Relax, Laugh and Remember with Reminisce Magazine. Each issue is a "time capsule" of life from the 30's, 40's, 50's and 60's filled with reader-written stories, pictures from the past, embarrassing moments, ads from the Old Days and much more!
When I was growing up, our Christmas activities weren’t formal enough to be called traditions. With my parents working full time, my brothers’ end-of-term exams and club hockey games, not to mention the frenzy of holiday shopping and decorating, Christmas was more like organized chaos. We had a few holiday habits—decorating the tree as we all sang along to Frank Sinatra’s A Jolly Christmas LP is one I cherish—but we didn’t approach the season with a set schedule. That spontaneity carried its own magic. But the delightful Christmases readers describe in “Home for the Holidays,” beginning on page 30, show the fun in the planned magic of seasonal traditions. Today, my own family has one holiday tradition, dreamed up by my husband, Mark: Every Christmas Eve, we read Charles Dickens’…
MAIN STREET, USA We’d like to highlight Main Streets of the past. Did you have a Main Street in your hometown? What did it look like? What made it fun? And if you lived in a village, town or city called Springfield, we would love to hear from you. Your photos are especially welcome! Label your story and photos “Main Street.” AT THE TABLE We’d love to see your pictures of mealtimes—at home, on the road, in restaurants, at the campsite, on special occasions or just with family. Label your photos “At the Table.” TAKE IT FROM ME Were you a devoted reader of advice columnists like Ann Landers, Dear Abby or Emily Post? Perhaps your local newspaper had a homegrown advice columnist? Or did you dispense wisdom to friends…
More than 30,000 join the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s civil rights march to Montgomery, Alabama. A traffic stop gone wrong leads to riots in Los Angeles’ Watts neighborhood that leave 34 dead and more than 1,000 injured. TV favorites F-Troop, Lost in Space, Green Acres, I Dream of Jeannie and Get Smart all debut in the same week. Helen Gurley Brown starts to turn Cosmopolitan into the single woman’s bible. And sports will never be the same after a University of Florida scientist invents Gatorade. JAN. 2 The New York Jets sign University of Alabama quarterback Joe Namath for a reported $427,000. JAN. 4 President Lyndon B. Johnson unveils his “Great Society” initiative to advance civil rights and aid those in poverty. FEB. 15 Canada raises its new red…
A surge of memorable TV shows debuted in 1965, as the three networks—ABC, CBS and NBC—rushed to satisfy viewers’ insatiable appetite for programming. Which of these played in your living room? 1 Barbara Stanwyck starred as the Barkley family matriarch on this TV Western (pictured). 2 Tom Selleck and Steve Martin each competed on this flirty Chuck Barris-created game show hosted by Jim Lange. 3 Sally Field played beach bunny Frances Lawrence in this sitcom based on a series of teeny-bopper movies. 4 Like Shindig, this show, with its own dancers, served up the day’s grooviest musical acts. 5 Jerry Van Dyke was the lead in this famously terrible sitcom about a guy whose mom was reincarnated as an antique automobile. 6 Players in this game show raced around a…
Music fans who headed to Rhode Island’s Newport Folk Festival on July 25, 1965, didn’t expect to witness a major tectonic shift of the musical landscape. But they did. As one of the headliners, Bob Dylan, at 24 already a folk music legend, presented a traditional acoustic set of original, well-known works. He then took a break, and when he returned, he was joined by five other musicians who hauled onstage—horror of horrors!—electrified instruments! Before a slack-jawed crowd, Dylan cast aside both his folk roots and his reputation, plugged in a Fender Stratocaster electric guitar and proceeded to rock out. Hard. He powered through three tunes: “Maggie’s Farm,” a work-in-progress tune called “Phantom Engineer” and what would one day become his signature song, “Like a Rolling Stone.” In doing so,…
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