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many essentials
campers count on,
especially when—
as readers recall—
the trip doesn’t
go as planned.

ALL DRESSED
UP
Before comfort
was king, tourists,
travelers and
churchgoers took
the time to look
smart. Luckily for
us, those outfits
were worth a
picture.

BLOOMS IN the
background set off
Verona “Veri” Button’s
lavender handmade
suit in this picture her
husband, David, took
in Artesia, New Mexico,
in October 1952.

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 8 SPOTLIGHT
10 TIME CAPSULE 1952: President Eisenhower,
airbags and Jonas Salk’s polio vaccine tests
11 SOUNDBITE Georgia Gibbs’ hit “Kiss of Fire”
12 WORD WISE Fashion Florid: The Hawaiian Shirt
14 FRONT & CENTER Visionary guitarist Les Paul

11 16 OUR LIVES
18 GROWING UP Playsuits and matching shirts
20 AT WORK Swinging a hoedag for the U.S.

42 Forest Service
22 OUR HEROES Marine recalls solemn duty to
provide dignified burials
24 TRUE LOVE Not everything is awful at the
ballroom in Bridgeport

40 RETRO REPLAY
42 POP QUIZ Mr. Potato Head turns 70
44 VINTAGE ADS DIY car maintenance and repair
46 BRUSH WITH FAME That kiss from Paul Anka!
48 KEEPSAKES Autograph book from 1937

50 BACK IN TIME
52 PICTURES FROM THE PAST Mother and child

COVER: CAMERIQUE/CLASSICSTOCK/GETTY IMAGES; COLORIZATION BY SANNA DULLAWAY

54 MOTORING MEMORIES Park Avenue fleet
56 NAME THAT CAR All original and low mileage
62 LASTING IMPRESSION This appliance
isn’t going anywhere

IN EVERY ISSUE ON THE COVER

6 Editor’s Note Boys and their
dog get ready
7 Tell Us Your Story!
to camp in the
58 Crossword Puzzle ’60s. Readers’

52 60 Contributor guidelines,
answers, find Hattie’s hatpin
camping-trip
memories begin
on page 26.

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Pictures from Our Past

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Dressed Up,” page 32, and our salute to
mothers, “Hold Me Tight,” page 52. I’ve
talked before about our vast collection of
reader slides. We treasure these images. Some of them
were donated to us in the early 1990s, when Reminisce
was just a whippersnapper of a magazine. Now, as then,
they are essential to the story of our brand, and to the
story of the past that we explore each month.
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time I encounter a fictionalized past in a movie or TV
show. The other day, for instance, I paused on an episode
of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, the Amazon comedy-drama
about a female stand-up comedian in 1950s New York.
Nostalgia lovers praise the show’s sets and costumes,
which evoke a lush, idealized world at midcentury. Sure,
everything does look very pretty on screen. But for me,
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NOTABLE PEOPLE, PLACES AND EVENTS

10 TIME CAPSULE
11 SOUND BITE
12 WORD WISE
14 FRONT & CENTER

Hello America
Dave Garroway and his bride,
Pamela Wilde, celebrate their
nuptials on NBC’s Today program
in 1956. Garroway joined as host
BETTMANN ARCHIVE/GETTY IMAGES

when the show debuted in 1952.

His laid-back manner was a hit
with viewers.

» MORE 1952 HIGHLIGHTS on page 10

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SPOTLIGHT
American umpire to
call an integrated pro
baseball game. Known for
his showy style, he works
his way through the
minor leagues to become
the first Black umpire in
the majors in 1966.

TODAY’S NEWS
The Today Show debuts
on NBC. The format,
revolutionary for its time,
combines national and
world news with live
interview segments and
lighter lifestyle content.
Now in its 70th year, the
program has inspired
many imitators.

IT’S IN THE BAG

After crashing his car
Time during a Sunday drive
Capsule with his wife and
daughter, John Hetrick
builds a prototype for
the vehicle airbag on
his kitchen table.

ASHFORD: BETTMANN ARCHIVE/GETTY IMAGES; DEODORANT IAMNOONMAI/GETTY IMAGES

ROLL-ON DEODORANT AND INFLUENTIAL TV

WE LIKE IKE research, develops Ban BIG BANG

In the presidential race, Roll-On, based on the The U.S. tests the first
Republican Dwight D. same concept as the hydrogen bomb in the
Eisenhower, a five-star ballpoint pen. Ban is still Marshall Islands as the
general, defeats Adlai sold today. Cold War arms race HOT DISH
Stevenson, governor of heats up. The equivalent Fried ice cream, a cousin
Illinois and a reluctant of more than 10 million of the famous baked
candidate whose party tons of TNT, Ivy Mike, as Alaska, above, is popular
drafted him to run. Ike the bomb is called, leaves with diners in San
takes 442 out of 531 a crater 6,300 feet in Francisco, where it’s
electoral votes. diameter and 160 feet served at fancier hotels
deep. and restaurants. A recipe
WAR ON SMELL designed for home cooks
Chemist Helen Barnett BALLS AND STRIKES appears in a San Diego
Diserens, who leads Emmett Ashford, above, cookbook this year.
Bristol-Myers’ deodorant becomes the first African
BY NANCY HERRICK

