01. The musical Mary Poppins kicked off the film career of stage star Julie Andrews, who won an Oscar for playing the loving but determined nanny. The film debuted in August 1964.
The Musical Mary Poppins
02. The musical "Unsinkable Molly Brown," starring Debbie Reynolds and Harvey Presnell, was one of the most popular films of the summer of 1964. Reynolds was nominated for an Oscar but lost to Julie Andrews.
The Unsinkable Molly Brown
03. Ava Gardner and Richard Burton starred in the Tennessee Williams play "Night of the Iguanas," which debuted in the summer of 1964.
Iguana Night
04. In the summer of 1964, with the album and movie "A Hard Day's Night" sweeping the country, the Beatles frenzy was in full swing. Here, Fab Four frolicked through the waves of Miami Beach, Florida that year.
Movie "A Tough Day and Night"
Meanwhile, California-raised band Beach Boys ushered in their year in 1964 with summer hits "I Get Around" and "Fun, Fun, Fun." Later that year, they sang "I Get Around" on "The Ed Sullivan Show."
California-raised band Beach Boys
06. Ernest Hemingway's autobiography The Movable Feast was one of the best-selling books of the summer of 1964.
A Moving Feast
07. That summer, spy stories were bestsellers, including John Le Carré's The Spy Who Came In the Cold, Helen McKinnis' The Venice Incident, and Ian Fleming's James Bond story, Her Majesty's Secret Service.
08.Charles Silberman对美国种族压迫的分析《黑白危机》在整个1964年的整个夏天一直列在畅销书排行榜上。
Black and White Crisis
09. Avant-garde fashion designer Rudi Gernreich's beachwear turned its head in the summer of 1964. His "monokini", photographed here with yellow and white wool, is a breastsuit for women, and it attracted momentary haute couture attention before it became a museum exhibition.
10.Birkenstock sandals debuted in Germany in 1964. A few years later, Margot Fraser tried on bulky cork-soled sandals while visiting Bavarian spas before she began importing them into the United States.
11. Disco dresses— short-sleeved numbers that allow women room to move — began to appear in the summer of 1964. In 1967, model Twiggy wore this version at The Bryce Nightclub in London.
Twiggy
12. Skateboarding had just started taking off in 1963 after California lifeguard Larry Stevenson perfected the wheelboard. 1964年夏天，支持购买轮式冲浪板的爱好者遍布美国各地。 In 1965, boys glided through cars on the streets of New York.
13.随着令人兴奋的年轻球员，如Tony La Russa，加入阵容，棒球的热度在全国范围内迅速扩大。 La Russa was photographed with the Kansas City A in 1963 and was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York in 2014.
Tony La Russa
14. The Kodak Instamatic camera was released in 1963 and was an immediate success thanks to its simple controls and lightweight design. With millions of Instamatics circulating over several years, it's not known how many summer vacation photos these snapshots took.
Kodak Instamatic
15. Schwinn Sting-Ray is a motorcycle-inspired bike that debuted in 1963 and first appeared in Schwinn's catalog in 1964. Its banana seats and deep handlebars were shown here in 1966 and quickly became a favorite among young cyclists.
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