Innholdsfortegnelse for October/November 2018 i Reminisce

A generation-defining musical revolution, Hair was a pop-culture phenomenon that both rocked and shocked millions of drama-lovers in the late 1960s. What was all the fuss about? Well, plenty, actually. The drama rejected every Broadway convention when onstage hippies promoted peace, love and understanding—as well as some heady doses of sex, drugs, rock ’n’ roll, and—for a brief scene—nudity. The musical began in 1964 when off-Broadway actors James Rado and Gerome Ragni penned a lyrical tale of Manhattan’s East Village longhairs (called the tribe) who spent their days hanging out, getting high and avoiding the draft. While Rado and Ragni focused on dialogue and lyrics, they hired Canadian-born Galt MacDermot to create the music. Hair generated the hit songs “Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In,” “Hair,” “Easy to Be Hard” and “Good Morning…

IN 1968, MY FRIENDS and I found an old, tattered cookbook in my grandparents’ attic. It had been published in the early 1900s. So we decided to have cooking and baking sessions using recipes from the cookbook. We met at one of our homes, contributed our share of ingredients and began making holiday candy to share. We felt as if we had rolled back the calendar and were living in an earlier era. Making candy for holidays and special events was such fun. Our families treasured the flavorful old recipes from that ancient cookbook. And the socializing, plus the yummy treats, created memories that live on. Try an old-time candy-making event in your home soon. The sweet treats afterward are delicious rewards. For classic candy recipes: TASTEOFHOME.COM/VINTAGECANDY…

Just before I shipped out to Vietnam in the summer of 1967, I met a student nurse from Sacramento State College. It was nothing serious—we were friends—but her letters and care packages would come to mean a lot to me over the months when I felt light-years from home. My one-year tour of duty with the Air Force began in July that year. I was assigned to the 37th Tactical Fighter Wing at Phu Cat Air Base, near the city of Qui Nhon, for two months before moving farther down the coast to join the 35th Tactical Fighter Wing at Phan Rang. There, I was noncommissioned officer in charge of the combat activities reporting center. Our mission was to compile airstrike intelligence data and send it to Seventh Air Force…

DORMEYER ON THE JOB The products by this Chicago-based competitor to Sunbeam were better designed and more durable, but they were expensive and lacked cute, memorable names. For instance, its top line stand mixer was the Food-Fixer; Sunbeam’s was the Mixmaster. In 1960, Dormeyer was sold to an audio equipment maker, where poor leadership led to its insolvency. CLASS UP YOUR INSTANT Nescafé joined with Pyrex to promote this attractive coffee server—and enlisted etiquette guru Emily Post to extol the virtue of always having piping hot coffee ready when guests come over. Who cares if the “company coffee” is instant (and tastes like it)? It looks fabulous.…

Celery is dull. It has none of the appeal of its showier cousin the carrot. More important, to the third-grade mind, celery lacks the projectile potential of the pea or the concussion-producing potential of the bulky Brussels sprout. Worse, uneaten celery is almost impossible to hide in a lunchroom with a rigid adherence to the clean-your-plate principle. It was Miss Brewster’s job to verify that we’d cleaned our plates. Tall and thin in her pencil skirt, and topped with a bouffant so blond that it was almost white, Miss Brewster resembled a 6-foot Q-tip stalking the aisles of our school lunchroom. She required proof that we’d eaten the last crumb of our lunch before she’d let us go out for recess. We tried many methods to dispose of the hated…

To get away from a stressful job as a school superintendent in the Southern California mountains, Dad retired and my parents, Ralph and Nancy Bell, moved to the San Juan Islands in Washington in about 1978. They wanted to live close to nature, growing their own vegetables, raising fruit and nut trees, and being self-sufficient. They bought a boat to catch fish. They found exactly what they wanted in a 6½-acre plot across from a wild-bird preserve. It had a well, barn, chicken coop and corral, along with huge areas for plantings and a forest at the rear edge. They bought two horses, several chickens, four lambs and a goat. And they raised three beautiful fat turkeys. One was intended for Thanksgiving, one for Christmas and one for Easter. They…

