I can still recall some of the times we would hitchhike to local pools only to find they were closed because of the polio scare. They would show film of people in the Iron Lungs in the newsreels at movies and we were terrified.
Lol. I remember people used to get dressed up like it was Easter Morning to go shopping at G. Fox. I always felt Hartford could have really turned itself around economically if they would have turned it into a casino but the state was to dumb.
On the other hand casinos did jack for Atlantic City.
During that era, did you watch Dick the Bruiser, Skull Murphy, the Zebra Kid, and the tag team, Fabulous Kangaroos?
I was in love with Cheryl. LOL
Hmmm, I pre-dated Dick Clark. Remember his predecessor, i.e. Bob Horn, who started bandstand. Got iun trouble for holding barn parties on the weekend. His license plate was said to be RU14, Dick Clark owes his job to Bob Horn. Catholic school girls had a lot of explaining to do to the Nun next day, when they were spotted on Bandstand
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 gradeMy favorite regular was Carmen.
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."
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."
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.
LOL> Did you ever get a chance to meet Princess Summer Fall Winter Spring?
LOL. Use Wildroot Cream Oil, Charlie.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.
Studebaker and Hudson. Yea, that's what I remember you kids driving as you passed me in my Model-T.That is all modern stuff.I remember Studebakers and Hudsons.
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.
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."
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.
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.
Looked up that episode from 1963 and watched Telly Savalas interact with Chatty Cathy. You can stream all the Twilight Zone seasons on "Freevee".
Try Spike Lee's "Do It Acapella" a PBS program available on youtube. Did anyone beside me own a juke box?
