SPAM

SPAM

 

 

 

 

Spam was introduced by Hormel in 1937.

 

The name itself means spiced ham. It was first introduced in 1937 and gained popularity worldwide after its use during World War II.

 

 

Remember the tin key used to open Spam cans?

 

 

According to its label, Spam's basic ingredients are pork shoulder meat, with ham meat added, salt, water, modified potato starch as a binder, sugar, and sodium nitrite as a preservative. Natural gelatin forms during cooking in its tins on the production line.

 

 

 

By the early 1970s the name "Spam" was often misused to describe any tinned meat product containing pork, such as pork luncheon meat. With expansion in communications technology, it became the subject of urban legends about mystery meat and other appearances in pop culture.

 

Most notable was a Monty Python sketch portraying Spam as both ubiquitous and inescapable, characteristics which lent to its name being borrowed for unsolicited electronic messages, especially spam email.

 

 

 

Monty Python performs the world famous "Spam" skit.

 

Shari Lewis & Lamb Chop

Shari Lewis with Lamb Chop, Charlie Horse

 & Hush Puppy

 

 

Shari was born Sonia Phyllis Hurwitz in New York City on January 17, 1933. She was taught ventriloquism at a young age, and by the early 1950s, she was named a winner on the TV show Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts for her puppetry.
After developing the sock puppet character "Lamb Chop," Lewis became famous. Lamb Chop, a curious sheep, debuted in the late 1950s—along with several other puppet ch...aracters including "Charlie Horse" and "Hush Puppy"—on the program Hi Mom, which aired on WRCA-TV.

 

 

 

In 1960, Lewis was offered her own show by NBC, The Shari Lewis Show. The show eventually transformed into Lamb Chop's Play-Along, which aired on PBS from 1992 to 1997, and received several Emmy Awards. 

 

In 1998, she developed and starred in the series, Charlie Horse's Music Pizza, on PBS, which costarred Dom DeLuise.

 

 

 

 

 

Shari Lewis died in Los Angeles, California, on August 2, 1998.

 

The Ed Sullivan Show

The Ed Sullivan Show

 

 

 

 

The Ed Sullivan Show ran on CBS from 1948 until its cancellation in 1971, every Sunday night from 8–9 p.m. E.T.  In fact, it was one of the few shows to have run in the same weekly time slot and the same network for such a long period of time. Virtually every type of entertainer appeared on the show, from opera singers, songwriters, acrobats, animal acts, comedians, ballet dancers, puppeteers, and actors.

 

 

 

In 2002, The Ed Sullivan Show was ranked #15 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time. In 2013, the series finished #31 in TV Guide Magazine's 60 Best Series of All Time.

 

 

 

On September 9, 1956, Elvis Presley made his first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show (after earlier appearances on shows hosted by the Dorsey Brothers, Milton Berle, and Steve Allen).  His first appearance yielded an 82.6 percentage share, the highest in television history for any program.

 

Elvis would appear two more times on The Ed Sullivan Show- October 28, 1956 and January 6, 1957.

Buddy Holly

Joan Rivers

 

Joan Rivers on April 23, 1967

 

The Beatles

The Supremes

 

 "Come See About Me" performed on The Ed Sullivan Show on December, 27th 1964 by The Supremes (Diana Ross, Mary Wilson and Florence Ballard).

 

 

The Beach Boys

 

The Rolling Stones

Rich Little

Shari Lewis and Lamb Chop

 

Ed with Topo Gigio, one of his favorites...

 

 

 

Ed Sullivan and Topo Gigio September 24, 1967

1971 Crock-Pot by Rival

1971 Rival Crock-Pot Slow-Cooker

The 1971 Crock-Pot by Rival ~ Life would never be the same again...dinner, maybe.... But, for many women, especially those who began working outside of the home, this really did make for some delicious easy options.

 

 

In 1970, Rival acquired Naxon Utilities Corp., makers of a little-known product called the "Bean Pot" slow cooker. Rival re-introduced the Bean Pot as the Crock-Pot in 1971, and it quickly became one of their top products.

