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Free Version of The Sixties Now Available on iTunes
- February 10, 2011
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InsideApp Studios, Inc., creator of The Sixties for iPad, today launched The Sixties Free for iPad. The new app is a free download yet provides all the features and content of the original app plus advertising. The Sixties Free for iPad provides a multimedia journey of the 1960s. The app delivers an experience of the sixties on the iPad that includes music, movies, events, video, vintage editorial cartoons and more.
The paid app, The Sixties for iPad, was released in December 2010…
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Sixties Flashback: First Playboy Club Opens in Chicago
- January 4, 2011
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When the first Playboy club opened in downtown Chicago in 1960, my fraternity brothers and I were quick to drive the 126 miles from Purdue to Chicago to check it out. As faithful readers of Playboy magazine, we couldn’t wait to see those Playboy Bunnies in the flesh.
The reality was not so titillating. To get in, we had to pay $25 each to become key holders. I can’t remember what my scotch and sodas cost, but I probably could have eaten for a week on campus for what I spent…
Categories: Social Revolution
The Sixties for iPad App Now Available on iTunes
- December 15, 2010
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Laguna Niguel, CA – InsideApp Studios, Inc. a leader in high quality iPhone and iPad apps, today launched The Sixties for iPad, a multimedia journey through the 1960s. The app provides an extensive history of all the major events, news, music, cinema and culture that shaped the decade providing an entertaining learning experience.
“The Sixties app leverages the iPad’s visual capabilities to provide an entertaining and educational experience of the sixties,” says Steve Herring, CEO of InsideApp Studios. “Whether you are…
Categories: Civil Rights, Cold War, Election Drama, Music & Cinema, Race to the Moon, Social Revolution, Vietnam War
Sixties Flashback: Fearing for Your Life in Mississippi
- November 20, 2010
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It was spring break, 1959, and three other Purdue students and I were cruising down Highway 51, deep in the Mississippi Delta, heading for New Orleans in my 1954 Ford. All of a sudden my engine started to shake, and before we knew it we were broken down on the side of the rode, looking for a tow into the nearest town.
It was two years before the Freedom Rides, but the residents of that Mississippi county were already on edge. Detectives had been poking around the region, looking for…
Categories: Civil Rights
Sixties Flashback: Psycho Sets Box Office Records
- November 16, 2010
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Fifty years later, I still think about that shower scene. The shadow on the shower curtain. Janet Leigh’s scream. Blood swirling down the drain. It’s what sets Psycho apart from all the horror films and “slasher flicks” that came before and after.
Not that there aren’t plenty of other scary things in this Alfred Hitchcock thriller. Who can forget Anthony Perkins as the creepy Norman Bates? Or the even creepier Bates motel?
Ironically, critics were lukewarm about Psycho when it was released in the summer of 1960. But the public…
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