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SENTIMENTAL-JOURNEYS.COM: Monthly Archives for April 2010

HOW MILITARY RECRUITMENT HAS CHANGED - WERE TEENAGERS MORE NAIVE IN THE LATE 1940's AND EARLY 1950's?

TIMMY'S MOM - JUNE LOCKHART IS "CHEATING" ON LASSIE - SHE'S DOING A GRAVY TRAIN COMMERCIAL WITH OTHER DOGS

MINUTES BEFORE NIXON RESIGNS - WAS AFRAID OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPHER WOULD CATCH HIM PICKING HIS NOSE

WHY BATMAN DOES NOT NEED SUPER POWERS - HE HAS HOSTESS TWINKIES AND FRUIT PIES

1958 7-UP AD PROVIDED TRANSLATION FROM FUDDY DUDDY PARENTS & TEACHERS LANGUAGE TO COOL TEEN LANGUAGE

WEIRD FOOD PRODUCTS THAT DON'T EXIST ANYMORE - PART 2

WHEATIES BEING PROMOTED AS A DESSERT INGREDIENT ON A 1952 COMMERCIAL

IN TEN YEARS, WHEN BRUCE WILLIS STARTS RECEIVING SOCIAL SECURITY CHECKS - HE SHOULD CONSIDER GOING BACK TO TV

TWITTER COMMENTS - PART 7

BEVERLY HILLS, CALIFORNIA TRAFFIC LAWS, DURING THE EARLY 1960's - LAW REQUIRES DRIVING ON THE LEFT SIDE OF THE ROAD?

HENRY WINKLER REFUSED TO ENDORSE ONE PIECE OF FONZIE MEMORABILIA - HE FELT IT WAS IN BAD TASTE

TIMEX WATCHES ___ TAKES A LICKING - KEEPS ON TICKING (SOUNDS KINKY, DOESN'T IT?)

LITTLE KNOWN FACT (WINK WINK) - JIMMY CARTER HAD TWO LITTLE BROTHERS WHO WERE MAGAZINE MODELS

53 YEARS AFTER IT WAS INVENTED - I TRIED TANG DRINK MIX FOR THE FIRST TIME - I USED TO LOOK DOWN ON IT - I WAS WRONG - I LIKE IT

REMEMBERING TWINKLES CEREAL - THE BOX WITH THE STORYBOOK PRINTED ON THE BACK

MY JOB AS AN UNCLE IS TO GET THE NOSIEST TOY FOR MY NIECE & NEPHEW - AND TO ANNOY THEIR PARENTS

FIRST PRIZE FOR THE MOST CREEPY TV COMMERICIAL - ANATOMICALLY CORRECT MALE DOLL - BABY WEE WEE

COMEDY SELLS PRODUCTS - JOHNNY CARSON BEING GOOFY WHILE TRYING TO MAKE A JELLO DESERT

MUHAMMAD ALI ROACH MOTEL VS GEORGE FOREMAN GRILL - WHOSE BUSINESS MANAGER WAS BETTER?

SHERIFF ANDY TAYLOR SHOULD HAVE TAUGHT OPIE TO WIPE HIS MOUTH, AFTER EATING HIS POST TOASTIES

THE DAY JOHNNY CARSON NUZZLED ED McMAHON AND ED McMAHON PETTED JOHNNY CARSON

OUTTAKES FROM SOME OF MY FAVORITE CLASSIC TV SHOWS

INTERESTING TWITTER COMMENTS FROM ME - PART 2 TIMES 4 MINUS 2 (AKA # 6)

I HAD A DEPRIVED CHILDHOOD - I DID NOT EAT AT McDONALDS UNTILL I WAS OVER 18 - PITY ME!!!!!!!

RONALD REAGAN - FORGETTING THAT HE WAS A TERRIBLE PRESIDENT, HE WAS CHARMING AND QUITE HUMOROUS

FIRST 100 DAYS IN 2010 - ANOTHER GREAT TV ACTOR HAS PASSED AWAY - DIXIE CARTER A.K.A. JULIA SUGARBAKER

HOW CHARLIE BROWN & SNOOPY WENT TO THE DARK SIDE

WHAT TO DO WITH ARMY SURPLUS - PUT IT IN A BOX OF CHEERIOS, AS A PREMIUM

JED CLAMPETT ACCUSES AN EAGLE OF THEFT OF HIS PROPERTY - A CIGARETTE PACK

HOW GENERAL MILLS USED TO SELL TRIX CEREAL BEFORE THAT SILLY RABBIT WAS BORN

ARNOLD THE GOVERNATOR LEFT HIS MOVIE PROPS IN VOLO, ILLINOIS

YOUNG GRANNY SELLING 7-UP IN A 1955 MAGAZINE AD

KELLOGG'S OK's CEREAL WITH OTIS - WEIRD MAGAZINE AD - ADVERTISING EXECUTIVE NOT THINKING

POOR FRED FLINTSTONE - ATE ONE TOO MANY BRONTOSAURUS BURGERS - NOW HE HAS UPSET STOMACH

HATE RAP MUSIC? - YOU WILL LOVE RAP MUSIC FROM A CUTE FUZZY, PINK PIG - RAPPING ABOUT CEREAL

SENDING YOUR CHILD A BUNNY-GRAM FOR EASTER - PROMOTED BY LUCILLE BALL FOR WESTERN UNION

STAR TREK MEDALLION BEING SOLD FOR $100 - LUCKY IF THEY GET THAT MUCH - ORIGINALLY SOLD FOR $7.95 IN 1975

1950's VACATION - PULLMAN TRAIN TRAVEL - A GENTILE & LUXURIOUS WAY TO TRAVEL

TONY THE TIGER WAS A DUD - COULDN'T PROMOTE BANANA FROSTED FLAKES