Innholdsfortegnelse for April - May 2017 i Reminisce

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Summer of Love, Age of Aquarius—whatever you call it, 1967 was marked by turmoil and change. The U.S. was embroiled in the Vietnam War, with our troops in the region totaling more than 500,000. Anti-war demonstrations erupted coast to coast. The Supreme Court decreed mixed-race marriages constitutional; DNA was created in a test tube. Television pitched comedy, variety and intrigue, while music rocked us with the British Invasion, Sonny and Cher—one of music’s first power duos—and Billboard’s top female vocalist, Aretha Franklin. More highlights included: JAN. 7 Reality show The Newlywed Game premieres on ABC. JAN. 27 A fire during testing of the Apollo I Command Module kills its crew: Roger Chaffee, Virgil “Gus” Grissom and Edward White. FEB. 22 U.S. launches Operation Junction City in Vietnam; C-130s and some…

1967 INSPIRING ACTORS Sidney Poitier starred in three influential movies in 1967: To Sir, With Love; In the Heat of the Night; and Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? Poitier chose roles with care, setting high standards for himself and the film, and he paid special attention to how African-Americans were depicted. He advised a young Denzel Washington to do the same: “The first four or five films you make or that you’re in will determine how you’re perceived in this business.” WORTH ANOTHER LOOK Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In aired for the first time in 1967 on NBC as a special. It was so popular the network brought it back in 1968 as a midseason replacement. Hosted by the urbane comedy duo Dan Rowan and Dick Martin,…

In honor of Evel, Eddie Braun jumped the Snake River in 2016. This year marks the 10th anniversary of the death of Robert Craig “Evel” Knievel Jr., who leapt to stardom in the 1970s with his daring motorcycle stunts. Evel Knievel almost died trying to jump the fountains at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. He estimated he broke 37 bones over his career. His most ambitious stunt—jumping Idaho’s Snake River Canyon in a rocket motorcycle in 1974—failed when the drogue parachute opened on takeoff. But Evel roused a nation disillusioned by Watergate and Nixon’s resignation. “America needed somebody who was truthful and honest,” he told Cycle World magazine in 1998. “Somebody who wasn’t a phony.” Turn the page for stories our readers shared of when they,…

Perhaps I shouldn’t have taken my toddler to the grocery store at naptime. Kelly was reaching for everything and trying to climb out of the child seat. In desperation, I reached into the “emergency” section of my purse and pulled out an orange lollipop. Kelly’s face lit up as I unwrapped the treat and handed it to her. Now I’ll be able to concentrate, I thought. I browsed through my coupons, thankful that Kelly was busy and content. I was so engrossed in finding good deals that I didn’t notice the sugary drool dripping down Kelly’s chin. It wasn’t until she placed a wet, sticky hand on my blouse that I took a good look at her. The mess was stunning. Almost every inch of her face was sticky. Her…

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As hippies came of age in the Summer of Love, their music reflected the creativity and experimentation that went along with social upheaval. Rock lovers look back on ’67 as a banner year, when fresh voices and veteran musicians exploded expectations with brave new sounds. Do you know these now-iconic LPs and their artists? The debut album by the son 1 of a protest singer of the ’30s and ’40s featured an 18-minute title track about a diner. 2 The debut by an unparalleled American guitarist included a hit penned, mostly in haste, backstage at a London nightclub. 3 Another debut, this self-titled album had a beloved anthem about, in part, a girl’s complexion. 4 This album by a British blues band, above, had a power hit punctuated by massive…

GOAT’S MILK SOAP I enjoy making our soap look pretty, plus it’s good for you. CINDY CORBIN HIGHLANDVILLE, MO WINE CORK TRIVETS I frame the corks so the beauty of the wood shows. DONALD BROCKMAN MILWAUKEE, WI WOVEN AREA RUGS I weave using my great-grandmother’s floor loom. GENA STOUT RAVENDEN, AR…

My sisters Sharon, Doris and Betty, along with our Aunt Sue and I, were in the American Legion’s majorette unit and marched in every holiday parade in Toledo, Ohio, in the early 1950s. There were 12 kids in my family—seven sisters, five brothers—but we were the majorettes. Our uniforms were royal blue corduroy with gold roping, and we wore wrist cuffs and hats that had inner cardboard liners. Our mother, Evelyn Clarke, and grandmother Gertrude Gross made the uniforms by hand. Our favorite parade was on Memorial Day, when we marched to the cemetery along with several hundred friends and family watching and celebrating. When we arrived at the cemetery, priests said Mass in the open area and dedicated it to the fallen soldiers. At that time, even the kids…

