Brooklyn Bridge built over New York's East River, under construction 1881

If you like the music from between 1950 and 1989, will will love this oldies music group. 
Feel free to join us and post your own choice of oldies music!

https://www.facebook.com/groups/favouriteoldies/?ref=group_header

How much did the Woodstock artists earn (1969)??

1. Jimi Hendrix – $18,000
2. Blood, Sweat and Tears – $15,000
3. Joan Baez – $10,000
4. Creedence Clearwater Revival – $10,000
5. The Band – $7,500
6. Janis Joplin – $7,500
7. Jefferson Airplane – $7,500
8. Sly and the Family Stone – $7,000
9. Canned Heat – $6,500
10. The Who – $6,250
11. Richie Havens – $6,000
12. Arlo Guthrie – $5,000
13. Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young – $5,000
14. Ravi Shankar – $4,500
15. Johnny Winter – $3,750
16. Ten Years After – $3,250
17. Country Joe and the Fish – $2,500
18. Grateful Dead – $2,500
19. The Incredible String Band – $2,250
20. Mountain – $2,000
21. Tim Hardin – $2,000
22. Joe Cocker – $1,375
23. Sweetwater – $1,250
24. John B. Sebastian – $1,000
25. Melanie – $750
26. Santana – $750
27. Sha Na Na – $700
28. Keef Hartley – $500
29. Quill – $375

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The world’s first 'test tube baby' (in vitro fertilization) turned 40 years old this year, On July, 25 1978, Louise Brown was born at Oldham General Hospital in England .


Louise, today at 40 years old.

Recognize them?

Cadet Donald Trump at the New York Military Academy (1964)


Oprah Winfrey 1971.


George Clooney at the age of 15.


22-year-old Hillary Rodham Clinton, 1969.


Vladimir Putin  1970.


Walt Disney at 16, about 1917.

The beautiful Vivian Mary Hartley (Vivien Leigh) born in India in 1913 was famous for her role in 'Gone with the Wind' (1939) and 'A Streetcar named Desire' (1951). She also won a Tony Award for her role in 'Tovarich' (1963). She passed away in 1967, at the age 54, due to a cause of tuberculosis.

Actress Kirsten Dunst as a cheerleader in 1995. (Photo taken by Ron Davis)

Those days, you actually had to know the number you wanted to dial!

Life before AutoCad!

Bellbottoms. 
These were popular from the '60s through to the 1970s (and made a short comeback the mid '90s). Controversial apparel in many a persons mind! Did you wear them?

Puka shell necklaces

This was a big Hawaiian surfer thing back in the mid to late 1970's. A necklace made of small white shells. 
'Puka' is the Hawaiian word for 'hole' referring to the natural holes occurring in these shells - making it easy to string as a necklace.