Nostalgia Lane

[dmfilmfan]

12 hours ago, RHawk said:

It'd be interesting to see which magazine ran this article.  If it were Confidential, it would've had a homophobic slant to it because of the men that are featured...........

Rock Hudson:  gay

Dirk Bogarde:  gay

Tab Hunter:  gay

Marlon Brando:  bisexual, he was a lover of Wally Cox, Richard Pryor (according to Pryor's widow) and whoever's cock this was....

Richard Anderson:  straight, one of his wives (with whom he had three kids) was the daughter of Movie Mogul Irving Thalberg and actress Norma Shearer.

Farley Granger:  bisexual.  I remember reading that on the same night he lost his virginity to a woman and to a man (separate encounters).  Sounds like a good plot for a bisexual film.

Monty Clift:  gay, although he did a have a long-term relationship / affair with Libby Holman. 

Edited October 6, 2022 by dmfilmfan

[Steve]

Those were the days

[Steve]

1960 Plymouth Fury

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[Kawika]

I can't believe it's been 37 years since Barbra Streisand released The Broadway Album Richard Corman took the photo for the cover... I used to live next door to him years ago.

[RHawk]

[Steve]

The Ideal Nuclear Family Included a Mom, Dad, Two Kids and a Dog
The ideal nuclear family of the 1950s included a mother and father and at least two children. The white picket-fence family represented the American dream with a working dad, stay-at-home mom, two happy kids, and a dog. TV shows such as The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet and Leave it to Beaver waxed poetic on how wonderful life was like for these families.

The picture here is an example of a nuclear family (although how happy they really were is hard to decipher from the photograph). The family of four is settled in a Mercury Monterey in the driveway of their home in 1959. Their pet dog sits next to the car.
 

[dmfilmfan]

I remember watching the show, but when the FUCK did Shirley Partridge get yet another kid?   The series started with her as a non-pregnant widow with five kids.  Is that thing in her lap (that haircut looks just as weird on a boy as on a girl) The Partridge Family equivalent of "Cousin Oliver" on The Brady Bunch ?  

 

Not sure if I posted this before, but as they used to say, A Good Cast is Worth Repeating.

 

 

The kid who played Charlie Brown looks Beach Boy "California Casual" in those pants and sweatshirt.  But those poor girls.  Having haircuts like that are bad enough, but wearing dresses like that would make anyone angry like the kid playing Lucy. Tragically, the kid playing Charlie Brown struggled throughout his life with mental health issues; he died by suicide on January 18, 2022, at the age of 65.

In an interview, Sally Dryer reveals she's in a happy lesbian relationship - good for her! 

https://www.noblemania.com/2014/06/peanuts-interview-sally-dryer-violet-in.html

 

Gai DeFaria definitely looks better with long hair

 

Here's an undated photo of Christopher Shea, who played Linus.  He also played the little kid in the original The Poseidon Adventure.

Edited October 28, 2022 by dmfilmfan

[Steve]

McDonalds Hamburgers Cost Just 15 Cents
While the fast food giant first launched in 1940, the iconic Golden Arches logo wasn’t introduced until 1953 at a location in Phoenix, Arizona. The photo here shows a McDonald’s drive-in in 1956. The restaurant advertised hamburgers for just 15 cents. Due to inflation, things cost considerably less in the ’50s than they do today.
The average price for a gallon of gas was 18 cents in 1950 and 25 cents by the end of the decade. In 1959, a new car cost on average $2,200. A one-carat diamond ring was $399 (compared to $4,125 today). A woman could buy a basic dress for just $3.29.
 

[Steve]

Coonskin Hats Were The Go-To For Little Boys
Media has a huge effect on consumerism, especially when it comes to style. One piece of attire that was certainly a product of this was the coonskin cap. These unique hats were insanely popular among children, especially little boys, and was inspired by the one worn by Fess Parker when he played Davy Crockett in the 1954 miniseries of the same name.
Part of Disney’s weekly show The Wonderful World of Color, it is estimated that the show resulted in the sale of over $100 million worth of coonskin caps.
 

I wonder how much mine would be worth today had I kept It.  

Edited October 29, 2022 by Steve

[RHawk]

[Steve]

Kids Spent a Lot of Time on Their Bicycles and on Paper Routes

In the 1950s, it was common to see kids playing outside. This photo shows several children in Fairfax, Delaware, riding around the neighborhood on their bicycles. One of the most coveted bikes between 1949 and 1960 was the Schwinn Black Phantom. These bikes featured a leather saddle, fender lights, brake light, and luggage rack.

