# Help me throw a 60s cocktail party! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 10, 2004, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-throw-a-60s-cocktail-party/259120 "2004-08-10T00:28:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2004, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-throw-a-60s-cocktail-party/259120/41 "2004-08-11T20:36:06Z")
Go to a thrift store and get some old 1960’s copies of **Life** and **Look** magazines to leave lying around. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2004, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-throw-a-60s-cocktail-party/259120/42 "2004-08-11T21:39:08Z")
You need Sinatra. 🆒 And, the Velvet Fog himself, Mel Torme. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![burundi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3ec8ea/32.png) [@burundi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burundi)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2004, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-throw-a-60s-cocktail-party/259120/43 "2004-08-11T22:45:56Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by **Shoshana** > _Oh, please do provide a link. I suddenly can’t see my life as meaningful unless I make some of these immediately._ Sadly, I have no link. I have only witnessed the egg-penguins as background in 1960s cookbooks and once in real life when one of my volunteers bought them to an exhibit opening. She was sort of stuck permanently in her days of early-1960s hot mama-dom. Now _she_ could have thrown a kickin cocktail party, I bet. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2004, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-throw-a-60s-cocktail-party/259120/44 "2004-08-11T23:37:43Z")
Two words: **Bongo Music** Get thee to a Salvation Army to buy an old couch. Probably set you back $50 or so. You could move your current furniture somewhere else and just redo the entire room for probably under $100. Lamps, table, couch and a …ready…\*\*barcalounger. High ball glasses, martini glasses, retro corning ware…all waiting to be scooped up at a thrift shop. Yeah, man. Screw the CD music. It has to be vinyl. The records are easy to come by at the Salvation Army. It’s finding a turn table that works that might be a challenge, but again, SA can come through there, too. Best part is that you could sell the entire lot on Ebay as a 60’s theme package to off load it on someone else for a local pick up and probably easily recoup your money put into it. If I were single and living alone or had roomies, I would decorate my pad entirely vintage. Every room from a different era. It would be sweet. ---
**Author:** ![Earthman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9dc877/32.png) [@Earthman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earthman)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2004, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-throw-a-60s-cocktail-party/259120/45 "2004-08-12T02:59:05Z")
[Here](http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/cz/CZ3.html) are some egg penguins, about halfway down the page. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2004, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-throw-a-60s-cocktail-party/259120/46 "2004-08-12T03:50:26Z")
Re. the bawdy comedienne – I don’t think it was Rusty Warren. (If it was, she’s really changed her look!) I’ll call a certain friend tomorrow though and try to sort this out. Ciao-ciao for now… ---
**Author:** ![saoirse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@saoirse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saoirse)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2004, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-throw-a-60s-cocktail-party/259120/47 "2004-08-12T21:14:34Z")
> [@Shirley Ujest](#): > > Screw the CD music. It has to be vinyl. The records are easy to come by at the Salvation Army. It’s finding a turn table that works that might be a challenge, but again, SA can come through there, too. And if you see what appears to be a large, faux-mahogany cube-shaped end table, and notice that the top opens, you may have scored a hi-fi. ---
**Author:** ![cher3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cher3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cher3)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2004, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-throw-a-60s-cocktail-party/259120/48 "2004-08-12T22:01:11Z")
> [@saoirse](#): > > And if you see what appears to be a large, faux-mahogany cube-shaped end table, and notice that the top opens, you may have scored a hi-fi. Oooh, my parents had one of those. In fact, it was two end tables–one of them was the second speaker. I think they actually were mahogany, though. Very fancy. I think there was a radio in it, as well. I don’t know about the fondue, but you need something in a chafing dish. Maybe coctail weenies or Swedish meatballs. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2004, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-throw-a-60s-cocktail-party/259120/49 "2004-08-12T22:22:47Z")
Sorry, I can’t come up with an I.D. on the bawdy comedienne. OTOH, if you scout around vinyl-carrying and otherwise oddball indie music shops in your area, you might just get lucky and find a time-capsule item along those lines. ---
**Author:** ![Atticus\_Finch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ec9cab/32.png) [@Atticus\_Finch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atticus_Finch)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2004, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-throw-a-60s-cocktail-party/259120/50 "2004-08-13T01:25:59Z")
This is great stuff, folks. Thank you all. ---
**Author:** ![finette6](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7993a0/32.png) [@finette6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/finette6)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2004, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-throw-a-60s-cocktail-party/259120/51 "2004-08-13T08:01:47Z")
I think the phantom comedienne is Ruth Wallis. I just dug my collection of Hawaiian/tropical records out of the pile of stuff coming to college with me to be sure- I have a copy of her “Bahama Mama- for adults only- risque you betcha!” That goes on my wall with the Don Ho and hula-sploitation stuff. I can’t wait to put it back up! ---
**Author:** ![furlibusea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@furlibusea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furlibusea)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2004, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-throw-a-60s-cocktail-party/259120/52 "2004-08-13T13:17:15Z")
that sounds sort of like Phylis Diller? ---
**Author:** ![furlibusea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@furlibusea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furlibusea)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2004, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-throw-a-60s-cocktail-party/259120/53 "2004-08-13T13:21:09Z")
You need a cheeze ball, and little sandwiches on that coctail rye bread, I do not remember what actually went into those but I sort of remember them being on the table for that kind of party. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2004, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-throw-a-60s-cocktail-party/259120/54 "2004-08-13T19:20:47Z")
> [@Sean Factotum](#): > > And to wind up the evening, play the Key Game (as seen in _The Ice Storm_.) And in _How the Grinch Stole Christmas_ (the movie). ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2004, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-throw-a-60s-cocktail-party/259120/55 "2004-08-13T20:01:18Z")
Get some frilly toothpicks, and impale a cube of Spam®, a cube of Velveeta®, and a pimento-stuffed green olive. Betcha can’t eat just one! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-throw-a-60s-cocktail-party/259120.md?page=2)