DO YOU REMEMBER...

[jacintexas]

Mr. Spock and The Lord of the Rings...

This is hysterical...

http://homepage.mac.com/evanbaumgardner/iMovieTheater6.html

 

[tonitits]

That was great! Do ya'll remember Vicki Lawrence (Carol Burnett and Mama) song that hit #1 in 1973? The Night that the Lights went out in Georgia?


The Night the Lights Went Out In Georgia
Vicki Lawrence
Words and Music by her husband, Bobby Russell

(peak Billboard position # 1 in 1973)

He was on his way home from Candletop
Been two weeks gone and he thought he'd stop
At William's and have him a drink 'fore he went home to her
Andy Wolloe said "Hello"
And he said "Hi, what's doin', Wo?"
"Seth, sit down, I got some bad news, it's gonna hurt"
He said "I'm your best friend and you know that's right"
"But your young bride ain't home tonight"
"Since you been gone she's been seein' that Amos boy, Seth "
Well, he got mad 'n' he saw red and Andy said "Boy, don'tcha lose your head"
" 'cause to tell ya the truth, I been with her myself"

That's the night that the lights went out in Georgia
That's the night that they hung an innocent man
Well, don't trust your soul to no backwoods Southern lawyer
'cause the judge in the town's got bloodstains on his hands

Well, Andy got scared and left the bar
Walkin' on home 'cause he didn't live far
See, Andy didn't have many friends and he'd just lost him one
Brother thought his wife musta left town
So he went home and finally found
The only thing Papa had left him, that was a gun

And he went off to Andy's house
A'skippin' through the backwoods quiet as a mouse
Came upon some tracks too small for Andy to make
He looked through the screen at the back-porch door
And he saw Andy lyin' on the floor
In a puddle of blood and he started to shake

Well, the Georgia Patrol was a'makin' their rounds
So he fired a shot just to flag 'em down
And a big-bellied sheriff got his gun and said "why'dya do it?"
And the judge said "Guilty" in a make-believe trial
And slapped the sheriff on the back with a smile
Said' supper's waitin' at home and I gotta get to it"

That's the night that the lights went out in Georgia
That's the night that they hung an innocent man
Well, don't trust your soul to no backwoods Southern lawyer
'cause the judge in the town's got bloodstains on his hands

Well, they hung my brother before I could say
The tracks he saw while on his way
To Andy's house and back that night were mine
And his cheatin' wife had never left town
And that's one body that'll never be found
See, little sister don't miss when she aims her gun

That's the night that the lights went out in Georgia, oh-oh-aah
That's the night that they hung an innocent man, ah-huh-unh
Well, don't trust your soul to no backwoods Southern lawyer

FADE
'cause the judge in the town's got bloodstains on his hands

 

[omahaman2]

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[tonitits]

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I remember watching Bullwinkle all the time! Him and Rocky. Gotta love it! They and Yogi and BooBoo were one of my favorite.

 

[alwaysawake]

I used to like the bad guys on the cartoons--Boris and Natasha Badanov, Snidely Whiplash, and Dishonest John. I loved Rocky and Bullwinkle...still remember the town that they were in--Frostbite Falls, MN! LOL (How's THAT for useless trivia!)

 

[tonitits]

I used to like the bad guys on the cartoons--Boris and Natasha Badanov, Snidely Whiplash, and Dishonest John. I loved Rocky and Bullwinkle...still remember the town that they were in--Frostbite Falls, MN! LOL (How's THAT for useless trivia!)

that's because you are BAD to the Bone!!!!!!!!! roflmao! I didn't know that they told where they were!

 

[alwaysawake]

that's because you are BAD to the Bone!!!!!!!!! roflmao! I didn't know that they told where they were!

Yeah, they would show the town sign in a few episodes and they alluded to it a few times, too. (I won a radio trivia contest called Stump The Jock here about ten years ago with that useless info...LOL)

 

[tonitits]

Yeah, they would show the town sign in a few episodes and they alluded to it a few times, too. (I won a radio trivia contest called Stump The Jock here about ten years ago with that useless info...LOL)

why does that not surprise me?!!! And what did you win for that bit of useless info?