While some kids rode their bicycles on their paper routes, the Phantom, a.k.a. “the swellest-looking bike in town,” was reserved for sunny days or impressing other kids. These days, kids don’t spend as much time outdoors. The proliferation of technology and video games keeps many of them inside.

[Kawika]

[dmfilmfan]

1 hour ago, Kawika said:

Let's be glad we're not this old.......

[Kawika]

If you lived in the NY Tri-State area in the 80's... you could tune into The Robin Byrd show on public access cable... it's really cheesy to watch now... but it was sometimes quite titillating. The catch phrase of the program was "Are you a Byrd watcher?" I met her once on Fire Island... she was quite nice.

Edited November 17, 2022 by Kawika
Je deteste auto-correct!

[dmfilmfan]

5 hours ago, Kawika said:

If you lived in the NY Try-State area in the 80's... you could tune into The Robin Byrd show on public access cable... it's really cheesy to watch now... but it was sometimes quite titillating. The catch phrase of the program was "Are you a Byrd watcher?" I met her once on Fire Island... she was quite nice.

Wow, I never knew Joey Stefano did any TV!! 

[Kawika]

32 minutes ago, dmfilmfan said:

Wow, I never knew Joey Stefano did any TV!! 

Most people in porn and strippers in NYC stripped on Robin Byrd's show... She had men and woman on the regular show...and had a weekend show (really late) called Men Only.

[jfagrate]

On 3/2/2022 at 2:21 PM, Kawika said:

We had a built in milk box for delivery at our back door (Similar to these)... I think you have to be a certain age to remember these... that and home milk delivery... I'm not sure it even exists any more.

At our summer house when I was a boy, we had an ice box,  Every three days we used the ice tongs to load a 75 pound block of ice into one side of it.  We didn't have ice cubes.  When we wanted ice for a drink, we used an ice pick to chip ice off the block.  Life moved slowly and was a lot simpler.

[jfagrate]

On 11/16/2022 at 9:24 AM, Kawika said:

If you lived in the NY Tri-State area in the 80's... you could tune into The Robin Byrd show on public access cable... it's really cheesy to watch now... but it was sometimes quite titillating. The catch phrase of the program was "Are you a Byrd watcher?" I met her once on Fire Island... she was quite nice.

 

Living in down-state Illinois and then Iowa, I had little opportunity for temptation - and those opportunities I latter recognized in retrospect I was to naive to notice.  (Sometimes, you have to drop a brick on me to get my attention.)

[jfagrate]

On 10/8/2022 at 7:55 AM, Steve said:

Those were the days

I know this is a drive-in restaurant.  I forget the term for them - just "drive-ins."  My sister was a car-hop at the one in Milan, the small town outside Rock Island, Illinois where we lived in 1962.  But it reminds me, too, of drive-in movies my folks would take us to when I was 8 years old back in 1954.

[Kawika]

I was in a fraternity when I was in college... to the best of my knowledge photos like this were never taken during my time at the house but I was an Alpha Tau Omega not Sigma Alpha Epsilon... if I had known I might have rushed a different house.

[Steve]

[dmfilmfan]

7 hours ago, Steve said:

 

 They better like the bikes, it appears they're the only thing Santa brought them. 

 

 

7 hours ago, Steve said:

Judging by the look of amazement on her face, it doesn't take a lot to amuse this girl, does it.  I wonder how amused mom's going to be when she has to scrub that shit off the window come January.

 

Edited December 4, 2022 by dmfilmfan

[1EYEDjack]

On 12/3/2022 at 11:38 AM, Steve said:

I got my first bike that wasn't a hand-me-down when I was 8. It was my birthday present. It was a metallic gold flake Schwinn with a banana seat, sissy bar and high rise handle bars. I was in heaven.  

[1EYEDjack]

I begged my mom and dad to get this for me for Christmas. When I was a kid, we got toys three times a year; birthdays, Easter and Christmas. It wasn't that we were poor. Both of my parents were depression era children and were extremely frugal about pretty much everything. Christmas was when my dad especially would splurge a bit. My mom was much stricter about such things. I told them It as the only toy I wanted. I had come to the realization that there was no Santa Claus early on. I stayed up one night and looked out the window. When I heard something and saw the dad across the street getting stuff out of his car and assembling it. No big right. Parents buy presents too. However, the kid said Santa had brought the gifts. Maybe I was too precocious for my time but I figured it out. I asked my dad and he told me the truth. My dad wasn't a kill joy. He just didn't ever lie....even in cases like this. This was sort of expensive. It was the only toy I got that year. I mean big toy. I got stocking stuff. I was the only kid on the block to have one. Yes, I burned the crap out of myself on several occasions. I loved this thing.