|
Snap, Crackle, Pop and Pow: Little Known Facts about Rice Krispies
If you grew up watching Saturday morning cartoons or just television on a regular
....
|
Mike Landis – Still Doing it His Way
Mike Landis has done things his way most of his life. For 65 years, this roughed cowboy has stepped into a pair of
....
|
|
Daniel Boone, Television Style
A number of legendary figures from history have been depicted in television programs. One of them was
Daniel Boone.
|
Early
Television and the Anthology Drama
Anthology dramas were prominent among early television. These weekly
series featured stories ...
|
|
Classic Movies of the 1950s’
“The Great Locomotive Chase” and “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” were both released in 1956, and are well
worth seeing again and ....
|
Ode to the Martini
With equal parts gin and dry white
vermouth, no other alcoholic drink has had the sophistication and
the mystique that surrounds .....
|
|
In 1957, Patsy Cline sang “Walkin’ After Midnight” on the Arthur Godfrey talent program, and launched her amazing singing
......
|
California during the 1950s and 1960s
The effects of WWII influenced the social and economic
shifts that took ......
|
|
Harvey Phillip Spector: famous to infamous in a
flash
Born to a Jewish family in the Bronx, New York, Harvey Phillip Spector, better known as Phil Spector
has been very ....
|
JIM REEVES
In 1959, Jim Reeves made his greatest hit, “He’ll Have To Go,” and earned a platinum record. His smooth and rich baritone voice was
.....
|
|
Childhood Fun with Mr. Potato Head
Mr. Potato Head was invented by George Lerner in the late 1940’s. Lerner’s idea of a toy made up of plastic face parts that could
....
|
East Side/West Side – A Gritty 1960’s Drama
While the 1960’s were a tumultuous time in the United States, most of the television fare of the era
...
|
|
Not Just Poodle Skirts and Ponytails
The most common mental picture of 1950’s fashions has to be the poodle skirt and the
ponytail.
|
What About the Weekly ‘Do?
All of
my life I have observed a phenomenon of hair. For generations, women
in my ...
|
|
Hairstyles Worn in the Sixties
Hair, what’s a woman to do without it? Why is hair important to a woman, and even to some men? Not all men consider their own hair
....
|
When Food Became Fast!
McDonald Brothers revolutionize burger biz after automobile innovator. In 1954, a salesman named Ray Kroc was
.....
|
|
Ebbets Fields' Last Summer in the Sun.
Classic baseball stadium gets one World Series victory in
'55 before being destroyed in '57.
|
TRICK OR TREAT FOR UNICEF Born out of a humanitarian response to the desperate needs of children in Europe who
...
|
|
Checkmate: 1960 Crime Preventers Crime and detective series have long been a popular staple on television. An interesting program in this genre was
Checkmate.
|
Lawman
A number of Warner Brothers produced westerns ran on television during the 1950s and early 1960’s. Among the more famous were Maverick and
Cheyenne.
|
|
Hairstyles of the 50s
When one thinks of the hairstyles of the 50s, it is usually the ponytail that comes to mind. The
hair was pulled back, secured at the base of ....
|
I remember the hula
hoop. When I was little, my sister and I used to take turns twirling a hula hoop around
our waists, doing a spectacularly bad job ....
|
|
What we wore during the 50s
Nothing characterizes the 50s better than the poodle
skirt. The poodle skirt was a swing skirt with a poodle appliqué or some other
....
|
Independent Record Labels
In conjunction with regional sounds, many
"indie" record labels
came to prominence during this decade. Some .....
|
|
Released in 1964, A Hard Day's Night came along on a wave of Beatlemania that swept
through both Europe and the United States. The film itself lacked a
....
|
The radio soap opera The
Guiding Light made its television debut on January
1953, airing fifteen minutes, making what would become the
first ....
|
|
Lucille Ball and Her TV Sitcoms after I Love Lucy
Without a doubt I Love Lucy is one of the true sitcom classics of television.
|
Remembering “Mama”
One of the popular television programs from 1949 to early 1957 was Mama
(I Remember
Mama)
|
|
Trick or Treat! Halloween - Fifties Style
The excitement was uncontrollable. We had made our best attempts all day in school to focus on our arithmetic,
....
|
Barbie, Oh Barbie
Barbie is Mattel Inc.’s most popular, best selling toy by a long shot.
