nostalgia - '50s & '60s: You can go back even if for a short while. Fun Links

From: drude Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2011 Subject: Whatta wonderful Page!!!!!!!

Brings back …..of course SOME of you may not be old enough to recognize many of those below…..Enjoy! have fun....  Good One: Just click on a date...sit back and enjoy!!! This is awesome, pick out one of your favorites from below and give it a try...

1.  JACKIE GLEASON ON THE ROCKY MARCIANO SHOW THE MAIN EVENT (1960)
2.  JAMES DEAN: HIS FINAL TV APPEARANCE (1954) 
3.  ELVIS SINGS BLUE SUEDE SHOES (1956) 
4.  A TRIBUTE TO ELVIS PRESLEY, THE KING OF ROCK & ROLL (1959-62) 
5.  THE EDSEL INTRODUCED ON NBC (1957) 
6.  BOBBY DARIN'S "MACK THE KNIFE" (1959) 
7.  WESTINGHOUSE DEBUTS HI-TECH "ADVANCED TV" (1951)
8.  WILLIAM BENDIX AS LOVABLE CHESTER A. RILEY (1956) 
9.  ICONS I: WHAT MADE 50'S TV GOLDEN (COMPILATION, (1952-60) 
10.  THE PATTI PAGE SHOW (1958)
11. BLOOPERS FROM THE HONEYMOONERS (1957-58)
12.  THE CENSORED JERRY LEE LEWIS HERE UNCENSORED! (1957-59)
13.  A TRUE 50's DOO WOP TV CLASSIC (1958)
14.  FAMILY AFFAIR (1966)
15.  ALAN FREED'S BIG BEAT DANCE PARTY DANCERS (1959)
16.  THE STEVE ALLEN SHOW (1957)
17.  The Inventor Of TV Sketch Comedy ERNIE KOVACS (1954)
18.  THE RED SKELTON SHOW (1959)
19.  ICONS: THE DELINQUENCY RAMPAGE! (COMPILATION, 1957-60)
20.  FATHER KNOWS BEST (1953)
21.  PETTICOAT JUNCTION (1962)
22.  OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALIST BOB MATTHIAS (1956)
23.  DANCES OF THE 1950's: THE HAND JIVE (1957)
24.  GROUCHO MARX YOU BET YOUR LIFE (1959)
25.  DRAGNET (1959)
26.  THE IMMORTAL MUSICAL COMEDY OF VICTOR BORGE 1951
27.  EDDIE FISHER SINGS A MEDLEY OF HIS BIGGEST HITS 1953
28.  ABBOTT & COSTELLO: WHO'S ON FIRST? 1951
29.  MORE DANCES OF THE 1950's THE JITTERBUG 1958
30. THE HONEYMOONERS ... IN COLOR! 1969
31.  THE ORIGINAL FLASH GORDON SERIAL theatres-1939; TV-1960's
32.  THE LONE RANGER 1955
33.  THE ENDEARING GRIMACES OF EDDIE CANTOR 1952
34.  BOBBY DARIN NERVOUSLY HOSTS A BEAUTY CONTEST 1957
35.  MORE DANCES OF THE 1950's: THE LINDY HOP 1959
36.  SHAKE, BABY, SHAKE!  IT'S THE KILLER AGAIN! 1958
37.  THE DANNY THOMAS SHOW 1958
38.  SID CAESAR: YOUR SHOW OF SHOWS 1957
39.  HERE COMES TOBOR! 1954
40.  THE ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN 1954
41.  THE ADVENTURES OF FLIPPER 1964
42.  SPIKE JONES 1951
43.  CAPTAIN VIDEO & HIS VIDEO RANGERS 1950
44.  THE LIBERACE SHOW 1952
45.  MEDIC 1954
46.  THE BIG VALLEY 1965
47.  THE ROOTS OF TV BASEBALL 1950-57
48.  Mc HALE'S NAVY 1962
49.  HOPALONG CASSIDY 1952
50.  DARK SHADOWS 1966
51.  FADS & FANCIES OF THE 50s & 60s
52.  I LOVE LUCY 1952
53.  THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW 1962
54.  THE BEATLES FIRST TELEVISION APPEARANCE 1963
55.  BAT MASTERSON 1958
56.  MARTY ROBBINS ON THE JOHNNY CASH SHOW 1964
57.  FRANK SINATRA SPEAKS CANDIDLY 1954
58.  PASSWORD 1962
59.  STAR TREK TV ON DEMAND 1966-present
60.  MORE DANCES OF THE 50's: THE SWINGBACK 1958
61.  THE LIVE TV FRIDGE COMMERCIAL CATASTROPHE 1954
62.  THE ARTHUR GODFREY SHOW 1957
63.   BUILDING THE 1958 DODGE 1957
64.  FIGHT CLASSIC: ROCKY MARCIANO vs. JERSEY JOE WALCOTT 1952
65.  AND MORE GREAT ICONS OF THE 50's VOL III 1952-59
66.  ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS 1959
67.  SATURDAY NIGHTLIVE~~ BEFORE SNL 1954-58
68.  FELIX THE CAT 1959
69.  THE DONNA REED SHOW 1958
70.  THE GOLDBERGS 1952
71.  LUCILLE BALL & CAROL BURNETT 1965
72.  THE LITTLE RASCALS 1955
73.  HIGHWAY PATROL 1956
74.  LOST IN SPACE 1966
75.  BEULAH 1951
76.  BEWITCHED 1966
77.  I DREAM OF JEANIE 1966
78.  SEA HUNT 1957
79.  DYNAMITE JOE RINDONE 1954
80.  THE MILTON BERLE SHOW 1957

