Category: 1950’s

Did she ever call your name? Oh, the simple joys of Romper Room. That Magic Mirror had every kid sitting…

Back in our day, we had breakfast with clowns, and somehow nobody thought that was strange. Post Sugar Rice Krinkles…

I have vague memories of Farfel the dog himself, but that Nestlé’s jingle? That’s burned in there for life. You…

There’s a well-known scene from Leave It to Beaver where Ward Cleaver (Hugh Beaumont) is clearly frustrated with Beaver and…

In the late 1940s and into the 1950s, American playgrounds and ballfields were filled with kids sporting canvas sneakers that…

When PepsiCo acquired Mountain Dew in 1964, they pushed the brand nationally and leaned hard into its folksy, hillbilly image…

🕰️ Timex: A Watch That Made HistoryFounded in 1854 as the Waterbury Clock Company in Connecticut, Timex began by making…

After more than seven decades of serenading audiences with his velvety voice, Johnny Mathis, the iconic crooner, has announced his…

Here is the voting machine I remember most. In my school, they were kept by the custodian’s office and we…

Not all memories are happy ones. I remember as a kid thinking to myself that if McDonald’s was mostly for…