nostalgia

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...

I'm just curious if kids still do this. I remember vividly giving out Halloween cards to my young classmates in elementary school in the 1950s in Sidney.  We only had three places to buy the cards (Hales, Fairbanks and Kents Department Store) so we all always got the same ones...

Petula Clark celebrated her 80th birthday this week.  Following a seven decade career, she is still performing 30-35 concerts a year.  She looks great and she still sounds great! Clark began singing on the BBC radio during World War II and really hit her stride with a long string of pop hits in the 1960s. She is s...

It started as a byproduct of World War II.  It was noticed by an engineer that radar waves being targeted at an object that the waves actually melted the candy bar in his pocket.  And yes, from that seemingly innocuous event came the now indispensable kitchen item in almost every home in America...

Over the years several polls over the years have asked the burning question: "Who is your favorite of the Three Stooges?"  Personally I was always a Larry guy.  Shemp was the nervous-ninny of the group.  Moe was the brains of the outfit (what little brains there was) but it the balding master of physical comedy Curly Howard who always comes out as the most beloved Stooge of them all... R

How many remember "Spin and Marty?"  The show started out as an 11-minute segment on the old "Mickey Mouse Club Show" in 1955.  It was so popular that it gave us two more seasons, two remakes, a movie and a lot of great old comic books...

She really only had one big hit and she was only 14-years old when she recorded it in 1963.  By the time "I Will Follow Him" hit the #1 spot Peggy was 15 and she became the youngest person to ever score a #1 single.  That is still the case a half century later...

The patent for the legendary board game "Clue" was filed this week in 1944 By Anthony Pratt in London. Originally, the game was concocted to give adults and children something to occupy the hours spent underground in the London subways during the German air attacks of the war...