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"I had a dream" - How do you know who to vote for? (6m4s, "The Amos'n Andy Show" 1929) 

video/audio source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=16vmYLXKdn8

 

posted at: http://harrolds.blogspot.com/2011/02/how-do-you-know-who-to-vote-for-amos-n.html

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George Kirby Narrates (1983)



An example from http://xoteria.com/OLDIESTV.html: "AMOS & ANDY."  Despite it's high ratings, CBS cancelled the show suddenly without giving a reason.  It's comedic merit equalled "The Honeymooners" and here is a sampling of the actors Alvin Childress & Spencer Williams as Amos'n Andy.  View " Amos 'n' Andy: Anatomy of a Controversy" series page at Hulu.com.  The CBS series is taken off the air in 1953 because of protests from civil rights?...alvinroycorrellredd | view on hulu at

http://www.hulu.com/watch/48119/amos-n-andy-anatomy-of-a-controversy

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Reaffirm - "We The People" (video 5m19s) [redux]

video source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVAhr4hZDJE 

The Tea Party movement is under assault from unscrupulous pollsters on behalf of the political establishment who know that a political uprising like the Tea Party movement will remove them from their positions of power.  Many of these polls are patently absurd and have a long history of manipulating data.  In order to continue to disprove these attacks, we regularly update the results of the simple poll found below.  Click on "YES" or "NO."  Your vote is automatically counted as you click through.  No further action is required.  No ID information is tracked.  Thank you for participating. 
TheTeaParty.net | 1717 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Suite 1025 | Washington, DC 20006

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o'needs to read'n learn - Harry and Bess Truman take a Road Trip

related: http://harrolds.blogspot.com/2010/04/values-primer-for-politicians-today.html

Friday, April 23, 2010

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Matthew Algeo, "Harry Truman's Excellent Adventure: The True Story of a Great American Road Trip"
Publisher: Chicago Review Press | 2009 | ISBN 1556527772 | PDF | 256 pages | 4.2 MB

online audio book preview by the author:

http://www.archive.org/details/MatthewAlgeoHarryTrumansExcellentAdventure
     On June 19, 1953, Harry Truman got up early, packed the trunk of his Chrysler New Yorker, and did something no other former president has done before or since: he hit the road. No Secret Service protection. No traveling press. Just Harry and his childhood sweetheart Bess, off to visit old friends, take in a Broadway play, celebrate their wedding anniversary in the Big Apple, and blow a bit of the money he'd just received to write his memoirs. Hopefully incognito.
     In this lively history, author Matthew Algeo meticulously details how Truman's plan to blend in went wonderfully awry.  Fellow diners, bellhops, cabbies, squealing teenagers at a Future Homemakers of America convention, and one very by-the-book Pennsylvania state trooper -- all unknowingly conspired to blow his cover.  Algeo revisits the Trumans' route, staying at the same hotels and eating at the same diners, and takes readers on brief detours into topics such as the postwar American auto industry, McCarthyism, the nation's highway system, and the decline of Main Street America.  By the end of the 2,500-mile journey, you will have a new and heartfelt appreciation for America's last citizen-president. 

values - Primer for Today's Politicians: "Harry & Bess Take A Road Trip"

From: drude Sent: Monday, April 19, 2010

WE WILL NEVER SEE THIS HAPPEN AGAIN.. and nothing even close to it!

