Member Profile

GlenEllyn

Items contributed by This Member
Item nameGalleryStatus
Adding machineScience, Technology & Medicine
BactineHousehold Items
Bobbsey Twins booksArt, Literature & Architecture
Bubble-UpFood, Candy, Drinks
Clayton MooreActors and Entertainers
Fels Naptha soap granulesHousehold Items
L'eggs PantyhoseFashion & Fads
Picnic (1955)Movies of the '50s
Salerno Butter CookiesFood, Candy, Drinks
Stadium CheckersToys & Games
TEAM FlakesFood, Candy, Drinks
The Happy Hollisters seriesArt, Literature & Architecture
TicklebeeToys & Games
Tonka ToysToys & Games
TV GuidePrint Media and Ads
Western AirlinesTransportation
Wooly WillyToys & Games

Comments Posted by This Member
"Blue laws" were widespread (in 'Issues and Events' gallery)
"Dick and Jane" readers (in 'Workplace & School' gallery)
"Silver Certificate" dollar bills (in 'Currency & Stamps' gallery)
$3,000 or less for a family car (in 'Classic Cars' gallery)
12 Angry Men (1957) (in 'Movies of the '50s' gallery)
1955 Chevrolet Nomad (in 'Classic Cars' gallery)
1957 Chevrolet Bel Air (in 'Classic Cars' gallery)
1957 Washington Senators (AL) (in 'Baseball' gallery)
1959 Chevrolet Impala (in 'Classic Cars' gallery)
1960 Ford Frontenac (in 'Classic Cars' gallery)
1960 Plymouth Fury (in 'Classic Cars' gallery)
1960 Plymouth Valiant (in 'Classic Cars' gallery)
1964 Chevrolet Impala SS (in 'Classic Cars' gallery)
1964 Ford Fairlane 500 Ranch Wagon (in 'Classic Cars' gallery)
25ยข was a decent weekly allowance (in 'Life' gallery)
5-cent Cokes (in 'Food, Candy, Drinks' gallery)
78-rpm records (in 'Home Entertainment' gallery)
78-rpm records (in 'Home Entertainment' gallery)
78-rpm records (in 'Home Entertainment' gallery)
8-track tape cartridges (in 'Home Entertainment' gallery)
8-track tape cartridges (in 'Home Entertainment' gallery)
8mm home movie cameras & projectors (in 'Photography' gallery)
Accent flavor enhancer (in 'Food, Candy, Drinks' gallery)
Actual CARE packages (in 'Bygone Icons' gallery)
Adding machine (in 'Science, Technology & Medicine' gallery)
Addressograph (in 'Workplace & School' gallery)
Air-mail letter/envelopes (in 'Currency & Stamps' gallery)
Airport (1970) (in 'Movies of the '70s' gallery)
Al Hirt (in 'Music' gallery)
Alpha-Bits cereal (in 'Food, Candy, Drinks' gallery)
Aluminum Christmas trees (in 'Household Items' gallery)
AM-only car radios (in 'Classic Cars' gallery)
Angela Lansbury (in 'Actors and Entertainers' gallery)
area codes and all-digit dialing (in 'Life Before...' gallery)
area codes and all-digit dialing (in 'Life Before...' gallery)
Audrey Hepburn (in 'Actors and Entertainers' gallery)
Avocado green and coppertone appliances (in 'Household Items' gallery)
Baby Doll pajamas (in 'Fashion & Fads' gallery)
Bactine (in 'Household Items' gallery)
Bakelite was everywhere (in 'Household Items' gallery)
BankAmericard and MasterCharge (in 'Life Before...' gallery)
Bathing caps (in 'Fashion & Fads' gallery)
Beach Party (1963) (in 'Movies of the '60s' gallery)
Beany and Cecil (in 'Cartoons, Comics & Animation' gallery)
Biafra (in 'Nations' gallery)
Blackboards, chalk, and erasers (in 'Workplace & School' gallery)
Bob Newhart (in 'Humor' gallery)
Bomb/fall-out shelters (in 'Bygone Icons' gallery)
Bowling was very popular (in 'Sports & Recreation' gallery)
Bread boxes (in 'Household Items' gallery)
Bubble-Up (in 'Food, Candy, Drinks' gallery)
Buick portholes (in 'Classic Cars' gallery)
Built-in radio-intercom systems (in 'Household Items' gallery)
Burning leaves in your yard was okay (in 'Life' gallery)
Burry's (in 'Food, Candy, Drinks' gallery)
