A modern “rec” room
One in a series of Motorola ads with artists’ renderings of futuristic abodes.
*SIGH*
Today’s Peanuts makes me want to pop some corn and take out my stamp collection. Wait — what stamp collection?
“Artistically appointed restrooms”
Dialogue from a 1965 episode of Hazel.
The magnificent Andersons
A Father Knows Best marathon.
Rhymes with Moscow
Today’s Zippy calls for knowledge of a jingle.
MU
MUrray Hill-Seven Seven-Five-Hundred. MUrray Hill-Seven Seven-Five-Hundred.
A conversation from another world
From Father Knows Best. They don’t make colleges like this anymore.
Branching out
From Father Knows Best: “The successful engineer today also needs to know languages, economics, philosophy, the humanities.”
An utterance from another world
From Father Knows Best: “Your dinner jacket just arrived from the cleaners.”
World Book Things
Five minutes into the first episode of the new season of Stranger Things, I was thrilled to see the World Book Encyclopedia, or at least a partial set, on a shelf in Dustin’s house.
Henry TV
Henry’s dog Dusty is sitting too close to the television.
“Try the wireless”
From a Perry Mason episode.
“In the Nostalgia District”
The Brady Bunch in in a townful of use-book stores.
From Naked City
“All he does when he gets home is drink beer and look at Old Rabbit Ears — that’s what I call his portable TV.”
Magoo on NBC
“Mister Magoo’s Christmas Carol, fifty this year, airs on NBC tonight, 7:00 Central Time. A very big deal.”
Streetside gum machines
Wall-mounted gum machines.
Television antennas and other relics
Diane Schirf is remembering relics.
Card-file steals scene in TV debut
Card-file, from Father Knows Best
Father Knows Best Christmas episode
Strange, stranger
“A Woman in the House”
A very strange episode of Father Knows Best
"Betty's Graduation"
Suprisingly poignant dialogue from Father Knows Best