2. After the Lone Ranger saved the day and rode off into the sunset, the grateful citizens would ask, "Who was that masked man?" Invariably, someone would answer, "I don't know, but he left this behind." What did he leave behind?____________

3. Folk songs were played side by side with rock and roll. One of he most memorable folk songs included these lyrics: "When the rooster crows at the break of dawn, look out your window and I'll be gone. You're the reason I'm traveling on, _______________.

4. A group of protesters arrested at the Democratic convention in Chicago in 1968 achieved cult status, and were known as the ______.

5. When the Beatles first came to the U.S. in early 1964, we all watched them on the _______________show.

7. We all learned to read using the same books. We read about the thrilling lives and adventures of Dick and Jane. What was the name of Dick and Jane's dog?______

8. The cute, little car with the engine in the back and the trunk (what there was of it) in the front, was called the VW. What other name(s) did it go by? ___________ & __________.

9. A Broadway musical and movie gave us the gang names the______________and the ________________.

10. In the seventies, we called the drop-out nonconformists "hippies." But in the early sixties, they were known as ____________.

11. William Bendix played Chester A. Riley, who always seemed to get the short end of the stick in the television program, "The Life of Riley." At the end of each show, poor Chester would turn to the camera and exclaim, "What a ____________."

15. That "adult" book by Henry Miller - the one that contained all the dirty" dialogue - was called _________.

16. Today, the math geniuses in school might walk around with a calculator. But back in the sixties, members of the math club used ____.

17. In 1971, singer Don Maclean sang a song about "the day the music died." This was a reference and tribute to _______

18. A well-known television commercial featured a driver who was miraculously lifted through thin air and into the front seat of a convertible. The matching slogan was "Let Hertz __________."

19. After the twist, the mashed potatoes, and the watusi, we "danced" under a stick that was lowered as low as we could go in a dance called the _______.

21. In the late sixties, the "full figure" style of Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe gave way to the "trim" look, as first exemplified by British model __________.

22. Satchmo was America's "ambassador of goodwill." Our parents shared this great jazz trumpet player with us. His name was ______________.

23. On Jackie Gleason's variety show in the sixties, one of the most popular segments was "Joe, the Bartender." Joe's regular visitor at the bar was that slightly off-center, but lovable character, _________. (The character's name, not the actor's.)

24. We can remember the first satellite placed into orbit. The Russians did it; it was called ______________.

26. One of the big fads of the late fifties and sixties was a large plastic ring that we twirled around our waist; it was called the ________________.

27a. This is a two-parter: Red Skelton's hobo character (not the hayseed; the hobo) was ________________.

27b. Red ended his television show by saying, "Good night, and ________________."

1. "Kookie; Kookie; lend me your comb." If you said "ears," you're in the wrong millennium, pal; you've spent way too much time in Latin class.

2. The Lone Ranger left behind a silver bullet. Several of you probably said he left behind his mask. Oh, no; even off the screen, Clayton Moore would not be seen as the Lone Ranger without his mask!

3. "When the rooster crows at the break of dawn, look out your window and I'll be gone. You're the reason I'm traveling on; Don't think twice, it's all right."

4. The group of protesters arrested at the Democratic convention in Chicago in 1968 were known as the Chicago Seven. As Paul Harvey says, "They would like me to mention their names."

5. When the Beatles first came to the U.S. in early 1964, we all watched them on the Ed Sullivan Show.

6. Some of us who protested the Vietnam war did so by burning our draft cards. If you said "bras," you've got the right spirit, but nobody ever burned a bra while I was watching. The "bra burning" days came as a by-product of women's liberation movement which had nothing directly to do with the Vietnam war.

7. Dick and Jane's dog was Spot. "See Spot run." Whatever happened to them? Rumor has it they have been replaced in some school systems by "Heather Has Two Mommies."

9. A Broadway musical and movie gave us the gang names the Sharks and the Jets. West Side Story.

10. In the early sixties, the drop-out, nonconformists were known as beatniks. Maynard G. Krebs ("The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis" TV show) was the classic beatnik, except that he had no rhythm, man; he had a beard, but no beat.

11. At the end of "The Life of Riley," Chester would turn to the camera and exclaim, "What a revolting development this is."

13. "The story you are about to see is true. The names have been changed to protect the innocent."

15. That "adult" book by Henry Miller was called Tropic of Cancer. Today, it would hardly rate a PG-13 rating.

19. After the twist, the mashed potatoes, and the watusi, we danced" under a stick in a dance called the Limbo.

20. "N-E-S-T-L-E-S; Nestles makes the very best...........chaaawwwww-c'late." In the television commercial, Chocolate" was sung by a puppet - a dog. (Remember his mouth flopping open and shut?)

