July 27, 2024
Tag: Chester A. Riley
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Give Chrome Postcards Some Respect
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Chrome cards like these, that help us remember life in the 1950s and 1960s, are fast becoming difficult to find. Oh, how soon we forget! Pretty soon they’ll be as scarce as the cards from previous decades — and almost as scarce as the products they advertised.
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January 26, 2023 6 Comments
If you are of “a certain age” will you recall a time when you turned on the radio and heard an announcer say, “This broadcast comes to you LIVE! from the Roseland Ballroom.” If you heard that introduction, you were listening to the NBC Radio Network’s weekly, hour-long broadcast of a big-band performance of America’s best dance music led by Vincent Lopez, Harry James, Tommy Dorsey, or Glenn Miller. Sit back and listen, or stand-up and dance.