 

[tonitits]

I loved these until they got banned! Of course I was all bruised from perfecting my skill!

 

[alwaysawake]

why does that not surprise me?!!! And what did you win for that bit of useless info?

I won a $50 gift certificate to Nordstrom...one of the classiest clothing retailer chains here. Great clothes, but expensive!

 

[tonitits]

I won a $50 gift certificate to Nordstrom...one of the classiest clothing retailer chains here. Great clothes, but expensive!

cool!

 

[Arden]

LUCY had a rock collection....ROFLMAO

Umm... I did too, lol... I used to pick them up on family vacations and such. Fossil rocks were the best, and I had a neat one I took from The Royal Gorge (a canyon) I wanted to be a "Rock"iologist when I grew up

 

[Arden]

Re: Re: Re: P.O.W. bracelets

Thank you so very much for this link, Arden

When I was last in D.C., I did not have time to get to the Memorial, and this link has allowed me to virtually rub the name of my cousin, Al, who died in a helicopter explosion.

Here's a website for honoring WWII Veterans...

http://www.wwiimemorial.com/default.asp?page=registry.asp&subpage=intro

It has searchable databases... You'll find these in the Registry link. More important, you can register your own relatives who served in WWII - you can even include a photo. There are four small links towards the top of the page to search, enter or edit data.

For those of you lucky enough to still have your Dad with you, I think this would be a nice gift for Father's Day. For those of us who don't have our Dad any more, it will help preserve the memories.

Somewhere, here, I have a great pic of my Dad in his uniform.

Soron, your Uncle is in the database. Maybe you could upload that photo of him...

 

[Arden]

If you were born in 1951...

Topps Company started it's first baseball card series. The series consisted of two individual sets of 52 cards each.

20 year old outfielder Willie Mays joins N.Y. Giants Baseball team, while Joe DiMaggio retires from baseball.

11,000 new books will debut this year. James Jones novel, From Here to Eternity is published.

Also popular this year: Look Younger, Live Longer by Gayelord Hauser.

J.D. Salinger published Catcher in the Rye.

Herman Wouk's Caine Mutiny, for which he will win the Pulitzer Prize, is published.

Also Thor Heyerdahl's Kon-Tiki and Rachel Carson's The Sea Around Us.

Gen. Douglas MacArthur, relieved of his duties by President Truman, bade farewell to Congress. The MacArthur story.

UNIVAC 1 First commercial computer. You've Got mail!

Florence Chadwick swims the English Channel from England to France in 16 hours.

Direct-dial, coast-to-coast telephone service began as Mayor M. Leslie Denning of Englewood, New Jersey called his counterpart mayor Frank Osborn in Alameda, California.

A.E.C. produces electricity from atomic energy.

Swanson introduces beef, chicken, turkey pot pies. Hard to imagine there was life before this feast of gourmet treats.

The U.S. produced 100 million tons of steel and 400,000 lbs. of penicillin

Maureen Connolly becomes the youngest woman to win the U.S. Open in tennis.

J. Andre-Thomas invents the first heart-lung machine, allowing advanced life-support during open-heart surgery.

Oscar stuff Marlon Brando puts on an undershirt and stars in Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire in a big year for movies.

A cult classic debuts. The Day the Earth Stood Still. The robot was Gort and Michael Rennie communicated with him by saying Klaatu Barata Nikto.

American automobile manufacturer Chrysler Corporation introduces power steering., which they called Hydraguide.

Yes! Tupperware!

Gerber Products starts using MSG (monsodium glutamate) in its baby foods to make them taste better.

The first Jack-in-the-Box opens in San Diego.

There are 15,500,000 TV sets in 15,750,000 homes.

In Sports... - Tom Fears, Otto Graham, Johnny Lujack, (football) and George Kell,Bob Lemon and Ralph Kiner (baseball) get their own Wheaties boxes!

American casualties in Korea by the end of 1951 - 15,000 dead and 75,000 wounded.

Walt Disney's "Alice In Wonderland" released.

S&H Green Stamps get their start at the Denver store chain King Sooper.

Taco holder thingee enables fast tacos!

