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    Streets of Fire - Rock 'n' Roll Remake of The Searchers

    OCTOBER 10, 2008 1:02AM

    By RetroDaddy


    Topics: movies, music, retro, pop culture, searchers, streets of fire, warriors, 1950s, 1980s, blasters, rock 'n' roll, rockabilly

    • Editor's Pick
    • 4 Ratings
    • 9687 Views
    • 8 Comments
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    Robert Mulligan and Natalie Wood: Inside Daisy Clover

    DECEMBER 25, 2008 7:59PM

    By RetroDaddy


    Topics: to kill a mockingbird, william wellman, a star is born, janet gaynor, natalie wood, gavin lambert, inside daisy clover, 1960s, 1950s, 1930s, american history, books, movies

    • 4 Ratings
    • 9622 Views
    • 4 Comments
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    Carole King in the Movies - Teenage Louise Grows Up

    MAY 25, 2009 8:52PM

    By RetroDaddy


    Topics: movies, music, carole king, american hot wax, grace of my heart, laraine newman, illeana douglas, film, rock and roll, alan freed, 1950s, 1960s, tapestry

    • Editor's Pick
    • 9 Ratings
    • 5816 Views
    • 10 Comments
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    Hawks vs. Carpenter - The Thing from Two Different Worlds

    SEPTEMBER 29, 2008 1:31PM

    By RetroDaddy


    Topics: movies, retro, pop culture, 1950s, 1980s, the thing, john carpenter, howard hawks, flying saucers, kurt russell, kenneth tobey, cold war, soviets

    • Editor's Pick
    • 30 Ratings
    • 4642 Views
    • 39 Comments
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    10 Observations from Perusing 1950s Issues of Playboy

    SEPTEMBER 18, 2012 2:24PM

    By Kathy Peacock


    Topics: humor, 1950s, magazines, publishing, playboy, hugh hefner

    • 3 Ratings
    • 4005 Views
    • 1 Comments
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    Retro TV - Mike Connors, Man on a Tightrope

    NOVEMBER 26, 2008 1:17AM

    By RetroDaddy


    Topics: barbara bain, mike connors, tightrope, detectives, westerns, 1960s, 1950s, pop culture, retro, television

    • 3 Ratings
    • 3288 Views
    • 2 Comments
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    Katy Perry's Got Nothing On These Old Shows

    SEPTEMBER 24, 2010 1:06PM

    By Reflections of a shallow pond


    Topics: 1970s, 1960s, 1950s, television, kids shows, kids, katy perry

    • 5 Ratings
    • 3153 Views
    • 5 Comments
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    I Talked with a Zombie

    DECEMBER 14, 2008 6:28PM

    By RetroDaddy


    Topics: alfred hitchcock, 1980s, 1970s, 1960s, 1950s, roger corman, b-movies, television, movies, books

    • 5 Ratings
    • 2410 Views
    • 3 Comments
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    Village of the Damned & Children of the Damned

    OCTOBER 9, 2009 1:01AM

    By RetroDaddy


    Topics: movies, film, science fiction, film noir, village of the damned, children of the damned, 1950s, 1960s

    • Editor's Pick
    • 19 Ratings
    • 1947 Views
    • 48 Comments
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    Bringing Down Walls _ Berlin Was Only The Beginning!

    OCTOBER 28, 2010 2:26PM

    By SpiritManSF


    Topics: uncle joe cannon, speaker of the house, illinois, danville, obama, banking scandal, general motors, middle class, 1950s, health care, republicans, berlin wall, video, politics, news, economy, open call

    • Editor's Pick
    • 7 Ratings
    • 1878 Views
    • 8 Comments
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    The Responsibilities of American Citizenship (1955)

    OCTOBER 28, 2008 11:17AM

    By shaggylocks


    Topics: socialism, politics, propaganda, 1950s, political science, citizenship, capitalism, communism, cold war

    • Editor's Pick
    • 42 Ratings
    • 1860 Views
    • 55 Comments
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    june bug boys

    FEBRUARY 5, 2010 11:55AM

    By Greg Correll


    Topics: kansas, boys, june bugs, 1950s, early 60s, cruelty, open call

    • 20 Ratings
    • 1820 Views
    • 19 Comments
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    Growing Up in the 50s

    FEBRUARY 24, 2010 1:05PM

    By Mary Joan Koch


    Topics: public transportation, frugality, family, catholic church, 1960s, 1950s

    • 4 Ratings
    • 1234 Views
    • 3 Comments
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    She Was More Than Just June Cleaver

    OCTOBER 19, 2010 1:11AM

    By Reflections of a shallow pond


    Topics: barbara billingsley, leave it to beaver, june cleaver, humor, kids, family, 1950s

    • 0 Ratings
    • 1233 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    Ray Stricklyn & the Funeral of Isabel Jewell

    JUNE 9, 2011 1:54PM

    By prismguard


    Topics: celebrity memoirs, 1950s, robert vaughn, tab hunter, cloris leachman, marlon brando, phyllis diller, kim stanley, joan blondell, dorothy kilgallen, rock hudson, b&w perry mason series, erle stanley gardner, gary vinson, suicide, child molestation, james dean, nick adams, lawman, john russell, peter brown, ten north frederick, golden globes, montgomery clift, stuart whitman, richard chamberlain, angels & demons, gone with the wind, ronald colman, vivien leigh, tennessee williams, bette davis, pat boone, bernadine, bill gass, cremation, cosmetics, decomposition

    • Editor's Pick
    • 10 Ratings
    • 1160 Views
    • 30 Comments
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    Are You Popular? (1947)

    AUGUST 22, 2008 10:34AM

    By shaggylocks


    Topics: sex, dating, gender roles, popular, social guidance, 1950s, popularity, conformity, going steady

    • 5 Ratings
    • 1029 Views
    • 5 Comments
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    Two Sisters of Genoa (A Poem with Pix!)

    OCTOBER 28, 2011 11:23AM

    By toritto


    Topics: 1950s, italian liners, raffaello, michaelangelo, poetry

    • Editor's Pick
    • 3 Ratings
    • 990 Views
    • 18 Comments
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    A Date With Your Family (1950)

    AUGUST 20, 2008 10:23AM

    By shaggylocks


    Topics: social guidance, mental hygiene, manners, families, etiquette, 1950s

    • 11 Ratings
    • 985 Views
    • 12 Comments
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    Bridging Four Centuries With One Very Small Boy

    MARCH 21, 2010 9:46AM

    By Jeff L. Howe


    Topics: jeff howe, good news sunday, 19th century, 21st century, 22nd century, 1800s, 1960s, 1950s, depression, history

    • Editor's Pick
    • 4 Ratings
    • 892 Views
    • 6 Comments
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    Cindy Goes to a Party (1955)

    AUGUST 23, 2008 12:39PM

    By shaggylocks


    Topics: social guidance, gender roles, 1950s, tomboys, fairy godmothers, manners, cinderella

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