     Harry Truman was a different kind of President.  He probably made as many, or more important decisions regarding our nation's history as any of the other 42 Presidents preceding him.  
     However, a measure of his greatness may rest on what he did after he left the White House.The only asset he had when he died was the house he lived in, which was in  Independence, Missouri.  His wife had inherited the house from her mother and father and other than their years in the White House, they lived their entire lives there.
     When he retired from office in 1952, his income was a U.S. Army pension reported to have been $13,507.72 a year.  Congress, noting that he was paying for his stamps and personally licking them, granted him an 'allowance' and, later, a retroactive pension of $25,000 per year.
     After President Eisenhower was inaugurated, Harry and Bess drove home to Missouri by themselves.  There was no Secret Service following them.
     When offered corporate positions at large salaries, he declined, stating, "You don't want me.  You want the office of the President, and that doesn't belong to me.  It belongs to the American people and it's not for sale."
     Even later, on May 6, 1971, when Congress was preparing to award him the Medal of Honor on his 87th birthday, he refused to accept it, writing, "I don't consider that I have done anything which should be the reason for any award, Congressional or otherwise."
     As president he paid for all of his own travel expenses and food.
     Modern politicians have found a new level of success in cashing in on the Presidency, resulting in untold wealth.  Today, many in Congress also have found a way to become quite wealthy while enjoying the fruits of their offices.  Political offices are now for sale.  (sic. Illinois)
     Good old Harry Truman was correct when he observed, "My choices in life were either to be a piano player in a whore house or a politician.  And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference!

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From: bb Sent: Monday, June 13, 2011 Subject: Fw: Harry and Bess Truman

I look at Harry Truman as our last honest President.  He was certainly not loved while in office but history has told us how great he was.  We were blessed to have Harry when we needed him.  -- J

Harry & Bess Truman.

Hi Folks. Harry was my Commander and yes we need some one like him in there. God Bless us.

We will never see this again.

Thought you'd enjoy this!

     It's one you want your Children and Grandchildren to read.

     They won't believe this happened, but it DID.

Harry & Bess
(This seems unreal.)
     Harry Truman was a different kind of President. He probably made as many, or more important decisions regarding our nation's history as any of the other 42 Presidents preceding him. However, a measure of his greatness may rest on what he did after he left the White House.
     The only asset he had when he died was the house he lived in, which was in Independence Missouri . His wife had inherited the house from her mother and father and other than their years in the White House, they lived their entire lives there.
     When he retired from office in 1952 his income was a U.S. Army pension reported to have been $13,507.72 a year. Congress, noting that he was paying for his stamps and personally licking them, granted him an 'allowance' and, later, a retroactive pension of $25,000 per year.
     After President Eisenhower was inaugurated, Harry and Bess drove home to Missouri by themselves. There was no Secret Service following them.
     When offered corporate positions at large salaries, he declined, stating, "You don't want me. You want the office of the President, and that doesn't belong to me. It belongs to the American people and it's not for sale."
     Even later, on May 6, 1971, when Congress was preparing to award him the Medal of Honor on his 87th birthday, he refused to accept it, writing, "I don't consider that I have done anything which should be the reason for any award, Congressional or otherwise."
     As president he paid for all of his own travel expenses and food.
     Modern politicians have found a new level of success in cashing in on the Presidency, resulting in untold wealth. Today, many in Congress also have found a way to become quite wealthy while enjoying the fruits of their offices. Political offices are now for sale (cf. Illinois ).
     Good old Harry Truman was correct when he observed, "My choices in life were either to be a piano player in a whore house or a politician. And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference!
     I say dig him up and clone him!
Never let anyone become your priority, while you remain only their option.

audio book preview: http://www.archive.org/details/MatthewAlgeoHarryTrumansExcellentAdventure

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