A heart-stopping breakthrough, a dream Bel Air, and a few old songs and signs to smile at.

Good evening, friend, Jack Reynolds here. Back on this date in 1967, the first heart transplant was on every radio, and it made the world feel a little bigger. I also picked out a beauty tonight, that ’57 Bel Air folks used to dream about. My brother would have circled it twice in the brochure. Wait till you see what else we dug up, am I right?

On December 3, 1967, Dr. Christiaan Barnard put a new heart in Louis Washkansky, and I remember thinking science had just leaped ahead. The surgery ran about six hours with a 30 person team, and Washkansky lived 18 days, long enough to talk with his wife. Click to see how this brave gamble opened the door to modern transplants.

That 1957 Bel Air convertible was the kind of car you stared at in the showroom window. It ran about $2,700 new, and a clean one today can sit near $75,000 to $105,000. The top “Fuelie” V8 hit 283 horsepower, a real marvel then. Click for more on this machine here..

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Hollywood and Vine in August 1963 was all bright skirts, a Checker cab, and that round Capitol Records tower watching over the corner. I can almost hear the traffic and the chatter. Today the Walk of Fame runs right past here, and a subway stop opened below it in 1999. Click for more close-up details.

Apple’s “1984” spot hit the Super Bowl and made my jaw drop. It aired nationwide just once, cost somewhere between $370,000 and $900,000 to film, and reached nearly 100 million viewers that night. Folks talked about it for months. Click to watch the full minute that changed TV ads forever.

Cyndi Lauper burst out in 1983 with “Girls Just Want to Have Fun,” and her first album sold about 16 million copies. These days she is worth around $35 million, wrapped up a farewell tour in 2025, and just got into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Click for her full road from wild hair to lasting legend.

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Tonight’s “Your Memory” comes from Linda in Pittsburgh, thinking back to her first job in the summer of 1965. She says the Woolworth counter smelled like fresh coffee and grilled onions all day. After her shift, she and her girlfriends split a nickel Coke and laughed on the bus ride home. My wife remembers those counters too.

Tonight’s Quote comes from Ronald Reagan, who said that “freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.” I heard that in the early 80s and it stuck with me. My dad always said you hand good things down on purpose. If you want his full story, learn more about him here. He is still worth reading about.

See you tomorrow. Same time, same station.

– Jack

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