# For Geezers Only **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 26, 2011, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-geezers-only/600855 "2011-10-26T14:54:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2011, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-geezers-only/600855/41 "2011-10-27T16:01:04Z")
Missed the edit window, but wanted to add that the real Geezer issue has been addressed in [Old Folks: Stand and be counted](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=555195)and has been quite remarkable in its results. Several incarnations of responses and not quite a zombie as those things go, although some of the data is over a year old. I’ve toyed with the idea of updating the list, but the time lag in the actual ages expressed means I’d have to recalculate them. So it’s mostly up to the reader to decide that sort of thing. If you haven’t posted there, and are in your own mind “old folks,” please join the crowd. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2011, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-geezers-only/600855/42 "2011-10-27T16:22:00Z")
One more thing: Although much of the information in [NASHVILLE MEMORIES - FROM THE 1950’s, 60’s & 70’s - DO YOU REMEMBER?](http://nashlinks.com/remember.htm) is specific to Nashville, there’s a lot that isn’t. If your hometown has a similar page, perhaps you could point to it. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2011, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-geezers-only/600855/43 "2011-10-27T16:29:21Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > [Plunk your magic twanger, Froggy!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9pPFCjRPvM) Jeff Greenfield had an article in the Times proposing that the entire 1960s can be explained by this bit, since it taught disrespect for authority. It sure did for me. As for the original list, I’ve seen almost all of them, and know of the rest. And not only do I know about **Beat the Clock** my mother brought me to a taping one day. Another one I saw was **Whom do you Trust** with Johnny Carson and Ed McMahon before he got on The Tonight Show. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2011, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-geezers-only/600855/44 "2011-10-27T16:35:10Z")
> [@Voyager](#): > > As for the original list, I’ve seen almost all of them, and know of the rest. And not only do I know about **Beat the Clock** my mother brought me to a taping one day. Another one I saw was **Whom do you Trust** with Johnny Carson and Ed McMahon before he got on The Tonight Show. One of my favorite trivia bits is that James Dean, during his starving-on-Broadway period of the early 50’s, tested the stunts on **Beat The Clock**! ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2011, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-geezers-only/600855/45 "2011-10-27T17:42:42Z")
Playing with mercury. Breaking it up when dropping it. Then pooling it all together again. ---
**Author:** ![Truman\_Burbank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@Truman\_Burbank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Truman_Burbank)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2011, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-geezers-only/600855/46 "2011-10-27T19:00:21Z")
The Million Dollar Movie (weeknights at 8pm then at least twice each on Saturday and Sunday, the same movie) The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms, and it’s ilk, over and over and over… (or was that just a Los Angeles thing?) PF Flyers Red Ball Jets ---
**Author:** ![pohjonen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pohjonen/32/423_2.png) [@pohjonen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pohjonen)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2011, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-geezers-only/600855/47 "2011-10-27T19:03:46Z")
Tooth powder instead of paste and shampoo in a jar (Lustre Creme). ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2011, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-geezers-only/600855/48 "2011-10-27T19:09:01Z")
> [@Truman\_Burbank](#): > > The Million Dollar Movie (weeknights at 8pm then at least twice each on Saturday and Sunday, the same movie) > The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms, and it’s ilk, over and over and over… > (or was that just a Los Angeles thing?) Sounds like the same sort of thing Nashville had, and maybe Birmingham and Montgomery, in the 50’s and 60’s. That’s the sort of programming that let me see movies from earlier eras. Shows with titles like: Films of the Fabulous Forties (or Thirties or Fifties) Also, there were Creature Feature, Shock Theater, and other late-night and weekend showcases for the old 30’s “horror” movies. Usually with a host in a costume and a name like Dr. Lucifer or Sir Cecil Creape. At one point, WSM-TV in Nashville had a voice-over announcer to those late-night movies, whose gimmick was “This is you announcer speaking…” (That was Pat Sajak who also did some weather forecasting before heading on to the West Coast to fame and fortune and Vanna White). ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2011, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-geezers-only/600855/49 "2011-10-27T19:28:19Z")
