Baby Boomer Alert

The canister vacuum cleaner was "born" on this day in England in 1901. It's hard to believe that for many years a vacuum cleaner was considered a luxury.  It wasn't until after World War II that housewives demanded an easier way to clean their homes...

By the time I was first introduced to WC Fields (1880-1946), I was in college.  Fields had been dead for more than 20 years but he was all the rage with me and all my college friends. WC Fields is an acquired taste.  And I acquired it big time...

In all of recording history only 30 songs have sold more than 10 million singles.  And this is one of them. "We Are the World" (USA for Africa) was recorded on January 28, 1985.  It sold 15-million singles and raised more than 60-million dollars for famine relief...

Did you watch the Grammy Awards this year?  Me neither. I don't watch this show, which I used to love, because I simply do not know any of the artists.  Oh sure, maybe some country ones, but for the most part their names mean nothing to me...

Members of the Baby Boom generation were shocked to hear of the second death in 24-hours of a familiar face from our television era. Dave Madden (upper left), the comedian who played the manager Reuben Kincaid on The Partridge Family, has died at the age of 82...

Actor Russell Johnson (far left), who played "The Professor" on Gilligans Island has died.  He was 89. This leaves just two stars of this classic show still with us.  Dawn Wells (Mary Ann) who is now 75 and actress Tina Louise (Ginger), 79...

Folk singer Glenn Yarbrough celebrates his 84th birthday today. Glenn was a founder of the 1960s folk group The Limelighters as well as a very successful solo artists. He was the first singer to record the hit song "The House of the Rising Sun...

On this day, January 10, 1984 an unknown 82-year old beginning actress named Clara Peller starred in her first Wendy's hamburger commercial.  Hollering "Where's the beef?" into the camera, this white-haired, crinkly-eyed grandmother soon became a Pop icon...

I was visiting my Mom's house the other day.  I heard a phone ring.  You know, that old fashioned "riiinngg  riiiinnngg" that we have all heard for fifty years or more?  Not the tiny, tinny electro-beep that comes from a cell phone. It has always been there...

In 1965 my Dad introduced pressure fried chicken to our hometown, Sidney.  He bought a new-fangled pressure cooker and sold a lot of it.  It was great chicken, and I should know.  I ate my share of it! Of course Col. Harlan Sanders and his Kentucky Fried Chicken would make pressure-fried chicken a mainstay on the American menus.  W...