Your Ultimate Adventure to Yesteryear
Gorgeous, mouth-watering Sherry Jackson began her career as a child actress on the 1953-1958 television sitcom, Make Room for Daddy, which starred Danny Thomas. Rumor has it that Idaho-born Sherry was “discovered” by a talent agent while she and her mother were waiting for a bus. She began with small parts in such films as [...]
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Tall, good-looking James Darren was a student of acting coach Stella Adler and made his name in the 1950s in a series of teenage-themed films. A better actor than most of his contemporary teenage heartthrobs, which is probably why he was the only actor who appeared in all three Gidget movies, Gidget (1959), Gidget Goes [...]
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Robert Colbert became an enduring television icon when he got the starring leads on Maverick and The Time Tunnel, two classic televisions series that can still be seen in reruns today. After appearing in a number of films, including Have Rocket, Will Travel (1959), starring The Three Stooges, he was signed to a contract with [...]
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Striking, pale complexioned, blonde English actress Veronica Carlson has appeared in such classics as Randall and Hopkirk, Deceased and The Saint (with Roger Moore). Carlson is best known as the female lead of several late 1960s Hammer horror films. In late 1968, James Carreras, the boss of Hammer Films, saw one of her photographs in [...]
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The 15th screen Tarzan (if you don’t count Gordon Griffth) was to have played a Tarzan impersonator in a projected Mike Henry television show, which never materialized. He had been tested 14 months earlier when Henry got the part. Prior to Tarzan, he was seen sharing screen time with Clint Walker in The Night [...]
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One of the highlights of the convention is the buffet dinner banquet. So popular is the dinner that every year we are forced to turn people down for tickets. Equal parts culinary magic, attentive service and artful presentation, the Hunt Valley Marriott makes history and memories for everyone who attends the banquet. The ingredients include [...]
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There are a limited number of rooms available for a discount rate but when you call to book your room, be sure to mention the convention name to get the special rate! The Marriott Hunt Valley Inn, just outside of Baltimore, MD, has the facilities to exceed your every expectation. Minutes from Baltimore’s scenic Inner [...]
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Every year the staff of the Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia Convention has been responsible for making someone’s life a little happier and the annual charity auction is a superb way for attendees to express their generosity. Hollywood legends such as Fess Parker, Casey Kasem, June Foray, Alan Young and many others have all contributed autographed items for [...]
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The State of Maryland is an exceptional year-round vacation destination. Once described by National Geographic as “America in Miniature,” Maryland boasts a wealth of historical, cultural and tourist attractions for day-trippers and vacationers alike. Since hundreds of our convention attendees travel from out of state, why not consider staying an extra day or two and [...]
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Admission Prices Admission gives you access to everything at the event, including vendor rooms, celebrities, movie room and the panels and seminars. Because of the complexities involved, we will not mail you a confirmation. Your Paypal receipt (sent to you by e-mail) will serve as your confirmation. You should receive a confirmation via e-mail through [...]
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Convention T-Shirts We have a small number of 2011 Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia Convention t-shirts available for sale. The cost is $12.00 each. Postage is $3.00 per tee shirt. Remaining sizes available are L, XL and 2X. (3X is sold out.) 2012 Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia Convention t-shirts will be available for purchase later this year! Convention T-Shirt Large [...]
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A book review by Bruce Dettman. Despite what many in the greater cinematic-going public of the late 1930s and early 40s viewed as a fairly one-dimensional persona, one projected both on the big screen and in his private life, there was actually more to the actor Errol Flynn than the swashbuckling roisterer who saved fair [...]
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A Book Review by Bruce Dettman. For a very short period in the early 1950s Fess Parker was the most famous, the most talked about and the most easily recognized actor in America. His meteoric rise to fame really had no rival. One day he was just a young struggling actor trying to make ends [...]
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by Francis M. Nevins From shortly after the end of World War I until a year or so after Pearl Harbor he was known to millions of Western film lovers as Buck Jones. He was born Charles Frederick Gebhard near Vincennes, Indiana on December 12, 1891. His family moved to an Oklahoma ranch when he [...]
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The Maryland-based Radio History Society operates the National Capital Radio & Television Museum in Bowie, Maryland, as well as continuing exhibits elsewhere. Explore radio from Marconi’s earliest wireless telegraph to the primitive crystal sets of the 1920s, from Depression-era cathedrals and post-War plastic portables to the development of radio with pictures (a.k.a. television). In conjunction [...]
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