLY AND CO.
Just recently RK has had a lot of comments and emails adding personal stories and events connected to the Michigan Coed Killer Case. I found these old videos from the John Kelly and Marilyn Turner show. These shows really show the fear and panic tha...
LET IT BLEED: THE DEATH OF BRIAN JONES
Man oh man wasn't Rolling Stones founder Brian Jones the cutest rocker of all time or what? The investigation into his death is still going on almost 40 years later. How did that boy end up face down in a swmming pool? He had no illegal or legal dru...
MARILYN MONROE FOUND DEAD: 1962
In 1962 I was just a little second grader when Marilyn died, yet we all knew at school that something large had happened. Teachers were in the hallways whispering about it and questioning how this could happend to such a spectacularly bright and you...
POWER & CONTROL LSD IN THE 1960s
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CONNIE FRANCIS: WHERE THE BOYS ARE
Needed a new story for RK today so I went over to Johnny Bee's Facebook page to scope out the newest videos Bee added. Bee finds the coolest musical videos of all time. So looking for Retro inspiration I went HERESure enough Bee had Connie Franci...
MANSON GIRL SUSAN ATKINS STAYS IN PRISON
The courts decided to keep Susan Atkins in prison today. We agree with the Tate Family...Ms Atkins was sentenced to life in prison and she will die behind bars. She deserves no mercy for the horrific crimes she committed. Neither do Patty or Leslie. ...
LOVE ME OR LEAVE ME: DORIS DAY
Doris Day and James Cagney starred in Love Me or Leave Me in 1955 but I saw this movie on TV as a kid throughout the 60's. To me it is the best of all of Doris Day's films. Her look, fashions, acting and singing are all melded together at that perfec...
PETER FALK: MURDER, INC. 1960
MURDER, INC. Peter Falk's fabulous film debut. As Abe Reles a vicious thug who led the Murder Inc and a cold blooded ice pick killer. Falk is the picture of menace—it’s hard to believe that Peter went on to be the beloved Lt. Columbo.He is a fasc...
WHO KILLED BOBBY FULLER?
RK: One of the best songs to come out of the 6Ts was the rocker anthem "I FOUGHT THE LAW" by the Bobby Fuller 4. It had driving guitars and riveting beats. Love that song to this day and so do the new hot bands that have done covers of it like Green ...
THE DEATH OF MICHAEL JACKSON
Michael Jackson's Life on People Magazine Covers HEREOMG we just got a CBS News Alert that Michael Jackson died today at age 50. Though nothing would surprise after all the other media stunts he has pulled over the past 40 some years. However, we are...
1960'S LAS VEGAS SLIDE SHOW
As RK was digging for cool retro stuff we found this really fabulous slide show on the history of Las Vegas and the Mobsters that built the city and casinos there. We really wish that Hollywood would make a blockbuster film about the whole story. ...
DENNIS WILSON: DEATH AND THE MANSON FAMILY
The most gorgeous of the Beach Boy's Wilson brothers, Dennis Wilson lived on the edge and walked on the wild side. His hard partying with drugs and alcohol and associations with undesirables led to his untimely death at age 39. He was buried at sea b...
SONNY AND CHER RIPPED OFF
LOS ANGELES – Cher has sued Universal Music Group, claiming the company owes her and Sonny Bono's heirs more than $5 million.The lawsuit filed Tuesday in Santa Monica claims Cher and Bono's widow and children are owed royalties on songs that were i...
JACKIE WILSON: LONELY TEAR DROPS
One of my absolute favorite singers of all time (I know I say that about everybody) Was the amazing Jackie Wilson. I have to great fortuen to have seen him play the supper club at the Hyatt Regent Hotel in Dearborn MI in the late 1970's. Man oh man...
CASINO: THE TRUE PLAYERS
This post is for Beth!In my top 5 favorite movies of all time is Casino. Guess Marty Scorsese and I go way back. Most people know the true back story behind Goodfellas and the fictional similarities to real life characters in The Godfather but most k...
Sam Giancana Phyllis McGuire 1960 Love Story
Sam Giancana, Chicago mob boss, was untouchable until 1960, when he met Phyllis McGuire, lead singer of the popular McGuire Sisters. Deftly eluding the Justice Department, the F.B.I. and rival mobsters, the murderous gangster was helpless in the hand...
I COULD NEVER LOVE ANOTHER: DAVID RUFFIN
" I Know You Want to Leave Me But I Refuse To Let You Go!"The Temptations were the most consistently successful of the guy bands at Motown. The original line up with David Ruffin and Eddie Kendricks as the lead singers in my opinion have never been t...
ALL MY LIFE I WANTED TO BE A GANGSTER
The Air France HeistHenry Hill grew up in Brooklyn, New York and at an early age ran errands for the local Lucchese crime family. Being of Italian and Irish decent, Hill was never "made" into the crime family, but was a soldier of capo, Paul Vario, a...
BYE BYE : PHIL SPECTOR CONVICTED
Rock music producer Phil Spector was convicted Monday of second-degree murder in the shooting death of Lana Clarkson at his mansion six years ago, a verdict that will send him to prison for at least 18 years barring a successful appeal.A Superior Cou...
THE MICHIGAN COED MURDERS
As a 12 year old in 1967 I was living at Ft. Leonard Wood, MO with my family. News came from our relatives and friends about the "Coed" Killer in Ypsilanti/Ann Arbor area. Female college students from Eastern Michigan University were disappearing. So...
GIVE ME MY DOLLS..I NEED MY DOLLS!
One of the most scandalous books ever written wasValley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann.The book centered around the lives of three women.Neely O'Hara (Patty Duke)Jennifer North (Sharon Tate)Anne Wells (Barbara Parkins)The Valley of the Dolls book ...
