What we loved in 1962

  • What was on the Tube in 1962

    On the 50th anniversary of the Seattle World’s Fair, we look back at that year’s popular books, music, movies and TV shows. This week, what was on TV in 1962. Television looked different in 1962. Nine out of ten American households had TV sets, but they were almost all black & white; Zenith produced its… Continue reading

  • What we were watching in 1962

    On the 50th anniversary of the Seattle World’s Fair, we look back at that year’s popular books, music, movies and TV shows. This week’s list in our catalog: what we were watching in 1962. Lawrence of Arabia was the top-grossing film that year (winning seven Oscars), with the star-studded D-Day epic The Longest Day hot on… Continue reading

  • What we were listening to in 1962

    On the 50th anniversary of the Seattle World’s Fair, we look back at that year’s popular books, music, movies and TV shows. This week: what we were listening to in 1962. I like to be in America! If we could travel back in time to a random Seattle living room circa 1962, chances are good we’d… Continue reading

  • What we were reading in 1962

    On the 50th anniversary of the Seattle World’s Fair, we look back at that year’s popular books, music, movies and TV shows. This week: what we were reading in 1962. Although it was a forward-looking time, the single bestselling novel that year was a glance backwards: Katherine Anne Porter’s Ship of Fools, an allegorical novel set aboard… Continue reading