Baby Boomer Alert

Eleanor Parker, the Oscar-nominated actress who co-starred as the Baroness in "Sound of Music" has died at the age of 91. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress three times:  "Caged" (1950), "Detective Story" (1951), "Interrupted Melody" (1955)...

Do you remember actress Linda Evans as Kristle Carrington from the TV soap Dynasty?  The show went off the air in 1989. Well, you are a true baby boomer if you remember her from another great show many years before.  As Audra Barkley in The Big Valley (1965-1969), young baby boomers like me were introduced to one of the memorable works of eye candy we could find on television...

77 Sunset Strip was a big hit from 1958 to 1964.  It was an easy breezy private eye drams/comedy set in Los Angeles.  The show starred three of the hottest male actors of the day, all of them very handsome.  And they are still around nearly six decades later...

On September 24, 1960 the Howdy Doody Show finally came to and end.  And it went out with a VERY BIG SURPRISE! The show began its run on December 27, 1947 and ran for 2,343 shows.  Everyone my age grew up with this show.  We remember Buffalo Bob Smith and his cast of characters including the beloved Clarabell the Clown...

This is a real true blue Baby Boomer memory.  I know it still goes on, but "Trick or Treat for UNICEF" was born in 1950 right as many boomers were beginning to venture out on Halloween in our masks and costumes on Halloween night. United Nations Children's Fund was started by the wife of a Philadelphia minister...

Don Larsen threw the only perfect game in World Series history in on this day in 1956. His feat is really amazing.  In the high pressure arena of a World Series setting, Larsen needed only 97 pitches to secure his place in baseball history...

Today is the anniversary of Bobby Thomson's amazing home run in 1951 to take the NY Giants to the pennant championship.  The opposing pitcher was Ralph Branca of the Brooklyn Dodgers.  This video could not be more exciting. Check it out...

The National Museum of Play at the Strong Museum in Rochester has just announced their 12 nominees for induction into the Toy Hall of Fame for 2013. Last year's inductees were "Star War" figures and dominoes.  Take a look at the dozen nominees for this year...

These were very big souvenir items in the 1950s and 1960s. You could get these porcelain plates for under $10 and they looked good on any wall (kind of).  Many communities had these plates made to sell as fundraisers for anniversary dates, especially around village's centennials and bi-centennials...

In today's television world companies will spend hundreds of thousands, even millions of dollars on :30 and :60 second television commercials. Lets go back now to the Golden Age of Television for a second and see what TV commercials looked like back then...