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Fighting Polio
Polio peaks in 1952, with 52,879
reported cases, and more
than 21,000 cases of paralysis,
most of them children. At the
SALK: PHOTOQUEST/GETTY IMAGES; GIBBS: BETTMANN ARCHIVE/GETTY IMAGES; ELIZABETH: COURTESY OF LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, LC-DIG-DS-04903
same time, Jonas Salk, above,
field-tests his killed-polio-virus
vaccine among select children.
Kids who use wheelchairs,
braces and crutches are common
after the virus sweeps through
cities and villages.
Cases appear around
Memorial Day and subside in the
fall. Pools and beaches close
across the nation during the
summer surge.
After President Truman
declared polio a threat in 1946,
urging a “total war in every city,
town and village,” local officials
shutter bowling alleys, movie
houses and other public spaces
during outbreaks.
By 1955, vaccines are widely
available. The last cases of wild
poliomyelitis recorded in the
United States occurred in 1979.
BY NANCY HERRICK
I SHALL ALWAYS WORK, AS MY FATHER DID THROUGHOUT HIS REIGN, TO ADVANCE
THE HAPPINESS AND PROSPERITY OF MY PEOPLES.
ELIZABETH OF WINDSOR, who ascends to the throne of the United Kingdom upon George VI’s death in February.
SOUND BITEOT
GIBBS BLAZES THROUGH ‘KISS OF FIRE’
BY RANDAL C. HILL
G
eorgia Gibbs, born Frieda Lipschitz in 1919, sang for several
labels before hitting her stride with Mercury Records.
Known for her strong vocal style, she often was called by
her nickname, Her Nibs, which meant a person of importance.
For her recording of “Kiss of Fire,” Gibbs, a former Big Band belter,
delivered a supercharged version of the song, which was based on
an Argentine tango, “El Choclo,” with English lyrics by Lester Allen
and Robert Hill.
Gibbs’ sultry rendition set the already scorching lyrics—with lines
such as “Love me tonight and let the devil take tomorrow/I know that
I must have your kiss although it dooms me”—positively ablaze, and
sent the song to the top of the Billboard charts.
In her book about 1950s pop music, Great Pretenders (2006),
Karen Schoemer observed that the recording achieved a “tympanic
overload, opening with a battalion of trumpets blaring loudly enough
to announce royalty, then piling on castanets, flutes, bassoons and
God knows what else—you could practically hear the pounding
hoofbeats and clanging armor.”
The original song was written in 1903 by the Buenos Aires composer,
poet and musician Angel Villoldo, known as the Father of Tango.
“El Choclo,” which translates as “The Corn Cob,” is regarded by some
as Villoldo’s masterpiece.
Gibbs had several other hits, including “Dance With Me Henry,” a
reworked Etta James tune, before her career tapered off in the ’60s.
HER NIBS, Georgia Gibbs, listens to her favorites at her New York digs.
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Businessman Ellery
Chun trademarked
“Aloha Shirt”—his
term for the casual,
colorful shirts he
designed—in 1936.

Word
Wise
ISLAND ATTITUDE Elvis plays the ukulele while wearing a Hawaiian shirt
in 1961’s Blue Hawaii.

Chinese and Japanese tailors immigrating to the Hawaiian

territory in the early 20th century were some of the first to
sew loose-fitting men’s shirts from bright kimono fabric. Bing
HAWAIIAN Crosby endorsed the tropical style, and by the late 1930s,
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the shirts were fashionable as island souvenirs. U.S. service

SHIRT members returned from Pacific tours wearing the look, and
a relaxed President Harry Truman on the cover of Life in 1951
gave the breezy style maximum exposure. Merriam-Webster
added the definition the following year. —NATALIE WYSONG

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Front &
Center

Les Paul
1915–2009
Les Paul’s solid-body electric guitar
hit the market in 1952, decades after
he began to experiment with a new
sound. Made by Gibson, the guitar
found a following from across the
musical spectrum that included jazz
master Al Di Meola and hard rocker
Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin. Paul’s
influence on studio technology may
be greater: He invented overdubbing,
multitrack recording and other
techniques that ushered in the era of
modern music. “He made technology
a musical instrument,” said producer
and record executive Don Was.
“We’re all deeply in his debt.”
~ Les Paul ~

“I didn’t know it was going to change the world,

Teacher didn’t Mary Ford, had but I knew it was going to make some noise.”
know best dozens of Top 40
Lester William tunes, and scored a
Polsfuss’ piano No. 1 hit with “How elbow in 1948, he and finally settled sold at auction for
teacher wasn’t High The Moon” convinced doctors into weekly jazz $930,000 in 2021.
impressed, sending in 1951, which to set the arm in the gigs. “I probably He was a true
home a note: used overdubbing “guitar-picking and will play until I fall Halls of Famer
“Your boy Lester and other of his cradling position.” over,” he said in Paul remains
will never learn innovations. On He logged a 2005. He kept the only person
music, so save your TV, they hosted prototype playing until just inducted into the
money.” Young Les, Les Paul and Mary Paul called his first months before Rock and Roll Hall of
undeterred, formed Ford at Home from solid-body model— his death at 94. Fame and National
his own orchestra 1952 to ’54. built of pine blocks Going, going, Inventors Hall of
by age 10 and A bad break didn’t and guitar parts— gone for big bucks Fame. He also won
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then took up guitar end his career The Log. The “Number One” multiple Grammys
and electronics. After a car crash He loved playing Gibson Goldtop, and was awarded
He was a pop star shattered his Paul performed owned and the National Medal
Paul and his wife, right arm and country and pop modified by Paul, of Arts.•
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 THOSE WERE THE DAYS
18 GROWING UP
20 AT WORK
22 OUR HEROES
24 TRUE LOVE

