First, wife is 73 and I'm 72 That I use to watch: Sky King as a kid All of the old Westerns that were in black/white, as in The Rifleman, Rawhide, Wagon Train, Gunsmoke, Maverick, Have Gun Will Travel, Rin-Tin-Tin and so on. Lassie was one of my favorite "dog" shows. That wife and I know who Donna Reed is. That I use to watch Ben Casey, Dr. Kildare, The Nelson's, Father Knows Best, Leave It To Beaver and so on. That wife and I know who the Rat Pack are. That we both know all of the decor on the walls inside a Cracker Barrel Restaurant and our local Breakfast Club Restaurant. How about you?
Me, not so much. Old westerns, all but Rain-Tin-Tin. Liked most of the Lassie shows. I've forgotten Donna Reed but it seems she acted in many western, maybe mosrt black & white. Could be wrong. Watched Ben Casey and Dr. Kildare. Don't remember Rat Pack. Like Cracker Barrel decor but don't remember all of it except it's a western theme.
First, Donna Reed had her own tv show called The Donna Reed Show. Actually, yesterday, I watched an episode of Wagon Train that featured Jane Wyatt (Father Knows Best mother). Don't remember The Rat Pack? Now, Bill, that is very hard to believe. LOL Cracker Barrel decor is very little Western. Most decor is from the 50's of farming and food products. One restaurant has an old sickle hanging on a wall. I remember cutting down corn stalks, after the corn was hand picked for hog feed, while I was in high school. It was a two-handed sickle, with long blade. There is a much shorter hand sickle for cutting weeds.
i used ...sickle......or a scythe too! it had a long wooden handle...swinging motion...whacked lots at a time...if they were dry enough
1. The phone number of the first place I lived was ST-8273 2. The address had a zone number, instead of a zip code, e.g., Greentown 9, Ohio 3. The first TV show I remember was Milton Berle. ..."Oh, we're the men of Texaco. We work from Main to Mexico. ..." 4. McDonald's signs said sales of hamburgers were in the millions (not billions).
There were no television shows at night, just a test pattern. The TV show Omnibus. Showing live TV from across the country was an “event”. The weather man on TV used a magnetic board to show weather systems.
Aside from the obvious (i.e. formal documents), there are a few things that would date me somewhat and definitely indicate a touch of living in early age poverty. Box wall phone with an 8 party line. Coal stove in the kitchen and tin tub to take a bath in. Served as a swimming pool in summer. Hand water pump out back Root cellar with trap door in the kitchen floor to store food put up in glass canning jars Radio but no TV (until I was about 14) Washing machine with rollers.
Lived in a place whose address was RFD2, Box 482E. The first 20 years of my work life, you could smoke in your office.
Something I was just discussing earlier with a younger female friend who has two teenaged girls: When I was in grammar (public) school the teacher handed out 12" wooden rulers to all of us, and embossed on them was "Do unto other as you would have them do unto you." I do not remember if they showed the original author or not, but I bet most of you know who it was. Pretty sure kids aren't getting them in public school anymore. And we continue our slide into Hell.
Ha, I remember ashtrays in doctor's waiting rooms in the '70s. And I had a motorcycle accident in '72 and was in the hospital for a week -- and we smoked in the rooms, ashtrays were standard. (I quit in 1999).
Rocky and Bullwinkle Show Amos and Andy Pow Wow the Indian Boy Soupy Sales Father Knows Best Felix the Cat Paul Winchell Show Dobie Gillis Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Mighty Mouse Gale Storm Show The Little Rascals Bachelor Father Gumby and Pokey Ozzie and Harriet Courageous Cat and Minute Mouse Combat Shari Lewis Show Johnny Quest Leave it to Beaver .............................. ...........................................just to name a few.