Boomerville USA

Here we were living in the atomic age. Don't forget to duck and cover.

still mondo after all these years

Just watched an old cult 1969 documentary 'Mondo Hollywood'.  It's a very quirky perverted piece (warning psychedelic painted, dancing, naked people enclosed) of film about tinsel town during the psychedelic sixties.  Like the saying goes, "The more things change - the more things stay the same".  Watching these people in Hollywood, change the soundtrack, hairstyles, fads, and fashions - I noticed how the same type of self indulgent weirdos still dwell there today.  Hip eventually turns to camp and idiocy will always be the norm there.

The Christmas Cowboy

Gene Autry was know through radio and film fame as 'The Singing Cowboy'. In the fifties he also became known as 'The Christmas Cowboy' because of his hit song 'Here comes Santa Claus.

As the story is told, Gene was riding his horse, Champion, down Hollywood Boulevard for the annual Christmas parade in 1946 when, hearing the crowds of children gleefully crying, “Here comes Santa Claus!” he was inspired to write this song. The rest is cowboy Christmas history.

Gene also sings my favorite version of 'Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer. I can't pick my favorite version of 'Frosty the Snowman'. It's a tie between Burl Ives and Gene Autry.

a different time

Nothing says Merry Christmas like Lucky Strike.

1969 Sears WishBook

If you're half a century old or a little older - you might remember this book. Heck, you might have found some of these toys under your tree.