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I recently found a great nostalgia website – Decadesilove.com.  Check it out.   Stuff from the 40s thru the 80s.  Great place to wander around.

If you have found a cool nostalgia website – please share it with us here.

Here is a test for us ‘old kids’! The answers are printed below, but don’t cheat.

01. After the Lone Ranger saved the day and rode off into the sunset, the grateful citizens would ask, Who was that masked man? Invariably, someone would answer, I don’t know, but he left this behind. What did he leave behind?________________.

02.When the Beatles first came to the U.S. In early 1964, we all watched them on The_______________ Show.

03′Get your kicks,__________________.’

04.’The story you are about to see is true. The names have been changed to_________________.’

05.’In the jungle, the mighty jungle,___________.’

06. After the Twist,The Mashed Potato, and the Watusi, we ‘danced’ under a stick that was lowered as low as we could go in a dance called the ‘_____________.’

07. Nestle’s makes the very best …..___________.’

08.Satchmo was America ’s ‘Ambassador of Goodwill.’ Our parents shared this great jazz trumpet player with us. His name was_________________.

09.What takes a licking and keeps on ticking?_______________.

10. Red Skeleton’s hobo character was named__________________ and Red always ended his television show by saying, ‘Good Night, and ‘_______________. ‘
11.Some Americans who protested the Vietnam War did so by burning their______________.

12.The cute little car with the engine in the back and the trunk in t he front was called the VW. What other names did it go by?____________ &_______________.

13.In 1971, singer Don MacLean sang a song about, ‘the day the music died.’ This was a tribute to___________________.

14.We can remember the first satellite placed into orbit.. The Russians did it. It was called___________________.

15. One of the big fads of the late 50’s and 60’s was a large plastic ring that we twirled around our waist. It was called the________________.

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ANSWERS:
01. The Lone Ranger left behind a silver bullet.
02.. The Ed Sullivan Show
03. On Route 66
04. To protect the innocent.
05. The Lion Sleeps Tonight
06. The limbo
07. Chocolate
08. Louis Armstrong
09. The Timex watch
10. Freddy, TheFreeloader and ‘Good Night and God Bless.’
11. Draft cards (Bras were also burned. Not flags, as some have guessed)
12. Beetle or Bug
13. Buddy Holly
14. Sputnik
15. Hoola-hoop 

How many of you got all 15 right.  If you did – you’re older than dirt.

How about 14?

I was working on a new website – internet marketing product reviews.  I chose the name iExplosion but, since I was working with Mike Filsaime’s free Instant Affiliate Website, Mike gave my site a name which included iExplosion plus – vip.com. 

I excitedly sent that link to my daughter to critique.  When I talked to her on the phone and asked her what do you see.  “Well, I see an ad for girls from the east – and an ad for booty calls.   There are other girly ads.  And it says the website is for sale.”

NO!  That is  NOT my website.

So back to the drawing board.  I checked out www.iexplosion.com – and my daughter was right – girly ads – booty calls – the whole thing.  So I got a domain at GoDaddy.com – “iExplosions.com”  Plural.  Its working!  www.iExplosions.com

The old “Across My Desk – Nancy’s web log” is no longer online.   I haven’t been able to blog on it since last July or August so I just decided to start all over again with “Nancy Stine – Across my Desk”.Hope you will visit me there.

Nancy

Original magazine ads of your favorite car, truck, motorcycle and tractor of the 40s, the 50s, the 60s, the 70s and the 80s.

Big 20%  sale – Every item in my eBay store!

http://stores.ebay.com/Nans-Vintage-Treasures

from CrazyAboutTV.com

Series Description:The Charlie’s Angels TV show was a 60 minute action series on ABC about three young women who worked for Charlie Townsend, owner of the Townsend Detective Agency. Charlie would give the ladies their assignments by telephone but was never seen by the girls or by the viewers. Charlie’s Angels had backgrounds in law enforcement but in lowly jobs such as meter maids, answering the phone, or as clerks. Once they became employed by Charlie, that all changed! They became tough, powerful women who could handle any evildoer whether they were women or the biggest, badest man. They were also beautiful women though so they fought criminals dressed in revealing outfits and bikinis. Female viewers wanted to be them and male viewers wanted to possess them!

Charlie’s Angels Cast:

Jaclyn Smith ............ Kelly Garrett
Farrah Fawcett .......... Jill Munroe
Kate Jackson ............ Sabrina Duncan
David Doyle ............. John Bosley
John Forsythe ........... Charlie Townsend (Voice)
Cheryl Ladd ............. Kris Munroe
Shelley Hack ............ Tiffany Welles
Tanya Roberts ........... Julie Rogers

Charlie’s Angels Trivia:

The poor office staff for the Charlie’s Angels TV show had to deal with as many as 18,000 fan letters each week!

