Get Perking: Coffee Hits 15 Cents a Cup

Catch a snooze on the Freeway Flyer!

March 15, 1960: Coffee goes to 15 cents a cup, which would be $1.07 today, adjusted for inflation. Not quite the price of a venti caramel brulee at Starbucks. On the jump: “I married Caryl Chessman.”

Quote of the day: “Like all women, I thought ‘I’ll change him.’ ” -- Caryl Chessman’s ex-wife