O Pioneers!
Participants in Girl Pioneers
camp pose at a Wisconsin
state park in 1964. Bruce
Thompson of Waukesha, WI,
who took the photo, founded
Lutheran Pioneers, a boys club,
in 1951. Lutheran Girl Pioneers
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OUR LIVES
JOAN LOVED
pedaling around
town with CeeFee
Jo in the basket.
Growing Up
CAUGHT ON THE RUN
There wasn’t time for a cover-up.
P
laysuits were the
latest fashion in
1943 when I was 11.
The style consisted
of a one-piece blouse
and shorts combo, with a
button-up-the-front skirt
to cover up the shorts.
One warm day in Princeton,
I pleaded with my mother to
let me wear my playsuit to
school. She gave in after some
discussion, but insisted that
I not, under any circumstance,
remove the skirt. I promised.
Unbeknownst to me, Dad
left work early that day so
my parents could surprise
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BY JOAN BARTON • EVANSVILLE, IN
me with a new bike. He put
it in the basement where
I would find it after school,
then my parents sat down
to wait for me to get home.
Because of some small
offense, I had to stay after
school briefly that day. The
usual time for my arrival home
came and went, and Mother
became concerned. She sent
Dad in the car to meet me.
Meanwhile, I was coming
home, and realizing I was
late, I started to run. Running
without the skirt was faster,
so I took it off. Imagine my
surprise when I saw Dad
driving toward me as I ran
in shorts, carrying that skirt!
With hardly a word, I got in
the car and we drove home.
My parents may have had
second thoughts about giving
me their gift. Nevertheless,
we three went down to the
basement and there it was—
a new green Schwinn, with
a basket for my dog, CeeFee
Jo. Then we were all smiles—
Mother may have had a tear
in her eye. No bike has ever
been as beautiful as that one.
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Mom did the packing for our
trip to visit relatives in Ohio
in 1953. She bought us three
boys matching orange-and-
brown striped shirts. We stayed
overnight with our relatives,
and when we all came down
for breakfast, our two cousins
were wearing the same shirts
as ours! In the picture are our
cousins Tom and Bill, then me
and my brother Tom. My little
brother, Keith, is in front.
DENNIS WENTZ
GUYS MILLS, PA

MAY DAY BIRTHDAY

My mother always put up a maypole for my May 1 birthday. In 1950 or ’51, when
I was 6 or 7, I invited my friends from school in Willmar. My sister Julie is the tall
girl at the back; I’m the one in the striped shirt at the head of the table.
STEPHEN SCHNEIDER • JORDAN, MN
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OUR LIVES
At Work
SUMMER AT CAMP INDEPENDENCE
U.S. Forest Service workers restore land in Idaho.
BY IVAN NICHOLSON • BEMIDJI, MN
T
he summer of 1966,
I worked for the
U.S. Forest Service
in north central
Idaho’s Clearwater
National Forest.
I found a ride from North
Carolina with a college student
who needed passengers on a
trip to California. Stopping
only for food and gas, we
traveled to Salt Lake City,
Utah, where I began to make
my way to the Forest Service
office in Pierce, Idaho. After
a short orientation, 25 or so
of us workers were on our
way to our summer home,
Camp Independence.
The camp was mostly tents.
We slept four to a tent, each
of which had a wood stove—
one of our tasks was cutting
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and gathering wood—and a
light powered by a generator,
which shut down at 10 p.m.
After breakfast, we got a
ride to our work sites. I was
armed with a hoedag, a short-
handled hatchet with a prong
at one end, to dig out and
destroy the roots of currant
plants, varieties of which
cause disease in white pine
trees. Generally I worked
alone. At noon, a distant voice
called out “Lunch!” and I sat
down with the sack lunch I’d
packed. A half-hour later, the
call came to return to work.
The job paid $2.05 an hour,
and we were charged $1.15
for each of our three daily
meals. A few workers quit, but
for those who stayed, there
were weekend hikes into the
IVAN TAKES IN the
view during a water
break. Below, Camp
Independence, with
the laundry tent in
the foreground.
mountains, which had black
bears, moose, deer and snow.
Sometimes we caught a ride
over the Bitterroot Mountains
through Hoodoo Pass to
Superior, Montana.
In August, I bought a 1957
Chevy station wagon from a
fellow worker. I took three
workmates with me to help
pay for the trip back home.
I dropped off two passengers
in Oklahoma and one in
Mississippi. With the cost
of car repairs on the way back
to North Carolina, I didn’t
bank much money, but I made
so many memories that I can
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Our Heroes
ALEUTIAN ISLANDS VIGIL
Daughter finds photos of WWII tribute to fallen soldiers.
BY ELAINE DeMEDEIROS BENDER • TULARE, CA
M
y father, George DeMedeiros,
was inducted into the Marine
Corps Jan. 4, 1942, less than a
month after the bombing of
Pearl Harbor. For most of my
life, Dad never spoke of his time in the service.
That changed when he became ill. We spent
many hours together, and the stories he shared
about his military life affected me profoundly.
Dad told me about his assignment at a secret
air base in Alaska’s Aleutian Islands, where
the Marines served alongside the Navy. The
branches engaged in a friendly competition,
Dad said, but they all lived by the code that
no brother was left alone or left behind. Dad
recalled that the toughest duty they had was
caring for the remains of the fallen soldiers
brought to the base.
After a memorial service in the chapel,
a guard stood watch over the fallen as they
waited to go to their final resting places.
A military escort accompanied the coffins
that were flown home to waiting families.
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pay final respects to
their brothers in arms.
But some of those who died could not
be identified and became part of the large
group who were missing in action or
presumed dead. These were taken to a
graveyard on the island, where they were
buried with full military honors. Dad said
the men felt bad for the families that didn’t
know the fate of their loved ones.
After Dad died, I found a stack of 8-by-10-
inch pictures. Mom didn’t know the meaning
of the photos, but I felt certain that they
documented the memorial service and burial
of the unidentified soldiers Dad had told me
about. I later found out that Dad’s friend
Mickey McGrath, the base photographer,
took the pictures.
Several years later I visited Arlington
National Cemetery. The sea of white crosses
and the changing of the guard at the Tomb of
the Unknown Soldier reminded me of Dad’s
story. The silence of the memorial spoke of
great loss, and I wondered how to thank the
veterans and their families for their sacrifice. •
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met at the Ritz Ballroom in inside a matchbook using Edward’s back as a
Bridgeport in 1949. They’d each declined writing surface. Talking recently about their
to go when their friends meeting, Mom pointed at
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Irene, who was from stranger drive me home.”
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“I don’t hang out Dad still has the gold watch
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 “LIVE, WORK, AND PLAY”