She caught my eye at a square dance in Dayton, Ohio, where we both had gone alone. Her name was Rosemary Ann Wheelock and we ended up going home together. I asked her to go to a concert the next day at Deeds Carillon, a tower on the riverbank. Every Sunday afternoon a musician played a concert on its bells. Beautiful! We were sitting on the grass when I spotted a fat worm crawling on her pretty blue jumper. I reached for it and squished it into a big greenish yellow blob on her dress. Later we stopped at the Virginia Cafeteria, a popular downtown eatery. She couldn’t get the ketchup out of the bottle, so I grabbed it and whacked the bottom. Half its contents landed on her dress.…

My father’s crazy airplane buddies, who hung out at the local airfield, gave me some unusual adventures when I was growing up in the 1940s. One Saturday, Jerry, one of the craziest and my favorite of the test pilots, told of an idea he’d seen in a magazine. You take a large weather balloon, fill it with helium and cover it with a parachute. The parachute harness holds the pilot, who wears a belt with several weights. He controls the balloon’s action by dropping weights to go up and by releasing gas through a valve on the filler tube to go down. “It’s called balloon jumping,” Jerry said. “With the right balance, you can jump and glide over cars and buildings and such.” When Jerry mentioned that he had an…

BEST TV DAD Was your dad as fun, witty and wise as Andy Taylor on The Andy Griffith Show? Maybe he was more even-keeled, like Howard Cunningham (far left) on Happy Days or Leave It to Beaver’s Ward Cleaver. Tell us who your favorite TV dad was and why. Label your story “Best TV Dad.” SUMMER CAMP Crafts, canoes, campfires, letters home—what reminds you most of summer camp? Did you go to camp? What kind? Were you homesick or was it the time of your life? Give us a glimpse. Label your story “Summer Camp.” FOURTH OF JULY We want to hear from vets who served, here or abroad, on the Fourth of July. Let us know how you celebrated your patriotism. Share those moments with us. Label your story…

When I was growing up in the heart of Chicago’s famous Italian neighborhood on Taylor Street, everyone was like family. Neighbors sat on their front porches, visiting and talking for hours. When I was in fourth grade, Dennis Farina was a Chicago police detective. He would pull up in front of our house, walk into the kitchen and come out eating a bowl of my mother’s meat loaf. To us, he was Uncle Dennis, a great guy who was always there for you. Dennis Farina left the police force in 1985, after the producer Michael Mann hired him for a lead role in his new TV series, Crime Story. Uncle Dennis went on to a great career in both the movies and television. Years later I was in Los Angeles…

Celebrating my 10th birthday on April 2, 1943, was tough. The war was on, and just about everything was rationed or impossible to get. Yet I received a really special gift that year—a tin can of pink salmon. The gift was earmarked for me because I absolutely loved salmon. I especially loved my mother’s salmon patties with a cream sauce and peas on top. My mother, Gertrude, even made the package special to open. She wrapped the can in a small box and placed that box inside a larger one. Then she found four more boxes, each one slightly larger than the other, and wrapped each after the smaller box was placed inside. The excitement of opening each of those boxes with their wrappings and finally getting to the smallest…

From Grandma’s Garden to the Sport of KingsMARTHA CRAWFORD CANTARINI DENMAN ISLAND, BC Henry Ford had nothing on my grandmother. She had her own production line with her three children in her vegetable garden in Durant, Oklahoma, in 1914. Grandmother hoed the soil, the oldest poked the hole, the next boy dropped in the seeds, and my future mother, Sharon Crawford, took up the rear, patting the soil down. My mother was a special breed. After getting kicked out of her high school for smoking, she ran away to Dallas and launched her dream of becoming somebody. At 17, she became a model for Neiman Marcus in 1925. She was especially beautiful and was asked to drive a new automobile in a local parade dressed as a Spanish senorita. That’s…

1948 JON WHITCOMB, famous for his artistic depictions of feminine beauty before and after World War II, transformed illustrated advertising with extreme close-ups and simple backgrounds, all saturated with color. For advertising work, he pioneered the use of gouache paints, which dried quicker than oils, allowing for faster production times. 1948 N.W. AYER created an illustrated print campaign for Webster Cigars in the 1940s featuring the same couple living it up at chic spots such as Chicago’s Pump Room and, in this case, the Boca Raton Club in Florida. Artist Edwin Georgi’s mixed-media painting conveys a lush world, richer than a photograph. The cigar at bottom left seems almost an afterthought. 1961 FASHION STATEMENT This dramatic concept ad by fashion artist Roy Colonna for Galey & Lord, a textiles company,…