Mustang To Paducah Blog | Raul Ramos y Sanchez

The PERIOD PIECES Blog includes fun facts and trivia quizzes from the 1960s inspired by the novel Mustang To Paducah by award-winning author Raul Ramos y Sanchez. (SUBSCRIBE)

In 1969, South Beach was God's waiting room

𝗜𝗻 𝟭𝟵𝟲𝟵, South Beach was called God's waiting room. Unlike its glitzy image today, back in the sixties the lower end of Miami Beach...

In 1969, cat memes, chat rooms and spam were conceived

In 1969, the Internet made its debut as Arpanet, a message board between four universities. As professors huddled anxiously around...

In 1969: 40 million watched him wed Miss Vicky

In 1969, a bizarre crooner with a voice like a strangled cat known as Tiny Tim tied the knot with Miss Vicky, his 17-year-old bride,...

Much More Interesting When Stoned

In the late 1960s, most crash pads rocked this “TV set for hippies.” Invented in Britain as a fashionable curiosity in 1963, the Lava...

The Face That Launched a Million Pages

𝗜𝗻 𝟭𝟵𝟲𝟲, a former part-time hairdresser was named British Woman of the Year. Just three years earlier, she'd been discovered by a...

A Travelog into Altered Consciousness

𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗗𝗢𝗢𝗥𝗦 𝗢𝗙 𝗣𝗘𝗥𝗖𝗘𝗣𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡 by Aldous Huxley For many young people in the sixties experimenting with mind-altering drugs,...

When Sharing Water Became the Rage

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝘆𝗺𝗯𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗰 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗳 𝘄𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗶𝗻 𝗦𝗧𝗥𝗔𝗡𝗚𝗘𝗥 𝗜𝗡 𝗔 𝗦𝗧𝗥𝗔𝗡𝗚𝗘 𝗟𝗔𝗡𝗗 by Robert Heinlein...

In 1969: Hendrix covered Francis Scott Key’s landmark hit

In 1969, on the last day of the legendary Woodstock music festival and with most of the crowd already gone, Jimi Hendrix closed the event...

In 1969: Big Bird and Company Hit the Street

In 1969, the creators of Sesame Street launched a children’s television show that would “master the addictive qualities of television” to...