#september 1966

[get-back-homeward]

September 18, 1966: After a weekend break in Paris with Paul, Brian, and Neil, John travels to Carboneras, Spain to continue filming How I Won The War. He first stays in a seafront hostel, Delfin Verde (The Green Dolphin). Here, he picks up his nylon-stringed Spanish guitar and a tape recorder and works on It's Not Too Bad, a rough idea that will evolve into Strawberry Fields Forever. To accommodate his visitors (Cynthia, Ringo, Maureen, and others), he later moves to a spacious villa, Santa Isabel, and continues to shape the song. The villa bears a distinct similarity to the grounds of the children's home that John visited as a child and may have unlocked memories to inspire the song's title. Before leaving, he writes "Santa Isabel Demos" on the tape.

These demos were released as a bootleg in 1997. The distinct "let me take you down" part of the song shows up at 5 minutes in, but it's missing the song title. Wait another minute to hear John to name it directly.

The back of the bootleg includes a tracklist with take numbers. It's not quite clear how those were decided; they look incorrect to me. I've used the Nothing Is Real numbers to give the timestamps for each: 00:00 Warm-up 00:28 Take 1 01:16 Take 2 02:38 Take 3 04:09 Take 4 05:58 Takes 5 & 6 08:13 Rehearsal

[ludmilachaibemachado]

September 1966 Muziek Express magazine - It's Pattie Boyd Harrison peeking out from under Oliver Goldsmith's experimental eye flap sunglasses which render the wearer unrecognizable🌸

Photo quality was enhanced by @beatlegirl.pattieboyd

Via @beatlegirl.pattieboyd on Instagram🌸

[dd-the-man-without-fear]

🎵Do you remember?🎶 🎶The twenty-first night of Batman Day?🎵

[theamericanpin-up]

Duane Bryers - September 1966 Hilda Calendar Illustration - Brown & Bigelow Calendar Co. - American Pin-up Calendar Collection

[dateinthelife]

6 September 1966

On this date, at the age of 25, John Lennon decides what glasses he's going to wear the rest of his life.

[sonyaheaneyauthor]

1st September 1966: School in Leonivka, Ivankiv Raion, Ukraine.

[nerds-yearbook]

After the first pilot was rejected, Star Trek was almost completely recast with the exception of Mr Spock (Leonard Nimoy). The first episode of Star Trek aired on September 8, 1966. While The Man Trap was the first episode to air, it was actually the 6th one produced. Supposedly it was chosen as having more action than the other episodes. It was also supposedly one of the least favorites of Leonard Nimoy and William Shattner. The episode took place during 2266 (eleven years after the events of The Cage, which was the original pilot and later recut as The Menagerie). The episode introduced Captain James T Kirk (William Shatner), Dr McCoy (DeForest Kelley), Yeoman Janice Rand (Grace Lee Whitney), Sulu (George Takei), Uhura (Nichelle Nichols), and (off screen) Montgomery Scott (James Doohan). ("The Man Trap", Star Trek, TV, Event)

[clarabowlover]

Happy 58th Birthday To Stunning Mexican Actress

Salma Hayek (Born 2nd September 1966)

[lonestarflight]

The Apollo 4 Lunar Test Article 10R (LTA-10R) at the Manned Spacecraft Operations Building (MSOB) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, prior to its assembly and mating with the Spacecraft Lunar Module Adapter (SLA-8).

"Since the objectives of the Apollo 4 mission did not include the LM, a boilerplate model designated LTA-10R was carried instead by SA-501 to simulate the mass and dynamic properties of this part of the payload. With a mass of 13.4 metric tons, LTA-10R consisted of a flight-type LM descent stage without landing gear topped by a ballasted aluminum structure to simulate the ascent stage.

Originally built as LTA-10 by Grumman for use in fit checks and separation tests by North American for its SLA work, it was refurbished to become LTA-10R for use as a flightworthy stand-in for the LM in the Apollo 4 mission. The propellant tanks of the mock descent stage were filled with a water-glycol mixture and Freon to simulate the characteristics of fuel and oxidizer for the LM propulsion system.

Instrumentation mounted on 36 points on LTA-10R would return data on the dynamics of the structure during the first 12 minutes of flight. No flight instrumentation was included in the simulated ascent stage structure. LTA-10R would remain attached to the spent S-IVB stage after separation of the CSM and be destroyed along with the spent stage during reentry over the Pacific."

-Information from drewexmachina.com: link

Date: September 22, 1966

NASA ID: 108P-KSC-66P-450, 108P-KSC-66P-451, S66-56274

Mike Acs's Collection: link

[departmentq]

58 years ago. 1966

[rabbitcruiser]

Chevrolet Camaro went on sale on September 29, 1966, for the 1967 model year and was designed as a competing model to the Ford Mustang.

[theamericanpin-up]

Bill Randall - "Helen of Troy" - September 1966 Date Book Calendar Illustration - Kemper Thomas Calendar Co.

[therevengeoffrankenstein]

'"unlovable"'

i only love people who call themselves

'unlovable.'

this is about too many people to count.

so don't presume

that it isn't about you, because it is.

play solitaire

and i wanna join you, i wanna join up!

wait a fortnight,

but a lot more like the on-going game.

reckless, wreck me;

you sure are a walking contradiction, huh?

unlit fuse, cut.

you don't have to go out waving a white flag

before the punch comes,

and you don't have to bite the bullet, baby,

before they shoot guns.

but i guess that makes me a coward too, huh?

to brag without confessing.

- ellie revenge

[nerds-yearbook]

After a 14 year gap, Mystery in Space continued publication with issue 111#, cover date, September 1980 (issue 110# had a cover date of September, 1966). ("Ultra the Multi-Alien: The Pied Piper of Pluto", and "The Booby-Trapped Asteroid!", Mystery in Space 111#, DC Comic Event)

[hide-your-bugs-away]

...gathering every issue of Beat Instrumental with the Animals on the cover has been a SUCCESS.

[lonestarflight]

"IN MANUFACTURING - Lunar Module Test Article LTA-2R Ascent Stage, engine firing test vehicle for White Sands, being refurbished after Thermal/ Vacuum Test Program."

Photographed at Grumman's facility in Bethpage, Long Island, New York.

Date: September 15, 1966

NASA ID: S66-56275, S66-56275