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Bus Trip

Norman High as it looked when we went there.

1. Back in My Arms Again - The Supremes
2. Downtown - Petula Clark
3. Eight Days a Week - The Beatles
4. Eve of Destruction - Barry McGuire
5. Game of Love - The Mindbenders featuring Wayne Fontana
6. Get Off of My Cloud - The Rolling Stones
7. Hang on Sloopy - The McCoys
8. Help! - The Beatles
9. Help Me, Rhonda - The Beach Boys
10. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction - The Rolling Stones
11. I Can't Help Myself - The Four Tops
12. I Got You Babe - Sonny & Cher
13. I Hear a Symphony - The Supremes
14. I'm Henry VIII I Am - Herman's Hermits
15. I'm Telling You Now - Freddie & The Dreamers
16. Mrs. Brown You've Got a Lovely Daughter - Herman's Hermits
17. Mr. Tambourine Man - The Byrds
18. My Girl - The Temptations
19. Over and Over - The Dave Clark Five
20. Stop! in the Name of Love - The Supremes
21. This Diamond Ring - Gary Lewis & The Playboys
22. Ticket to Ride - The Beatles
23. Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season) - The Byrds
24. Yesterday - The Beatles
25. You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' - The Righteous Brothers

• The war in Vietnam escalates, and American bombing of North Vietnam begins. The Marine landing on March 8th represents the first deployment of American troops to Vietnam and a full-scale offensive begins in June.



• At the University of Michigan, a ``teach-in'' is held to protest the Vietnam War and heralds the beginning of the student anti-war movement.



• Malcolm X, the famous militant leader for black power in the civil rights movement, is shot and killed in the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem.



• Civil Rights demonstrations increase despite arrests, and Martin Luther King, Jr., leads a march in Selma, Alabama, as well as a march on Chicago's City Hall.



• President Johnson orders American troops to the Dominican Republic to prevent a Communist takeover; Marines remain for several months.



• In the Congo, Sese Mobutu assumes power in a bloodless coup, declares his government the Second Republic, and begins his program of "African Authenticity" by replacing European names with African names.



• Popular songs of the year include the Rolling Stones, ``[I can't get no] Satisfaction,'' Simon and Garfunkel's ``Sounds of Silence,'' Sonny and Cher's ``I Got You Babe,'' and The Beatles' "Yesterday."



• In Rhodesia, prime minister Ian Smith refuses to meet Britain's requirement to change from a minority white rule to majority rule. Smith declares Rhodesia to be independent from Britain, which Britain declares illegal. The United Nations calls on all nations to deny Rhodesia recognition.



• In fashion, the miniskirt, designed by Mary Quant, appears in London and will soon be all the rage.



• Indonesia withdraws from the United Nations. An attempted Communist coup is defeated by General Suharto, and there is widespread massacring of Communists.



• Ralph Nader publishes Unsafe At Any Speed, decrying the dangers of automobiles and urging consumer protection.

• Doctor Zhivago (Omar Sharif)


• Cat Ballou (Lee Marvin)


• Thunderball (Sean Connery)


• The Nanny (Bette Davis)


• Mirage (Gregory Peck)


• Sound of Music (Julie Andrews)

• Ranger 8 and Ranger 9 launched and impacted the moon in 1965. Pictures of the lunar surface and experimants performed from this series (1961-1965) were used for future manned flights to the moon.


• TV advertising ban on tabacco


• Stan Laurel dies at 74.


• Julie Andrews wins Oscar for Mary Poppins


• April 1965, Mississippi, Minnesota, and St.Croix rivers reached record flood stages


• New York World's Fair (1964-1965)
  
• Lyndon Johnson starts his first full term as President after his election in 1964.
  
• Watts riots in LA.
  
• Poet T.S.Elliot dies at 77.
  
• Winson Churchill dies at 90.
  
• A Charlie Brown Christmas on TV.
  
• Get Smart debuts on TV.
  
• Lost in Space debuts on TV.
  
• First U.S. spacewalk (EVA) in Gemini IV.

