Reminisce Extra

reminisce extra

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tell us your story!

FOOD TRADITIONS How have you shared the joy of the holiday table with family and friends? Do you have marathon sessions to make pies, cookies, pasta or preserves? Is there a meal you still talk about at every get-together? Label your story and photos “Food Traditions.” STADIUM LOVE Did you ever see a game at one of the great old sports parks? Ebbets Field, the old Lambeau, Candlestick Park, the Astrodome? Maybe you had a beloved minor league field nearby. Tell us how it was—the crowds, the games, the fully loaded hot dogs. Label your story and photos “Stadium Love.” THE WAR EFFORT We’d like to hear about working during World War II. Label your story and photos “The War Effort.” CLASS TRIPS Class trips had their own logic—the buddy system, brown-bag lunches and the occasional lost…

wild and wonderful

Dad was an accountant, but I’m sure he harbored secret dreams of being a backwoods fishing guide. His uncommon facility with numbers doomed him to a successful career in an office. Still, he lived out a version of his fantasy for two weeks every August. We’d pack our yellow Dodge Monaco with camping gear and escape north, away from the Toronto suburbs and into the central Ontario hinterland, where we fished in the morning, played cards in the afternoon and read by a Coleman lantern at night. But in 1969, the summer before I turned 7, we didn’t go north. Instead we headed southwest to Arizona and the Grand Canyon. Not a fishing hole in sight, though waves of heat radiating from that poor Dodge, overworked and without air conditioning, made…

1963

The country mourns the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on Nov. 22 in Dallas, Texas. His successor, Lyndon B. Johnson, inherits the war in Vietnam and growing unrest over civil rights for African Americans. A new oral polio vaccine is added to lumps of sugar. TV’s The Outer Limits and My Favorite Martian explore our fascination with science fiction. The lava lamp mesmerizes and the yellow smiley face pops up. Stevie Wonder has his first No. 1 hit with Fingertips. Maxwell House cooks up freeze-dried coffee. And Kenner rolls out the Easy-Bake Oven in time for Christmas. JAN. 2 The Viet Cong wins its first major victory against South Vietnam and U.S. forces in the Battle of Ap Bac. JAN. 14 George Wallace becomes Alabama governor with a vow of “segregation…

in sickness and in soap

ABC’s General Hospital premiered May 1, 1963, which makes it the longest running daytime drama on the air. Do you have a healthy general knowledge of this fan favorite? 1 Name the fictional city where General Hospital is based. 2 Stuart Damon portrayed this patriarch for more than 30 years. 3 An estimated 30 million viewers tuned in for this much anticipated event in 1981 (pictured above). 4 Name the violet-eyed superstar—and show super fan—who guest-starred as Helena Cassadine. 5 Who is the “Jessie’s Girl” rocker who rocked stints as Dr. Noah Drake (and Eli Love) from 1981 to 2013? 6 He won eight lead-actor Daytime Emmys playing Luke Spencer, the most of any soap-opera performer. 7 A flight attendant and a registered nurse, she showed up in 1964 to visit her sister—and never left. How’d you do?…

the answer is still out there

On April 16, 1962, at Gerde’s Folk City in New York’s Greenwich Village, young Bob Dylan announced from the stage, “This here ain’t no protest song or anything like that, ’cause I don’t write no protest songs.” He then proceeded to sing “Blowin’ in the Wind.” Contrary to Dylan’s pronouncement, his was the ultimate protest song, posing a series of fierce rhetorical questions about peace, war, social responsibility and racial prejudice, with an ongoing refrain abstractly promising that “the answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind.” Peter, Paul and Mary’s hit 1963 version of the song became Warner Brothers Records’ fastest-selling single ever. “I wrote ‘Blowin’ in the Wind’ in 10 minutes, just put words to an old spiritual, probably something I learned from Carter Family records,” Dylan said of his legendary…