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December 1, 1955

Today In History

Rosa Parks Boards Bus | Montgomery, AL

Rosa Parks refusal to make room for a white passenger on a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama in December of 1955 sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott. This one brave act made great strides towards the end of racial segregation and the Civil Rights Movement. The boycott lasted 381 days and ended segregation on buses.

Remember When

Montgomery Street in San Francisco
Longshots - The Life & Times of The American Basketball Association
Bob Gibson
Song of the Day
Tony Bennett | Rags to Riches
Don McLean performs American Pie live at BBC in 1972
Explore America
Hells Canyon is a 10-mile wide canyon located along the border of eastern Oregon, eastern Washington and western Idaho

Which is your favorite Humphrey Bogart movie?

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What actor was dropped by Universal Studios in the early 1950s because of his protruding Adam's apple and slow speech?

  • Kirk Douglas
  • Clint Eastwood
  • Tony Curtis
  • Cary Grant
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Do you recognize this TV Show ?

Ben Casey starring Vince Edwards

Most boat owners name their boats. What is the most popular boat name requested? Obsession

Where would you find the Sea of Tranquility?  The Moon.

Classic Expressions!

TV Show of the Day
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis. Rose Marie guest stars as a waitress - The episode originally aired April 12, 1960
"Layla" performed live by Eric Clapton
1973 Sugar Bowl highlights Notre Dame vs. Alabama - with 4:12 remaining in the game when Notre Dame kicker Bob Thomas put the Irish ahead 24-23 with a 19-yard field goal.
Interview of the Day
An interview with Gene Autry
Glen Campbell's Final Tour - CBS Sunday Morning

Comments

What are our character names in the TV show ?

Oscar Madison and Felix Unger

Scenes Around America

Workers Heading home after their shift

Busy Weekend at the Beach - Coney Island

Enjoying the rides

Always fun at the slots

Hanging out at the local pizzeria

Workers Heading home after their shift

Busy Weekend at the Beach - Coney Island

Enjoying the rides

Always fun at the slots

Hanging out at the local pizzeria

Sandy Koufax

1963 World Series

1965 World Series

1963 World Series

1965 World Series

Collectible Editions

You have a choice of three versions of our collectible edition to select from. 52-pages, 100-pages (special oversized edition) and our 104-page version (hard cover). Enjoy your stroll down memory lane!



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In 1881, I founded the Tuskegee Institute, I also consulted several US Presidents, who am I ?

Booker T. Washington

Everyone knows that spinach is loaded in iron and makes you stronger - Just look what it has done for Popeye's career. Well, Popeye was wrong. So were all of those parents that stuffed it down their kids' throats. In reality, spinach has no more iron in it than any other vegetable. This spinach misconception dates back to the 1950's when a food analyst made an error while calculating the iron in spinach. His decimal place was off by one place, suggesting that spinach had ten times as much iron content than it really did.

In 1907, an ad campaign for Kellogg's Corn Flakes offered a free box of cereal to any woman who would wink at her grocer.

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