Remember When
The sounds of Glen Miller, Guy Lombardo, Tommy Dorsey were being replaced by the Boogie
Woogie. The Tennessee Waltz was replaced by the jitterbug, Perry Como, Louis
Armstron, Peggy Lee, and the Andrews Sisters, spilled over the airways......
People thronged to the theaters to view Citizen Kane, Bugs Bunny, Bambi, and
Fantasia.
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Humphrey and Bergman attracted people to see Casablanca with "Play It Again, Sam." |
Stars like Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, and Bob Hope dazzled the screen with
fancy footwork. Radio was king, and TV was in its infancy.
Jackie Robinson made baseball fame and Elizabeth Taylor made National Velvet.
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Joseph Stalin- Soviet Leader |
Pearl Harbor was attacked by Japan. Bombs fell on London, Berlin, and
Hiroshima. The war effort, USO, rationing, Memphis
Belle, Enola Gay, Atomic
Bombs, and the Cold War...Heroes like Roosevelt, Churchill, Eisenhower, MacArthur, and Harry Truman.
Villains like Hitler, Mussolini, and Stalin......
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| President Franklin Roosevelt |
Inventions such as Kodacolor, Polaroid, transistors, and Whirlwind
computers, and holography were developed. Zoot suits, Panama and Pillbox hats, leopard coats
and floral dresses were chic.
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Dick Tracy comics, metal cars, silly putty, slinkies, GI Joes, porcelaindolls were all the rage. |
These were some of the things that made up.........
Life In the Forties
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