OT: Are you older than dirt?

[AidanFan20]

"It has a nice beat, it's easy to dance to. I'll give it a 65."

 

[Viet Vet]

My Grandmother was the first one in the family to have a tv and on Saturday nights my five Aunts and Uncles and their kids would come down to her living room to watch Gorgeous George and Argentina Rocca wrestle.

I remember him as Antonino Rocca

My Grandmother was the first one in the family to have a tv and on Saturday nights my five Aunts and Uncles and their kids would come down to her living room to watch Gorgeous George and Argentina Rocca wrestle.

 

[hookshot]

My favorite regular was Carmen.

As I recall the original bandstand was a locally broadcast show, but then went national only after Dick Clark took over. Like many catholic school girls of the day, my wife danced on bandstand a couple of times but Nun reoriented her how that was not the path to heaven or a passing grade

 

[Steelerone]

I remember him as Antonino Rocca

Now that I think of it I think you're right. He was one of the first "drop kick" wrestlers as I recall. Also always one of the "good guys."

 

[Steelerone]

During that era, did you watch Dick the Bruiser, Skull Murphy, the Zebra Kid, and the tag team, Fabulous Kangaroos?

Omigosh. When I was fifteen I sold popcorn at one of the wrestling shows outside Pittsburgh. Dick the Brusier was one of the men on the bill. What came as a shock to me was after the matchs when we went back to see if we could get autographs all these guys who you thought were trying to kill each other in the ring were smoking, drinking beer and playing poker with each other. But they were all friendly and one of them was "Chief Wahoo."

 

[Steelerone]

I remember going to bed every night and turning on "The Hound's Around" on early am radio. The first rock station for me.

 

[ME Husky Fan]

You forgot S&H Green Stamps!!

 

[Rixxx]

Do you guys remember when the "Million Dollar Man" was just Ted DeBiase and a clean, good guy in the ring?

 

[Jackcatscal]

I remember lying in bed as a kid in NYC listening to the radio. I could get WWVA in Wheeling, West Virginia. I was amazed that I could hear a radio show from so far away. (More on WWAV: WWVA (AM) - Wikipedia

 

[Steelerone]

I remember lying in bed as a kid in NYC listening to the radio. I could get WWVA in Wheeling, West Virginia. I was amazed that I could hear a radio show from so far away. (More on WWAV: WWVA (AM) - Wikipedia

Omigosh, that's all my mom would listen to. And all I wanted to hear was The Four Lads or The Four Aces. We'd have big battles about which music was the best. But when Elvis came along she actually loved him.

 

[Steelerone]

In college, one of my "less than responsible" choices was to take an elective course in... you'll never guess... puppetry. (I know)
Some of the course involved working with Rufus and Margo Rose. We'd go to their house and learn the art of marionettes. Rufus was the operator of Howdy all through the life of the show.
Not only do I remember Howdy, but I've operated him myself.

LOL> Did you ever get a chance to meet Princess Summer Fall Winter Spring?

I taught a Health course my first year teaching and the text book was published in 1952. In that book it said that you should endeavor to take a bath once a week and wash your hair once a month! Even in 1968 those kids thought that was gross! I do remember that I put Butch Wax in my hair to keep the DA looking sharp .

LOL. Use Wildroot Cream Oil, Charlie.

 

[Steelerone]

That is all modern stuff. I remember Studebakers and Hudsons.

Studebaker and Hudson. Yea, that's what I remember you kids driving as you passed me in my Model-T.

 

[Steelerone]

On this site, I have to mention: Girl's Half Court Basketball: 3 players from each team on both sides of the court. No one could cross the half court line........This stopped in 1971.

My wife still comments about when she played basketball for her team at Cooley Dickenson Hospital and they played half court. Her team beat one of the local women's colleges and she said that was the only time in her life she got drunk at the victory party.

On this site, I have to mention: Girl's Half Court Basketball: 3 players from each team on both sides of the court. No one could cross the half court line........This stopped in 1971.

 

[Steelerone]

How about Rod Steiger and the TWILIGHT ZONE... Not to mention, but I will, " Alfred Hitchcock Presents "

The best Twilight Zone was the "Chatty Cathy Doll" show. I still get a little chill remembering her sitting on the couch after killing the stepfather and saying to the mother, "I'm Chatty Cathy and you'd better be nice to me."

 

[Steelerone]

If my mom hadn't thrown out my comic book collection and baseball cards I would be a millionaire today.

Az, I got home from Boot Camp in 1954 and when I looked into my cedar chest where I had stored about five hundred Topps cards they were gone. My favorite team at that time was the Dodgers and I had five or six complete player sets. I asked her what happened to them and she said, "I thought that you outgrew them," I could cry when I see the prices for Robinson, Hodges, Snider, Campanella and Reese.

 

[Steelerone]

Castor Oil

My mother had to call my Uncle to drag me from under the bed because she tried to give me Castor Oil and I told her I wouldn't take it. It still took him almost ten minutes to get me.

 

[Rixxx]

The best Twilight Zone was the "Chatty Cathy Doll" show. I still get a little chill remembering her sitting on the couch after killing the stepfather and saying to the mother, "I'm Chatty Cathy and you'd better be nice to me."

Looked up that episode from 1963 and watched Telly Savalas interact with Chatty Cathy. You can stream all the Twilight Zone seasons on "Freevee".

 

[zymurg]

"We are singing oldies, but we were newies then..." ah, acapella. "Looking For an Echo" is my all time favorite acapella song. If you don't know this song; your musical education needs not an update, but a return to basics. Google the Persuasions; their version is a cover, but it is my favorite. Google the title and you will be flooded with alternate versions. "We were looking for an echo, an answer to our sound; a place to be in harmony; a place we almost found.."

 

[zymurg]

"We are singing oldies, but we were newies then..." ah, acapella. "Looking For an Echo" is my all time favorite acapella song. If you don't know this song; your musical education needs not an update, but a return to basics. Google the Persuasions; their version is a cover, but it is my favorite. Google the title and you will be flooded with alternate versions. "We were looking for an echo, an answer to our sound; a place to be in harmony; a place we almost found.."

Try Spike Lee's "Do It Acapella" a PBS program available on youtube. Did anyone beside me own a juke box?

 

[itsasport]

I thought that I was the only kid to discover that their baseball cards had been thrown away. We had a huge basement will massive empty shelves and one lone shoebox of cards. Was there some contagion that affected our parents?

 

[Jackcatscal]

I've been really enjoying everyone's stories and memories from "dirt-times." Thanks. I remember that some of the roads in my town were still dirt in the 50s, and our local ball field only had a few tuffs of grass.
I highly recommend Doris Kearns Goodwin's book "Wait Until Next Year" to everyone, but particularly those who grew up in NYC in the 50s. She brings you right back to those times, as Doris always can do. I still have my copy and now I think I'm going to read it again.

Despite the title of Goodwin's book, as a kid growing up in NYC, I didn't have to "wait until next year." I grew up in The Bronx, and my team was in the World Series every year. It must have been very sad growing up in Brooklyn.

 

[Beemer]

You forgot S&H Green Stamps!!

You could get some really cool stuff with Green Stamps!

 

[msf22b]

85 today

 

[HuskyNan]

85 today

Happy birthday!

 

[HuskyNan]