COOLER
HEADS A look at Igloo, a camping
mainstay. Plus, ride along as readers take to the woods.

SPRING FEAST BY
DOLORES PETERSON
Forest trip features unwelcome guests. BETHEL, CT

ith our new-to-us Pontiac Safari the sun came out. Unfortunately, so did the
station wagon, my husband, Joe, black flies. They didn’t seem to bother the
W and I thought a camping trip others so much, but my 2-year-old and I were
would be an ideal vacation for bitten bloody.
our family of five. It was something we talked Clearly, we were not happy campers. Joe took
about for years, but we never had a big enough pity on us. We packed up in a hurry and went
vehicle to transport all the gear we needed. to a motel for the rest of our trip.
We set about buying every piece of camping Once we got home, we got rid of all of our
gear that would make our trip as comfortable camping gear. “Never again!” we vowed.
as possible: two tents, some pots and pans Sure wish somebody had warned us about
and, of course, a cooler that we filled with those nasty flies.
plenty food. To beat the
summer crowds, we set off
enthusiastically in late May
1990 to New Hampshire.
The campsite was very
accommodating, with
showers, cooking facilities
and even a pool for the kids,
Mike, Kayt and Matt.
That first night it rained,
which wasn’t a good start. The
next morning, it was cool and
damp, but in the afternoon

THE PETERSONS arrived in the

wilds of New Hampshire at the
same time as the hungry insects.

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BABY, YOU CAN DRIVE MY TENT
One-of-a-kind camper makes for unforgettable
experience in the Finger Lakes.
BY JUDY LEWIS | WARREN, IN
ne summer in the early
1960s, my dad’s friend
O created a tent that could
be attached to the roof
of a car. Thinking it would make
a cheap holiday for our family, my
parents, George and Wanda Oden,
rented it. We drove it from our home
in Huntington for a camping trip in
the Finger Lakes region of New York.
Oh, what a contraption it was!
The tent was actually a long wooden
box holding two full-size mattresses
from right off the beds. This box was
positioned on top of the car—a 1963
Pontiac Bonneville—and bracketed
to the bumper and fender. At the
campsite, the metal poles holding
VINTAGE GEAR was
durable, but heavy.
Today’s gear features
new materials and
forms of construction
to keep things light.
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the canvas unfolded to form sleeping
quarters over the mattresses, and
then extended out over the rear of
the car to create a dressing room,
where my brother Gary slept.
It must have weighed a ton with
the two mattresses, wooden box,
solid metal frame and heavy canvas—
and that was just what was on top
of the car. Inside the behemoth
Bonneville trunk was everything we
would need to wear, eat and cook for
a week. We also carted along stools
and a folding table, cooler and cot.
The trip was memorable for
many reasons. I was 12, and I loved
climbing on top of the car to play on
the mattress bed with my doll.
But my favorite memory of that
trip occurred while all five of us were
inside the tent one night. The canvas
covered everything, but we could
hear what was going on outside.
A little girl and her father walked
by. “Look at that car!” she exclaimed.
“It ran right through that tent!”
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Playmates
Igloo grows up with a
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postwar generation eager to
enjoy the great outdoors.
POTABLE WATER was
essential in the grueling
Texas oil industry. In 1947,
the company later
known as Igloo was a
metalworking business
based in Houston. It
came up with a design
for a metal container for
drinking water that could
be carried to the men
on the job. Igloo water
coolers were handmade
and featured a double-
seam system to keep the
container airtight with
no leaks.
TECHNOLOGY FOR
refrigeration advanced to
the point that machine-
made ice was readily
available in the mid-1950s.
Some home fridges had
ice makers in the freezer.
Illinois inventor Richard
Laramy patented the first
metal ice chest in 1953.
The next year Coleman Co.
acquired the rights to the
ice chest and introduced
a cooler with a plastic
liner. Igloo applied its
water-cooler know-how to
making metal ice chests,
which were soon common
sights on Texas oil fields.
early model resembled a
picnic basket with large
metal swivel handles and
decorative ridged exterior.
ITS BREAKTHROUGH
product arrived in 1971.
The Playmate, with its
characteristic tent-top lid,
became a bestseller.
Created in the midst of
fierce competition in
the cooler market, the
Playmate’s unique shape
was meant to discourage
copycat designs. “It
was geometrically
challenging,” designer
Paul Specht admitted in
a video commemorating
the Playmate’s 50th
anniversary in 2021. But
MOLDED PLASTIC if the aim was to make it
manufacturing took off in
the 1950s and transformed
hard for others, “let them
take a shot at this!”
dozens of industries
focused on consumer goods,
from children’s toys to
home furniture to outdoor
equipment. In 1962 Igloo,
still primarily a commercial
supplier, debuted its
first all-plastic cooler, a
48-quart chest, which it
marketed to breweries.
JAMES HUTCHISON,
LITTLE PLAYMATE,
the company’s president in a 7-quart version of the
the early 1960s, switched
14-quart classic cooler,
Igloo’s focus to the debuted in 1976. Several
consumer market when
smaller sizes followed,
Igloo discovered that including the Lunchmate
anglers, hunters and
and the MiniMate. Igloo
other outdoor enthusiasts reissued Little Playmate
were using its lightweight
last year as part of the
brewery coolers in the company’s recognition
field. Igloo began making
of the Playmate’s 50th
coolers of all sizes to cater anniversary.
to different activities. An
“It was geometrically
challenging, but you
asked me to make things
difficult for anybody
else—let them take a
shot at this!”
—PAUL B. SPECHT, DESIGNER OF PLAYMATE’S
DISTINCTIVE TENT-TOP SHAPE
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STORIED
HISTORY
Igloo turned client
testimonials about
their ice chests into
an unusual print ad
campaign, starting
in the late 1970s.
Along with this
hungry bear story
were comics about
an Igloo surviving
a lodge fire—intact
and with ice still in
it—and one about
men capsized on
a fishing trip in
Quebec who used
their floating Igloo
to help them get
ashore.

