# Culture artifacts that ...maybe not ONLY you remember....but its getting close. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 15, 2018, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/culture-artifacts-that-maybe-not-only-you-remember-but-its-getting-close/819633 "2018-08-15T03:00:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 15
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2018, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/culture-artifacts-that-maybe-not-only-you-remember-but-its-getting-close/819633/281 "2018-08-19T11:13:32Z")
_Dean Martin Presents the Golddiggers in London_ From 1965 to 1976, Dean Martin was the host of an extremely popular weekly variety show. The show took a hiatus each summer (as was typical at that time) and a replacement variety show filled in that time period each week. These summer replacement shows were thus called things like _Dean Martin Presents . . ._ In 1968 and 1969, these summer replacement shows were called _Dean Martin Presents the Golddiggers_. The Golddiggers were a singing and dancing group of twelve women put together just for the show who would fill in between the acts on the show. That was a common thing then. Look up the June Taylor Dancers, for instance. In 1970, this replacement variety show was filmed in London and called _Dean Martin Presents the Golddiggers in London_. I only remember a little of this show, but the little I remember had some hilarious sketches by Charles Nelson Reilly (who never did anything else half as good) and Marty Feldman. Feldman had previously been part of _At Last the 1948 Show_. Some of the sketches of _Dean Martin Presents the Golddiggers in London_ were remakes of sketches from _At Last the 1948 Show_, including a version of the Four Yorkshiremen sketch (rewritten to be for just two people). Nothing else on American TV came close to the quality of the comedy sketches on this show. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2018, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/culture-artifacts-that-maybe-not-only-you-remember-but-its-getting-close/819633/282 "2018-08-19T11:14:15Z")
OK, here’s one where Google has totally failed me, but maybe one of my fellow Dopers can come through. Los Angeles, summer of 1958\*. I remember this song being on the TV repeatedly. Something like: _Adventure is everywhere, adventure is in the air you can see it in the rockets or exploring outer space there’s adventure in flying or something something some, wherever you look, adventure time, oh, adventure is everywhere, in the sea and in the air!_ I was four years old at the time, so I’d guess no more than 50% accuracy on the lyrics. It was sung by a male chorus of some sort, in a vigorous style. I have no idea whether it was the intro or outro or ad for a TV show, or a PSA of some sort, or what. I have no idea whether it was on national or only local TV, or what. Seriously, anyone else remember this thing, or know what it was? - No later than summer of 1958; we moved to Maryland that August, and I never heard it again. And not much earlier, since I was only 4 that summer, and I couldn’t have remembered that much detail about anything much earlier. ---
**Author:** ![ZonexandScout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zonexandscout/32/544_2.png) [@ZonexandScout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZonexandScout)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2018, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/culture-artifacts-that-maybe-not-only-you-remember-but-its-getting-close/819633/283 "2018-08-19T12:35:18Z")
In the 40s and 50s, serials like _ **Commando Cody** _ and _ **Superman** _ simulated flying by simply letting a dummy slide along an aerial cable and filming it from ground level. They did the same thing with spaceships in _ **Flash Gordon** _. We used to be able to buy models of spaceships that had two wheels built into the top. You would tie a string to a doorknob or someplace similar, thread the string through the little wheels, and then raise the other end of the string to make the spaceship zoom to one side of the room. Lower the string and the spaceship would zoom back to you (in reverse, just like a real spaceship). This got my mother a bit upset because the spaceships were fairly heavy cast metal and you could really get some speed with them. Of course, they would just slam into the door or doorknob, leaving a nice dent or two. It also meant that family members would be walking into strings everywhere, or tripping over them when we didn’t put them away. Fishing line was actually preferred. I’ve searched for pictures of these without success. I had a favorite one that I played with all the time. If I ever came across a similar one on eBay, I would definitely go to three figures just to have it sitting on my desk. ---
