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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsAh, 1960. When life was simple, father knew best, and Bugs Bunny had a show in primetime.....
- I hope ''The Bat'' had flight insurance......
drm604
(16,230 posts)Alfred Hitchcock is still worth watching.
Westerns were huge at that time, and mostly sponsored by cigarette companies, who used them to tie smoking to masculinity (remember the Marlboro Man?).
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)The Rifleman, The Red Skelton Show, Bugs Bunny, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Father Knows Best, Doby Gillis, Laramie
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)And I wore a fringed Davy Crockett shirt and coonskin hat .
In the '60s I was riding my bike down the street when a motorcade happened to pass. The news that night said it was Kennedy taking Khruschev to Disneyland.
And the Beav rules!
DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)...than Daniel Boone, but I was there. Here I am (1959) in my favored couch viewing spot which I coveted when allowed to actually sit there. Being the caboose of the family, I tended to end up on the floor during primetime:
<--- last sucker from the Halloween candy.....
LiberalEsto
(22,845 posts)We had a big Dodge that was mostly light green, with a section of dark green striping. And big light green fins. It looked weird even back then.
RebelOne
(30,947 posts)I took my driving test in it and failed the parallel parking because I couldn't see past the fins in the back. Fortunately, the examiner agreed and passed me.
DebJ
(7,699 posts)GoCubsGo
(32,084 posts)It's a lot smarter than most of what's on now. I wish the local "retro" channel would run it at a better time than 5:00 on Saturday mornings.
trof
(54,256 posts)rrneck
(17,671 posts)That's "Davis" spelled backward.