How we spent Sunday nights… 60 years ago! The Ed Sullivan Show! LONG before MTV, VH-1, or any of those copycats… For most of us, it was the first time we’d actually ‘seen’ any of the bands actually sing, unless … Continue reading
Category Archives: TBT
Kinda, sorta… Author unknown on this one, but pretty much how I feel anymore… I grew up and spent most of my life basing my interactions with people on their character, NOT their color or beliefs. In the military all … Continue reading
We’re coming up on Memorial Day, and I found that quite a few folks didn’t know this about coins on headstones (specifically military headstones)… The tradition of leaving coins on the headstones of military men and women can be traced … Continue reading
What is it? Plane, train, or??? Answer below the fold… … Continue reading
Words… That you don’t hear anymore… I came across this phrase yesterday ‘FENDER SKIRTS.’ A term I haven’t heard in a long time, and thinking about ‘fender skirts’ started me thinking about other words that quietly disappear from our language … Continue reading
A few more ads the likes of which we’ll never see again… And this one from the 70s brings back memories of beating on the DEC terminal at work as we tried to solve the maze in the Adventure game. … Continue reading
Ads we’ll never see the likes of again… This one is from 1931, coming out of the depression… Interesting concept… Imagine the screams from the left/woke/(insert ism here) if anything even REMOTELY resembling these were made today! … Continue reading
Finally found a pic of an actual Woolworth’s lunch counter, circa late 1950s!!! That was a real treat for me as a little kid. 🙂 And who spent more time swimming like this than they did in ANY pool? And … Continue reading
Sigh… I REALLY miss my 66 Goat… Back in the day, you could get ‘good’ ads from the magazines and actually get posters from the auto manufacturers themselves… Ironically, this is the car I had (color, top, etc.) And the … Continue reading
Remember when this was the view we had? Now, although the left swears up and down walls don’t work… Yet the ‘Biden-Harris’ administration (yes that’s the new name), is keeping the capital better protected than our southern border… And they … Continue reading