Buying a car in 1950 (in 'Classic Cars' gallery)
Cal Worthington (and his dog Spot) (in 'TV/Radio Commercials' gallery)
Captain Kangaroo (in 'TV / Radio' gallery)
Car hops (in 'Life' gallery)
Carburetors (in 'Classic Cars' gallery)
Carnation Instant Breakfast (in 'Food, Candy, Drinks' gallery)
Cary Grant (in 'Actors and Entertainers' gallery)
Cat Ballou (1965) (in 'Movies of the '60s' gallery)
Cat eyeglasses (in 'Fashion & Fads' gallery)
Ceylon (in 'Nations' gallery)
Chest-type soda machines (in 'Food, Candy, Drinks' gallery)
Chicken Fat (in 'Novelty Records' gallery)
Child's car seat (in 'Classic Cars' gallery)
Children's names (in 'Fashion & Fads' gallery)
Christmas season began after Thanksgiving (in 'Life' gallery)
Chrome and Formica kitchen furniture (in 'Household Items' gallery)
Chrome bumpers (in 'Classic Cars' gallery)
Chuckles jelly candy (in 'Food, Candy, Drinks' gallery)
Cinerama (in 'At the Movies' gallery)
Citizens Band (CB) radio (in 'Rare Today, Gone Tomorrow?' gallery)
Clear plastic slipcovers (in 'Household Items' gallery)
Clutch Cargo (in 'Cartoons, Comics & Animation' gallery)
Coffee percolators (in 'Household Items' gallery)
Color-coordinated toilet paper (in 'Household Items' gallery)
Console TVs (in 'Home Entertainment' gallery)
cordless power tools (in 'Life Before...' gallery)
CorningWare (in 'Life Before...' gallery)
Crinolines (in 'Fashion & Fads' gallery)
Croquet (in 'Sports & Recreation' gallery)
Czechoslovakia (in 'Nations' gallery)
David McCallum (in 'Actors and Entertainers' gallery)
Diagramming sentences (in 'Workplace & School' gallery)
diet sodas (in 'Life Before...' gallery)
Dippity-do styling gel (in 'Fashion & Fads' gallery)
Disneyland A-E ticket books (in 'Sports & Recreation' gallery)
Ditto copying machines (in 'Workplace & School' gallery)
Donovan's Reef (1963) (in 'Movies of the '60s' gallery)
Doris Day (in 'Actors and Entertainers' gallery)
Drivers Ed class in high school (in 'Workplace & School' gallery)
Duncan yo-yos (in 'Toys & Games' gallery)
Eddie Albert (in 'Actors and Entertainers' gallery)
Elm trees (in 'Bygone Icons' gallery)
Ernest Borgnine (in 'Actors and Entertainers' gallery)
Eveready batteries (in 'Household Items' gallery)
Fels Naptha soap (in 'Household Items' gallery)
Fels Naptha soap granules (in 'Household Items' gallery)
Filmstrips (in 'Workplace & School' gallery)
Finian's Rainbow (1968) (in 'Movies of the '60s' gallery)
First pocket-sized transistor radio (in 'Home Entertainment' gallery)
Flashcubes and Magicubes (in 'Photography' gallery)
Floor-to-ceiling pole lamps (in 'Household Items' gallery)
Fred MacMurray (in 'Actors and Entertainers' gallery)
Fred MacMurray (in 'Actors and Entertainers' gallery)
Fresca (in 'Food, Candy, Drinks' gallery)
Front bench seats (in 'Classic Cars' gallery)
Funny Face drink mix (in 'TV/Radio Commercials' gallery)
Gas stations offered full service (in 'Transportation' gallery)
Gasoline was 25 cents a gallon (in 'Transportation' gallery)
Gasoline was 25 cents a gallon (in 'Transportation' gallery)
Ginny dolls (in 'Toys & Games' gallery)
Gleem toothpaste (in 'Household Items' gallery)
Gleem toothpaste (in 'Household Items' gallery)
Glovebox road maps (in 'Rare Today, Gone Tomorrow?' gallery)
Glovebox road maps (in 'Rare Today, Gone Tomorrow?' gallery)
Going for a Sunday drive (in 'Life' gallery)
Grandparents Day (in 'Life Before...' gallery)
Halloween was for kids (in 'Life' gallery)
Hamilton Electric 500 wristwatch (in 'Household Items' gallery)
Handwritten letters (in 'Bygone Icons' gallery)
Hard metal dashboards (in 'Classic Cars' gallery)