The producers of Charlie’s Angels originally wanted a blonde, a redhead and a brunette for the ladies on Charlie’s Angels but they were so impressed with Kate Jackson and Jaclyn Smith’s auditions that they happily did without the redhead.

The actor who was first hired to provide the voice of Charlie was fired early on when he showed up drunk for work. John Forsythe was practically begged to take the job and he eventually agreed.

Aaron Spelling produced this TV show and so many other ones that only a very few of his best known can be listed here. Here they are:
“Johnny Ringo (1959)”, “The Addams Family (1964)“, “The Mod Squad (1968)”, “The Rookies (1972)”, “Starsky and Hutch (1975)”, “Charlie’s Angels (1976)”, “The Love Boat (1977)”, “Fantasy Island (1978)”, “Hart to Hart (1979)”, “Dynasty (1981)”, “T.J. Hooker (1982)”, “Beverly Hills, 90210 (1990)”, “Melrose Place (1992)”, “7th Heaven (1996)”, “Charmed (1998)”.

Aaron Spelling owed Robert Wagner some money for a previous business deal and talked the very reluctant Wagner into accepting a 45% ownership of the Charlie’s Angels TV show as payment. Wagner stated that the idea of a show where three small, young women kicking tough guy’s butts was the worst idea he’d ever heard! Obviously, he was eventually very happy he took the deal!

Charlie’s Angels was the only immediately obvious hit of the 1976-77 season. By the end of the season, 59% of all TV viewers were watching the show in its time slot. It stayed in the Nielson ratings “Top Ten” for the first three seasons.

Jill Monroe’s hairstyle became such a hit with Charlie’s Angels female viewers that a huge number of them changed to what became popularly known as “Farrah Fawcett Hairdos”.

Charlie’s Angels was the first TV show to get more than $100,000 per minute for advertising.

Farrah Fawcett appeared in Playboy magazine in December of 1978 (not nude) and then took it all off at age 48 in December of 1995. Tanya Roberts also did Playboy in October of 1982 after Charlie’s Angels was cancelled.

Charlie’s Angels was originally going to be about three lady cops and would be called “Alley Cats”. Kate Jackson came up with the idea of making the ladies detectives instead of cops. She also recommended that the series be named, “Harry’s Angels”, and that Harry should never be seen and would only be heard on the telephone. All of her suggestions were used except that “Harry’s Angels” was changed to “Charlie’s Angels”. The only reason that was changed was because there was alread a series titled, “Harry O” and the producers didn’t want any confusion with or misconceptions about their new show. Kate Jackson’s great instincts for what would work and what wouldn’t later got her fired from Charlie’s Angels for continuously griping about how terrible the scripts were. We’ll never know how many more seasons Charlie’s Angels may have run if they’d listened to Kate.

Charlie’s Angels had nearly no competition from the shows in its time slots on CBS and NBC for the first three seasons. When the series began in the 1976/1977 season, it was up against “The Blue Knight” on CBS and “The Quest” on NBC. The Blue Knight only survived for four episodes and The Quest was gone after eleven episodes. For Charlie’s Angels’ second and third seasons, it quickly killed off another series titled, “The Oregon Trail”. Otherwise, CBS and NBC just ran movies against the Charlie’s Angels dynamo. In November of 1978, the series finally got some competition from NBC with “Diff’rent Strokes” running during Angels’ first half-hour. In its final season, Charlie’s Angels was moved to Sunday nights against “Archie Bunker’s Place” and “One Day at a Time” on CBS and “CHiPs” on NBC.

Charlie’s Angels Opening Narrative:

Narrated By: “John Forsythe” as “Charlie Townsend”

Version #1:

“Once upon a time there were three little girls who went to the police academy. They were assigned very hazardous duties.”

(While showing the Angels writing parking tickets and directing traffic)

“But I took them away from all that and now they work for me. Ah? My name is Charlie.”

(Angels shown answering ringing telephones at each one’s apartment)

“It’s Charlie, Angels. Time to go to work.”

Version #2:

“Once upon there were three little girls who went to the police academy. Two in Los Angeles. The other in San Francisco. And they were each assigned very hazardous duties. But I took them away from all that. And now they work for me. My name … is Charlie.”

Have a happy, safe and healthy 2009.  This reminds me of another new year – that of the Y2K scare of computers screwing up everything.  I have a very funny story to tell re: Y2K.  My daughter Kris got us all started stocking up on food, etc.  As new year’s approached, and we were expecting the worse (like almost an Armageddon) our family chose to all be together up north with my son and his wife. 

