Posted on 11/07/2013 6:36:30 PM PST by lowbridge
The Nelsons really were a family, not assembled by a casting director, and Ricky and David literally grew up right in front of our eyes. When David and Rick (as he was known in later shows) got married, their actual wives even became series regulars. Ozzie and Harriet has become, a buzz term for a way of life that sums up all of the black and white family shows of the 1950s and '60s, yet it's unlike any of them.
Ozzie supposedly based the show's "Adventures" on things that happened around his own house or to people he knew. That's perhaps why the show seemed to be "a show about nothing" before Seinfeld even coined that phrase. One 1957 episode even had Ozzie craving tutti-frutti ice cream late at night when the stores were closed, and driving around town to find some. That was actually the main plot of that episode, and it worked. Leave it up to other family shows to warm your heart, tell Aesop fables and teach you lessons, the Nelsons were happy just to be your friends and make you chuckle. Don't get me wrong, the show had plenty of laughs; one 1955 episode, "The Pajama Game" (in which Ozzie and his neighbor Thorny get locked out of their houses in the middle of the night, fall asleep in a station wagon, and end up stranded in town in their pajamas) was outright hilarious, still is even now. (So's the 1953 episode about the store that keeps mis-delivering the chairs.) But it was the exception, not the rule. For the most part, if you just chuckled and shook your head, they were fine with that.
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Thank you,I’m always looking for classic show sites.
Someone may have beaten me to this, but the old Coke had real sugar in it (cane or beet I suppose) instead of the high fructose corn syrup in Coke and virtually all sodas today.
Coke was made with cane sugar back then and it did taste better.
In my opinion, high fructose corn syrup notwithstanding, Coke still is the best tasting soda, along with Vernor’s ginger ale.
Was then -- is worse now.
Clearly racists. All. That little beaver kid too.
A & W Root Beer in the frosty mugs was great, too.
Roger the Vernor’s. And Faygo Rock & Rye was great, too.
We had a National supermarket in Port Huron, Michigan that had one of those crank coke machines. The store was, as far as I knew, the only air-conditioned building in town. On a hot summer day, going into that cool store, tossing in a dime, turning that crank and getting that frosty glass bottle, then drinking it, was probably as close as I’ll ever get to finding an oasis in a desert
I reccommend that site on every thread it’s appropriate and someone always thanks me.
I don’t know what he’s doing wrong that it doesn’t show up on the search engines but- bless him- it’s the best.
Some classic tv series
http://www.cbs.com/shows/TV_Classics
http://www.thewb.com/shows/full-episodes
Coke, which means every soft drink, has more carbonation in glass bottles. Plastic bottles would explode and the cans are “pre-cut” so they’d pop open. Plus, the real sugar makes a big difference.
I remember getting Cokes and Teem and Dr. Pepper out of machines in the summer. Ice would form on the outside AND inside.
I never missed these shows. When our TV got repossessed I’d go over to my friend’s house. Just today I went on google and “drove by” that house and thought about those old TV shows. Thanks for the memories!
Loved these shows of my youth. America’s golden era.
Stewart’s Root Beer, and most of their other flavors still use cane sugar. It’s fairly easy to find in the NE. Cracker Barrel restaurants down south also carries them. In moderation, the cane sugar may actually have more nutritional value than the high fructose stuff.
“Mexican Coke has sugar and tastes like the old Coke.”
I can see making a run south of the border for a few cases of that. When reaching the US border again (assuming you survive Mexico), and the friendly ICE agent asks if you have anything to declare...
“Well, just a trunk load of Mexican Coke”
“Step out of the vehicle...NOW!”
(Sung to the tune of charging handles of multiple M-4s being pulled)
There is really nothing better than one of those short cokes in a glass bottle ice cold. Coke is an excellent soda, and I’m not a soda fan.
Pepsi Cola hits the spot, 12 full ounces that's a lot.
Get more flavor for a nickel too, Pepsi Cola is the one for you.
I grew up a die hard pepsi fan but would drink the occasional Coke and Dr. Pepper also. I remember the nickel a bottle days and that included the one or two cent deposit. Took a lot of empties to get enough money to go to the Saturday Matinee, which cost 15 to 25 cents in those days, depending on what was showing.
I still find the sound of a record sounds better on my vintage 1965 Magnavox stereo system than on my Ipod.
They do sell the Mexican Pepsi by the Bottle ($0.99 each) at the Grocery Store and I buy it once in a while. Better tasting in part because it's in a Glass Bottle, not a Can and of course it has real sugar.
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