Project 2- Macro View

Popular Culture

Release of first Beatles recording: the single "Love Me Do"

Andy Warhol's famous painting of a can of soup

Beverly Hill Billies is on TV

The Dick Van Dyke show on TV

Johnny Carson begins as presenter for The Tonight Show

Popular Films

• West Side Story
• Spartacus
• El Cid
• Lawrence of Arabia
• To Kill a Mockingbird

Popular Singers

• The Beatles
• Bob Dylan
• Chubby Checker
• Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons
• Neil Sedaka
• Roy Orbison
• Shirley Bassey

Popular Culture

Cost Of Living 1962

How Much things cost in 1962
Yearly Inflation Rate USA 1.20% 
Yearly Inflation Rate UK 3.6% 
Year End Close Dow Jones Industrial Average 652 
Average Cost of new house $12,500.00 
Average Income per year $5,556.00 
Average monthly rent $110.00 per month 
Tuition to Harvard University $1,520.00 
All Wheel Drive Scout off road $2,150.00 
Renault Imported car $1,395.00 
Average Cost of a new car $3,125.00 
Eggs per dozen 32 cents 
Gas per Gallon 28 cents 
Cost of living(1962)


Feminism(1960's)
Betty Friedan publishes her highly influential book The Feminine Mystique, which describes the dissatisfaction felt by middle-class American housewives with the narrow role imposed on them by society. The book becomes a best-seller and galvanizes the modern women's rights movement.
Feminine Mystique
Women's Movement
Second-Wave Feminism



Cuban Missile Crisis(1962)
Cuban Missile Crisis


Cold War
Cold War


Vietnam War
Vietnam War