The fashion Doll was created and designed by Ruth Handler
....
|
|
There Goes Summer The first night I spent under canvas was on the banks of the River Derwent near Dalt Wood in
Borrowdale, my favorite Lakeland valley which lies ....
|
Fats Domino was born in 1928 to a family in New Orleans, Louisiana. His first spoken language was French, but spoke English fluently as well.
|
|
Memories of a '55 Chevy
I got my first car in 1965 – a '55 Chevy Bel Air, green and white. It had belonged to a neighbor man who'd died, and my parents thought
......
|
Hamburger University got its humble start in the basement of a McDonald's
restaurant in Elk Grove Village, IL - not far from my childhood home. The
first ...
|
|
M Squad - A Forgotten Television Crime Series
A number of fine television series from the 1950’s and 1960’s are now largely
forgotten.
|
It Takes a Thief
– Television at its Best
Crime and espionage have always been a popular subject in movies .....
|
|
Jimi Hendrix:
Master of the Stratocaster One of the most pioneering and influential artists in the progression of American music was
James Marshall Hendrix.
|
Nancy Drew – Teen Sleuth
When I was a child in the late '50s, early '60s, the top row of my bookshelf
was filled with Nancy Drew books. Oh, how .....
|
|
Regional Sounds
You could say that Detroit's Motown Sound (The city
also had a thriving rock sound that included Bob Seger, Ted Nugent and The Amboy Dukes,
....
|
The Mills Brothers
were a very popular group with teenagers and adults of the 50’s. I remember listening to them on the radio after school, and I bought
....
|
|
The Yo-Yo Guy
Before Organized Playtime, or The President's Physical Fitness Program, there was just plain recess.
Our elementary school held grades
....
|
My Secret Love
If I could have a time machine I would go back to that Friday night in September of 1959 after the River Rivals football game. It was
...
|
|
In 1961 the first police-themed sitcom came to television. Its name was Car 54, Where Are You? Running on NBC for 60 one half-hour episodes, this black and
......
|
Tales of Wells Fargo
was a popular television western that ran on NBC from 1957 to 1962. Dale Robertson starred as Wells Fargo Agent Jim
Hardie.
|
|
THE MOOG SYNTHESIZER
In 1955, RCA produced the first modern synthesizer,
but it was Moog who created the first subtractive
synthesizer to use a keyboard as ...
|
Always Sunny – Gale Zoe Garnett
She made her singing debut in 1960 and won a Best Folk Recording Grammy in
1964 for the upbeat song ....
|
|
1950s Science Fiction films
The 1950s was a time of contradiction. Americans were
alternately optimistic in the post-war economic boom and paranoid .....
|
Chelsea Apartments
It was an imposing and encompassing structure that served as my home in the Chelsea area of Manhattan
....
|
|
The Microwave Oven
The Amana Radarange debuted in Chicago in 1967 as "a product that would forever change how Americans
....
|
The Birth of the Island of Surtsey - 1963 - 1967
On November 8, 1963, about 130 meters below sea level, off the coast of Iceland.
|
|
Several television programs came to the United States from
England in the latter 1950’s and 1960’s. Perhaps the first was
The
Adventures of Robin Hood
|
Zorro is a name synonymous with
the term “super hero”. First appearing in a 1919 pulp magazine short
story by author Johnston McCulley ....
|
|
A Hot Day
at the Fair In August, 1962, my friend Cindy and I
spent the day at the annual county fair. Although she
lived next door, she'd spent the night at my ....
|
The Ink Spots were very popular when I went to high school and then
college in the 1950’s. They started singing together in 1934, but their
....
