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Lunches with ‘Grandpa Bub’

on January 9, 2012

The youngest star of My Three Sons shares a behind-the-scenes memory of fellow cast member ...

1940s SCARED SILLY. The old Inner Sanctum Mysteries radio program offered both chills and chuckles with its often tongue-and-cheek horror stories. The photo is from reader Ed Knapp (click on image to view larger).

Squeaky door of radio’s ‘Inner Sanctum Mysteries’ was real

on November 4, 2011

In the early 1940s and into the ’50s, one of the more popular radio programs ...

1930s MitchellRadio

Dad taught a lesson as her sidekick on the radio range

on September 21, 2011

I had to wash the dishes every night, and with our family of eight, that ...

1950s BettySueOliver2

How a new bride became radio’s Queen for a Day

on June 20, 2011

In 1952, I was a 18 and a new bride living in a tiny rented ...

Pop Culture Photo of 4 kids in front of TV in the 1950s.

Mother obeyed the TV rules, despite ‘Perry Mason’

on March 3, 2011

When our first TV, a large limed-oak RCA console, arrived in the mid ’50s, strict ...

1940s

Couple’s slogan won national radio contest

on March 3, 2011

By Douglas Haag, Two Rivers, Wisconsin In 1949 and 1950, Jimmy Fidler held a national ...

1950s An Omaha woman performs exercises for her TV show in the 1950s.

Basement exercise class became early TV hit

on March 3, 2011

By Ethel Dougherty Wall, Peoria, Arizona Tap-dancing lessons from my school days in Chippewa Falls, ...

1950s

It’s holding Howdy Doody time

on March 3, 2011

“It was about 1955, and we were at a fair in Waterford, Connecticut, a small ...

1940s Sisters sing and play music in the 1940s.

Sisters won Major Bowes talent show

on February 5, 2011

“When the Major Bowes talent show come to Hardy’s Theater in Fresno, California in 1942, ...

1950s A female quartet from New Jersey sings for "Ted Mack and The Original Amatuer Hour" in the late 1950s.

Mom’s quartet featured on Ted Mack’s TV show

on February 5, 2011

“My mother, Shirley McKelvey Johnson (second from left), and her girlfriends appeared several times on ...