Baby Boomer Alert

I grew up in a house with five sisters.  These things surfaced in the early 1960s with my sister Fran.  I have no idea what she used them for (she slept with them on) but I do know that my two brothers and I loved them

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Wooly Willy was born in Smethport, Pennsylvania in 1955 by James Reese Herzog.

He got the idea when thinking what could be done "for fun" with all of the tiny metal dust made when magnets were shaved

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Actor Frank Bank has died at 71.

Bank played the slow, dimwitted teenage neighbor to the Cleaver family on the iconic baby boomer sitcom "Leave it to Beaver."

Lumpy (real series name Clarence Rutherford) drifted in and out of the series during the entire run of the show

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Nobody liked the penny candy down at the corner store of my youth more than I did!!!

The red wax lips,the black wax mustache,  the pretzel sticks, the fake cigarettes, fireballs, Mary Janes, the red hot dollars, the waxy coke bottles, etc. I loved them al

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What food do you think of when you see the above photo?  Well for me, it is always roast beef sandwich and mashed potatoes with brown gravy.

Bresees Health Bar restaurant was one of the most popular stopping off places for generations of Oneontans (and others who came from miles away)

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Joe Weider has died at 93.  His comic book ad of the scrawny kid getting sand kicked in his face at the beach was an iconic image of the Baby Boom generation.  Weider has been called the "Father of American Bodybuilding" and with his brother, Ben, they founded the International Federation of Bodybuilders

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She was everybody's favorite wise-cracking aunt, neighbor, teacher, secretary and friend.

Eve Arden was one of the most popular actresses of the 20th century.  Her career in movies, radio, television and stage spanned more than five decades

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He was just a simple little line drawing on the Captain Kangaroo morning kids show.  Tom Terrific lived in a tree house and could change himself into any configuration he wanted.

The short would run in five minute segments on Captain Kangaroo initially from 1957 to 1959

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Many polls have determined the impossible...what is the funniest skit ever on television?

There have been a lot of great comedy moments (for example remember Sammy Davis Jr. kissing Archie Bunker?)

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It seems like all of the controls we need to drive are now on the directional "stalk." Wipers, headlights, cruise control, etc.

You know you are a Baby Boomer if you can remember when we used to dim our head lights by slamming down on a switch on the floorboard under the dash

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