**Author:** ![ZonexandScout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zonexandscout/32/544_2.png) [@ZonexandScout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZonexandScout)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2018, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/culture-artifacts-that-maybe-not-only-you-remember-but-its-getting-close/819633/284 "2018-08-19T12:37:10Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > [Tom Terrific](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Terrific), with Manfred the Wonder Dog. We always used the honorific, “Mighty.” ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2018, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/culture-artifacts-that-maybe-not-only-you-remember-but-its-getting-close/819633/285 "2018-08-19T13:25:59Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > What two regular cast members[sup]\*[/sup] from _All In the Family_ have been nominated for Oscars? > > - For “regular cast members”, I mean that their names were in the opening credits of the show. Had to be Rob Reiner but as a director and probably Jean Stapleton as a best supporting actress. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2018, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/culture-artifacts-that-maybe-not-only-you-remember-but-its-getting-close/819633/286 "2018-08-19T13:49:24Z")
Have Erector Sets been brought up yet? And not those pre-planned building kits with instructions. Just a bunch of steel and lots and lots of tiny screws and nuts. Played hell on moms vacuum. 🙂 For that matter, also Lincoln Logs. Pretty fun, but usually a disappointment. And anyone remember the shirt stiffening cardboard that was returned in dry cleaned shirts? Made many a village with that, some scissors and some tape. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2018, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/culture-artifacts-that-maybe-not-only-you-remember-but-its-getting-close/819633/287 "2018-08-19T13:55:05Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > Have Erector Sets been brought up yet? And not those pre-planned building kits with instructions. Just a bunch of steel and lots and lots of tiny screws and nuts. Played hell on moms vacuum. 🙂 > > For that matter, also Lincoln Logs. Pretty fun, but usually a disappointment. > > And anyone remember the shirt stiffening cardboard that was returned in dry cleaned shirts? Made many a village with that, some scissors and some tape. I think Lincoln Logs and Erector Sets are still very well known. Both still sell. Lincoln Logs are still found in Nursery Schools/Day Care. Erector Sets maybe not as much, but were still popular into the 90s at least. I don’t remember the dry clean cardboard. I do recall using paper towel & toilet paper rolls, shoe boxes and any other cardboard we could find to make villages or space ships. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2018, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/culture-artifacts-that-maybe-not-only-you-remember-but-its-getting-close/819633/288 "2018-08-19T13:56:33Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > Had to be Rob Reiner but as a director and probably Jean Stapleton as a best supporting actress. Reiner is correct, but not for directing. Stapleton is wrong. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2018, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/culture-artifacts-that-maybe-not-only-you-remember-but-its-getting-close/819633/289 "2018-08-19T14:31:38Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Reiner is correct, but not for directing. Stapleton is wrong. I believe Struthers won an Emmy for Best Weeping in an Infomercial… (fyi, no longer a category; was axed at the same time as the award for best use of the phrase “But wait, there’s more!”) ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2018, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/culture-artifacts-that-maybe-not-only-you-remember-but-its-getting-close/819633/290 "2018-08-19T14:50:26Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Reiner is correct, but not for directing. Stapleton is wrong. You got me to look it up: Danielle Brisebois grew up to make it as a songwriter! ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2018, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/culture-artifacts-that-maybe-not-only-you-remember-but-its-getting-close/819633/291 "2018-08-19T16:39:18Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Jean and Liz Sagal on _Double Trouble_? Good guess, but even before that (_ **DT** _ was '80s, I believe). I’ll give you a clue: It was a Western, not a sitcom. It was a very good show, but it faced some stiff competition and lasted only one season. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2018, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/culture-artifacts-that-maybe-not-only-you-remember-but-its-getting-close/819633/292 "2018-08-19T16:43:39Z")
