Item #881 1964 TEENAGE GIRL BEATLES FAN HANDWRITTEN DIARY
1964 TEENAGE GIRL BEATLES FAN HANDWRITTEN DIARY
1964 TEENAGE GIRL BEATLES FAN HANDWRITTEN DIARY
1964 TEENAGE GIRL BEATLES FAN HANDWRITTEN DIARY
1964 TEENAGE GIRL BEATLES FAN HANDWRITTEN DIARY
1964 TEENAGE GIRL BEATLES FAN HANDWRITTEN DIARY
1964 TEENAGE GIRL BEATLES FAN HANDWRITTEN DIARY
1964 TEENAGE GIRL BEATLES FAN HANDWRITTEN DIARY
1964 TEENAGE GIRL BEATLES FAN HANDWRITTEN DIARY
1964 TEENAGE GIRL BEATLES FAN HANDWRITTEN DIARY
1964 TEENAGE GIRL BEATLES FAN HANDWRITTEN DIARY
1964 TEENAGE GIRL BEATLES FAN HANDWRITTEN DIARY

1964 TEENAGE GIRL BEATLES FAN HANDWRITTEN DIARY

Item #881

Debbie McHugh is in the throes of her youth when in 1964 The Beatles make an appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show. Debbie’s daily musings are recorded in the Five-Year Diary, which is used for 1964 only. She doesn’t love school but she’s a church-going girl, and she has many friends of whom she records their birthdays, outings, slumber parties, and romances. As was true for many girls struck by “Beatlemania” in 1964, much space in her diary is given to her obsession with the hot young band newly on the scene.

 

Throughout the diary she doodles The Beatle’s names likely as she daydreams. The first Beatle to hit the page is Paul McCartney. On February 7, 1964, Debbie writes: “I have been converted into a full pledged [sic] Beatlemaniac since I saw them tonight on Ed’s. BEATLES ARRIVED YEA!” This was The Beatles first landing in the United States. Two days later, Debbie remarks: “Today the Beatles were on T.V. on the Ed Sullivan show in New York. All the girls screamed and screamed and screamed screeeeeeeeeeamed.”

 

She celebrates and stirs; and she cries and laments. The following she made an amendment to an entry: “(I was happy when I wrote this a year ago but today Feb 11, 1965 I’m sad because little Ringo Star was married today)” 

 

On the first day of March she writes one of many snide little remarks, “Third Sunday after Lent, First Sunday without Beatles — Nan, Mom, and Ricky don’t like BEATLES. Nan, Mom, and Nick and Booby’s for sure.”

 

She’s sure to record The Beatles movements, movie showings, magazine appearances, merchandise and prices. She bought dolls of the figures. The first she acquired was Ringo. She loves their records, she cried in the theater when she viewed Hard Day’s Night. At the back of her journal she keeps a list of her favorite movies. Hard Day’s Night comes in at number one, followed by Bad Seed, World of Henry Orient, Parent Trapp, and Pollyanna.

 

Most, though not all, entries regarding The Beatles are marked with black a X and doodled names of The Beatles are circled in same black pencil

 

This pink journal is full of approximately 200 blue-lined compositional pages. Some days, she writes a lot and others are just a sentence or two. Some days are blank. The journal has a locking feature but no key. The journal measure 3 7/8” x 5 7/8”. At the back of the journal is a contacts section where Debbie McHugh kept the names and addresses of her close contacts.

Price: $500.00

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