America Loves Lucy Lucy’s Baby Lucille Ball’s new baby brought 44 million viewers to the show and graced the cover of the first national issue of TV Guide in 1953. TV Guide soon became the …
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I Love Lucy!
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Summer Stickball!
My favorite game to play in the summer was stickball! We would play across the street on the Church grounds, part of the grounds were made of tar and the other was a dirt ground …
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What’ll they think of next!
What a great surprise I got for my 10th Birthday! My mother brought me to the toy store David’s on the avenue where I lived and got me a new Transistor radio… that was the …
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Connie Francis ~ 1958
Who’s Sorry Now by Connie Francis!
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And away we go!
We never ran out of things to do back in the 50’s! One of my favorite summer things was making a wooden scooter! We would get a wooden crate from one of the stores and …
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Let’s go Yankees!
I remember back in 1958 going to see the New York Yankees in Yankee Stadium! Kids would sometimes though the city summer program they held for the kids at the time. I can’t remember, who …
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Let’s Do The Stroll!
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Department Stores of my 50’s
How I remember the great Department stores in the 50’s in the city I grew up in! On the avenue there was many but the ones I remember most was: Woolworth’s there was three of …
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Good Humor Man
We couldn’t wait for the Good Humor Man on a hot summer’s day! He would let us sit in the front seat and ring the bell! Great childhood memories were made of this!
The Past Is Back 