Radio Trivia Quiz
Trivia & Facts

Radio Trivia Quiz: Sounds of Yesteryear

First of a Series on Radio Trivia Quiz questions… Enjoy our collection of senior radio trivia quiz questions. We hope this brings back some memories and makes you smile. Read our First Grade and the Philco Radio story for more radio nostalgia. Check our 2nd series: Radio Trivia Quiz: Horses and Horror on the Radio….

Being Invisible
Senior Stories

Senior Citizens Become Invisible After 60

When Did I Become Invisible? As a kid of the ‘40s, I’d spend hours daydreaming about the enchanting prospects of invisibility. Being invisible just seemed super cool to me. I’d see movies, free. I’d sneak a peek at a naked Mary Lou Bjorken in the girls’ locker room. Oh I admit, I was too young…

Old American Drugstore
Nostalgia

When American Drugstores Were Drugstores

Many of us grew up when neighborhood american drugstores sold little but drugs and sodas. In the 1940s, as we perched on green vinyl stools at a marble-topped soda fountain slurping our Green Rivers, who knew that from such humble beginnings would spring Walgreen’s and McDonald’s? My drugstore, at the corner of Cedar, Meacham and…

Nostalgia

Whatever Happened to Front Porches?

Not long ago, I returned to my hometown of Park Ridge, Illinois. I wanted to see if the essence of the town in which I grew up was still there, or if it had been overrun by sterile highways, gigantic malls, and a tsunami of franchised restaurants. I was pleased to find that I still…

the good old days or the good ole days
Nostalgia

The Good Old Days: Were They Really So Good?

Life was so much better when we were young. Everyone wants to wax nostalgic for the good old days. Or some like to say it the good ole days… I hear that a lot these days. How things were safer, simpler, even sexier back then (perhaps based on the theory that less is more). My…

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