 

 

 

 

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The Ice Cream Man

When I was a kid I thought that driving an ice cream truck would be such a "cool" job.  I mean, after all, to us kids, and some adults, he was the most popular guy on the block.  We would hear the ringing of his bell or the sound of that ice cream truck music playing from blocks away.  Every kid playing out in their front yards would run inside to ask for some ice cream money.  How much do you remember paying for a popsicle, bar or cone?  I remember it being a dime, at one point in my life.  If I got back outside and he had passed by my house already, I would chase him down--waving my arms and hollering as loud as I could.  That was fairly remarkable since I was a naturally shy kid.  But, yes, it was that important....



Good Humor Ice Cream truck and kids

 

 

Good Humor was, and still is, a very popular brand of ice cream.  Although they are certainly not the only brand out there, it would be hard to argue with how legendary the brand is.  Here's an excerpt from the Good Humor website about their history: 

"Our delicious history started in 1920 in Youngstown, Ohio, when confectioner Harry Burt created a chocolate coating compatible with ice cream. His daughter was the first to try it. Her verdict? It tasted great, but was too messy to eat.
Burt’s son suggested freezing the sticks used for their Jolly Boy Suckers (Burt’s earlier invention) into the ice cream to make a handle and things took off from there.
The Good Humor name came from the belief that a person’s "humor", or temperament, was related to the humor of the palate (a.k.a., your "sense of taste"). And we still believe in great-tasting, quality products.
Soon after the Good Humor bar was created, Burt outfitted a fleet of twelve street vending trucks with freezers and bells from which to sell his creation. The first set of bells came from his son’s bobsled. Good Humor bars have since been sold out of everything from tricycles to push carts to trucks."~  http://www.goodhumor.com/article

 

 

Enjoy some of these other nostalgic images of those fun and fantastic ice cream summers.....

 

 

 

1942

 

 

 

Mr. Whippy Ice Cream Truck

 

 

 

Swell Time Ice Cream

 

 

Lyon's Maid Ice Cream Truck

 

Blue Bell Ice Cream Menu

 

Wurster Dairy Co, Ann Arbor

 

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Old Chicago

Extinct Shopping Malls

 

 

Old Chicago shopping mall and indoor amusement park 1975-1980

 

 

 

Old Chicago was a combination shopping mall and indoor amusement park that existed in the Chicago suburb of Bolingbrook, Illinois, from 1975 until 1980. It was billed as "The world's first indoor amusement park", and it was intended to draw visitors all year round, rain or shine. It opened to great fanfare and over 15,000 visitors on June 17, 1975, with an enormous building that housed major rides, such as two roller coasters and a Ferris wheel, as well as a turn-of-the-century themed shopping mall.

 

 

Designer Robert Brindle conceived of the idea behind Old Chicago after a visit to Knott's Berry Farm amusement park in Buena Park, California, and wished to put an entire park - complete with roller coaster, Ferris wheel, and log flumes - indoors so that it could be open year round. Brindle's concept featured an early 20th-century decor inside, with the mall featuring smaller local shops and boutiques rather than the traditional department stores that anchored most malls.

Old Chicago ~ Water St Market / The Wine Haus

Over two years in the making, Old Chicago was opened to the public on June 17, 1975, in a grand opening party that attracted over 10,000 invited guests, causing massive traffic jams. The Old Chicago TV commercial featured an 18-year-old Michelle Mauthe tap-dancing on top of the dome during high winds, while a cameraman filmed from inside a helicopter. 

The shopping mall was designed to resemble a turn-of-the-century street, complete with cobblestone floors and old-fashioned streetlights. It surrounded the ride area completely, following the entire perimeter of the building. At strategic points there were windows where you could stop and look out into the ride area. The mall had specialty shops, snack bars and a handful of restaurants.  -Wikipedia

Old Chicago ~ Chicago Loop roller coaster

Old Chicago shopping mall and Columbian House restaurant.

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