Hayley Mills (in 'Actors and Entertainers' gallery)
Home "landline" telephones (in 'Rare Today, Gone Tomorrow?' gallery)
Home "landline" telephones (in 'Rare Today, Gone Tomorrow?' gallery)
Home Economics class in high school (in 'Workplace & School' gallery)
home kitchens needed range hoods (in 'Life Before...' gallery)
Horn & Hardart Automats (in 'Food, Candy, Drinks' gallery)
Howard Johnson's trademark orange roof (in 'Bygone Icons' gallery)
Incandescent light bulbs (in 'Rare Today, Gone Tomorrow?' gallery)
Indoor 'rabbit ears' TV antennas (in 'Bygone Icons' gallery)
Indoor 'rabbit ears' TV antennas (in 'Bygone Icons' gallery)
Indoor 'rabbit ears' TV antennas (in 'Bygone Icons' gallery)
Ipana toothpaste (in 'TV/Radio Commercials' gallery)
Johnny Carson (in 'Actors and Entertainers' gallery)
Jolly Green Giant (in 'TV/Radio Commercials' gallery)
Kellogg's -Sugar- Frosted Flakes (in 'Food, Candy, Drinks' gallery)
Kodak Instamatic (in 'Photography' gallery)
Lost words of our childhood (in 'Life' gallery)
Manual credit card machine (in 'Rare Today, Gone Tomorrow?' gallery)
Manual push lawn mowers (in 'Household Items' gallery)
Many, many newspapers (in 'Print Media and Ads' gallery)
Marshall Field's (in 'Companies & Agencies' gallery)
Mary Poppins (1964) (in 'Movies of the '60s' gallery)
Mechanical parking meters (in 'Rare Today, Gone Tomorrow?' gallery)
Metal ice cube trays with levers (in 'Household Items' gallery)
Metal ice cube trays with levers (in 'Household Items' gallery)
Metal lunch boxes (in 'Workplace & School' gallery)
Mighty Mouse (in 'Cartoons, Comics & Animation' gallery)
Mimeograph copying machines (in 'Workplace & School' gallery)
Moveable ramp stairs (in 'Transportation' gallery)
My 1st transistor radio (in 'Home Entertainment' gallery)
NAB cookie packets (in 'Food, Candy, Drinks' gallery)
nedick's Orange drink and restaurants (in 'Food, Candy, Drinks' gallery)
Nervine (in 'Household Items' gallery)
Nobody had a gas or electric clothes dryer (in 'Household Items' gallery)
Nobody had a gas or electric clothes dryer (in 'Household Items' gallery)
Norge appliances (in 'Household Items' gallery)
Paper drinking straws (in 'Household Items' gallery)
Parcheesi (in 'Toys & Games' gallery)
Password (in 'Toys & Games' gallery)
Patsy Cline (in 'Music' gallery)
Pedal pushers (in 'Fashion & Fads' gallery)
Penny loafers (in 'Fashion & Fads' gallery)
Personal checks (in 'Rare Today, Gone Tomorrow?' gallery)
PF Flyers (in 'Fashion & Fads' gallery)
Play Misty for Me (1971) (in 'Movies of the '70s' gallery)
Polio vaccine introduced (in 'Science, Technology & Medicine' gallery)
Poll Parrot shoes (in 'Fashion & Fads' gallery)
Princess phones (in 'Science, Technology & Medicine' gallery)
Princess telephones (in 'Household Items' gallery)
Public pay phones (in 'Rare Today, Gone Tomorrow?' gallery)
Pull-tab (as opposed to pop-top) cans (in 'Food, Candy, Drinks' gallery)
Push-button automatic transmission (in 'Classic Cars' gallery)
Push-button plumbing (in 'Household Items' gallery)
Raggedy Ann and Andy (in 'Toys & Games' gallery)
Red Ball Jets sneakers (in 'Fashion & Fads' gallery)
Red fire hydrants (in 'Bygone Icons' gallery)
Red-and-blue USPS mailboxes (in 'Bygone Icons' gallery)
Reddy Kilowatt (in 'Bygone Icons' gallery)
Refrigerators with manual-defrost iceboxes (in 'Household Items' gallery)
Refrigerators with manual-defrost iceboxes (in 'Household Items' gallery)
Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote (in 'Cartoons, Comics & Animation' gallery)
Roger Miller (in 'Music' gallery)