|
|
Restaurants of the 1950’s: Fast Food is Born It was during the early 1950’s
that The National Restaurant Association endorsed a new
type of dinner called the ...
|
Ol’ Betsy In the early 1950’s,
a new car was still a luxury for most families, and the
arrival of the new model year was a true event, heralded
for weeks ....
|
|
Mr. Terrific
ABC's wildly successful batman show in 1966 created a Bat-mania across
the US and led the other networks to develop their own superhero
offerings.
|
The Spotnicks While youngsters in England and America in 1959 were listening to hits
such as Forty Miles of Bad Road by Duane Eddy and ...
|
|
Record Condition – My Less than Perfect Collection Today, when I want to hear music,
I can go to my computer, go to my music ...
|
Acquanetta: The B-Rated Venezuelan Volcano
Film buffs with knowledge of B-Movies of old might
recognize the name ....
|
|
Sixties Package Tours The concept of a concert
featuring just one group or artist was a rare phenomenon
in the early sixties in England.
|
Classic Gear of the 50’s and 60’s It wasn’t just the classic guitars
of the 50’s and 60’s which helped to shape the sounds of
rock’n’roll.
|
|
Highway Patrol was a very popular television series from 1955 to
1959. The program’s popularity continued after its end, with it being
shown in reruns for many years.
|
Daktari is a Swahili word for “doctor”, but the male doctor depicted on
the program was not your ordinary doctor. Instead, he was an American
veterinarian ...
|
|
WEDDING DRESSES OF THE 50’s
The tea length wedding dress was very popular in the
1950’s and into the 1960’s.
|
Captain Nice The success of Batman on the ABC television network in 1966 created a
Bat-craze across the country.....
|
|
Pirate Radio The burst of pop music
that exploded in England in the early sixties revealed the
scarcity of radio stations catering for the youth ....
|
The Bonzo Dog
Doo-Dah Band One
group stands out among the craziness of the 1960’s. In an era of
rock
’n ’roll excesses, ...
|
|
Without a doubt one of
the greatest American actors of all time has to be
James Stewart. And
many of his greatest performances were in films released during ....
|
Few new westerns series
were coming to television by the late 1960’s. However, one
western that did acquire a loyal following was
The Guns
of Will Sonnett.
|
|
MICKY DOLENZ AS THE CIRCUS BOY Many people remember Micky Dolenz as the drum playing
lead singing fun maker from the late sixties sensation, the
Monkees
|
First teaching job: 1959
Even before I had a college diploma, I was hired to teach
a fourth-grade class in a suburb of El Paso, Texas. |
|
The Zombies were one
of those 60s groups that never fulfilled its potential.
Darlings of the critics and even flirting with hit status,
the Zombies suffered from a lack of ...
|
Life on the farm during the early '50's
While we were probably lucky to live on a farm during the
early '50's, my four brothers and I did not always ... |
|
The Kingston Trio
played at the Cracked Pot, a college club, in 1957 and
quickly became a hit group. Formed by three guys just out
of college, in Palo Alto, California, ...
|
1950’s Love Songs by Nat King Cole
He recorded a string
of love songs in the 1950’s, with hits that included Mona Lisa, and Too
Young. Here are some .... |
|
Livingston and Evans and the Sound Track of the 50’s and 60’s.
As a small child, one of my earliest and fondest memories
was finally being able to play the ....
|
Popular Cigarette Slogans of the 1950’s. In the 1950’s, slogans became a way for cigarette companies to
distinguish themselves. For example, ... |
|
The Green Hornet
and his sidekick, Kato, made their first appearances
on radio in 1936. In fact, they were created and developed
by George W. Trendle ...
|
Gale Storm was an actress and singer who appeared in many movies
as well in two successful 1950 television series.
Her first TV series was My Little Margie. ... |
|
Rice-A-Roni - The San Francisco Treat!
