Remember The 60's

There seems to be focus, and attention given to the decades of yester-year. Remembering different decades can mean different things to different people. I listen to my dad often talk of the old days, and I think to myself Lord here go again!

But, then I really thought about it, and I said uh I guess those were the years of great movies, memorable music, adventureful books, and awesome television . Here in Illinois we now have a two station solely dedicated to classic television. It pretty much the only channel I watch. Ok--take a stroll with me.

• Gunsmoke
• Jack Benny
• Have Gun Will Travel
• Bonanza
• Dennis The Menace
• My Three Sons
• The Flinstones
• Rawhide
• Alfred Hitchock
• Perry Mason
• Ed Sullivan Show
• The Untouchables
• Candid Camera
• The Real McCoys
• The Red Skelton Show

Alfred Hitchcock is best known for his famous directing of "Psycho" during the 60's, it bacame known for being the first horror film with a psychological storyline.

She was the perfect icon for success in the late Sixties:

Joplin fit no standard of beauty.  Joplin displayed

the ability to wear a sensuality that mirrored a

movement which rejected societal standards by

creating its own. Janis Joplin arrived in San Francisco,

in 1966, the year before the Summer of Love, post-Beat hippie. Young

people flocked to hear her sing searching for identity, reason,

or just simple acceptance. Janis Joplin of legend set the

standard for the blues for female singers.  Janis' father, worked at

the Texaco refinery and the Joplins resided comfortably.

October 4, 1970, four years after she left Austin, Janis Joplin overdosed

in her room at the Landmark Hotel in Los Angeles.

Jimi Hendrix, died two weeks earlier. Jim Morrison would died within a year.

She is, forever, a raw iron soul.

According to Yahoo the top 25 movies are as follow:

1. To Kill A Mockingbird
2. The Sound of Music
3. Lawrence of Arabia
4. The Great Escape
5. Psycho
6. Mary Poppins
7. The Dirty Dozen
8. Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid
9. Spartacus
10. Dr. Strangelove
11. Cool Hand Luke
12. Yojimbo
13. The Lion In Winter
14. The Longest Day
15. Doctor Zhivago
16. My Fair Lady
17. The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly
18. Where Eagles Dare
19. A Fist Of Dollars
20. The Magnificent Seven
21. The Guns Of Navacore
22. The Graduate
23. For A Few More Dollars
24. From Russia With Love
25. The Odd Couple 

In the early days comic strips were published exclusively as weekly features in the Sunday newspapers. The term "comic strip" in its now refers to a syndicated newspaper feature that appears daily in a single row of three or four panels, together with other comic strips that form a page. There is noted research as far back as 1892 of comic strips appearing in American newspapers. In 1907 Bud Fisher created the first daily comic strip with his Mutt and Jeff.

The effect of comic strips on the public with "Buster Brown" fashions early in the 20^th century. Then later came "Peanuts," "Doonesbury," and "Garfield" products; many comic strip characters made the transition to television, film, and the theater through animation. Animation opened door to a whole to world for comic strip being developed in cartoon characters.

I have no idea how Yahoo came up with their ratings, more than likely a rating system, but for me their list is a tad bit out of order. For me the top 25 would look like this:

1. To Kill A Mockingbird
2. The Good, The Bad And The Ugly
3. Mary Poppins
4. Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid
5. Lawrence of Arabia
6. Psycho
7. The Sound of Music
8. The Dirty Dozen
9. My Fair Lady
10. A Fistful of Dollars
11. The Graduate
12. The Odd Couple
13. Spartacus
14. Magnificent Seven
15. From Russia With Love
16. Cool Hand Luke
17. Dr. Strangelove
18. The Great Escape
19. The Longest Day
20. Doctor Zhivago
21. Yojimbo
22. The Lion In Winter
23. For A Few More Dollars
24. Where Eagles Dare
25. The Guns of Navacore

As I was doing research looking for recipes from the 60's I came across this campbell soup recipe, I have never heard of this one before

Campbell's Tomato Cheese Bread

Prep/Cook Time: 20 minutes

Serves: 4

Ingredients:

1 loaf French bread, cut in half lengthwise

1 can (11 oz.) Campbell's® Tomato Bisque Soup

1 cup shredded sharp Cheddar cheese

1 cup shredded Monterey Jack cheese

1 cup chopped green onions

1 tsp. garlic powder

Directions:

PLACE bread halves on baking sheet. Bake at 400°F. for 5 min.

MIX soup, cheeses, onions and garlic powder. Spread soup mixture over bread to within 1/4" of edges.

BAKE 5 min. or until cheese melts. Cut into slices.

The Irish rising of 1798 contributed to cartoons. Striking drawings by English cartoonists portray the rebellious Irish as savages, but then - rather swiftly - as fundamentally decent, if somewhat obtuse, people. More than a quarter of a century later, when the emancipation question was again pushed through to the front of public attention after O'Connell's electoral victory in Co. Clare, a Williams cartoon shows Wellington kissing the Pope's toe, while Peel holds the Crown so it can be extinguished by the Papal tiara. Wellington and Peel ("Orange Peel", he was sometimes nicknamed) where certainly not crypto-Papists, and they accepted emancipation most reluctantly as a political necessity; but such cartoons suggest that the government's eventual decision was fraught with great political risk in Britain.