> [@brujaja](#): > > Dark Shadows (except I never got to actually _watch_ “Dark Shadows,” because it was on channel 44, **a VHF station** , and our TV was **UHF** – _it only went up to channel 13._ You kids get offa my lawn!) Sorry for the nitpick, but 2-13 are VHF, 14-up UHF. My parents never had a TV capable of picking up UHF stations until I bought them one in the mid-eighties. > [@](#): > > The Million Dollar Movie (weeknights at 8pm then at least twice each on Saturday and Sunday, the same movie) And Studio Wrestling, or was that just a Pittsburgh thing? Also, Walter Cronkite read you the news, Jack Parr hosted the Tonight Show, and Andy Williams, er, did what he did. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2011, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-geezers-only/600855/50 "2011-10-27T19:31:37Z")
> [@Truman\_Burbank](#): > > PF Flyers And Radio Flyer! (Are you a geezer if you even know what it is? No, it isn’t a model airplane.) I saw Milton Berle mentioned above. Don’t forget Jack Benny For the slightly younger geezers, Danny Kaye and Red Skelton. I think there was another thread recently that mentioned telephones with party lines. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2011, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-geezers-only/600855/51 "2011-10-27T19:36:49Z")
> [@Truman\_Burbank](#): > > The Million Dollar Movie (weeknights at 8pm then at least twice each on Saturday and Sunday, the same movie) > The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms, and it’s ilk, over and over and over… > (or was that just a Los Angeles thing?) No, it was the same in New York. When _King Kong_ was featured, I would watch every showing. The intro music was the _Tara_ theme from _Gone With the Wind_, something I didn’t find out until many years later. I still can’t watch _Gone With the Wind_ without being reminded of Million Dollar Movie. [QUOTE=Senegoid] I saw Milton Berle mentioned above. Don’t forget Jack Benny For the slightly younger geezers, Danny Kaye and Red Skelton. [/QUOTE] I used to watch Benny, Kaye, and Skelton, but Berle was a little before my time. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2011, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-geezers-only/600855/52 "2011-10-27T19:39:16Z")
Er, Paar, dammit. ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2011, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-geezers-only/600855/53 "2011-10-27T23:25:08Z")
You’ve come a long way baby Us Tareyton smokers would rather fight than switch My wife. I think I’ll keep her All my men wear English Leather or they wear nothing at all Mother Please! I’d rather do it myself It’s not fried it’s shake and bake and I helped I wish I were an Oscar Mayer weiner ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2011, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-geezers-only/600855/54 "2011-10-28T00:23:43Z")
Although refrenced upthread, a couple of things immediately popped into mind: “Romper, bomper, stomper, boo. Tell me, tell me, tell me, do…” “Have Gun Will Travel reads the card of a man…” ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2011, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-geezers-only/600855/55 "2011-10-28T00:39:21Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > Also, Walter Cronkite read you the news, Jack Parr hosted the Tonight Show, and Andy Williams, er, did what he did. Douglas Edwards did that news show for 14 years preceding Walter. ---
**Author:** ![LH75](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lh75/32/4438_2.png) [@LH75](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LH75)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2011, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-geezers-only/600855/56 "2011-10-28T00:39:23Z")
> [@](#): > > Us Tareyton smokers would rather fight than switch My first pack of cigarettes were Tareytons. it was thirty two cents. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2011, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-geezers-only/600855/57 "2011-10-28T02:00:18Z")
Show us your Lark pack! _Tales of Wells Fargo_. “My name’s Jim Hardy, I smoke Pall Malls.” [Dale Robertson for Pall Mall Cigarettes - YouTube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQj-zHlfD58) ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2011, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-geezers-only/600855/58 "2011-10-28T02:37:48Z")
> [@johnpost](#): > > Douglas Edwards did that news show for 14 years preceding Walter. Sorry, seems to have been before my time, you uber-geezer you 😃 Anyway, to be honest we usually could only get an NBC affiliate with the cheesy rabbit ears my father insisted on using, so it was mostly Huntley and Brinkley who read us our news. ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2011, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-geezers-only/600855/59 "2011-10-28T03:51:48Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > Also, Walter Cronkite read you the news, Jack Parr hosted the Tonight Show, and Andy Williams, er, did what he did. > [@johnpost](#): > > Douglas Edwards did that news show for 14 years preceding Walter. > [@El\_Kabong](#): > > Sorry, seems to have been before my time, you uber-geezer you 😃 > > Anyway, to be honest we usually could only get an NBC affiliate with the cheesy rabbit ears my father insisted on using, so it was mostly Huntley and Brinkley who read us our news. When CBS started the news, with Douglas Edwards, it was 15 minutes long and the first network to have a national news show. Was before my time. ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2011, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-geezers-only/600855/60 "2011-10-28T04:48:07Z")
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