1962, Car Spotting: Sint-Pieters-Woluwe, Sint Pieterskerk (Brussels, Belgium)

Front to back:

Car passing by: 

unidentified, probably Ford Zodiac / Zephyr Mk II

First parked row, left to right: 

Citroën 2CV, Ford Taunus 12M or 15M (P1), Citroën 2CV, Renault 4CV, Opel (Olympia) Rekord (P1), Fiat 600 and Opel (Olympia) Rekord (P1).

Second parked row, left to right: 

Citroën 2CV, Ford Taunus 15M (“Weltkugeltaunus”, P1), Fiat 500 Topolino C Belvedere and DKW F93/94 (Sonderklasse / 3=6).

Parked in the street leading to the church, left, front to back:

Peugeot 403 and Renault 4CV.

Parked in the street leading to the church, right, front to back: 

Volkswagen 1200 (Beetle), Peugeot 403, DKW F93/94 (Sonderklasse / 3=6) and unidentified car probably Mercedes-Benz W120/W121.

1961, Music: Eurovision Song Contest

The 6th Eurovision Song Contest was held on Saturday 18 March 1961 at the "Palais des Festivals et des Congrès", Cannes, France. It was the first contest to take place on a Saturday night. Jacqueline Joubert presented the festival for the second time and of the 16 participants Jean-Claude Pascal won for Luxembourg with "Nous les amoureux". Luxembourg won for its first time. Three countries debuted in 1961: Finland, Spain, and Yugoslavia.

Jean-Claude Pascal and Tessa Beaumont (interval dance act performer)

Draw	Country	Artist	Song	Place	Points
01	Spain	Conchita Bautista	"Estando contigo"	9	8
02	Monaco	Colette Deréal	"Allons, allons les enfants"	10	6
03	Austria	Jimmy Makulis	"Sehnsucht"	15	1
04	Finland	Laila Kinnunen	"Valoa ikkunassa"	10	6
05	Yugoslavia	Ljiljana Petrović	"Neke davne zvezde" (Неке давне звезде)	8	9
06	Netherlands	Greetje Kauffeld	"Wat een dag"	10	6
07	Sweden	Lill-Babs	"April, April"	14	2
08	Germany	Lale Andersen	"Einmal sehen wir uns wieder"	13	3
09	France	Jean-Paul Mauric	"Printemps, avril carillonne"	4	13
10	Switzerland	Franca di Rienzo	"Nous aurons demain"	3	16
11	Belgium	Bob Benny	"September, gouden roos"	15	1
12	Norway	Nora Brockstedt	"Sommer i Palma"	7	10
13	Denmark	Dario Campeotto	"Angelique"	5	12
14	Luxembourg	Jean-Claude Pascal	"Nous les amoureux"	1	31
15	United Kingdom	The Allisons	"Are You Sure?"	2	24
16	Italy	Betty Curtis	"Al di là"	5	12

First place: Jean-Claude Pascal with "Nous les amoureux"

Second place place: The Allisons with "Are You Sure?"

Third place place: Franca di Rienzo with "Nous aurons demain"

Jean-Claude Pascal sings "Nous les Amoureux"

1960, Television: “Maigret”

31 October 1960 "Murder in Montmarte", the first episode of the British television series "Maigret", is broadcast on the BBC. The series is based on the Maigret books by the Belgian writer Georges Simenon. Following a pilot episode, "Maigret and the Lost Life", in 1959, the series ran for 52 episodes from 1960 to 1963.

The series stars Rupert Davies as the Sûreté detective Commissaire Jules Maigret, with Ewen Solon as Lucas, Helen Shingler as Madame Maigret and Neville Jason as Lapointe. The theme music was composed by Ron Grainer.

Rupert Davies Jules Maigret

Georges Simenon and Rupert Davies

Rupert Davies as Inspector Maigret and Neville Jason as Lapointe

Helen Shingler as Madame Maigret and Rupert Davies as Inspector Maigret

Main cast

• Rupert Davies as Inspector Maigret
• Ewen Solon as Lucas
• Neville Jason as Lapointe
• Helen Shingler as Madame Maigret
• Victor Lucas as Torrence

Annette Carell as Sylvie and Rupert Davies as Jules Maigret in the episode

"Liberty Bar" (1960)

John Slater, Ewen Solon as Lucas, Philip Latham and Rupert Davies as Jules Maigret
in the episode "The Wedding Guest" (1962)

"Maigret" opening credits (1960)

1977, Belgian Comics: “Kiekeboe”

In 1977 the first "Kiekeboe" (English, "Jo & Co") album "De Wollebollen" is published by "J. Hoste". The story was pre-published in the newspaper "Het Laatste Nieuws". The comic series "Kiekeboe" was created by Merho (Robert Merhottein) in 1977. Before starting his own comic series, Merho worked five years as an assistant on the Willy Vandersteen series "Jerom" and "Pats". Main characters are Marcel Kiekeboe, his wife Charlotte, his daughter Fanny and son Konstantinopel.

De Wollebollen

• black and white
• never published in English
• never published in French
• story and drawings by Merho (Robert Merhottein)

No 1: "De Wollebollen"

Synopsis

During their holidays the family Kiekeboe meet the “Wollebollen”, little red creatures cleaning the forests. A witch, however, forces them to rob banks. Marcel Kiekeboe discoveres that Baron de Bruze Agan and Balthazar are the diabolical masterminds behind it all...

Marcel and Charlotte Kiekeboe

Wollebol and Fanny Kiekeboe

Main characters

Marcel Kiekeboe, Charlotte Kiekeboe, Fanny Kiekeboe, Konstantinopel Kiekeboe, Balthazar, baron de Bruze Agan, the fat lady, Danny.

The fat lady and Marcel Kiekeboe

Fanny Kiekeboe and Danny

Balthazar and Konstantinopel Kiekeboe

Trivia

• "Baron de Bruze Agan" refers to "the Bruges à Gand", a famous line from Jacques Brel's song "Marieke" (1962)
• the construction firm "Haemerrechts" is a pun on the Antwerp builder François Amelinckx

Baron de Bruze Agan, Balthazar, Konstaninopel, Marcel and Fanny

construction firm "Haemerrechts"

Cars

• Opel Kadett (C1)
• Citroën Dyane
• British Leyland Mini
• Lancia Stratos
• BMW 1602 (02-series)
• unidentified car, probably Mercury Cougar 1971 – 1973
• Datsun (Nissan) Cherry F-II Coupé
• Citroën GS 

Citroën Dyane and Opel Kadett C1

British Leyland Mini

Lancia Stratos

BMW 1602 (02-series)

unidentified car, probably Mercury Cougar 1971 – 1973

Opel Kadett C1, Datsun (Nissan) Cherry F-II Coupé, Citroën GS