The U.S. Congress ratifies the Twenty-second Amendment, limiting presidents to two terms in office. (Some say that's still one too many.)

Still camera gets built-in flash units.

The Temple Beth Israel of Meridian, Mississippi became the first Jewish congregation to allow women to perform the functions of a rabbi.

A Crosley automobile with a steering wheel on the right side became the first such vehicle placed in service for mail delivery - in Cincinnati, Ohio.

The comic strip, Dennis the Menace, written by Hank Ketchum, debuts and is picked up by 750 newspapers.

There are 900 fewer inmates in prison than the previous year. Although that still leaves 164,896 of 'em in jail.
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg convicted of selling atomic secrets to the Soviets.

There are now 8.2 million trucks in the U.S.

The first section of the New Jersey Turnpike opens.

17 million Americans now own TV sets. Just in time for I Love Lucy and the Cisco Kid to debut.

Citation becomes the first race horse to earn more than one million dollars.

There was a 30.7% business failure rate.

There were 36,996 motor vehicle related deaths.While in the air, there were 11 accidents resulting in 185 fatalities.

Unemployment: 3.3%

Fifties Web contributor Tony Rogerson was born on 21/01/51 in a small industrial town called Widnes on the outskirts of Liverpool, England.

US GNP (Gross National Product) is $329.6 billion

_________________________________________________

The Music Scene, 1951:

SONG ..... ARTIST

If... Perry Como

It's Beginning To Look Like Chistmas... Perry Como with the Fontane Sisters

Because of You.... Tony Bennett

How High the Moon... Les Paul and Mary Ford

The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise... Les Paul and Mary Ford

Sixty Minute Man... Billy Ward & His Dominoes

Have Mercy Baby... Billy Ward & His Dominoes

Louisiana Blues... Muddy Waters

Detour... Patti Page

Mister And Mississippi... Patti Page

Mockin' Bird Hill... Patti Page

Be My Love... Mario Lanza

Come On-a My House... Rosemary Clooney

Beautiful Brown Eyes... Rosemary Clooney

Unforgettable... Nat King Cole

Too Young... Nat King Cole

Cry... Johnnie Ray and The Four Lads

The Little White Cloud That Cried... Johnnie Ray and The Four Lads

Aba Daba Honeymoon... Debbie Reynolds & Carleton Carpenter

I Tawt I Taw a Puddy Tat... Mel Blanc

Sin (It's No Sin)... Eddy Howard & His Orchestra

Kisses Sweeter Than Wine... Weavers

My Heart Cries for You... Guy Mitchell

My Truly, Truly Fair... Guy Mitchell

The Roving Kind... Guy Mitchell

 

[tonitits]

I was born in 1959 and this is what I found was the music that year.

US Top Albums

1.Sound of Music - Original Cast
2.The Kingston Trio at Large - Kingston Trio
3.The Music From Peter Gunn - Henry Mancini
4.Here We Go Again - Kingston Trio
5.Heavenly - Johnny Mathis

Uk Top Albums

1.South Pacific - Soundtrack
2. Buddy Holly Story - Buddy Holly
3. Gigi - Soundtrack
4. My Fair Lady - Original Broadway Cast
5. Cliff Sings - Cliff Richard

The end of the decade brought lots of songs about young love. Sweet, innocent tunes about guys and gals from a time when wearing a fellow's letter sweater meant something. Of course, not as much as going "steady" or gosh, being "pinned," which meant you were engaged to be engaged. No, that's not a typo. That's the kind of serious committment wearing a guy's fraternity pin represented.

Listed chronologically below are among the most popular and best remembered songs of 1958.

The Number One song of 1959 was Bobby Darin's tune Mack the Knife.

