Friday, February 2. 2007
It's Fun to Reminisce...
The Fifties and Sixties…Ah
I remember many things from the 1960s but the 1950s are JUST before my time. I was born in 1960. 1960 was the year that the Howdy Doody show ended after 13 years on the air with Buffalo Bob, Howdy Doody, Clarabell Clown, Princess Summer Fall Winter Spring, Mr. Bluster, Dilly Dally, Flub-A-Dub and many more. Kids would wait for TV to start airing in the late afternoon, yes START airing. They would watch the off-the-air bulls eye on the screen for hours waiting to here Buffalo Bob say to the Peanut Gallery, “Kids, What time is it?”
Cowboys were REALLY big in the fifties and still are today (the 50s cowboys, that is). Hopalong Cassidy, Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, Lone Ranger…the list is long and very nostalgic for a lot of now grown little cowboys and cowgirls.
Many things started in the fifties and lasted into the sixties. I have developed a great fondness for both periods because I started an online Nostalgic Collectibles business in 1996 based upon ONLY Howdy Doody memorabilia and branched out to everything else. Many really cool and “maybe never to be seen again” items have passed through our business. I have learned A LOT about the period just before when I was born and the period that I was too small to recognize anything (the Early 60s) by learning about the pop culture of the time in the last 10 years.
It has always been fun for me to research and collect the toys I had in the late 1960s. My favorite was always Matchbox Toys (Hot Wheels came a little later) and BOY did I have a lot of them. I was out in the backyard “road system” more than I was inside the house.
I missed many great TV series’ during that period ‘cause I was out in the mud. So when I got to see some of the most famous, they were re-peats for most, but to me, “brand new” episodes. Some included: The Munsters, Andy Griffith, I Love Lucy, The Addams Family, zillions of REALLY popular cartoons, Batman, Superman, Bewitched, on and on. I’ve revisited them in the memorabilia we’ve sold over the years and I always tend to hang on to the most memorable to me for a while, displaying them in our studio. Its fun to have this stuff around and the conversations it creates are amazing.
Its fun to reminisce…
Presented by stevescollectibles.com and stevescollectibles.net
I remember many things from the 1960s but the 1950s are JUST before my time. I was born in 1960. 1960 was the year that the Howdy Doody show ended after 13 years on the air with Buffalo Bob, Howdy Doody, Clarabell Clown, Princess Summer Fall Winter Spring, Mr. Bluster, Dilly Dally, Flub-A-Dub and many more. Kids would wait for TV to start airing in the late afternoon, yes START airing. They would watch the off-the-air bulls eye on the screen for hours waiting to here Buffalo Bob say to the Peanut Gallery, “Kids, What time is it?” Cowboys were REALLY big in the fifties and still are today (the 50s cowboys, that is). Hopalong Cassidy, Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, Lone Ranger…the list is long and very nostalgic for a lot of now grown little cowboys and cowgirls.
Many things started in the fifties and lasted into the sixties. I have developed a great fondness for both periods because I started an online Nostalgic Collectibles business in 1996 based upon ONLY Howdy Doody memorabilia and branched out to everything else. Many really cool and “maybe never to be seen again” items have passed through our business. I have learned A LOT about the period just before when I was born and the period that I was too small to recognize anything (the Early 60s) by learning about the pop culture of the time in the last 10 years.
It has always been fun for me to research and collect the toys I had in the late 1960s. My favorite was always Matchbox Toys (Hot Wheels came a little later) and BOY did I have a lot of them. I was out in the backyard “road system” more than I was inside the house.
I missed many great TV series’ during that period ‘cause I was out in the mud. So when I got to see some of the most famous, they were re-peats for most, but to me, “brand new” episodes. Some included: The Munsters, Andy Griffith, I Love Lucy, The Addams Family, zillions of REALLY popular cartoons, Batman, Superman, Bewitched, on and on. I’ve revisited them in the memorabilia we’ve sold over the years and I always tend to hang on to the most memorable to me for a while, displaying them in our studio. Its fun to have this stuff around and the conversations it creates are amazing.
Its fun to reminisce…
Presented by stevescollectibles.com and stevescollectibles.net
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