1979

MY GRANDMOTHER EMILIA came from a small

Italian village and spent lots of time in the mountains. When
she moved to Colorado and married my grandfather, who
was from Sicily, she loved going to the mountains with him.
In the summer, our whole family took trips to San Isabel
Buon Appetito, National Forest, although our experience probably was unlike
that of other campers: My grandmother brought her pasta
Campfire Style pot, homemade sauce and all the trimmings, and cooked a
BY spaghetti dinner on the campfire, complete with meatballs,
MARCIA SPINUZZI | PUEBLO, CO grated goat cheese and homemade Italian bread.

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WHEN JUST CHILLIN’ IS ALL THERE IS
Travelers face cold reality of early summer in Ontario.
n a beautiful day in the last week
of June 1968, we pulled away
O from our home in Elizabethtown
for a two-week camping trip in
the Muskoka Lakes region of Ontario. Our
1964 Chevrolet Corvair Greenbrier van was
fully loaded, inside and on top, with our five-
member family and just about everything else
but the kitchen sink.
We weren’t even out of town when the
battery conked out and needed to be replaced.
All our careful packing was undone to access
the battery compartment, which was on the
floor at the back of the vehicle.
About an hour later, the van now carefully
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packed—again—we were finally on our way.
We did manage a few sightseeing stops before
arriving, quite late, to our reserved campsite
at Port Carling, Ontario.We set up our 10-by-
12-foot Montgomery Ward sidewall cabin tent
and spread the dining fly over the picnic table,
MUSKOKA LAKES’
tranquility can give
you a warm feeling—
if not actual warmth.
BY
TOM R. WILLIAMS
MANHEIM, PA
determined to have an enjoyable couple of
weeks. The weather was comfortably cool.
One night we were awakened by a squeaking
outside the tent. Half asleep, I grabbed my
camera and snapped a shot of a large raccoon
chewing its way into one of our plastic foam
coolers. We’d been warned about these critters.
Fortunately, the flash scared it off and I kept
the cooler in the tent for the rest of the night.
Within a day or two, the weather turned
very cold, the little American flag on one of
our tent poles flapping briskly in the strong
wind. By July 3, all of us—my wife, Carole, our
daughters, Naomi and Wendy, and our son,
Kelly—were bundled up to keep warm. You
could say we were a close-knit family. That
night, the temperature dipped below freezing.
We packed up and rushed for home to
enjoy July weather as it should be—and
hoped for things to get better the next year.
They did. •
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resse
U
Remember when going on a trip,
celebrating special occasions
or just hanging out
required a fancy outfit?

32
 HOM EWARD BOU N D
Peggy and Chris Black of West Jordan,
Utah, were Brigham Young University
students already planning to spend their
lives together when they attended the
homecoming game and dance on Oct.
24, 1970. They kept a ticket stub: BYU
beat Utah State 27-20.

Prom and Proper

Phyllis Gebhardt, now of Sanford, Florida, beams with
delight at Tom Neppel’s high school senior prom in 1972.
“I was a junior. He was this amazing jock,” Phyllis writes.
“I was totally in love with him—in that teenage way. I was STOLE IN TIM E
so excited to be invited. It was such an honor to go to a
senior prom as an underclassman. My parents insisted Judi Carroll of Escondido, California,
that my dress be prim and proper.” glows in a sateen gown and rabbit-fur
stole before her senior prom in 1965.
Bill was Judi’s first steady boyfriend.

