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!
Even with today’s advances in technology—perhaps because of them—where clips of everything from little Trudie tying her shoes to a schnauzer barking “hello” are a click away on a smartphone, words written in the hand of one we love are precious. As our feature “Letter Perfect” (page 30) proves, these notes, however ordinary they seemed then, gain value as time turns the familiar and plentiful into the distant and rare. I cherish a letter my late brother, Terry, wrote me in 1979 during his earliest days as a reporter in Fort Frances, Ontario, a town 18 hours northwest of Toronto in the province’s vast timber region. Terry was a long way from home and missing it, but the pictures he took around town glow with curiosity about his new surroundings.…
WORD WISE This takes an entry from our Time Capsule word list and traces how it came into common use. We start with “Buckle Up.” Page 14 CLASSIC CARS Car expert Russ Maki looks at an innovation, iconic design or unusual event in automotive history. This month, he writes about the 80th anniversary of the Jeep. Page 58 BRUSH WITH FAME This is the new name for our department about readers’ close encounters with celebrities. Page 50 NAME THAT CAR The car challenge will now be an exclusive feature of Reminisce Extra. Keep Reminisce coming every month! Subscribe today: REMINISCE.COM/EXTRASPECIAL IN THE NEXT ISSUE • Life in a Vintage Lustron• Soldiers’ Letters Home• Zamboni’s Puckish History…
NEWSPAPER ROUTES Did you deliver your hometown newspaper? Tell us about the experience. Did you master the art of tossing the paper on the doorstep without breaking a window? Who was your most interesting customer? What was the paper like—did you read it before delivering it? Label your story and photos “Extra! Extra!” THE DAY I LEARNED TO… Finish that sentence with a story about the day you learned a special skill and what it meant to you. Was it the day you figured out how to whistle? Write your name? Knit? Swim, skate or ski? Work a power drill? Did someone teach you or did you learn by yourself? Label your story and photos “The Day I Learned To.” PICK THREE Here’s a fun idea: Select three pictures that…
John Glenn meets with a hero’s welcome on his safe return from orbit. Cold War tensions rise, peaking with the Cuban missile crisis. School kids get a cherry-flavored dose of Albert Sabin’s oral polio vaccine. Rachel Carson ignites an environmental movement with Silent Spring. Discount chains Kmart and Motel 6 debut. Wilt Chamberlain scores 100 points in a single NBA game. Bob Dylan and the Supremes are musical newcomers, while the Beatles make noise in the U.K. Viewers laugh at a reality-type show, Candid Camera. And these words are in common use, according to Merriam-Webster. BAGGIES: Colgate-Palmolive test-markets clear plastic bags, center right, which keep Junior’s PB&Js fresher than wax paper bags do. BOSSA NOVA: Sax player Stan Getz joins Brazilian musicians for a major concert at Carnegie Hall, fueling…
Patty Duke and Anne Bancroft played Helen Keller and Annie Sullivan, respectively, in William Gibson’s 1959 The Miracle Worker on Broadway. The Tony Award winner, based on Keller’s life, was made into a film in 1962, with the actresses recreating their roles as student and teacher. Arthur Penn directed both the Broadway play and the film. The Miracle Worker shows a young Helen cut off since infancy from the world around her. Blind and deaf from an illness, the exceptionally bright child wreaks havoc on her family with frequent outbursts. As a last resort before sending her to an asylum, her parents turn for help to Boston’s highly respected Perkins Institute for the Blind. The school sends a recent graduate, 20-year-old Annie Sullivan, to the Kellers’ Alabama home. A battle…
Timeless humor. Snappy suits. That signature golf swing. All belong to Johnny Carson, above, who started his 30-year gig hosting NBC’s The Tonight Show on Oct. 2, 1962. What highlights can you dial up? 1 Carson’s moniker as a young magician playing the local Kiwanis club in Norfolk, Nebraska. 2 Carson took over the show from this host. 3 The leader of The Tonight Show’s band from 1967 to ’92. 4 More than 45 million viewers watch this guest’s wedding to Miss Vicki in 1969. 5 The talk show host wears a feathered turban to play this “all-knowing seer.” 6 These exotic animal experts bring alligators, gorillas and marmosets on the show. 7 A gray wig and wire-rim glasses transform Carson into this cranky older woman. 8 The Tonight Show’s most frequent guest, he appears more than 131…
