Oaks Teen Nixes Screamers at Beatles (Hollywood Bowl 1965)

 Oaks Teen Nixes Screamers at Beatles

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Conejo News

August 30, 1965

“People who go see the Beatles are probably just as avid as they were in prior stormy years, but they are better behaved because they want to hear as well as see them”, says a Thousand Oaks teenager who just went through the experience.

 Pam Starke celebrated her 14th birthday yesterday by seeing the English singing group perform at the Hollywood Bowl. Her father, Paul Starke, 26 Van Dyke Street, Thousand Oaks, escorted Pam, her sisters Patty, 12, and Penny,11, and friend Deanna Brock, 14, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Don Brock, 16 Van Dyke Street, Thousand Oaks.

 Pam, who will be a freshman at Thousand Oaks High School this year, admits to letting go with one little scream when the Beatles appeared on stage for the first time. “But we were quiet the rest of the time, except to tell the screamers to shut up.”

 Screamers, there were, she reported today, “One girl just stood there with her fists over her mouth. One girl's mascara was running down her face. One girl just stood there screaming, ‘George!’. And some waved their arms and signs to try to get the Beatles' attention. But most of the people were quiet while they were singing.”

 It was Pam's first exposure to Beatlemania, and she said it was well worth the half-hour traffic jam going into the Bowl and the slow departure. She said, “The Beatles have talent, and my father thinks they do too.”  Her mother, she reported, stood firm against going, though she willingly consented to the girls' outing with Dad.

 The other groups on last night's program? “It wasn't fair to them to put them on the same program as the Beatles. Everyone wanted to see the Beatles, and no one paid much attention to the others.” Among those, she felt the sounds. Inc. group was the best.

Pam says she would go again, traffic jam and all, though next time, she would try to get better seats. “The older people and kids 10 years and under all had the box seats.” And when she has children of her own, she'll let them see similar groups. “I know the Beatles won't be around then, but I wouldn't mind letting my children see whoever is.”