Beatlemania Hits Area Today (Chicago 1965)

 

Beatle Mania Hits Area Today

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Berwyn Life

August 20, 1965

 

To Beatle or not to Beatle? That's the question, and most likely the answer will be the former, as area teenagers flock to Sox Park today for the two performances by their idols, The Beatles.

 Among those representing the community at the song scream fest will be Rose Sisco, 6820 Riverside Drive, Vice President of The Beatles Limited Charter Fan Club, with national headquarters in New York, and Pat Schneider, 6440 West 28th Place, a member of that fan club. Both will be sophomores at Morton West.

 What material do you take to a Beatle concert? The girls report they're going armed with cameras, tape recorders, binoculars, pictures and pens and pencils in hopes of getting close enough to get an autograph.

But that's not all. Should they use the quarterback sneak successfully and manage to get near the performers? They are going to present them with a few gifts, the nature of which are being kept secret for fear of others duplicating them.

And that's not all. Miss Sisco is planning to take a chartered bus with other fans and follow the group to their concert in Minneapolis tomorrow. She says that  she’ll go as far as she can travel with them, “but when Pat and I graduate, we would like to go to England and see the land made famous by the Beatles.”

 Miss Schneider wasn't always impressed by her current favorites. “As matter of fact, the first time I heard a record by them, I didn't like it. But from then on, they were just great.”

 She said the localites saw A Hard Day's Night seven times, owned just about every Beatles record and album made and played them every day. “Many people complain about their long hair, but it's not as long as other singing groups.” they commented.

 Both girls are interested in dramatics. Miss Schneider just recently played Gretel in the Morton summer theater production of Hansel and Gretel.  Rose, who attended Immaculate Heart of Mary last year, is planning on trying out for school plays at Morton.

How long will the Beatles last? The girls feel they will be around for a long while, and even when they fade away, so to speak, the records will still sell.