by david allan van nostrand | Jan 23, 2023 | Americana, Human Behavior, Point of view, The 1960s
Famers and physical laborers needed three square meals a day: all full, well-balanced and hearty. They’d eat  breakfast before sunup, work until lunch, load up on calories again and work until sundown, when they ate a big dinner and went to bed. One origin story...
by david allan van nostrand | Oct 3, 2022 | Americana, Social archaelogy, The 1960s, The Wayback Machine
Hollywood Squares was a popular game show on television in the 1960s, patterned on the pencil and paper game of tic-tac-toe. The studio set had nine small cubicles, stacked three high and three wide. Within each open-faced square sat a celebrity. The two contestants,...