Lassie the Tv show was televised from September 12, 1954, to March 25, 1973 the show ran for 17 seasons on CBS, initially filmed in black and white till the show was shown in color …
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Lassie!
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Memorial Day 2019
This is a post I made from last year, I wanted to repost it again for you. I remember going to the Memorial day parade back as a kid growing up in the 1950s.We looked …
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Captain Kangaroo!
Captain Kangaroo began on Oct, 3rd 1955 and ran till, December 8th 1984, at the time it was the longest running children’s television show. Bob Keeshan played the title character the show was based on the …
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What’s a little rain?
Today It’s raining hard on the east coast and at times especially in the summers of the 1950’s when it was a rainy day, I would go out on the front porch and just watch …
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The Roy Rodgers Show
If there was any western shows I liked as a kid in the 1950s it would be the Roy Rodgers show and Saturday was the day for those great westerns! And of course The Lone …
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Happy Birthday to Rick Nelson!
Today is Ricky Nelson’s 79th Birthday He was born on May 8th 1940, and as a member of the” Here come the Nelsons” TV show with his Brother David, and Mother and Father. 1957 he …
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Easter Memorys
With Easter almost here it brings back good memories of when my Grandparents would come for a visit on the saturday before and give each kid a box of those marshmellow eggs that come in …
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The Fast Runner!
In the mid-50’s we would go over to the Monastery across the street from our homes, where we played stick ball, baseball, and 2 hand touch football. When we weren’t doing any ball playing sometimes …
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Batter Up!
Back in the mid-1950s the P.A.L. in my town would hold try outs for the little league teams and depending on your age, a kid could go to the stadium about 4 blocks away the …