But did you know that Rice-A-Roni became a brand name in
the 1950’s; 1958 to be exact. Here is a brief overview of the ...
|
Instant Tea: From England to 1950’s America
Is a teabag just a tea bag? In the case of Lipton Instant tea it is a
tale of showmanship, a clever slogan, ... |
|
Hazel the Know-it-all Housekeeper
was a hit in its very first
television season in 1961 ranking number 4 in the TV
ratings.
|
Grace Kelly: From Actress to Princess
Actually Grace Kelly started out as a fashion model. She
then acted in a number of ... |
|
1960's Rhythm & Blues
came of age during the 1960's, when such popular sounds coming from
Motown, Stax/Volt Atlantic Records and various points all across the
U.S.
|
Haunting,
ethereal, and spooky in all the right ways,
"Carnival
of Souls"
captures the themes of alienation,
loneliness, and sexual hysteria to .... |
|
During the 1950s and 1960s, William
Holden was named one of the Top 10 Stars of the
Year six times and won a number of awards for his acting
abilities. |
In 1963, the highest grossing film of the year was
Cleopatra, directed
by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Cleopatra tells the story of the Queen of Egypt
of the same ...
|
|
The Sweater
We Had To Have. In the large metropolitan high
school I attended in the early 1950’s, there was only one
sweater girls just had to wear: raglan sleeve cashmere. |
Always A Coat
and Hat.
I can’t remember my father ever going to work at his dentist’s office
in Seattle without a coat and hat. All the men wore them in the 50’s,
|
|
1955-56 Chrysler 300 Among the Big-Three automakers of the early 1950s, none was
considered duller than utra-conservative Chrysler Corporation. |
Pantsuits (“City Pants”)
and
St. Laurent In 1968, the trouser or pantsuit, after tentative efforts over
the previous seasons to secure a foothold in fashion, ... |
|
Television featured a number of situation comedies with families as the
focus during the 1950’s and 1960’s. One of the longer running ones was
The Donna Reed Show. |
For the first
two seasons
Laramie was in
black and white. Then it switched over to color, becoming one of the
first series featuring the color NBC Peacock. |
|
3-D Movies and the 1950’s As the popularity of television grew in the
early 1950’s the motion picture industry found itself losing customers.
To regain viewers movie.... |
A Comic Strip Becomes a TV Sitcom Dennis the Menace first appeared in U.S. newspapers on March 12, 1951.
Created by Hank Ketcham, the comic strip .... |
|
In 1957, I felt very cool for a young
woman of ten, and after Carl Perkins and Elvis came out
with the hit,
Blue
Suede Shoes
I knew I had to have a pair..... |
Feel Good
Music
Could there possibly be any better music than that of the 50’s and 60’s?
I know that each generation has their own opinion of the .... |
|
Wood Boats
of the 50’S and 60’S In the 1950’s and 60’s the
pleasure boats in the waters around Seattle, Puget Sound,
Lake Union and Lake Washington, were made of ... |
Friday Night Was Amami Night The first radios in the UK were known as wirelesses and I still
inadvertently use the expression from time to time. |
|
December Bride
and Pete and Gladys – Two Forgotten TV Comedies December Bride
was a comedy that ran for five seasons on CBS. Beginning
its run in 1954 the.... |
Widowed Fathers in TV Programs of the 1950’s and 1960’s There were a number of
television programs in the 1950’s and 1960’s which revolved .... |
|
BOYCE AND HART Nearly everyone remembers The Monkees
from the '60s- the TV show, Monkeemania, Davy Jones and
all, but few understand the genius ... |
Handbags For Men Before the late '60s,
the only men who used to carry handbags, in a sense, were
natives of New Guinea, mailmen, doctors, ... |
|
1963-67 Corvette Stingray Ten years after its 1953 introduction,
Chevrolet's plastic-bodied Corvette sports car had been
through it all. |
Amid the context of the sexually conservative 1950's,
Alfred
Kinsey
stood out as a maverick, a savior, or the
devil ... |
|
Gidget
– In 1965 an 18 year-old Sally Field made her national
acting debut with the ABC television comedy Gidget. Based
upon the character from a 1957 novel and then ... |
Science Fiction Television in the 1960’s The name Irwin Allen often brings to mind movies like The Lost World
(1960) The Poseidon Adventure (1972) ... |
|
The
Photo Revolution The popular camera was made out of plastic,
had a simple lens, an undefined shutter speed and
undefined lens aperture setting. |
The Instrumentals Many rock critics and historians have viewed this genre as a
novelty, but I and many others disagree: the instrumental may not be the
.... |
|
Renegade painter
Jackson Pollock single-handedly pioneered the
frenzied, drippy style of freeform painting that has ever since stood
as the public's dominant image of 1950's |
The Summer of 1968
At 16, I was eager to be part of the elite group working at the small
Midwestern theme park. I didn't mind wearing the Kelly green ... |
|
The Invaders: A Short-lived but Good 1960’s
Sci-Fi Series. A number of science fiction television series
hit the airways in the 60's. |
Wanted: Dead or Alive
– Starring Steve McQueen Westerns were big on television in the 1950’s.
