TV Commercial Memories

I’ve just had the best time looking at old television commercials from my childhood, a whole hour of them, ads from the 1950’s and 1960’s. They were simple commercials, often with a familiar jingle that would stick in your mind, so you wouldn’t forget. I remember almost every one that I saw, whether […]

Remembering the Hula-Hoop

A few months ago I was involved in a discussion about, of all things, the Hula-Hoop. It set off a lot of memories, and only now am I getting here to post some thoughts…only to find that today is the anniversary of the patenting of the hula-hoop in 1963 by Hasbro Toys. I […]