Posts Tagged: 1960s
LBJ’s Comic Great Society
The Comic Tragedy of The Great Society Holy Satire, Batman, Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bird… it’s a plane….its SuperLBJ! 1966 was a year when comic strip superheroes POP! came to life and real life heroes SOCK!
LBJ’s Comic Great Society
The Comic Tragedy of The Great Society Holy Satire, Batman, Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bird… it’s a plane….its SuperLBJ! 1966 was a year when comic strip superheroes POP! came to life and real life heroes SOCK!
Robert Kennedy Remembered
In the tumultuous spring of 1968 Bobby Kennedy beckoned the youth of America to join him in his presidential campaign fight. “These are not ordinary times and this is not an ordinary election I need your hand and your help.”
Robert Kennedy Remembered
In the tumultuous spring of 1968 Bobby Kennedy beckoned the youth of America to join him in his presidential campaign fight. “These are not ordinary times and this is not an ordinary election I need your hand and your help.”
Girls,Games & Career Guidance
What Shall I Be? By the time I was 11 years old, I had bid my EZ bake oven goodbye and tucked my Tiny Tears doll into her rock-bye crib for the last time. Like most other pre pubescent
Girls,Games & Career Guidance
What Shall I Be? By the time I was 11 years old, I had bid my EZ bake oven goodbye and tucked my Tiny Tears doll into her rock-bye crib for the last time. Like most other pre pubescent
Civil Rights No Laughing Matter
The battle for civil rights went to the heart of what the American Dream was about and who could share in it. By the late 1960s, race relations crept front and center into the news and public discourse, a fact
Civil Rights No Laughing Matter
The battle for civil rights went to the heart of what the American Dream was about and who could share in it. By the late 1960s, race relations crept front and center into the news and public discourse, a fact
Can Betty Draper Tune in to the Now Generation?
Like my own mother Betty, Mad Men’s Betty Draper woke one morning in the late 1960s to the realization she was a square. In a world firmly divided into the “under 30s” and “over 30s” she was no longer part
Can Betty Draper Tune in to the Now Generation?
Like my own mother Betty, Mad Men’s Betty Draper woke one morning in the late 1960s to the realization she was a square. In a world firmly divided into the “under 30s” and “over 30s” she was no longer part
Betty Drapers Diet Tips
There came a time in every Cold War housewife’s life when the safety of the containment policy offered by a good girdle simply wasn’t enough to keep those pesky curves in line. Comely Betty Draper the once enviably svelte housewife
Betty Drapers Diet Tips
There came a time in every Cold War housewife’s life when the safety of the containment policy offered by a good girdle simply wasn’t enough to keep those pesky curves in line. Comely Betty Draper the once enviably svelte housewife
Making The Scene With Mad Men
Millions will turn-on and tune-in when Mad Men returns for its 6th season. AMC is hoping you won’t drop out. The Beat Goes On We last left Don Draper and the gang at Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce in April of
Making The Scene With Mad Men
Millions will turn-on and tune-in when Mad Men returns for its 6th season. AMC is hoping you won’t drop out. The Beat Goes On We last left Don Draper and the gang at Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce in April of
Media Made Women- Working Girls
Of course no one wanted to end up a spinster in the 1950s and 1960s but smart single gals knew a job could be a Space age launching pad for snaring a husband. So until Prince charming came along, the
Media Made Women- Working Girls
Of course no one wanted to end up a spinster in the 1950s and 1960s but smart single gals knew a job could be a Space age launching pad for snaring a husband. So until Prince charming came along, the
How to Win the Big Football Game and the Girl
Touchdown Chasing the American Dream, Bill Bradley sure knew how to score on the football team. But when it came to scoring with the girls he was a big zero. Learn how our hero Bill tackled his girl problem and
How to Win the Big Football Game and the Girl
Touchdown Chasing the American Dream, Bill Bradley sure knew how to score on the football team. But when it came to scoring with the girls he was a big zero. Learn how our hero Bill tackled his girl problem and
Remembrance of New Years Eve Past Pt I
Back to the Future It was a freezing finish to the fifties, that last day in December of 1959, and the exciting “World of Tomorrow” 1960 was less than twenty-four hours away. The far-off world that had captivated my parents
Remembrance of New Years Eve Past Pt I
Back to the Future It was a freezing finish to the fifties, that last day in December of 1959, and the exciting “World of Tomorrow” 1960 was less than twenty-four hours away. The far-off world that had captivated my parents
Envisioning The American Dream 