One forgotten by many... |
|
Dixie Cups In New England in the 1950s,
the Hoods brand of ice cream and milk products were
everywhere. If our parents showed up for Open House, and
our ..... |
DOWNHILL SKIING IN THE 50’s
I
slowly tightened my grip on the tow rope and let it pull
me uphill to the top of the ski run. I reminded myself not
to ... |
|
In the 1960's,
spy movies were very popular, with one of the most popular
being Dr. No, the first movie in the James Bond, 007 series. |
One of the most popular actresses of the 1950's and 1960's was
Audrey Hepburn.
She was in countless movies during ... |
|
A Couple of TV Programs Featuring Bachelor Fathers
in the 1950’s and 1960’s, however there were also a couple
that featured never married fathers, .... |
The High Chaparral: Western Drama in the Arizona Territory In the middle to late 1960’s westerns
were declining number as television medium. ..... |
|
Foreign Songs From the late 1950's throughout the '60's decade,
the American public has had a "soft spot" for this genre,
even if the song's ... |
Television and the Unmarried Career Woman The Mary Tyler Moore Show
of the 1970’s is often pointed to as groundbreaking
..... |
|
Tupperware
Page after page of 1950s advertisements portrayed
American women as homemakers, equipped with the latest
domestic gadgets, freed .... |
1965-66 Ford Mustang Since its introduction, the Ford Mustang
has remained one of the most enduring symbols of the
exciting style and ..... |
|
In 1960, author Scott O’Dell, wrote and published one of the
most popular children’s books of all time -
Island of the Blue
Dolphins |
In 1967, Disney created yet another full-length animated film,
this one was called
The Jungle Book |
|
The GI Bill
The 1950s were a period of economic
growth and general prosperity that's been rivaled by few other times
in America's history. Considered by most ..., |
Education in India in the 50s and 60s
The colleges offering graduate level education were usually situated at
districts. Hence students from villages ... |
|
One of the all-time great comics has to be
Jack Benny. Before
television he worked his craft on vaudeville, in film and on the radio.
After a television special in 1949 he.. |
The F.B.I. - A Classic Crime Drama Crime and police dramas have been popular on television
for a long time. One of the longest running series was The F.B.I. |
|
Bossa Nova, Baby!
The Bossa Nova (means "the new beat" or "new way")
is a style of Brazilian music that was first heard in the
late 1950's ... |
Janet Leigh made history
when she screamed in the shower in the movie, “Psycho,” in
1960. She spent seven days filming, ... |
|
THE WHIRL-SKIRTED GLAMOUR DRESS
Growing up as a small-town teenager in the 1960's,
there wasn't a lot a girl could do – especially one with pink
eyeglasses... |
1957-58
Plymouth Fury Among Chrysler Corporation's conservative offerings in the early 1950s,
few were more plain and practical than those of the ....
|
|
The 1955-57 Ford Thunderbird America in the 1950s was crazy for sports cars.
