Carlsbad Art and Culture

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In 1960…

• Olympics held in Rome
• Bono is born
• Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho is released
• The Beatles make their debut in Hamburg, Germany
• Chubby Checker introduces The Twist at the Peppermint Lounge in New York
• Elvis Presley returns to the music scene after his discharge from the army
• The Flintstones debut
• Hugh Hefner opens the first of his Playboy clubs in Chicago
• Thomas S. Monaghan buys a pizza parlor in Detroit and renames it Domino’s
• Bernard Madoff launches his first business
• ‘Green Eggs and Ham’ is published
• ‘To Kill a Mockingbird‘ is published
• Ernest Hemingway is admitted to the Mayo Clinic
• Jean-Michel Basquiat is born
• Dwight Eisenhower is president and Richard Nixon is vice president of USA
• American Heart Association Links smoking to heart disease
• The Irish Republican Army (IRA) starts its fight against the British
• The first working laser is built by T. H. Maiman
• Soviet Sputnik 5 launches two dogs into orbit and they return safely
• Muhammad Ali wins his first professional fight
• Pittsburgh Pirates defeats the New York Yankees to win the World Series

and…

On Dec. 14, 1960, Magnolia Elementary of Carlsbad puts on:

An Adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen’s
“The Fir Tree”

Do you recognize any names? Any relatives?

found wedged in between two drawers of a cabinet in the back lot on UpState.