Your Ultimate Adventure to Yesteryear
“Tell me I’m beautiful, it’s nothing. Tell me I’m intellectual – I know it. Tell me I’m funny and it’s the greatest compliment in the world anyone could give me.” – Julie Newmar Julie Newmar is widely remembered for her role as Cat Woman on the iconic television series, Batman. Film buffs know her [...]
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At the age of six, Margaret O’Brien turned to the director and asked, “When I cry, do you want the tears to run all the way or shall I stop halfway down?” A major child star of the 1940s, Margaret O’Brien was best known for her natural, emotional style and her startling facility for tears. [...]
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If you don’t recall Johnny Crawford as one of Walt Disney’s original Mouseketeers in 1955, you certainly remember him in the role of Mark McCain, Chuck Connors’ sensitive young son on television’s The Rifleman. Connors became an acting mentor for Crawford, who later recalled: “He was my hero. I enjoyed being with him. He wasn’t [...]
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When 20th Century Fox scored a hit with Marilyn Monroe, every movie producer wanted to cash in with their own platinum blonde. Diana Dors… Jayne Mansfield… and Mamie Van Doren come to mind. The latter of whom posed twice for Playboy in 1963 to promote her movie, 3 Nuts in Search of a Bolt (1964), [...]
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Ed Asner is a television legend, the winner of seven acting Emmy Awards (which puts ties him with Mary Tyler Moore, both of whom rank second to their Mary Tyler Moore Show co-star, Cloris Leachman who has nine). In all, he has been nominated 20 times for an Emmy Award, with 17 nods for a [...]
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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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by Jack French. In July 1943 The Black Hood arrived on the Mutual Network, coming straight out of the pages of the comic books and pulp fiction magazines where he had been featured since 1940. His feminine companion, Barbara Sutton, a newspaper reporter, ably assisted him in combatting crime and thwarting assorted thugs. There were [...]
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by Jim Widner On Sunday, November 8, 1936 in the large studio of radio station WWVA on the top floor of the Hawley Building in Wheeling, West Virginia, a historical broadcast was about to take place. In the control room sat a slightly balding, bespeckled advertising executive for the Wheeling Steel Corporation named John L. [...]
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Geppi’s Entertainment Museum (GEM) is a journey through 250 years of American pop culture, located in historic Camden Station at Camden Yards in Baltimore Maryland, just a few blocks from the city’s famed Inner Harbor. Where else can you revisit your childhood and get back in touch with old friends that entertained you in the [...]
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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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Remember the old, great movie palaces? Where you were treated like royalty and the theaters were not cinema complexes? It’s almost difficult to envision what it was like to see Gone With the Wind in 1939 because movie theaters were so much more lavish. Today, they are flooded with flat screen televisions featuring movie trailers, [...]
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by Bob Stepno More than a half-century before Howard Stern proclaimed himself “King of all media,” Walter Winchell could have claimed the same title, and the film Wake Up and Live would be one of the jewels in his crown — his first role as a Hollywood leading man. The musical comedy hit from 1937 [...]
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by Martin Grams, Jr. Since the Car 54, Where Are You? television series is now out on DVD commercially, it seems only fitting to revisit the series through the popular hobby of automobile collecting. At a recent car show (my wife is into cars), we saw a replica of one of the cars from the [...]
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