Whether because of a fresh exposure to all things European
during WWII, ... |
The Holy Ghost Reception Committee #9
Psychedelic Christianity. Christianity
expressed through popular music is .... |
|
Directed and produced by Lewis Milestone,
a classic movie from 1960 was the heist film
Ocean’s
Eleven
The film was not immediately ....
|
The name
Kirk Douglas
rings familiar in most Americans’ ears. Born in 1916, this
American actor and producer has a ... |
|
Naked City – A Television Drama Classic Several of the best television programs of the 1950’s and 1960’s are
today largely forgotten..... |
A Soap Opera Comes to 1960’s Nighttime TV
The first successful nighttime soap didn’t air until 1964 when
Peyton
Place came to ABC. |
|
White Dress and White Shoes I worked for thirty-five years
as a registered Medical Technologist, in hospital
laboratories and clinics. |
The Critters Some careers of 1960s rock and roll artists were cut short by
the draft and the Vietnam War. |
|
The Walker
Brothers While the United States was enjoying the influx of England's
finest during the
British Invasion of the early 1960’s. |
The American Breed Out of the 1960s Chicago sound that spawned The Buckinghams,
and The New Colony Six, came .... |
|
In the early 1960’s television traveled the
U.S. and
Route 66
through the dramatic series Route 66. The hour long
program ... |
Flipper the dolphin
came to NBC television in 1964 for a three year 88 episode
run. A family friendly 30 minute ...
|
|
Originally a 1930s cartoon,
The Addams Family became a popular
sitcom in the mid-1960s and remains an interesting pop culture icon
today. |
Inspired by the 1950s show, The Honeymooners,
The
Flintstones joined the ABC primetime lineup for
six years from 1960 to 1966. |
|
Oasis Park - A 50-year-old Oasis in the Desert Oasis Park is now 50 years old
and has become eligible for historic status. |
Wearing Bloomers in School
Gym Uniforms of the 50s and 60s. One requirement
in most schools that existed... |
|
TOP 40 AM RADIO
(and its DJ's)
The disc jockey (also called "DJ" or "deejay".
This term was first used to ... |
FM RADIO From the late 1950s through the 1960s, Top 40 AM radio ruled (The
format often acted as a barometer .... |
|
Four Exotic and Hip P.I. Programs In the late 1950’s and early 1960’s
four similar Warner Brothers private eye ... |
Comic Books of My Youth Growing up in the 1950’s and 1960’s
one of my favorite ways to relax .... |
|
Since the creation of the first
Matchbox Vehicles in 1952,
the popularity of these miniature toys have been enjoyed
by countless youngsters.
|
Teen Magazines were (and still are) aimed at teenage
readers and usually consisted of gossip, news, fashion
tips, interviews, and .... |
|
From 1957 to 1963, audiences everywhere
were captivated by the sitcom
Leave it to Beaver. Originally aired on CBS, the
show was ...
|
Born September 30, 1924,
Truman Capote
was an American literary genius, most famous for his 1965
“nonfiction novel” In Cold Blood. |
|
The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show: A Comedy Masterpiece A number of notable comedies
graced television in the early 50's. |
Western Drifter Heroes: Cheyenne, Sugarfoot and Bronco The
1950’s
and early 1960’s was the heyday of the television
western. |
|
MONEY TO BURN It was 1962 and my husband and I
and our two children at the time were headed to Florida
... |
Standing On The Corner
It doesn’t seem that long ago when, in
1963, a group of teenagers .... |
|
GOING TO A GO-GO Sometimes they wore short fringed, tasseled dresses or mini-skirts,
sometimes bikinis or .... |
KITTY & TYRONE The escapade was triggered off during a Saturday night dance at Burnley
Empress ... |
|
The Early History of the President's Council on Physical Fitness
- The Eisenhower Years |
The Early History of the President's Council on Physical Fitness
- The Kennedy Years |
|
Danny Thomas and A Great Early Sitcom Danny Thomas was one of the true creative forces in television
..... |
The Big Valley – Western in a Big Setting Television’s love affair with the western was
waning in the latter 1960’s, but ... |
|
Lawrence
of Arabia, featuring actor Peter O’Toole, became
an Academy-award winning movie. Written by Robert Bolt and
Michael Wilson, .... |
Known as the “King of Cool,”
Steve
McQueen was one of Hollywood’s leading actors of
the 1960s. He had a reputation for being hard .... |
|
Dolls of the Fifties Dolls have been a favorite
of little girls since the dawn of time. Even when a
child’s family...... |
The Lone Ranger
was one of the earliest television westerns. The
program began in 1949 and ran for 221 episodes, ending ... |
|
Disney’s One Hundred and One Dalmatians
was a full-length animated film first released on
January 15, 1961. |
Project Apollo: A promising future created in the 1960’s.