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes - The Platters
My Happiness- Connie Francis
The All American Boy- Bill Parsons (Bobby Bare)
Stagger -Lee Lloyd Price
16 Candles -Crests
Donna -Ritchie Valens
Venus -Frankie Avalon
Charlie Brown -The Coasters
Alvin's Harmonica -The Chipmunks
It's Just a Matter of Time- Brook Benton
Come Softly to Me -The Fleetwoods
Pink Shoe Laces -Dodie Stevens
(Now and Then There's)
A Fool Such As I - Elvis Presley
The Happy Organ - Dave "Baby" Cortez
Sorry (I Ran All The Way Home)- The Impalas
Kansas City - Wilbert Harrison
Battle of New Orleans - Johnny Horton
Quiet Village - Martin Denny
Dream Lover- Bobby Darin
Personality- Lloyd Price
Lonely Boy -Paul Anka
Waterloo -Stonewall Jackson
Tiger -Fabian
My Heart Is An Open Book- Carl Dobkins, Jr.
A Big Hunk Of Love -Elvis Presley
There Goes My Baby -The Drifters
The Three Bells -The Browns
Sea of Love -Phil Phillips
Lavender Blue- Sammy Turner
I'm Gonna Get Married Lloyd Price
Sleep Walk -Santo and Johnny
('Til) I Kissed You -Everly Brothers
Mack the Knife -Bobby Darin
Put Your Head on My Shoulder -Paul Anka
Teen Beat -Sandy Nelson
Mr. Blue -The Fleetwoods
Don't You Know- Della Reese
Heartaches By The Number -Guy Mitchell
Why -Frankie Avalon
The Big Hurt - Miss Toni Fisher

Although these songs may not have stayed atop the charts as long as the previous group, they have endured. I know you'll also remember...



Poison Ivy -The Coasters
A Teenager in Love- Dion and the Belmonts
What'd I Say -Ray Charles
Kookie, Kookie. Lend Me Your Comb - Edd Byrnes and Connie Stevens
Since I Don't Have You -The Skyliners
La Bamba- Ritchie Valens
Among My Souvenirs - Connie Francis
Lipstick on Your Collar - Connie Francis
Bobby Sox to Stockings - Frankie Avalon
Dance With Me- The Drifters
Deck of Cards - Wink Martindale ( I knew him from the rerun of game shows!)
El Paso -Marty Robbins
High Hopes -Frank Sinatra
Hushabye -The Mystics
I Cried a Tear - LaVern Baker
Lonely Teardrops -Jackie Wilson
Misty - Johnny Mathis
Oh Carol - Neil Sedaka
Running Bear -Johnny Preston
Sea Cruise - Frankie Ford
Tall Paul - Annette with the Afterbeats
Turn Me Loose - Fabian


I met this lady when I was married and she bought the #1 hit of every genre from the day her kid was born and she did that for every week/year. I always thought that that was a great idea,so that when they grew up that they would know what was popular at that time. I always said if I had a kid that was what I was going to do, but needless to say, it didn't happen and by the time I had him I was too busy working and trying to take care of him to worry about what was popular in all the music genres!

 

[JennyOmanHill]

The only school I really liked

http://cataumet.net/carolyn2/DingDongSchoolFingerpaintset.JPG

Had this, and remember having a great time fingerpainting! I remember I enjoyed the smell and feel too!

This thread is certaining helping me with my therapy sessions!

 

[tonitits]

Re: The only school I really liked

http://cataumet.net/carolyn2/DingDongSchoolFingerpaintset.JPG

Had this, and remember having a great time fingerpainting! I remember I enjoyed the smell and feel too!

This thread is certaining helping me with my therapy sessions!

I don't remember having those finger paints, but I do remember finger painting and loving it, even if I am not an artist! Never was, never will be! It is like my singing....can't sing, but LOVE to sing! Just when noone can hear me!

 

[Arden]

If you were born in the year 1952....

Mad magazine makes its debut in May as a 32-page comic book full of zany nonsense. Alfred E. Neuman has yet to make his appearance, but he's coming.

African-American novelist Ralph Ellison publishes The Invisible Man to immediate popular acclaim.

Guiding Light, currently the longest running drama in broadcasting history, premiered on TV after being a staple on radio since 1937.

Oscar Stuff for 1952 - When men were men! Gary Cooper wins Best Actor for High Noon!

Bridey Murphy or How Shirley McLaine Got Her Groove! Another woman of past life fame.

University of Tennessee admits its first black student.

Ronald Reagan and actress Nancy Davis were married in San Fernando Valley, California. It was Reagan's second marriage.

