Baby Boomer Alert

Western actor George "Gabby" Hayes was born in Stannards, N.Y. on May 7, 1885. Hayes' father owned one of the first hotels in Stannards and Gabby was born in a room there.  He stayed in the town, located in Allegany County just outside of Wellsville...

Screen legend Michael Ansara has died.  He was 91. In 1956 he starred in "Broken Arrow" as the Indian leader Cochise.  The show was a big hit and made him a star.  It was while he was starring in the show that he first met Barbara Eden...

She sang one of the most recognizable product jingles of the 20th century. Page Morton Black was already a well-known cabaret singer when she married William Black, the president of the Chock Full O' Nuts coffee company.  He was looking for a jingle singer for his TV ads and he looked no farther than his own home...

Buster Brown Shoes are cranking up for their big 110th birthday next year.  The shoes were "born" at the St. Louis World's Fair of 1904.  They have sold millions of pairs of shoes since then.  They are famous for their children s shoes...

Could you make a circle on the Etch-a-Sketch?  Me either. The iconic Baby Boom toy was created in July, 1960.  Hundreds of millions of units have been sold since then (50 million in just the first two years!  Etch-a-Sketch was inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame in the hall's first year...

John Astin, star of the classic sit-com The Addams Family will be appearing at SUNY Delhi on Saturday, July 13 at 7 p.m.  He will be performing his one man show "John Astin: Gomez, Poe and all the Usual Suspects." The actor will read excerpts from classic works of literature and will discuss his show business career...

A little rubber ball and a bunch of 6-pointed "knucklebones".  That's it.  And voila!  You have a game that has been around for centuries.  Jacks. The game has been played by children for millenniums.  Recently we find the game being played in urban areas where green spaces are hard to come by...

Are you old enough to remember telephone operators?  You know, real live people (almost always women) on the other end of the phone just waiting to help you connect your call. Try and explain the concept of the "party line" to today's kids...

From 1959 to 1963 "Dennis the Menace" held the coveted position as the lead in to the Ed Sullivan Show on Sunday nights. The show was the TV version of the popular comic strip by Hank Ketchum.  The shows two sole sponsors were Kelloggs cereal and Skippy peanut butter...

The first coin-operated pay phone was installed in 1889 in Hartford, Connecticut at the Hartford National Bank.  There had been pay phones before this date but you had to hand your payment to an attendant who then made the call for you...