• **Also see the Message Board for more memories of Norman posted by others***
• Sterr's grocery across from the high school.
• population was about 30,000.
• The Monterrey (before the Mont)
• Ken's grocery (Ken McCall) (next to the Monterrey - now used for storage and Mont office)
• Lincoln grade school underpass
• Pat and Sue's Drive -in
• THE ORIGINAL Boomerang
• "Straight" Street ( 24th)
• Sandy's Drive-in (later Hardy's now Carl's ??)
• Tastee Freeze across from the high school
• McNabbs Sporting Goods (insurance office now ? next to Grandy's ?)
• S.W.Bell telephone building on main south of where the Post office and
    Library are now)
• McCalls grocery in the same area on main (became a health-food store, now something else)
• Dodson's cafeteria
• Sooner and Boomer theatres when they were movie theatres.
    Sooner theatre on the RR and main across from Dales office supply.
• Town Tavern on campus corner
• Bonney's clothing Store
• Hardy Field
• The little TG&Y on the south side of Main street where Richard
    McWilliams' MoM worked (Downtown Shopping Center)
    Main and Lahoma
• Wackers (between Main and Commanche on Crawford?)
• Oliver's Shoe Store where Patti's Aunt MIldred worked and Frosty
    Cooper was the manager... I think
• Dale's Gifts (across from TG & Y) - Cal Hawkins dad
• Dale's Office supply (across from Sooner theatre Cal Hawkins dad)
• The Pot of Gold Gifts
• Rancho Drive-in (12th and Alameda) and Riverside Drive-in
    (24th SW and highway 9).
• Safeway at Main and Flood
• Star Discount Pharmacy (Main and Park) (Ken McCall)
• Landsaw Furniture
• John Potts Dairy
• Lockett Hotel (Mr Lockett fell off the 3rd story while building
    the hotel and was in a wheelchair the rest of his life)
    Became the Coronado Inn. Now
    an office building.
• The Sculpture Kut in the Lockett (or Coronado Inn) run by Bobby
    Frank (Dennis Frank's big brother)
    Sculpture Kut is still on main street (1225 W.Main Suite 100)
• Taylor's Rexall with a real soda fountain (Steve Taylor's dad ('63)
    father owned it) across from TG&Y
• OTASCO (across from TG&Y near Taylor's Rexall)
• Denco's (Now Coach's)
• Colonel Pierson's land (estate) at Main and Wiley Rd.
    Janet Morris says it was actually where Hastings (used to be
    Safeway then Homeland) is now
    on 24th and main, the house was moved and is still on
    the street behind Hastings.
• Humpty Dumpty Grocery Store
• Jonesy's Drive-in... the beat onion rings! (is that now Del Rancho ?)
• Connie's Bakery on Campus Corner....owned by Connie's Dad.
• John A. Brown clothing store.
• tours of the Bavinger house
• Public Library on Peters near OG&E and courthouse (now a senior citizen's center)
• Post Office on Gray St. (now used by Norman Public Schools)
    There are conference rooms, a lab for students and teachers to make
    items for the classroom, and the district Music Library.
• Police Station on Gray and Peters just north of the bank corner
    (now a bank drive-thru)
• Bus Station RR and main (across from where Denco's used to be)
    (later the inter-urban restaurant) that got it's
    name from years ago the "inter-urban" trolley that went
    from Norman to Oklahoma City.
• The Sand Pits
• Varsity Bowl with real live pin setters before automatic ones on Buchannan
• Post Office on Buchannan.
• Blue Onion
• Red's Bar
• Rathskeller, Library Bar, The Train Station (House owned by
    Catholic Church on Boyd.
• Vat 69
• Sundowner Club
• Norman Motel (across from Red's)
• normans only escalator at the downtown Anthony's (only went up)
• Baskin-Robins 31 flavors across from the High School
• Squeeze-In with Jay Denton and Larry Bannister.
    This was next to the gas station on Jenkins and Lindsey,
    west of O'connels Pub.
• Thompson's Rent-All (RR and Robinson)
• Brick streests and sidewalks.
• The "bowl" at Washington grade school and sliding down it on
    cardboard sheets when it snowed.
• Hill and Shipe Shoe Store, where you could put your foot in
    this machine that would take an exray of your foot and
    you could see it. It later became Moomau's. It is now
    an art gallery.
• theater that was at the corner of 12th and Alameda where the
    Alameda square shopping center is.
• Roller skating in the armory across from the train station.
• Zestee ice cream just north of Lindsey and Classen.
• The ice dock on Porter.
• Greenleaf bakery on Classen.