Baby Boomer Alert

They started out as just a "family game."  Loving Mom and Dad with Johnny and Susie in the back yard playing this game of skill.  The jarts, "basically metal missiles," were prettified with colorful plastic fins on the back.  The object was to toss the jarts into a plastic ring set out on the lawn a few hundred feet away...

How many remember the old theme park "Frontier Town" in the Adirondacks? This popular amusement park, located outside of Lake George in the little town of North Hudson, for more than 45 years.  It was a Western themed park where cowboys and Indians, rodeos, badge wearing sheriffs, old jails, saloons and stagecoach rides were the order of the day...

This is the oddest car ad I have ever seen.  And yet somehow it seems perfectly natural.  A station wagon that was also a convertible. Studebaker made this in 1963.  It was called the Lark Wagonaire.  They spent a lot of money promoting it as a "family car to go on any outing...

First day of school!  Yay!  Bring on the school lunch boxes! Most kids, I think, do not use these any more.  But on my very first day of school (Kindergarten, 1955, Pearl Street School, Sidney) I proudly carried my metal Davy Crockett Indian Fighter lunch box (with thermos) up the street with me...

This was the very first item that ever hit it big for me when we first got a Facebook page a little over a year ago. My mother always had this on the end of her ironing board.  A Coke bottle with a little sprinkler top on it.  She wet the clothes before ironing them, I guess before she owned a steam iron...

Tuesday Weld turns 69 years old today.  Perhaps the quintessential Hollywood sex-kitten, there isn't a Baby Boomer guy out there who didn't have a crush on Thalia Meninger of "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis." Weld starred as the scheming love interest for the hapless Dobie for the whole first season and then returned in guest role appearances...

Happy Birthday (August 13, 1895) to Bert Lahr! Actor Bert Lahr was already a well established actor before he ever signed to portray the Cowardly Lion in "The Wizard of Oz."  He was one of the biggest names in vaudeville and made his film debut in 1931 in "Flying High...

Singing legend Eydie Gorme, who scored big as both a solo act and as one half of the most successful Las Vegas duo of them all, has died after a brief illness.  She was 84. Gorme and her husband, Steve Lawrence, were a fifty year staple on the Vegas strip...

Baby boomers loved the Captain Kangaroo Show.  And what would that show have been like without Dancing Bear, Mr. Moose or Grandfather Clock? Cosmo Allegretti was a set painter on the children's show when he was enlisted to jump into the bear suit and star dancing around the set...

Everybody loves Lucy! Lucille Ball was born in Upstate New York  on this day in 1911.  The once and forever "Queen of Comedy," Lucy is one of TV's greatest icons.  There were so many memorable scenes from the classic "I Love Lucy" program...