> [@Wendell\_Wagner](#): > > _Dean Martin Presents the Golddiggers in London_ > > From 1965 to 1976, Dean Martin was the host of an extremely popular weekly variety show. The show took a hiatus each summer (as was typical at that time) and a replacement variety show filled in that time period each week. These summer replacement shows were thus called things like _Dean Martin Presents . . ._ In 1968 and 1969, these summer replacement shows were called _Dean Martin Presents the Golddiggers_. The Golddiggers were a singing and dancing group of twelve women put together just for the show who would fill in between the acts on the show. That was a common thing then. Look up the June Taylor Dancers, for instance. In 1970, this replacement variety show was filmed in London and called _Dean Martin Presents the Golddiggers in London_. > > I only remember a little of this show, but the little I remember had some hilarious sketches by Charles Nelson Reilly (who never did anything else half as good) and Marty Feldman. Feldman had previously been part of _At Last the 1948 Show_. Some of the sketches of _Dean Martin Presents the Golddiggers in London_ were remakes of sketches from _At Last the 1948 Show_, including a version of the Four Yorkshiremen sketch (rewritten to be for just two people). Nothing else on American TV came close to the quality of the comedy sketches on this show. I loved the Golddiggers. They came on the summer I was between 8th and 9th grades. There was one long-haired blonde in particular that I fantasized about; she looked kind of like the one who came along later in the Spice Girls. It seemed to me she was always center stage, smiling directly into the camera. :o ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2018, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/culture-artifacts-that-maybe-not-only-you-remember-but-its-getting-close/819633/293 "2018-08-19T18:17:45Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > You got me to look it up: Danielle Brisebois grew up to make it as a songwriter! Yep; shared a nomination for Best Original Song a few years ago. And Reiner’s nomination was for Best Picture. He was one of the producers of _A Few Good Men_. He directed it, too, but wasn’t nominated for that. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2018, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/culture-artifacts-that-maybe-not-only-you-remember-but-its-getting-close/819633/294 "2018-08-19T18:44:14Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > I’ll give you a clue: It was a Western, not a sitcom. It was a very good show, but it faced some stiff competition and lasted only one season. I never watched many Westerns; this might take a while. Would you count Patricia and Cyb Barnstable playing clones on _Quark_? (Another cultural artifact that’s well down the memory hole.) ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2018, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/culture-artifacts-that-maybe-not-only-you-remember-but-its-getting-close/819633/295 "2018-08-19T18:51:31Z")
_The Monroes_, I’m guessing. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2018, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/culture-artifacts-that-maybe-not-only-you-remember-but-its-getting-close/819633/296 "2018-08-19T19:12:58Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > _The Monroes_, I’m guessing. Correct, 1966–67. Well done! 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2018, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/culture-artifacts-that-maybe-not-only-you-remember-but-its-getting-close/819633/297 "2018-08-19T19:14:43Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > I never watched many Westerns; this might take a while. > > Would you count Patricia and Cyb Barnstable playing clones on _Quark_? (Another cultural artifact that’s well down the memory hole.) 1970s, starring Richard Benjamin of _ **He & She** _, another show that deserved more than one season. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2018, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/culture-artifacts-that-maybe-not-only-you-remember-but-its-getting-close/819633/298 "2018-08-19T19:20:05Z")
No guesses as to “Rosalinda”? :dubious: I’ll give you a clue: She was addressed or referred to by her full name only a few times in 11 years. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2018, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/culture-artifacts-that-maybe-not-only-you-remember-but-its-getting-close/819633/299 "2018-08-19T19:25:07Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > What two regular cast members[sup]\*[/sup] from _All In the Family_ have been nominated for Oscars? > > - For “regular cast members”, I mean that their names were in the opening credits of the show. A little bit of a trick question, since it’s natural to read “Emmys” instead of “Oscars.” I didn’t notice this until I went back and took another look. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2018, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/culture-artifacts-that-maybe-not-only-you-remember-but-its-getting-close/819633/300 "2018-08-19T19:31:48Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > A little bit of a trick question, since it’s natural to read “Emmys” instead of “Oscars.” I didn’t notice this until I went back and took another look. 😉 I thought it was a trick question because nobody remembers the last season of _AItF_ and Edith’s niece Stephanie, much less who played her. I wan’t going for an Oscar/Emmy confusion at all. And I’ve never even heard of _The Monroes_. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/culture-artifacts-that-maybe-not-only-you-remember-but-its-getting-close/819633.md?page=14) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/culture-artifacts-that-maybe-not-only-you-remember-but-its-getting-close/819633.md?page=16)