Count the Flags Dixie Detuerk of Ogallala, NE, won the flag-counting contest in our June/July 2018 issue. There were exactly 50 flags. Holidays & Celebrations Photo Contest We’ll share the winners in our December/January ’19 issue. Facebook.com/Reminiscemagazine Join us on social media, where you’ll get an early peek at the issue cover before it mails. Instagram.com/Reminiscemag Be there on Throwback Thursday when we post the best vintage photos. IN THE NEXT ISSUE • Favorite Toys • Heroes in the Sky • Women in Baseball…

ACADEMY AWARDS BEST PICTURE In the Heat of the Night BEST ACTOR Rod Steiger In the Heat of the Night BEST ACTRESS Katharine Hepburn Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner EMMY AWARDS OUTSTANDING DRAMATIC SERIES Mission Impossible, CBS OUTSTANDING COMEDY SERIES Get Smart, NBC OUTSTANDING VARIETY SERIES Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In, NBC BEST-SELLING ALBUM Are You Experienced The Jimi Hendrix Experience BEST-SELLING FICTION BOOK Airport by Arthur Hailey BEST-SELLING NONFICTION BOOK Better Homes and Gardens New Cook Book by BH&G Editors MOST POPULAR CHRISTMAS TOY Hot Wheels MOST POPULAR BOARD GAME Don’t Break the Ice OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALIST, WOMEN’S FIGURE SKATING Peggy Fleming…

▪ Activated as part of the Army Air Corps in November 1940 in Hawaii, it was nicknamed the Pineapple Air Force. ▪ Members of the Seventh were the first U.S. airmen to come under hostile enemy fire with the attack on Pearl Harbor. ▪ During WWII, it handled heavy-bomber attacks on strategic Pacific locations and escorted long-range B-29s from Iwo Jima, among other duties. ▪ After sporadic inactivations, it was revived in 1966 and assumed air combat command at Tan Son Nhut Air Base in Vietnam. ▪ It was transferred to Thailand in 1973 to control air operations until it was inactivated two years later. ▪ Reactivated in 1986 at Osan Air Base, South Korea, it helps to maintain the armistice with North Korea. Source: U.S. Air Force…

Feeling shaken and forlorn, I must have looked lonesome sitting on the bleachers in gym class. My new school was so big and I saw no one I knew. Then a girl at the far end of the bench called to me. “Come sit with us,” she said. That’s how I met Karen. We were best friends all through junior and senior high school and into college. We stood up at each other’s wedding. In high school we each bought a charm bracelet and filled them with charms that represented special moments in our lives—boyfriends’ names, school pennants, awards. Karen added two child charms when she became a mother. We remained friends the rest of our lives, until 2004, when she died of cancer. A few weeks after her funeral,…

See farm implements from an early 20th-century tractor to high-tech 2018 models at the John Deere Tractor & Engine Museum in Waterloo, IA. Or plan a trip to the John Deere Pavilion in Moline, IL, where the displays are hands-on and interactive, and admission is free. JohnDeereJournal.com/category/history The Smithsonian National Museum of American History celebrates Deere & Co.’s 100th year of tractor production in 2018 with a Precision Farming exhibition and a 1918 green, yellow and red Waterloo Boy tractor, above, at its entrance. For information: americanhistory.si.edu/press/releases/2018-tractor The National Farm Toy Museum, Dyersville, IA, features a John Deere scale-replica tractor display all year. Facebook.com/nationalfarmtoymuseum/…