In 1961, President John Kennedy
..... |
|
What it cost in 1954 With a recent Associated Press Report
on January 7, 2007 of a man receiving a letter .... |
Good Old Movies The paddleball kept moving toward me,
seemingly from directly out of the movie screen, but never.... |
|
Death Valley Days was one of the longest running programs in television
history. However, before the Old ... |
Set in the Prohibition era of the late 1920’s and early 1930’s
The Untouchables became a hit television program in 1959..... |
|
The Holy Trinity: Shindig, Hullabaloo, and "Action" Shindig was the first
and a first prime-time rock music show that live
performances ..... |
Primary and Secondary Education in my Father’s time
My father lived in a village in India. During that time,
education up to post graduation ... |
|
Fifties Cosmetics Influenced by Hollywood Hollywood has always
influenced America’s beauty and fashion ideals. The 1950’s
were .... |
Rocky Marciano: “The Brockton Blockbuster” Rocky Marciano clenched
the World Heavyweight Boxing Championship on September 23,
1952 by ...
|
|
An all-time favorite, the
Dick Van Dyke
Show was a great television
comedy show that depicted the wholesome perception or idea of the... |
I Dream of Jeannie was a popular show
in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s. Of course, by the
time I started watching it on a regular... |
|
CBS premiered the program
Winky Dink and
You
on Saturday October 10th, 1953 at 10 am.
|
BEATLEMANIA! Within nine days during the Beatles' first visit, Americans had bought
more than 2 million Beatles .... |
|
Peter Gunn:
Late 1950’s Television Noir Take a Blake Edwards creation, add the music
of Henry Mancini and his ... |
Richard Diamond, Private Detective Several programs
moved successfully from radio to television during the
1950’s.
|
|
The Beverly
Hillbillies made its debut in 1962 and lasted
almost a full decade. The show is one of the most
popular.. |
The Courtship of Eddie’s Father
was one of my favorite shows as a kid. Although it was in
reruns by the time I was old...
|
|
One of the most loved comedies
of the 1950’s (and perhaps of all time) was without a
doubt
The Phil Silvers Show |
John Wayne: Icon One of the most bankable movie stars during the 1950’s
and 1960’s had to
be “The Duke”, John Wayne. |
|
Granny and Glassless were two short-lived fads of the 1960s for
the eyes. Contrary to the name, granny glasses..
|
The 1960s are widely
considered the "golden age" of
Coloring Books;
virtually thousands of subjects ...
|
|
Jefferson Airplane was a 1960’s band that embraced the whole
“hippie” or flower
child concept of the late 1960’s.
|
The Mamas and The Papas were a California singing group in the
1960’s that focused on harmony with a pop-folk style. |
|
Combat! 1960’s Television at its Gritty Best
Running from October 1962 to March 1967, Combat was perhaps television’s
best war...
|
The Virginian – A Television Classic The Virginian
was the first of the TV westerns to run 90 minutes in
length. Beginning in September ... |
|
Music styles in the 1960’s The 1960’s was a trying and constant time of change in America. Race,
women, and... |
The Grateful Dead
were a 1960’s psychedelic band that were famous for their
live performances, in fact, the band... |
|
Mary Quant - Fashion Designer
of the 1960s; her best-known creation was the mini-skirt.