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 A Pair of Dolls
David Button took this cute shot of his daughter,
Mindy Sue, in her fancy new dress sitting next to her
doll, in its own fancy dress, at their home in New
Mexico in 1961. It was taken in September, so Mindy
may have been dressed for her first day of school.

LOOKING SPIFFY
Ralph Smith was 7 when this was taken
outside the family home in Walkerton,
Indiana, on Easter Sunday 1947. Boys’
dress hats were miniature versions of
men’s hats. Other popular hat styles for
boys at the time were beanies, newsboy-
style caps and brimmed straw hats.

PRETT Y IN PIN K
Aileen Sherrill of Crab
Orchard, Tennessee, sent
this photo of her daughters
Vicki and Kay in their new
Easter outfits in 1958. Vicki
pets Mopsy as Kay holds her
pet rooster, which was a gift
the previous Easter. Vicki’s
sparkle-framed sunglasses
are a child’s version of a
popular fashion trend in
women’s glasses in the ’50s.

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Peasant Dresses and Leisure Suits
Odette Landers of Fort Pierce, Florida, labeled this shot of
members of her family “Fashions of the ’70s.” The girls wear
frilly peasant dresses and the boy sports a leisure suit—two
styles popular in 1978, when this picture was taken.

Bonnets at Easter SPRING FLOWERS

Wearing elaborate hats
and new outfits at Easter
has roots in pagan times,
when head wreaths
honored spring as the
season of renewal. In
Christian tradition, the
New Testament mentions
women covering their
heads at worship.
Rose Marie Higginbotham
of Parkville, Missouri,
sent this image of herself
modeling her hat and
matching dress in 1965.
Her fancy outfit suggests
she is dressed to celebrate
Easter Sunday.

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SET FOR A J ET
Connie Shank of Mesa, Arizona, found this image in
the collection of her in-laws Gertrude and Gerald
Shank. The three are dressed in full travel attire,
including white gloves and handbag, and decorative
jewelry for the women. They are at the airport in
Spokane, Washington, in 1968.

TR AIN TR AVEL
Even travel outerwear
was crisp and stylish,
as Pauline Thompson
shows in a picture taken
sometime around the
late ’50s. She wears
a smart red coat and
matching shoes next to
the California Zephyr
at Grand Junction,
Colorado. Her son Ken
said his parents likely
were en route to
Washington, D.C.

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 VACATION POSE
Rose Marie Higginbotham looks chic in her
pink travel suit and cat-eye glasses in this
photo taken in the early 1960s. Her white
purse and white leather shoes are key clues
that this is summertime. The island in the
background over her right shoulder could
be Alcatraz.

Going and Gone

Dressing up for a trip
derives from two trends.
When boats and trains
were coal-fired, traveling
was messy; people wore
special outfits just for the
trip. In the early days of
plane travel, flying was Day Trip to Warner Bros.
pricey—passengers’ dress
reflected how special it
Phyllis Merrill poses with daughters, Jay and Marilyn, in the
was. Cheap fares changed backlot at Warner Bros. studios in 1953. The trip was part of
all that: “Budget air travel a special tour arranged by Dad, Dick Merrill, a commercial
today is akin to getting on artist who probably had a friend or two in the company’s
a bus, and we don’t dress animation studio, says Jay Merrill Finlay, now of Sun City
up to get on a bus,” style West, Arizona. All are dressed according to the standards of
historian Keith Lovegrove the day—heels and slim-silhouette day dress for Mom, and
told The Huffington Post.
sneakers, bobby socks and full skirts for the girls.

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 Out and About
Nettie Whitney, originally from Grafton, Massachusetts,
sent this photo of two women dressed in summer casual
wear in the 1940s. Note the large geometric patterned
fabrics often used for cotton day dresses at the time.

BU D AN D M E
Martha and Bud Robinson, now of
Fayette, Alabama, enjoy each other’s
company in about 1956, shortly after
they were married. The two met
while they were still in high school.
Martha’s plaid day dress, likely with
a crinoline, is typical of the era.

B EACH DRES S
Veri Button of New Mexico explores
a rocky park in a pink summer dress
during a family trip in July 1951. Her
husband, David, took the picture.

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 Mad for Plaid
Queen Victoria, who
favored Scottish culture,
popularized plaids in the
19th century. Plaid
returned in the ’50s, after
young Queen Elizabeth II,
COOL VIEW
seen as a fashion
trendsetter, wore tartans Louise “Lou” Crawford relaxes at Sliding Rock, North
at formal functions. Carolina, in 1955, while on a first-anniversary vacation with
her husband, Bob, from their Minnesota home. She’s wearing
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a colorful skirt, short socks and flat shoes for day travel.

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Move Over,
Mr. Mooney
Guest star Frankie Avalon
entertains tellers at the local
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bank as Lucille Ball sings

along in a still from Ball’s second
TV sitcom, “The Lucy Show,”
which debuted 60 years ago.

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48 KEEPSAKES

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ORIGINAL KITS for

the Potato Head toy
were B.Y.O.P. (Bring
Your Own Potato).

