Tim Schall 1961

Moon River may have filled the airwaves and West Side Story packed them in at the movies, but this wasn’t your parent’s 1961! There was a rumbling in Liverpool where the Beatles first played, Bob Dylan just got off the bus in Greenwich Village, 19 year old Carole King wrote her first #1 hit and St. Louis’ historic Gaslight Square was at its coolest, hippest, jazziest best. 1961 simmered with a change that we still feel today.