FOREIGN TRAVEL Did your bucket list include visiting the Champs-Elysees, Machu Picchu, ancient Gr eek temples or Victoria Falls? Has your wanderlust taken you to faraway places out of the country? Where did you roam and what did you discover? Label your story “Foreign Travel.” SCHOOL UNIFORMS If you went to a private school, uniforms were the standard wardrobe. Did you wear one? Or did you create your own? Did you have different clothes for school, work, play and dress up? Tell us what you wore to school. Label your story “School Uniforms.” DANCE LESSONS Tap and ballet, jazz and swing, ballroom and salsa. Dancing keeps us on our toes, plus it’s a lot of fun. Whether you took lessons at an early age or later in life, we want…

Feb. 29, 1968. It was the night of nights for music industry professionals waiting to see if their creativity would be rewarded. Along with Ella Fitzgerald, who received a lifetime achievement award, these men, women and songs made it big. 1 This soul-influenced quintet won four Grammys for their smash hit “Up, Up and Away.” 2 Aretha Franklin, above, took home her first two career Grammys for this R&B hit. 3 Best Engineered Recording; Album Cover, Graphic Arts; and Album of the Year went to this Beatles production. 4 With this song, Elvis Presley won his first Grammy, for Best Sacred Performance. 5 Best New Artist went to this country singer who wrote and recorded her own material. 6 Best Vocal Performance, Male went to this artist who sang “By…

W+hen my girlfriend Lynne informed me that we were going to the Halloween night costume ball at the YMCA, I agreed. It was October 1966; I was a senior in high school and happy to have a date. She said her mother was making the costumes, and we were going as Peter Pan and Tinkerbell. Peter would have a really cool outfit, and Tink would wear a pink T-shirt, pink tights and a sequined tutu. She assured me we were going to make a cute couple. On Halloween evening, I went over to Lynne’s to get dressed for the ball. You can imagine my surprise when I learned the little secret she had kept from me all month—I was the one going as Tinkerbell. To say I protested would be…

From his buttoned-down vest to the crisp cut of his trousers, my father, Henry Niichel, looked good in a suit—especially when standing in front of a convertible beside a smiling woman. When Daddy was in his mid-20s, he moved to Chicago, Illinois, where jobs were more plentiful than in his hometown of Granville, Iowa. During his three years there he worked in the textile industry, selecting fabrics from woolen manufacturers to be made into tailored suits. He was offered a job as a detective on the Chicago police force because he had a talent for remembering people and their mannerisms. He turned the offer down because, my mother said, he very much liked his job in the clothing industry. In 1933, my father received a letter in Chicago from his…

Leimersheim, a small German village governed in the past by France and Bavaria, sits on the Rhine River, which once served as a thoroughfare for people immigrating to America. Consider for a moment how families looked in the 17th, 18th or 19th century and how they grew and dispersed: ▪ A family might have eight children.▪ Each of those children could have eight children, and so on.▪ Later generations move to different cities, towns or countries, marrying there.▪ Descendants may find they are married to a distant cousin. No surprise, it happens to families around the world. A good paper trail plus DNA testing can lead to discoveries such as these. With several generations between them and their common ancestor, Nancy and her husband have no need to worry about…

FROM THE TASTE OF HOME COLLECTION Super Easy Country-Style Ribs When I was growing up, our mom made sweet, tangy smoked country-style ribs. How I loved coming home from church to the delicious aroma as soon as I walked through the door. STEPHANIE LOAIZA • LAYTON, UT PREP: 10 min. COOK: 5 hours MAKES: 4 servings 1½ cups ketchup½ cup packed brown sugar½ cup white vinegar2 tsp. seasoned salt½ tsp. liquid smoke, optional2 lbs. boneless country-style pork ribs 1. In a 3-qt. slow cooker, mix ketchup, brown sugar, vinegar, seasoned salt and, if desired, liquid smoke. Add the ribs; turn to coat. Cook, covered, on low 5-6 hours or until meat is tender. 2. Remove pork to a serving plate. Skim fat from cooking liquid. If desired, transfer liquid to…

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