President Truman seizes U.S. steel mills to avert an industry-wide strike for higher wages. The President asserts that the industry is vital to the defense of the U.S., but the Supreme Court rules the seizure unconstitutional. The strike is settled after 54 days in talks at the White House.

King Farouk I of Egypt abdicated in the wake of a coup led by Gamal Abdel Nasser.

Maureen Connolly becomes the youngest woman to win the U.S. Open in tennis.

Ernest Hemingway, a heavyweight in American literature, publishes The Old Man in the Sea.

Norman Vincent Peale, publishes his most popular book, The Power of Positive Thinking and it sells more than 20 million copies in 41 languages

Clarence Birdseye marketed the first frozen peas. A thing only a mother could love.

U.S. Supreme Court upholds the decision barring segregation on interstate railways.

George Jorgensen/Christine Jorgensen, the first person to go public after a sex change operation.

King George VI of Britain (1936-52) was found dead in bed by a servant delivering the morning tea. Elizabeth gets the job. A pic of a young Queen.

Mrs. Paul's introduces frozen fish sticks. Way to go Mrs. Paul! Now this is my idea of a food group. Although they will have their work cut out for them gaining market share as Americans currently eat 42 hotdogs per year.

Mr. Potato Head arrives!

Richard Nixon's "Checkers" speech. is successful. Dwight D. Eisenhower is elected President and Nixon, Vice-President.

"Anne Frank, Diary of a Young Girl" published in the U.S.

TV first acknowledges pregnancy on I Love Lucy. Considering that TV will not portray married people sleeping it the same bed...

In Sports...
50,000 will be stricken by polio and 3,300 of them will die. Many more will be crippled.

When Howard Johnson's opens its 351st restaurant, it becomes the world's largest food chain.

The first Holiday Inn opens and has the familiar bright yellow and green sign.

Gibson introduced the Les Paul model electric guitar, which was destined to become one of the most popular rock guitars of all time.

Nautilus, the first atomic submarine, is dedicated in Groton, Connecticut.

58,000 Scrabble sets are sold, a real resurgence for the 1931 toy.

The typical U.S. grocery store now carries about 4,000 different items, up from about 870 in 1928.By the mid-1960s the grocery will be a supermarket carrying some 8,000 items.

Sony, a brand new Japanese company, introduces the first pocket-sized transistor radio

Rocky Marciano beats ``Jersey'' Joe Walcott to win the world heavyweight boxing championship.

The first birth control pill is introduced, although it will not be available to the public for another 8 years. Which is why you don't hear them discussing "free love" in the Fifties.

Telephone area codes begin.

Sugar Frosted Flakes, 29 percent sugar, are introduced by Kelloggs. They're Gr-r-reat!

The DeHavilland Comet, a commercial jet aircraft, made its debut.
Twenty-one of this first model were built. Seven of them crashed due to a kind of metal fatigue that the designers had not considered. Hard to sell seats that way, fellas.

Lipton onion soup mix comes along.

Pream, a powdered nondairy coffee lightener is introduced. It keeps longer than real cream and costs less.

Over 2,000 new TV Stations opened across the US. TV has become so popular that between 1948-1952 film profits dropped by $500 million.

Puerto Rico becomes a Commonwealth under U.S. jurisdiction.

Roy Campanella, Preacher Roe (baseball) and Glenn Davis, Bob Waterfield (football) get their own Wheaties boxes!

There was a 28.7% business failure rate.

Albert Schwietzer wins Nobel Peace Prize

There were 37,794 motor vehicle related deaths.While in the air, there were 5 accidents resulting in 140 fatalities.