1
On which TV show
was Mr. Potato Head
first advertised?
a. Our Miss Brooks
b. Texaco Star Theater
c. You Bet Your Life
d. The Jackie Gleason Show

2
Where does Mr. Potato
Head hail from?
a. Pawtucket, RI
b. Poughkeepsie, NY
c. Worcester, MA
d. Dayton, OH

3
How much did the original
toy cost?
Pop Quiz a. 75 cents
b. 98 cents
c. $1.59
d. $4.25
GO AHEAD, PLAY WITH
YOUR FOOD BY LINDA KAST 4
When was Mrs. Potato
Head introduced?

S
eptuagenarian Mr. Potato Head made history on a. 1953
April 30, 1952, when he starred in the first-ever b. 1969
kid-targeted TV commercial. An assemble-it-yourself
c. 1971
toy, the Potato Head kit included a Styrofoam ball
and 28 plastic parts—eyes, ears, noses, mouths and d. 1980
even hats—with attached pins. Kids practiced poking the
facial features into the foam before decorating a real tater. What happened to
5
By 1964, however, child-safety regulations, combined Mr. Potato Head’s pipe?
with parents’ revulsion at the reek of organic matter wafting a. He traded it for a bubble
from their kids’ rooms, drove toymaker Hassenfeld Brothers blower
CLASSICSTOCK/GETTY IMAGES

(later called Hasbro) to supply a plastic tuber. The company b. He lost it while climbing
also rounded the pointy ends on all the parts. Mount Everest
Since his debut, Mr. Potato Head has welcomed his spouse,
c. He gave it up in 1987 for the
Mrs. Potato Head, kids Spud and Yam, and a host of other
Great American Smokeout
veggies. Fast-food spinoff Frenchy Fry, along with celebrity
potatoes Darth Tater, Luke Frywalker and Taters of the d. He gave it to Mrs. Potato
Head
Lost Ark were natural offshoots. •
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 6
Which of these was not
featured in the peck of
Potato Head characters?
a. Katie the Carrot
b. Ava the Avocado
c. Pete the Pepper
d. Cooky the Cucumber

7 Which 1950s rocker

appears as a themed Potato
Head character?
a. Chuck Berry
b. Ricky Nelson
c. Bo Diddley
d. Elvis Presley

To which national group does

8
he officially belong?
a. American Association
of Retired Persons
b. Boy Scouts of America POTATO HEADS star in
c. American Red Cross a kid-friendly print ad. 12
How much extra does
d. Potato Association of
a Potato Head license
America plate cost in its home state?
a. $15
10 In 1985, the toy earned b. $42.50
a Guinness World Record c. $67.50
for “most votes (4) for Mr. Potato d. $125
Head in a political campaign.”
For which office and where did
Which accessory was not
he run? 13
a part of the original kit?
a. State senator in Maine
a. Pipe
b. City councilor in Seattle,
b. Eyeglasses
Washington
c. Hair
c. Sheriff of Dawson
City, Yukon d. Bow tie
d. Mayor of Boise, Idaho
14
Where did an inflated
11 No longer a couch potato, Mr. Potato Head debut
Mr. Potato Head received in 2008?
FINNBARR WEBSTER/ALAMY STOCK PHOTO

which honor in 1992? a. Disneyland in California

a. Presidential Medal b. Macy’s Thanksgiving Day
Who voiced Mr. Potato of Freedom Parade
9
Head in the 1995 kids b. National Medal of Science c. Tournament of Roses Parade
classic Toy Story? c. Presidential Sports d. New Year’s Eve Times
a. Hugh Downs Award Square Ball Drop
b. Soupy Sales d. President’s Environmental
c. Don Rickles Youth Award
HOW’D YOU DO?
d. Jerry Lewis Answers on page 60

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Vintage Ads

AUTOMOTIVE MOTIVATION
How do you make engine parts appealing?

1949
1. Tell a Reliable Story
The Electric Storage Battery Co. in
Philadelphia was a leading supplier from
the earliest days of motoring; postwar
car owners would have been familiar
with the striking look of an Exide, with
its graphic black and red styling. Its ad
evokes a strong theme of the era that
cast men as driven breadwinners who
keep the economy rolling.

1962
2. Spark Interest
In 1962, when all thoughts were
on the promise of space after
John Glenn’s orbit of Earth
that February, AC Spark Plug
positions itself as a future-
facing company with a clever
ad that makes its ordinary car
part look like a rocket.

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 1952

3. Fuel the Imagination

Ukrainian-born Boris Artzybasheff, who immigrated to the United
States in 1919, was a prolific commercial artist and illustrator. He drew
some 200 covers for Time, created ad campaigns for dozens of clients
and worked on acclaimed children’s books before his death in 1965.
Artzybasheff had a fondness for machines, and liked to draw them with
human characteristics such as hands and faces. His many ads for Shell
motor oil in the early ’50s, featuring the mildly terrifying acid demon
wreaking havoc on innocent engines, show his creative mind at its most
astonishing and effective. •
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RETRO REPLAY

PAUL’S SMOOCH
capped Connie’s
thrilling evening
out with friends.

