Newspapers were the source of news
Berkeley was the greatest university in the world
Downtown was for working, shopping and movies
Auto Row was where you bought cars
He’s from the government and he’s here to help us
Alfred E. Newman was political protest
What me worry?
Playboy was illuminating
Doctors made house calls
California was the Golden State
Penicillin cured all VD’s
Advil doesn’t cure all pain
“Look, but don’t touch” became “Look, but can’t touch”
Polio was the dreaded disease
Boy Scouts were known for their Jamborees
Walter Cronkite was the news
Johnny Carson was the man
John Wayne was the man
Bob Hope was the man
Folk Music ruled
Actors could act and musicians sing
Kirk Douglas and Charlton Heston were the action heroes
Comedies were Abbott and Costello, Laurel and Hardy, Ma and Pa Kettle, and Francis the Talking Mule
Cartoons were Road Runner, Casper the Friendly Ghost, Popeye the Sailor Man, Looney Toons, Merrie Melodies, and Mickey Mouse
What’s up Doc?
Theatres offered Saturday afternoon double bills
Family shows were Ozzie and Harriet and Leave it to Beaver,
Dragnet was the police show
Maverick and Ponderosa led the oaters
I Love Lucy, the Jackie Gleason Show, Groucho Marx, Red Skelton, and George Burns and Gracie Allen were the comedies
Dr. Kildaire and Marcus Welby, M.D. taught you medicine
Perry Mason was your law professor
Ted Mack Amateur Hour and the Ed Sullivan Show
Your favorite animals are Lassie, Rin Tin Tin, Trigger, and Cheeta
The great coaches were Vince Lombardi, Red Auerbach, Abe Ruff, John Wooden, Knute Rockne, Bud Wilkinson, Ara Parseghian, John McKay, Bear Bryant, Darrell Royal, and Woody Hayes
The 4 major bowl games were the Rose, Orange, Sugar, and Cotton
Army-Navy
USC-Notre Dame
USF was a basketball power
Toys were Tinker Toys, Lincoln Logs, and A.C. Gilbert’s Erector Sets, chemistry sets, and American Flyer Trains
Polaroid and Xerox were the great inventions
Punch cards ran computers
The Graduate and plastics
Speedy Alka-Seltzer and Chiquita Banana
Burma Shave
Andy Granatelli and STP
Avis tried harder
Kodak was photography, Singer sewing machines, IBM computers, Kodak photography, Schwinn bicycles, and Hoover vacuum cleaners
Airlines marketed stewardesses a sex symbols
3 in 1 Oil was the magic oil
The Marlboro Man rose high
Cigarette smoking was cool
Flick my Bic
PE was K-12
The Big Three were Chevy, Ford, and Plymouth
Muscle cars were in
Daddy drove station wagons
Detroit was 2 million people
As General Motors goes, so goes the country
GM’s Motorama
Motherhood, apple pie, the American Flag, and Chevrolet
Plan B, and not Medicare B, was the B
The inside word was antidisestablishmentarianism
Your first gray hair emerges
You are learning new medical suffices:
“itis”
Arthritis
Bursitis
Colitis
Dermatitis
Gingivitis
Ileitis
Prostatitis
Rhinitis
Sinusitis
Tendinitis
“Oscopy”
Bronchoscopy
Colonoscopy
Endoscopy
You looked at the Comics and Sports Before the Obits
I can’t hear you.
Those were the days.
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