John F. Kennedy

We all know where we were the day President Kennedy was assinated.  That is something that is etched in our minds.  We will never forget.  It was the one black mark in our otherwise great senior year. 

On November 22, 1963, when he was hardly past his first thousand days in office, John Fitzgerald Kennedy was killed by an assassin's bullets as his motorcade wound through Dallas, Texas. Kennedy was the youngest man elected President; he was the youngest to die.

Ask not what your country can do for You, but for what You can do for your country

THE BEATLE INVASION IN FEBRUARY 1964

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The Boston Strangler, Albert DeSalvo was captured...

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President Lyndon Johnson declares a War On Poverty Campaign. U.S....

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Warren Commission report on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy concludes Lee Harvey Oswald had acted alone...

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The first Ford Mustang from Ford Motor Company is made...

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The 24th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States is Ratified which removed the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax...

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Cassius Clay Beats Sonny Liston on February 25th for World Heavyweight championship 

How Much things cost in 1964

Yearly Inflation Rate USA 1.28%

Year End Close Dow Jones Industrial Average 874

  Average Cost of new house $13,050.00

Average Income per year $6,000.00

Gas per Gallon 30 cents

Average Cost of a new car $3,500.00

Loaf of bread 21 cents

United States Postage Stamp 5 cents

Average Monthly Rent $115.00

Ticket to the movies $1.25   

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1960s California Slang

A Gas  - A lot of fun.

Ape - Used with "Go", "Gone" or "Went". To explode or go completely irate. Example: "When my parents saw my report card, they went ape.

Bad - Awesome.

Bitchin - Good, Exciting, Awesome.

Blast - A Great Time. Example: "We had a blast at the Prom".

Boogie - See Cut Out

Book - Leave the area.

Boss - A great or cool thing. Example: "The Beach Boys new record is really boss".

Bread - Money

Bug out - Leave the premises

Bummed out - Depressed

Bummer, What a - How depressing

Burn Rubber - To accelerate hard spinning the tires, making noise, and billows of smoke come from the rear of the vehicle.

Cherry - Pristine, Totally Clean. Example: "That rod is cherry"

Choice - Really cool or bitchin. Example: "That girl with the tight sweater is really choice."
Choose Off - To pick a fight or a race; as in, "John is going to choose-off Bob in a race for pinks". Or, "Ralph chose-off Bertha after school and she kicked his butt."

Chop - To cut down verbally

Church Key - Before poptops, a Beer or Soda can was opened with one of these.

Cool - Nice.

Cooties - Someone who wasn't cool had them. No one ever saw them, but you knew who had them.
Crash - Go to bed; go to sleep.

Cruising - Driving up and down the same street looking for races, girls, guys, etc.

Cut Out - To leave without ceremony. As in, "Bob, this party is a drag. I'm gonna cut out."

Decent - Very cool

Deuce - A 1932 Ford. As in, "She's my Little Deuce Coupe, you don't know what I got".

Ditch - Skip a school day without permission; also, leave someone behind as in "Let's ditch this guy".
Don't have a Cow - Used when someone was "going ape" or perhaps being a "spaz."
Don't Sweat It - Don't worry about it; stop bothering me
Far Out - Excellent, cool.

Fink - A tattle tale. Example: You're such a fink. Why do you always tell mom everything I do?

Five Finger Discount - Anything obtained by theft.

Flake - A useless person.

Flake Off - Get outta here.

Freak Out - Temporary loss of control due to an unpleasant event.

Fuzz - The Police
Going Steady - If you were "Going Steady", you were dating only one special person.

Gnarly - Originally a difficult or large wave (He wiped out on a gnarly wave),later anything big or difficult (The Chemistry test was gnarly.), then later an expletive of approval (That custom paint job is gnarly!)
Gremmy - A rookie surfer.

Hairy - Large; out of control. 

Hodad - A non-surfer, usually someone who just hangs around the beach.

Jam - To leave the area

Later - Goodbye- See you later

Loaded - Intoxicated

Old Lady - Your Mother.

Old Man - Your Father.

Outta Sight - Fantastic, Awesome.

Pad - Someone's house.

Rat Fink - (See Fink)

Raunchy - Raw, Rank, Disgusting

Righteous - Extremely fine, beautiful.

Rule - To take ownership of

Sad - An expression of disapproval.

Scarf - To eat very fast.

Score - To obtain something valuable or necessary; (Let's go score some pizza.)

Shades - Sunglasses

Shotgun - A place of honor in the front seat of a car nearest the door. Usually reserved for the coolest guy in the group besides the driver of the car. If there is a doubt, before entering the car someone will call shotgun and then everyone will argue as to who actually will ride shotgun.

Skag - An ugly girl.

Skuzz - Lowdown; undesirable

Solid - Something that is ok or all right.

Souped Up - A car that's had the engine modified to go fast. Example: "Bob really souped up his car. It did the quarter in 14.5 seconds!"

Spaz - Used as a put down, or to describe someone who was acting retarded.

Split  - See Cut Out

Steady - Boyfriend or Girlfriend

Stoked (as in I'm stoked) - Excited

Tough or Tuff - Neat, cherry, great, bitchin'. - as in "Wow, she's really a tuff chic!"

Wiggin' out - Going crazy

Wipe(d) out - Originally, to fall off a wave while surfing, later to crash one's vehicle and severely damage it (He wiped his coupe out at the drags.), then later a term for extreme fatigue (I'm wiped out, I'm gonna crash.)

           Woody Wagon -  A wood sided station wagon used to transport surfboards and surfers to and from the beach.

Zits - Pimples.