Musings of an Eisenhower Baby

What it is. What it is, to those of you born during the Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations. Kindred spirits, for us the sands of time are running through the hourglass at an accelerated rate with no outstretched hand to turn it over and begin anew. Not enough time. Time is running out.

Walk Down Memory Lane

Rotary Dial Phones – especially the Pink Princess phone in my parents’ bedroom

Transistor Radios — portable and cool

S&H Green Stamps — Too much licking and sticking

Drive-In Movies — Dr. Zhivago

Ed Sullivan — I only really recall the little mouse Topo Gigo

Mitch Miller — Everyone in my neighborhood watched just to see Leslie Uggams.

Lawrence Welk – hated him, but my parents loved him so I had to watch

1964 World’s Fair – My Dad took me and all I remember is the animatronics Abraham…