Wages - £10 per week was the average weekly pay packet back in the 1960's.
Housing
- The average cost to get onto the housing ladder in 1960 was £2,189.
That is not even a deposit these days.
Televisions - Black and white television sets were expensive, around £70.00
and colour TV's did not come onto the market until 1967 and cost about £279.
Car - The Ford Anglia would set you back £492 in 1965.
Biggest selling song of the 60's - She Loves You - The Beatles, was the biggest selling single according to the Official Charts Company.
Biggest selling album of the 60's - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, not surprisingly by The Beatles
The 1960's fashion for men and women was very different from what we see now.
Men wore their hair short and neat. As the 60s progressed the hippy era saw men sporting long hair, including Derek - when he had hair!
Women wore their hair either in a bob or a beehive hairstyle, which were both popular styles of that time period.
These hairstyles were usually paired with matching outfits that consisted of bold patterns and bright colors.
The Fender Guitars
A brief history of the Fender guitar
In a city called Fullerton, California, over 70 years ago, the story of the Fender guitar was born, believed to be around 1949.
It all began with Leo Fender, a radio repairman and a budding inventor. He teamed up with local musician and another inventor called Doc Kaufmann - together they formed K&F Manufacturing Corp at the height of the Hawaiian music craze - they produced a limited run of amplifiers and lap steel guitars.
From there, after Leo parted company with Doc Kaufmann, it continued with the Fender’s original “woodie” amps - as they’ve come to be known in collectors circles and were among the first products to bear the official Fender seal.