Everybody loaded up their pickups with all the canned goods/dry foods/other necessities we had stocked up and headed north.  Jerry was hauling the camper loaded with food staples, guns and ammo, and a lot of silver to trade with.  And several 5 gallon cans of gasoline to fire up whatever needed to be fired up.  Kris and I were caravanning behind Jerry in the car.  He kept hitting patches of ice and the trailer was careening back and forth.  Also, we were thinking of all that gasoline in the back of the pickup.  Kris said, “Mom, if the whole thing blows up, dodge the bullets and grab the silver as it comes down.”

We all made it up north – and everybody started unloading their pickups/campers etc into Wayne and Teri’s walk-out finished basement.  The look on Teri’s face was a memory I shall never forget.  Teri said, “I’m not saying a word.  I’m not saying a word.”

Thank goodness, the Y2K scare just never happened.

However, we all did spend new year’s eve at Turtle Creek casino, hoping that, at midnight all the machines would spill their guts (and contents). 

It didn’t happen.  Darn!

Do you have a Y2K story to relate here?  We’d love to hear it.  This year of 2009, I’d like to make A BIT OF NOSTALGIA interactive.  I want to welcome you to add your memories, your favorite TV shows, movies, fads or music, your stories, your videos, your articles, your comments here.  But please, no SPAM.

So come join the conversations and discussions, etc!

Dearest Paul

I went to the door today and the postman delivered a partridge in a pear

tree. What a delightful gift. I couldn’t have been more surprised.

With dearest love and affection, Agnes

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December 15th

Dearest Paul:

Today the postman brought your very sweet gift. Just imagine, two turtle

doves…. I’m just delighted at your very thoughtful gift. They are just

adorable.

All my love, Agnes

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December 16th

Dear Paul:

Oh, aren’t you the extravagant one! Now I must protest. I don’t deserve such

generosity.

Three French hens. They are just darling but I must insist….

you’re just too kind.

Love Agnes

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December 17th

Dear Paul:

Today the postman delivered four calling birds. Now really! They are

beautiful, but don’t you think enough is enough? You’re being too romantic.

Affectionately, Agnes

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December 18th

Dearest Paul:

What a surprise! Today the postman delivered five golden rings. One for each

finger. You’re just impossible, but I love it. Frankly, Paul, all those

squawking birds were beginning to get on my nerves.

All my love, Agnes

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December 19th

Dear Paul:

When I opened the door there were actually six geese a-laying on my front

steps. So you’re back to the birds again, huh? Those geese are huge. Where

will I ever keep them? The neighbors are complaining and I can’t sleep

through the racket. PLEASE STOP!

Cordially, Agnes

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December 20th

Paul:

What’s with you and those darn birds???? Seven swans a-swimming. What kind of

stupid joke is this? There’s bird crap all over the house and they never stop

the racket. I’m a nervous wreck and I can’t sleep all night.

IT’S NOT FUNNY…….So stop with those darn birds.

Sincerely, Agnes

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December 21st

OK Buster:

I think I prefer the birds. What the heck am I going to do with eight maids

a-milking? It’s not enough with all those birds and eight maids a-milking,

but they had to bring their own darn cows. There is crap all over the lawn

and I can’t move in my own house. Just lay off me.

Ag

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December 22nd

Hey Stupid:

What are you? Some kind of sadist? Now there’s nine pipers piping. And Christ – do they pipe. They haven’t stopped chasing those maids since they got here

yesterday morning. The cows are upset are stepping all over those screeching

birds. No wonder they screech. What am I going to do? The neighbors have

started a petition to evict me.

You’ll get yours.

From Ag

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December 23rd

You Rotten Jerk:

Now there’s ten ladies dancing – I don’t know why I call those tramps ladies.

They’ve been fooling around with those nine pipers all night long. Now the

cows can’t sleep and they’ve got diarrhea. My living room is a river of crap.

The commissioner of buildings has subpoenaed me to give cause why the

building shouldn’t be condemned. I’m calling the police on you.

One who means it, Ag

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December 24th

Listen Dumbass:

What’s with the eleven lords a-leaping. They keep “leaping” up on all of

The furniture and chasing around the aforementioned “ladies”?

Those pipers have become bored and keep getting drunk and tipping the cows.

All 234 of the birds are dead. They have been trampled to death with all the leaping and chasing. I hope you’re satisfied, you rotten swine.

Your sworn enemy, Miss Agnes McCallister

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December 25th

(From the law offices Hawkins, Bertram, and Jones)

Dear Sir:

This is to acknowledge your latest gift of twelve drummers drumming, which

you have seen fit to inflict on our client, Miss Agnes McCallister. The

destruction, of course, was total.

All correspondence should come to our attention. If you should attempt to

reach Miss McCallister at Happy-Dale Sanitarium, the attendants have

instructions to shoot you on sight.

With this letter, please find attached a warrant for your arrest.

Hawkins, Bertram, and Jones

Attorneys at Law