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Alessandro Lecquio

Born Lausanne, 17 Jul 1960

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A life in time

  1. 17 Jul 1960

    Born in Lausanne

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During his lifetime

He has lived through 7 decades. Pick one to hear and see what it was like around Lausanne.

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The 1960s · Alessandro is born in Lausanne

What people wore

Girl's clothing in Switzerland

Between 1950 and the late 1960s, girls commonly wore knee-length skirts or dresses with blouses, while trousers only became more frequent around 1970.

Getting around

New rail link reduced journey times in 1964

The opening of the Lucerne-Stans-Engelberg railway in 1964 enabled direct travel and cut the journey time to one hour.

What it cost

Unskilled worker wages in 1961

By 1961, the average hourly earnings for an unskilled worker in Switzerland had risen to 3.53 francs. During this period, food expenditure accounted for 29 percent of total spending in worker families.

People walk on the Moon. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the Moon, watched live on television by some 600 million people.Around the world · 1969

People walk on the Moon. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the Moon, watched live on television by some 600 million people.

Neil A. Armstrong · public domain

Music

Instruments used in the home

People played diverse traditional instruments at home, such as the Toggenburg house organ, hackbrett (hammered dulcimer), violin, accordion, and halszither (a type of cittern).

At the table

Shift in Milk Consumption

Between 1950 and 1960, Switzerland shifted from raw milk consumption toward specialized products like yogurt, cream, and pasteurized milk.

Work

The factory women known as Eleveners

Women in watch factories were nicknamed the Eleveners because they left work at 11 am to rush home, shop, and cook a fresh meal for their families by noon.