(accounts vary on who... |
The Defenders: A Legal Drama Classic More than two decades before L. A. Law and Law
..... |
|
A Knight in the Old West Paladin
was the main character on the half hour western Have Gun -
Will Travel. Played by... |
Bill Cullen: Master Game Show Host Actually
however, this master game show host and panelist began in
radio in his... |
|
The Thin Craze of the 1960’s
started a slew of fads, fashions, and styles very much
different from the 1950’s. |
The Munsters TV Show Reruns are a good thing,
if it hadn’t been for reruns I would have never been aware
of ..... |
|
Scoptione - The Visual Jukebox Today we take music videos
on MTV and VH1 for granted. But did you know... |
The Left Banke Michael Brown
was only 16 when he wrote the group's signature tune,
"Walk Away, Renee," a song ... |
|
The Wildwoods – A Modern Day Tribute to the 1950’s
it is a place that embraces the 1950’s.... |
The “Why’s” of Joe’s and Marilyn’s Ending He loved when
his wife was at home. When home, she .... |
|
Duck and
Cover During the height of the Cold War between
the United States and the Soviet Union, a safety drill ... |
Modes of transport
in India in the 50s and 60s In villages and small towns,
bullock-carts were used as a means of ... |
|
The Andy Griffith Show
is one of my all-time favorite television shows. Because
of it's immense popularity it is now... |
Gilligan’s Island: The Story of Seven Castaways
one of the most popular television sitcoms ever. The
Gilligan's Island TV ... |
|
A Couple of Far Out 60’s Sitcoms
Two
of the farthest out had to be Mister Ed and My Favorite Martian....... |
Your Show of Shows –
An Early TV Classic on American television was Your
Show of Shows........ |
|
Classic Guitars of the 50’s and 60’s The 1950’s was the decade that saw the
birth of rock ’n roll, transistor radios ... |
VIDAL SASSOON
Probably the most influential hair stylist of the 1960s was Vidal
Sassoon. His creations included the .... |
|
The 1950’s and Six Hall of Fame Baseball Outfielders
All were later inducted into the Hall of Fame. The players
and... |
Burke’s Law: A Mystery Comedy Combo Beginning in September of 1963, Burke’s Law was one of the
campiest mystery.. |
|
The Good and Bad of Motown Records Motown was a very popular music recording company that helped many... |
Marvin Gaye – Silky Soul Singer
His voice was silky smooth full of passion, emotion, and
plenty of soul. He contributed ... |
|
The Singing Cowboys Two television series of the 1950’s featured singing cowboys. The Gene Autry Show
and The Roy Rogers
Show. |
Military Sitcom’s of the 1960’s The 1960’s saw the production of several situation comedies that
revolved around the U.S. Military. |
|
African-American influence in Rock and Roll.
Little Richard was
telling the truth when he said he is the King of... |
Aretha Franklin: The Queen of Soul.
She remains one of the most prominent and
important figures in rock and roll. |
|
Along the Trail with Wagon Train and Rawhide
The Western was king during television’s 1950’s and
early.... |
The Wild Wild
West:
Where Western Meets SciFi Spy The mid-1960’s brought a
number of secret agent/spy shows to TV. |
|
Jax Slacks
This clothing line was very popular during the mid-1960s (but was
around since the '50s), particularly the slacks. |
Psychedelic Moods:
A Psychedelic Classic Courtesy of The Deep "Take A
Trip – Freak Out – Blow Your Mind” |
|
Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young This group is one
of the more popular folk rock groups of the 1960’s and
early 1970’s,... |
The Who were considered to be one of the original punk and hard rock
bands alongside the
Kinks, and one of the greatest
... |
|
Two Television Dog Classics Coming to
TV in 1954 were two programs where the main
hero was a dog. |
A Comedy/Variety Classic –
The Red Skelton Show
was one of the longest running variety shows of all time. |
|
The Moscow Mule
|
