nostalgia

We STILL have these local jingles stuck in our head, all these years later.

It's fun to think back on our childhood years of simple, fun, play when nothing else mattered and that's why the Strong National Museum of Play created the "National Toy Hall of Fame" where each year, people get to vote on which nominated toys or play-things should receive a place in the Toy Hall of Fame.

Amazing Video

(THIS THROWBACK THURSDAY POST WAS FIRST PUBLISHED IN 2012) On October 8, 1919 at 12 noon the 20 mule team came to Norwich and stopped at the grocery store of H. O. Gregory located at 58 1-2 North Broad Street. Tarrantula Pete gave a lecture and handed out samples of Borax...

Yes..this is a new item.  Sold by Nostalgia Electrics Company it is designed to be practical and nostalgic all at once. I don't know about you but my kitchen counter is a mess.  Coffee machines, spice rack, microwave oven, cutting boards, banana holder (...

It is almost impossible to comprehend, but I grew up in an age when A-Bomb attacks from our enemy were real threats.  Yes, even in my elementary school in Sidney, NY in the 1950s. We had drills.  We hid under desks.  We lined the hallways of Pearl Street Elementary School and "put our heads in our elbows" to save ourselves from a nuclear holocaust...

IBM inaugurated a major change in the way we typed when it introduced the "typeball" in July, 1961. It was highly successful and propelled the Selectric typewriter to the front of sales in America, eventually capturing 75% of the typewriter market ...

It seems impossible now, but the old pencil sharpener was once one of the most important fixtures of a school classroom in the 1940s-1960s. I honestly don't know if there are pencil sharpeners in today's classrooms.  Do kids still use pencils...

This is an actual advertisement from 1956. It is almost impossibile to conceive of an ad agency employing the concept of a woman opening a bottle of ketchup as to be "inspiring" or "liberating."  When I saw this ad I thought..."Gee before this new fangled twist off cap, what the heck did a woman have to go through to open up a bottle of ketchup...

Kate Smith was one of the most important personalities in American 20th-Century entertainment.  Amazingly she was the first superstar of BOTH radio and television! Older generations remember her with fondness from her #1 long-running radio shows and for her introduction of Irving Berlin's classic "God Bless America...