Unemployment is 3.1%

US GNP (Gross National Product) is $355.1 billion

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Music: 1952

SONG / TITLE

Wheel of Fortune... Kay Starr

Unforgettable... Nat King Cole

High Noon (Do Not Forsake Me)... Frankie Laine

Why Don't You Believe Me... Joni James

Half As Much... Rosemary Clooney

Botch-A-Me (Ba-Ba-Baciami Piccina)... Rosemary Clooney

Blues In the Night... Rosemary Clooney

Tenderly... Rosemary Clooney

Too Old To Cut The Mustard... Rosemary Clooney and Marlene Dietrich

The Glow Worm... Mills Brothers

I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus... Jimmy Boyd

Wish You Were Here... Eddie Fisher

Blue Tango... Leroy Anderson

Kiss of Fire... Georgia Gibbs

Come What May... Patti Page

I Went to Your Wedding... Patti Page

Here in My Heart... Al Martino

Delicado... Percy Faith

A Guy Is A Guy... Doris Day

When I Fall In Love... Doris Day

It's in the Book (Parts 1 & 2)... Johnny Standley

You Belong to Me... Jo Stafford

Slow Poke... Pee Wee King & His Golden West Cowboys

Auf Wiederseh'n Sweetheart... Vera Lynn and Chorus

Tell Me Why... The Four Aces

Heart And Soul... The Four Aces

Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me... Karen Chandler

Maybe... Perry Como and Eddie Fisher

Watermelon Weather... Perry Como and Eddie Fisher

My Love and Devotion... Perry Como

Noodlin' Rag... Perry Como

One Little Candle... Perry Como

To Know You (Is To Love You)... Perry Como

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania... Guy Mitchell

Feet Up (Pat Him On the Po-Po)... Guy Mitchell

Please, Mr. Sun... Johnnie Ray

Walkin' My Baby Back Home... Johnnie Ray

Till I Waltz Again With You... Teresa Brewer

You'll Never Get Away... Teresa Brewer

 

[Arden]

If you were born in the year 1953...

For Soron, AA and Joey

Chevrolet begins to roll out plastic-bodied Corvettes.

Dr. John H. Gibbon performs the first successful open heart surgery in which the blood is artificially circulated and oxygenated by a heart-lung machine

New York adopts three color traffic lights.

Edmund Hilary and Tenzing Norgay become the first humans to reach the summit of Mount Everest.

Playboy Magazine begins publication, featuring nudes of Marilyn Monroe in its first issue

The Church of Scientology is founded by L. Ron Hubbard, a science-fiction writer.

University of Minnesota physiologist Ancel Keys points out a correlation between coronary heart disease and diets high in animal fats. Also known as "The Day the Pork Rinds Died."

TV Guide is born.

Sugar Smacks, 56 percent sugar, is introduced by Kelloggs.

East Berliners rise against Communist rule. The Soviets roll tanks into city. End of discussion.

On the Air! You'd find 2,357 AM radio, 616 FM radio and 125 TV Stations.

Tito becomes president of Yugoslavia.

Joseph Stalin dies at the age of 73. He will not be missed.

Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, convicted in 1951 of selling American atomic secrets to the Soviet Union, are executed June 9.

The first 3-D movie is shown: Arch Oboler's Bwana Devil, starring Robert Stack.

The Academy Awards are televised for the first time. And the winner is...

Francis Crick and James Watson discover the ``double helix'' of DNA.

46.4% of all domestic passenger travel was by railroad; 28.9% by bus; and 21.6% by air.

Con-Tact paper!

The French Sardine Co. (in existence since 1917) becomes Star-Kist Foods. Charlie will appear in 1961.

Baseball star/pilot Ted Williams uninjured as plane shot down in Korea

Gen George C Marshall wins Nobel Peace Prize

Jacqueline Bouvier marries John F Kennedy

Dr. Jonas Salk announces discovery of the vaccine for poliomyelitis

Ian Fleming publishes the first James Bond novel, Casino Royale.
Govenor Earl Warren of California is named Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court, a position he would hold until 1969.

The Tuskegee Institute announces that 1953 is the second year in a row in which there were no lynchings.

The Department of Health, Education and Welfare is established with Cabinet status. Oveta Culp Hobby is sworn in as Secretary, only the second woman in history to achieve this rank. (Frances Perkins under FDR was the first.)

The farm population is down 239,000 over a two year period and now stands at 24,819,000.

Dag Hammarskjold chosen as secretary-general of UN
Jacqueline Cochrane, USA is the first woman to break sound barrier. You go girl!

US district Judge Grim, rules NFL can black out TV home games
Supreme Court rules Major League baseball exempt from anti-trust laws (7-2) as it is a sport not a business. On what planet?

