If you lived through 1962, you know it was a year full of memorable moments. Marilyn Monroe sang “Happy Birthday” to the President (and passed away just a few months later), and the world held its breath during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Culture, politics, space, and style were all shifting as the Sixties were thoroughly under way. These vintage photos offer a look into 1962 through everyday happenings and larger-than-life events.
1. Michael Douglas Celebrating His 18th Birthday With Hayley Mills
2. Piggly Wiggly Cashiers in Encino, California
3. Marilyn Monroe During Her Final Photoshoot
4. Human Computer Katherine Johnson, Who Calculated the Flight Trajectory for Alan Shepard, the First American in Space
5. The Incomparable Miles Davis
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6. Electronic Music Pioneer Daphne Oram in Her Home Studio
7. Sean Connery Playing With a Kitten on the Set of ‘Dr. No’
8. Four Hollywood Icons: Rock Hudson, Cary Grant, Marlon Brando, and Gregory Peck
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9. Honeymooners
10. Camberley Kate With Her Stray Dogs in England
11. Pyramids of Giza
12. Bridesmaids Carrying Bouquets of Grapes
13. Time To Check Out at the Grocery Store
14. Mermaids at Disneyland
15. NASA Testing an Early Space Suit in the Mojave Desert
16. Using Guns Instead of Shovels at the Ground Breaking Ceremony for the Astrodome in Texas
17. Sam Panopoulos, a Greek-born Canadian Who Created the First Hawaiian Pizza at the Satellite Restaurant in Ontario
18. U.S. Army Recruit Getting His Induction Haircut
19. Alfred Hitchcock, the King of Creep
20. German Actress Elke Sommer at the Cannes Film Festival
21. Wilt Chamberlain Running High School Track
22. Bernie Sanders at a Racial Equality Meeting
23. High School Students Walking to Prom
24. Los Angeles International Airport
25. Raking Leaves by the Old Family Farmhouse
26. Kids Performing a Nativity Play
27. Hanging Out at the Park
28. Thanksgiving Dinner in Jersey City
29. Girl on the Tram in the Soviet Union
30. Kid in His Cardboard Mercury Spacecraft on Christmas
31. Catching Up Over Coffee and Cake
32. Potato Vending Machine
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