21. In the late sixties, the "full figure" style gave way to the "trim" look, as first exemplified by British model Twiggy.

22. Our parents shared this great jazz trumpet player with us. His name was Louis Armstrong.

26. The large plastic ring that we twirled around our waist was called the hula-hoop.

27. Red Skelton's hobo character was Freddie the Freeloader. (Clem Kaddiddlehopper was the "hay seed.")

27b. Red ended his television show by saying, "Good night, and may God bless."

"You're Not Old Unless You Can Remember..."
(submitted to us by Bill Cody)

What LSMFT means.

What you do with the pointed end of a can opener.

When a lighted room meant there was at least one coal oil lamp.

When candy bars cost a nickel. 

When car radios were AM only.

When Coca Cola was made by the glass by mixing the syrup with carbonated water.

When comic books cost 10 cents (and how traumatic it was when the price went up to 12 cents, then 15 cents).

When drugstores had lunch counters and soda fountains.

When gasoline was only 15 cents per gallon (and right before the Arab embargo it skyrocketed to 25 cents).

When going to the toilet meant walking to the outhouse, which was usually located at the farthest distance from the house as the property line allowed.

When John Glenn went into space the first time.

When last year's Sears & Roebuck catalog functioned as outhouse reading material and toilet paper.

When paperback books were 25 cents. 

When postage stamps cost 3 cents. 

When Saturday morning TV included Mighty Mouse, Sky King, Roy Rogers & Dale Evans, and/or Hopalong Cassidy.

When soft drinks cost 5 cents (and how angry your were when the price went up to 6 cents).

When the Russians sent up Sputnik.

When there was no McDonalds.

When there were only four other channels to change to, five if you adjusted the outside antenna.

When this year's new cars looked different from last year's, and when different makes of cars looked different.

When VWs broke the $2000 barrier.

When whole communities were mass vaccinated against polio.

When you actually got up out of the couch to change the channel on the TV.

When you could buy a new car for less than $2,000 with all the extras.

When you could drop your mail in the mailbox at the train depot and it would be delivered the next day (but if you mailed it at the post office, it took up to a week)

When you could get a different dish in each box of DUZ Detergent (and bath linens and numerous other items with other brands).

When you could leave home for a vacation without locking the door of your home.

When you could save Val-O-Milk candy bar tokens to mail in for a cardboard round containing 10 free candy bars.

When you could see the gasoline in the pump before you put it in your car.

When you could watch the engines start on an airliner. 

When you did calculations with a slide rule, an adding machine, and/or a table of sines, cosines, and logarithms.

When you drank milk through a Flav-R-Straw.

When you dressed up to fly on an airliner.

When you had to pay a bottle deposit of 2 cents for each bottled soft drink you purchased and then return the empty soft drink bottle for the refund (and when the deposit went up to a nickel).

When you watched "Today on the Farm" on TV before going to school.

Where you were when you heard JFK had been shot.

45-rpm records

8mm Home movie cameras

Alice and Jerry (or Bill and Susan)

Aluminum movie tokens in flour sacks. 

Angora sweaters

Beanie and Cecil dolls

Blackjack and Beeman's gum

Bottle cokes in a big metal cooler swimming in ice water

Bouffant hairdos

Buster Crabbe as Flash Gordon

Butch wax

Candy cigarettes

Candy lipstick

Carbon paper

Console hi-fi's with 78's

Coonskin caps

Cork popguns

Crystal radios made with a Quaker Oats box.

Dart guns with rubber-tipped darts

Dick and Jane readers

Drive-ins with car hops

Eating Cheese crackers and Pepsi Cola sitting on a Coke crate

Eight-track tape decks.

Fizzies

Flash bulbs

General stores

Hair dryers with plastic caps

Hand-crank wringers on tub washing machines.

Hog killing weather

Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers

Howdy Doody puppets

Lash La Rue and his bull whip

Levered metal ice trays

Licorice records

Mimeograph paper

Movies preceded by cartoons and newsreels

P.F. Flyers

Party lines

Peashooters.

Powerhouse candy bars

Pull tabs that snapped off soda cans

Roll of capgun caps

Roller skate keys

Roller skates that clip onto shoes

Rotary phones.

S & H green stamps and Plaid stamps

Slide rules

Sock hops

Soda pop machines that dispense bottles.

Spoolies

Square Metal lunchboxes

Tableside jukeboxes in roadside diners.

Tin-can telephones

Two-bladed ice skates that clip onto shoes

Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water

Wax teeth, lips and mustaches

Weekly Reader

Winky Dink kits for drawing on the TV screen

Winter rubber boots with metal latches