Walt Disney's "Peter Pan" released

Chuck Yeager reaches Mach 2.43 (2,575 kph) in Bell X-1A rocket plane

White Rose Redi-tea is the world's first instant iced tea.

Howdy Doody tumbler from Welch's

Prime commercial paper (4 to 6 mos) was at 2.52%. In New York City a commercial loan ran 3.47%

Irish Coffee is introduced at San Francisco's Buena Vista Cafe at the foot of Hyde Street Hill on the Beach Street cable line.

Dow Chemical creates Saran Wrap

To counteract the threat of television,Hollywood thinks big and develops wide-screen processes such as CinemaScope, first seen in The Robe.

There is a 33.2% business failure rate.

Kraft Cheez Whiz is introduced as a shortcut for homemakers making Welsh rarebit.

There are 26,000,000 TV sets in 28,000,000 homes.

"A Stillness at Appomattox" by Bruce Catton is published, along with "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury.

There are 37,955 motor vehicle related deaths. While in the air, there were 6 accidents resulting in 88 fatalities.

Unemployment is 2.9%

US GNP (Gross National Product) is $378.0 billion

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Music Charts: 1953

SONG / TITLE

Don't Let the Stars Get inYour Eyes... Perry Como

No Other Love... Perry Como

Say You're Mine Again... Perry Como

You Alone (Solo Tu)... Perry Como

Wild Horses... Perry Como

That's Amore... Dean Martin

Till I Waltz Again With You... Teresa Brewer

Ricochet (Rick-O-Shay)... Teresa Brewer

Baby Baby Baby... Teresa Brewer

The Doggie in the Window... Patti Page

Changing Partners... Patti Page

I Believe... Frankie Laine

Song from Moulin Rouge(Where Is Your Heart)... Percy Faith

Vaya Con Dios... Les Paul and Mary Ford

Oh! My Papa (O Mein Papa)... Eddie Fisher

I'm Walking Behind You... Eddie Fisher

P.S. I Love You... The Hilltoppers

Pretend... Nat King Cole

You You You... Ames Brothers

Rags to Riches... Tony Bennett

Stranger In Paradise... Tony Bennett

St. George and the Dragonet... Stan Freberg

Little Blue Riding Hood... Stan Freberg

Ruby... Richard Hayman & His Orchestra

Santa Baby... Eartha Kitt

The Typewriter... Leroy Anderson & His "Pops" Concert Orchestra

You You You... The Ames Brothers

Crazy, Man, Crazy... Bill Haley & His Comets

April In Portugal... Les Baxter

April In Portugal... Vic Damone

Caravan... Ralph Marterie

Crying In the Chapel... The Orioles

Dragnet ... Ray Anthony & His Orchestra

Ebb Tide... Frank Chacksfield & His Orchestra

The Gang That Sang "Heart Of My Heart"... The Four Aces featuring Al Alberts

The Gang That Sang "Heart Of My Heart"... Don Cornell, Alan Dale & Johnny Desmond

I've Got the World On A String... Frank Sinatra

Istanbul (Not Constantinople)... The Four Lads

Oh Happy Day... Lawrence Welk Orchestra with vocal by Larry Hopper

 

[Arden]

Mr. Spock and The Lord of the Rings...

This is hysterical...

http://homepage.mac.com/evanbaumgardner/iMovieTheater6.html

That's a riot!

 

[Joey3308]

Re: If you were born in the year 1953...

For Soron, AA and Joey

The Academy Awards are televised for the first time. And the winner is...

.......From Here to Eternity
http://www.usatoday.com/life/gallery/oscar2001/history/from-here-to-eternity.jpg

 

[Joey3308]

The old baseball glove...I remember how a good pitch stung like hell
http://www.sportsartifacts.com/gcarey.JPG

 

[Joey3308]

Remember when gumballs were a penny and if ya got lucky and got the wooden striped ball ya got a nickel
http://www.vintagevending.com/productImages/ProductImage-3477-1-zm.jpg

 

[jacintexas]

That's a riot!

Anyone ever hear William Shatner sing "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"?

 

[tonitits]

Anyone ever hear William Shatner sing "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"?

Yeah I have, it is hilarious!