Brush
with Fame

AN EVENING WITH CROONER PAUL ANKA

Teen idol meets fans face to face.
BY RUTH ISHMAN • WINTER GARDEN, FL

M
y sister Connie is several years older than PAUL ANKA
me. After she graduated from high school, she BORN 1941
worked at I-T-E Electric Circuit Breaker Co.
in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, in the early 1960s. Born in Ottawa, Ontario,
The office was abuzz one day with talk of Paul Anka was 15 when he wrote
Anka’s upcoming show at the Holiday Inn in Monroeville, just a song about a crush on an
older girl. Recorded in 1957,
30 minutes away. Paul was young and handsome and had a voice
“Diana” rose up the charts and
to melt a young woman’s heart—Connie wasn’t about to miss it. launched Anka’s career.
The show started with dinner, then Paul sang many of their
favorites, such as “Puppy Love” and “Lonely Boy.” After the
In 1962, Anka reworked
performance ended, Connie and her friends saw Paul walking his song “Toot Sweet” into
down a hallway. They tried to catch up with him, but he went the opening theme for new
into his room, leaving a crowd of girls staring at the door. A host Johnny Carson on
man came out and told them Mr. Anka would talk with them The Tonight Show.
after he changed his clothes.
The girls went back to their tables to wait—Paul was As rock ’n’ roll took over in
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JULIE’S MOTHER,
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of her time at Morey
Junior High in Denver.

Keepsakes

SIGNATURES IN TIME
Mom’s autograph book offers a unique
glimpse of student life. BY JULIE MANN • CENTENNIAL, CO

L
ooking through my mom’s things after her death, I came
across a treasure: a small, green leather-bound autograph FOCUS ON:
book full of signatures of classmates from her junior high AUTOGRAPH
years. Autograph books have been around a long time— BOOKS
I had a plastic-bound one in the 1960s—but I rarely see
them nowadays. Eventually, yearbooks were the preferred way to With roots in 16th-century
sign messages for classmates. Europe, the autograph
My mother’s provides a wonderful summary of her early years, book gained wide
the history of the times and a glimpse of her friends. popularity in the late-
Victorian period, and hit
My mom, Kaye Duncan, was 15 when her mother gave her the a golden age before World
autograph book on Valentine’s Day 1937. Mom was attending Morey War I. Autograph books
Junior High School in Denver and was vice president of her class. of that era may feature
From references in the entries, I learned that Mom enjoyed tennis, lively original sketches
golf, ice skating and sleigh riding. Her book also contains popular or miniature paintings.
These books are prized
quotations from the time written down by her school chums. Some by historical societies
of the sayings are cute, others are sweet and a few are downright and collectors as attractive
corny. Mom always had a sense of humor and it shows throughout and unique records of
the book. Most entries are written in fountain pen. the past. They may sell for
I am so happy to have found this memento of my mother’s $60 or more on auction
sites. Artwork is rarer in
younger days. I love seeing how her personality developed into
autograph books from later
the beautiful person she became. • decades. A 1937 book
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52 PICTURES FROM THE PAST
54 MOTORING MEMORIES
56 NAME THAT CAR
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Pictures from
the Past
IN FULL BLOOM
Dolores, my wife, holds our
HOLD ME TIGHT daughter Kathleen in the spring
Nothing beats the warmth of 1961. Their coats coordinate
with the blossoms on the tree.
of Mom’s arms. DALE FISHER • READING, PA

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 Jean Weidler-Murchie spoons up cereal
at feeding time in 1958.

Gene Pierce sent this photo of mother and son

in the garden in July 1947.

STANDING BY
My parents, Richard
and Phyllis Merrill,
were expecting my
older sister, Marilyn,
in the summer of 1940.
At the time, they lived
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Avenue Buick, you will never
want another car.”
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say he was ready to buy a new car, and was
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and this one was no exception.
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home. After driving it for a
year, I liked it so much that
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around, so we left a note on
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Name
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BLACK BEAUTY
This car company
Every mile counts on this vintage 1 is named for a man
drop-top. BY LARRY PHILLIPS • AVON, CT who commissioned a
landmark in New York.

T
his car originally belonged to a two-car, one-driver This model, originally
household in New England. Its owner, a businessman,
had an everyday work car and this luxury convertible.
2 named for the
horsepower output of
He only drove the car between Memorial Day and its Hemi engine, made
Labor Day; the rest of the year, he kept it parked in its debut in 1955.
a heated garage. When I became the car’s second owner, it was
30 years old and had only 24,575 documented miles.
The owner’s niece, whom I worked with, encouraged me to
3 Pundits called it “the
banker’s hot rod.”

contact her aunt about buying this special car after her uncle While a letter suffix
died. Although my favorite car color is black and I’m addicted
to convertibles, I wasn’t initially excited about buying a car of
4 was normally
assigned to the model
this make. But the car is from the year I graduated high school, number in prior years,
and as I learned more about the model during those years of this was among the first
“non-letter” versions.
production, I felt that having this car was meant to be.
When I first saw it I was amazed at the condition—the The model year
exterior paint, leather interior and white convertible top were
all original. The woman selling her husband’s convertible felt
5 this car was built
served in a promo line
an attachment to it and was in no rush to sell. I was putting my for George Lucas’ classic
two sons through college, so I was in no rush to buy. film American Graffiti.
After three years of discussions, I bought the car. This pristine
convertible, always a pleasure to drive, now has 42,552 miles. • HOW’D YOU DO?
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FRIDGE WON’T GIVE UP THE GHOST
For all we know, it’s still running.
BY JOAN WESTER ANDERSON • WHEELING, IL
W
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1949, my parents needed
to expand. They found a
fixer-upper with unique
features, including three
screened-in porches and a hidden staircase,
which offered space for plenty of fun and
games. The previous owners left behind a
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