The red TWA travel bag with “The Beatles 'To The USA' August 1965” printed on it became a famous souvenir from the band’s second trip to America. Trans World Airlines (TWA) made these bags just for the Beatles’ flight (TWA Flight 703) from London to New York on August 13, 1965—these were never sold in stores.

Legend has it the Beatles rubber ball drew inspiration from The Cyrkle’s hit “Red Rubber Ball” — a band discovered by Brian Epstein, with a name coined by John Lennon himself. Manufactured in the U.S. by Holland Hall Products, Inc., this inflatable ball turned any playground game of Four Square into a Fab Four occasion.

Pat Boone commissioned artist Leo Jansen’s oil-style portraits of the band — sourced from Peter Hall’s May 1963 photos of John and Paul — then built a nationwide contest around them, flying 30 winners to see the Beatles’ Las Vegas show on August 20, 1964. One of those winners, then-eighth-grader Chris Barnes, still remembers being greeted personally by Boone on the tarmac. By October 1964, Boone had sold 10 million of the portraits.

Unlike the hundreds of licenses NEMS and Seltaeb issued across the West, Japan saw none — local companies had already trademarked “The Beatles” under Japan’s first-to-file system before NEMS could register. The result: a market split between export-only toys made for U.S. firms like Remco, unlicensed local novelties NEMS couldn’t stop, and official items limited to imports and 1966 Budokan tour merchandise like flags and programs.