Roman Holiday (1953) (in 'Movies of the '50s' gallery)
Saddle shoes (in 'Fashion & Fads' gallery)
Salerno Butter Cookies (in 'Food, Candy, Drinks' gallery)
Sambo's restaurants (in 'Food, Candy, Drinks' gallery)
School discipline (in 'Workplace & School' gallery)
Shop class in high school (in 'Workplace & School' gallery)
Shorthand (in 'Workplace & School' gallery)
Side vent windows (in 'Classic Cars' gallery)
Sinclair service stations (in 'Transportation' gallery)
Skitch Henderson (in 'Music' gallery)
Sky King (in 'TV / Radio' gallery)
Sky King (in 'TV / Radio' gallery)
Slide rules (in 'Workplace & School' gallery)
Smokey the Bear (in 'Bygone Icons' gallery)
Snow Pants (in 'Fashion & Fads' gallery)
Solid metal coins (in 'Currency & Stamps' gallery)
Sony Walkman (in 'Home Entertainment' gallery)
SPF ratings for sunscreen (in 'Life Before...' gallery)
Spirograph (in 'Toys & Games' gallery)
Steamer trunks (in 'Household Items' gallery)
Steamrollers (in 'Bygone Icons' gallery)
Steve Allen (in 'Actors and Entertainers' gallery)
Switchboard operators (in 'Science, Technology & Medicine' gallery)
Tahiti Treat soda (in 'Food, Candy, Drinks' gallery)
TEAM Flakes (in 'Food, Candy, Drinks' gallery)
Telephone books and Yellow Pages (in 'Rare Today, Gone Tomorrow?' gallery)
The 'Thing' Bank (in 'Toys & Games' gallery)
The Big Valley (in 'TV / Radio' gallery)
The Birds (1963) (in 'Movies of the '60s' gallery)
The Bowery Boys (in 'Actors and Entertainers' gallery)
The classic '60s lunch counter (in 'Bygone Icons' gallery)
The Dick Van Dyke Show (in 'TV / Radio' gallery)
The Flintstones (in 'Cartoons, Comics & Animation' gallery)
The Fuller Brush Man (in 'Bygone Icons' gallery)
The Global Positioning System (GPS) (in 'Life Before...' gallery)
The Global Positioning System (GPS) (in 'Life Before...' gallery)
The Global Positioning System (GPS) (in 'Life Before...' gallery)
The Global Positioning System (GPS) (in 'Life Before...' gallery)
The Happiest Millionaire (1967) (in 'Movies of the '60s' gallery)
The Monokini swimsuit (in 'Fashion & Fads' gallery)
The One and Only Genuine, Original Family Band (1968) (in 'Movies of the '60s' gallery)
The Patty Duke Show (in 'TV / Radio' gallery)
The Sound of Music (in 'An Evening at the Theater' gallery)
The Sound of Music (1965) (in 'Movies of the '60s' gallery)
the TV remote control (in 'Life Before...' gallery)
The Wizard of Oz on TV every Thanksgiving (in 'At the Movies' gallery)
Thelma Ritter (in 'Actors and Entertainers' gallery)
Ticklebee (in 'Toys & Games' gallery)
Tinker Toys (in 'Toys & Games' gallery)
Tomatoes had much more flavor (in 'Food, Candy, Drinks' gallery)
Trading stamps (in 'Bygone Icons' gallery)
Troll dolls (in 'Toys & Games' gallery)
TV test patterns (in 'Bygone Icons' gallery)
Twiggy (in 'Fashion & Fads' gallery)
Ugly gym uniforms (in 'Workplace & School' gallery)
Ugly gym uniforms (in 'Workplace & School' gallery)
Victor Borge (in 'Humor' gallery)
Washtub wringers (in 'Household Items' gallery)
Wax bottles of colored sugar water (in 'Food, Candy, Drinks' gallery)
Wiffle balls (in 'Toys & Games' gallery)
Wild horses (in 'Bygone Icons' gallery)
Wind-up analog wristwatches (in 'Household Items' gallery)
Wink (in 'Food, Candy, Drinks' gallery)
Woody Woodpecker (in 'Cartoons, Comics & Animation' gallery)
Yellow rubber raincoats (in 'Fashion & Fads' gallery)
Zagnut candy (in 'Food, Candy, Drinks' gallery)
'Novelty Records' gallery (general comment)
'NYC-area TV/Radio' gallery (general comment)
'NYC-area TV/Radio' gallery (general comment)
'NYC-area TV/Radio' gallery (general comment)