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Media Made Women- Working Girls
Collage by Sally Edelstein Of course no one wanted to end up a spinster in the 1950s and 1960s but smart single gals knew a job could be a Space age launching pad for snaring a husband. So until Prince...
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Making The Scene With Mad Men
Millions will turn-on and tune-in when Mad Men returns for its 6th season. AMC is hoping you won’t drop out. The Beat Goes On We last left Don Draper and the gang at Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce in...
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Betty Drapers Diet Tips
There came a time in every Cold War housewife’s life when the safety of the containment policy offered by a good girdle simply wasn’t enough to keep those pesky curves in line. Comely Betty Draper the...
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Can Betty Draper Tune in to the Now Generation?
(L) Vintage Life Magazine- Generation Gap Issue 5/17/68 (R) Vintage ad Cascade 1955 Like my own mother Betty, Mad Men’s Betty Draper woke one morning in the late 1960s to the realization she was a...
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Civil Rights No Laughing Matter
Vintage cartoon Playboy Magazine 1967 The battle for civil rights went to the heart of what the American Dream was about and who could share in it. By the late 1960s, race relations crept front and...
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Girls,Games & Career Guidance
What Shall I Be? By the time I was 11 years old, I had bid my EZ bake oven goodbye and tucked my Tiny Tears doll into her rock-bye crib for the last time. Like most other pre pubescent girls in...
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Robert Kennedy Remembered
The author and her friend Karen campaign for Bobby Kennedy in 1968 In the tumultuous spring of 1968 Bobby Kennedy beckoned the youth of America to join him in his presidential campaign fight. “These...
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LBJ’s Comic Great Society
The Great Society Comic Book was produced by writer DJ Arneson and artist Tony Tallarico, published by Parallax Comic Books in 1966 The Comic Tragedy of The Great Society Holy Satire, Batman, Look!...
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Robert Kennedy Remembered Pt II
Bidding Bobby Goodbye I never met Robert Kennedy but I was always grateful I was able to bid Bobby a final goodbye. On a sweltering Friday in June of 1968, I joined the hundreds of thousands who lined...
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On the Front Lines With Coca Cola Pt. 1
Vintage Coca Cola Ads (1953) (R) WWII ad 1944 Coke in New Zealand During WWII the boys overseas were fighting for Mom, apple pie and a bottle of Coke. Coca Cola, as much a part of the American Dream...
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You’ve Come a Long Way Peggy Olson
Mad Men’s Peggy Olson Big Time Career Girl (R) Vintage DC Comics“This is the big chance I’ve been waiting for! I mustn’t fail this time! Not love or anything else is going to keep me from success!” We...
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July 4th Hot Diggety Dog
Gathering for the Family Backyard Barbecue-Vintage illustration McCall’s Magazine 1955 A summer staple at my 1960′s family barbeques was the ritual hot dog competition not in competitive eating but...
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Sizzling in the Sixties Suburban Sun
Nothing gave off the glow of good All American health than a deep dark tan, and mid-century teens competed for the fastest tan in the west. After all, our handsome, vigorous young President sported a...
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Beach Club Paradise on Parade
L) Vintage Ray Ban Sunglasses Ad 1960 (R) Vintage Jantzen Swimsuit Ad 1950s, illustration by Pete Hawley Preening In the summer of 1960 the glitter and glamor of my Grandmothers beach club often...
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The Cabana Set Boys of Summer
Vintage Cabana Set ads (L) Mc Greggor Sun Wear 1948 (R) Catalina Sport Sets 1954 as worn by Norm van Brocklin and Elroy “Crazy Legs” Hirsch who formed one of footballs greatest passing teams Beach...
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Beach Club Paradise Protected
Summer beach traffic during the Cold War had its own special flare. The huge-wrap around picture window in the rear of my Grandmothers Cadillac offered unexcelled visibility to see and be seen,...
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Sun, Sand and JFK
The sizzling summer of 1960 was dominated by the equally hot Presidential race between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon. Earlier in the summer Kennedy had boldly beckoned us to hitch our wagon to his...
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Captivated by Camelot Pt II
“John Fitzgerald Kennedy …As We Remember Him” 1965 MacMillan Co. Through 1,036 days of the New Frontier, from the lift off in a freezing Washington blizzard, to its sudden end on that bright Dallas...
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Coloring In The Truth
US Senator Ted Cruz to the Future Comic Coloring Activity Book 2013, Really Big Coloring Books publisher Color me Conservative It’s a Christmas miracle! Just in time for that All-American holiday...
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You’ve Come a Long Way Peggy Olson
Mad Men’s Peggy Olson Big Time Career Girl (R) Vintage DC Comics“This is the big chance I’ve been waiting for! I mustn’t fail this time! Not love or anything else is going to keep me from success!” We...
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