A JERSEY WAGON: I LOVE THE FIFTIES!!!!
Wired and inspired, I decided to [in the words of Dan Ackroyd on the Comcast commercial,to produce
" A RIP IN THE VERY FABRIC OF TIME!!!!"
Many of you will have no problem being transported back to '53, however, you should be surprised at the avalanche of images I have collected this morning.
January 4, 1953 ; "Could you give me directions to Hank Williams's grave?" ; "I told you sons-of-bitches I could draw more dead than you could alive!" ; St. Andrews Bay ; Puss 'N Boots ; Had-A-Col ;
"Where do baby's come from?" ; Adolph's ; Burma Shave ;
Kraft ; Swans Down ; Baker's Coconut ; Chase & Sandborn ; Angelo Butchikas ; "Lovesick Blues" ; Little Bocephus ; horned cattle ; Panama City Beach postcards ; Andalusia ; Ava Gardner ; The Kinsey Report ; Ipana ; Kotex ; Randall Hank ; M-G-M ; Toni ; Prell ; Vitalis ; "The Hillbilly Shakespeare" ; Arthur Godfrey ; "The WPA Blues" ; Breck ; "The Two Faced Preacher" ; Doris Day ; Sears, Roebuck and Co. ; mustard greens mixed with collards ; old dogs ; The Hosiery Mill ; chinaberry trees ; the milking stool ; J.C. Penney ; books[very rare] ;
THE CAINE MUTINY ; outhouses ; privy regulations ; family bible ; Nehi ; corral ; swatting flies ; enclosed dog trots ; E.R. Porter Hardware ; the corn crib ;
"HOW DID I GET HERE?" ; Dothan Cigar & Candy Co. ; ceramic chickens and ducks in the yard ; yard birds ; fireworks and burning garbage ; the mule pen ; an International pickup ; Red Fox Guano Co. ; the chicken coup ; weasels ; the flower bed with petunias out by the road ; swept yards ; chicken snakes ; rats ; washtubs ; the smokehouse
[whiskey] ; the shed ; coons ; the washstand by the back door ; the slop jar ; Jay Roy Barber Shop ;
"You grew in Mother's body." ; Ivory ; "The Drifting Cowboys" ; Prell ; Modess ; Vitalis ; "Luke The Drifter" ; foxes ; possums ; leaks in the wooden ceiling ; old walking canes ; stacked guns ; steamer trunks ; chamber pots ; Supreme Ice Cream ; the slop jar ; Blue Boy ; Madonna & child ; the hog pen ; the Model A ; Dixie Amusement Co. ;
"Where was I before I was born? ; ; the Martin Theatre ; standing ash trays ; pickle relish ; fried corn bread ; white porcelain ; a coal bucket full of kindling and stove wood ; mother-in-law tongues planted in green ceramic swans ; tamales ; kerosene lamps wired for electric lights ; the maid ; Model T's ; Malone Motor Co. ; Page Apartments ; Dothan News Stand ; Bubba Buntin ; Sanitary Dairy ; Houston Hotel ; Dothan Oil Mill ; The Coast Line ;
Dixie ; Keener Baxley ; Hotel Martin ; cane bottom chairs in the living room- cowhide bottom on the back porch and the kitchen ; picnic table benches for the children at the dinner table ; decorative plates hung on the wall ; extension cords tacked up everywhere ; a crank up record player with 78s ; the radio by the window ; pepper sauce bottle ; the settee ; Young Drug Co. ; paragoric ; The Dixie-Sherman Hotel ; Royal Crown Cola ; Williams and Voris Lumber Co. ; Rainer Studio ; the ACL ; wing back chairs ; rockers ; chiffarobes ; The Eagle ;
"How did I get born?" ; snuff ; the jack ass ; the jennie ; the water bucket ; the pump handle ; oil cloth table cloth ; Falstaff ; The Journal ; Lana Turner ; The Advertiser ; Cecil B. Demille ; The Alabama Baptist ; Holiday On Ice ; The News-Herald ; Blumberg & Sons ; J.J. Newberry Co. ; Solomon Motor Co. ; Liz Taylor ; bailing wire ; Miller High Life ;
December 31, 1952 ;
"What makes the rain rain?" ; Camels ; Burt Lancaster ; Dizzy Dean ; Jackie Gleason ; the first kiss ; linoleum ; Jack Webb ; Schlitz ;
"HOWDY! I'M JUST SO PROUD TO BE HERE! ; NBC Radio-9:30 P.M. Saturday night ; The General Merchandise Store ; Red Skelton ; chloral hydrate ; Douglas Fairbanks Jr. ; hooked rugs ;
DOWN HOME!!!! ; John Wayne ; The old lady had 16 children- all born in February and March so the old lady would be sure to make the crop ; Gary Cooper ; narcotics ; Martin and Lewis ; Jack Webb ; showing off ; Campho-Phenique ; show business ; the sawmill ; Saturday afternoon matinee ; riding on the tongue of the wagon ; play acting ;
"Where did I come from? ; "Take These Chains From My Heart" ; play-acting ; The Emporium ; turpentine cups ; buttermilk bisquits ;
"I'M COUNTRY- AND PROUD AS A STAND OF PINE OF IT!" ; The Lone Ranger ; Paul Harvey ; upright pianos ; prom ; paragoric ; sub-debs ; "Jambalaya" ; Neiman-Marcus ; Amos 'N Andy ; Faultless Starch ; empty pocketbooks ; Dinah Shore ; Salt Lake Tabernacle Choir ;
Tennessee Ernie and Minnie Pearl ; Edward R. Murrow ; Betty Crocker ; "Your Cheatin' Heart" ; Lum 'N Abner ; "How come the shingles are coming off of Uncle Bob's house?" ; "I guess it's a family tradition." ; Howdy Doody ; Friday Night Fights ; Frank Sinatra ; Prince Albert Tobacco ; Ryman Auditorium ; Dick Tracy ; Midol ; WSB ; Stanley Hostess Parties ; Grinder's Switch ; Betty Grable ; Desilu ; WMC ; Helene Curtis ; Guiding Light ; Perry Mason ; "Move It Over" ; Eddie Fisher ; Hillbilly Music ; Miami Beach ;
"Where does the sky end? ; Miami Beach ; Bing Crosby ; Jimmy Stewart ; WJRD ; Bob Hope ; Johnson Outboard Motors ; Lokey Ice Co. ; Red Foley ; WSFA ; Minute Rice ; WSM ; Dave Garroway ; Lucy ; J. Fred Muggs ; WAGF ; Dennis James ; Gillette Blue Blades ; WBRC ; Cheer ; Happy Hal Burns ; Art Linkletter ; Sani-Flush ; stove wood ; The Florida Boys ; Spalding ; Jim & Jessie and the Virginia Boys ; Ingrid Bergman ; Palmolive Lather Shaving Cream ;
"Where does light go when the dark begins? ; Eisenhower ; F.W. Woolworth Co. ; Judy Garland ; nigrah quarters ; Fred Astaire ; Cashmere Bouquet ; Debbie Reynolds ; Campbell's Soup ; Rory Calhoun ;
"How did I begin?" ; Pond's ; Frog Town ; Mamie ; Marilyn Monroe ; Eisenhower ; Marlena Deitrich ; Rita Hayworth ;
"We met, we lived and dear we loved, then comes that fatal day, the love that felt so dear fades far away." ; Robert Mitchum ;
"Kawliga" ; Erskine Caldwell ; Charlton Heston ; Tony Curtis ;
"If the good Lord's willing and the creeks don't rise, I'll see you soon. I'll be home soon, Little Bocephus."
