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You Can Go Home Again

For our feature “House Proud,” page 24, readers share touching memories of growing up in homes built in the ranch style, that stalwart of the suburbs. Based on California architecture that had open floor plans for ventilation, the ranch proved ideal for young families and for life in the suburbs, where the door was always open for a chat and a coffee or, as Judy Jones recalls in “Home Sweet Homes,” page 26, for an afternoon of TV viewing with all the kids on the street. Open-concept living became a philosophy of community life, especially in the 1950s and ’60s. This was a golden age for growing up, when kids burst out of the house on Saturday morning for a day of adventure, Mom waving them off with a quick “Be…

You Can Go Home Again

1975 VOLLEYS, VOWELS AND VIDEOS

SURPRISE VICTORY Days shy of 32 years old, Arthur Ashe, above right, is the past-his-prime underdog when he beats upstart favorite Jimmy Connors, 22, above left, in a strategically brilliant match at Wimbledon. Ashe is the first Black man to win Wimbledon, but not the first Black player: Althea Gibson won in 1957. TV MAINSTAYS Three of today’s longest-running programs debut, including game show Wheel of Fortune and sketch show Saturday Night Live (both NBC), and ABC’s Good Morning America. All weathered cast changes, but Wheel of Fortune had the fewest: Pat Sajak became the host in 1981; Vanna White, below, joined a year later. NEW LEADER Britain’s Conservative Party elects Margaret Thatcher as leader. Four years later, her party wins the majority in parliament and she becomes the U.K.’s first female prime minister, earning…

1975 VOLLEYS, VOWELS AND VIDEOS

◾ Inventor Joshua Reynolds, above, uses a heat-sensitive liquid crystal that responds to body temperature. Colors reflect distinct moods, including blue (tranquil), red (agitated) and violet or purple (passion). ◾ The fad starts in New York and soon sweeps the nation. More than 20 million rings sell by year’s end. ◾ Prices range from under $45 for a mass-market sterling silver version to $250 for a gold one at upscale retailer Neiman-Marcus. Celebrities, including Barbra Streisand and Ali MacGraw, embrace the fad. ◾ All too soon, cheap knockoffs eat into Reynolds’s profits, which turn his mood gray. REYNOLDS: JOHN OLSON/GETTY IMAGES; JAWS : SUNSET BOULEVARD/GETTY IMAGES; FORD: BETTMAN/GETTY IMAGES…

WINNER RISES FROM DEPTHS OF CHAOS

No one expected Jaws to rule the box office in 1975. In fact, during filming off Martha’s Vineyard in 1974, the filmmakers wondered if the movie would reach theaters at all. As co-star Richard Dreyfuss later said, “We started the film without a script, without a cast and without a shark.” Peter Benchley wrote the script based on his bestselling novel, but director Steven Spielberg rejected it, finding the characters so unlikable that he rooted for the shark. Spielberg hired veteran TV writer Carl Gottlieb and others to inject humor into the dialogue and encouraged the actors to improvise. The movie’s most famous line—Chief Brody’s “You’re gonna need a bigger boat”—was courtesy of actor Roy Scheider. Scheider signed on early, after Robert Duvall turned down the role, but Spielberg had a harder…

WINNER RISES FROM DEPTHS OF CHAOS

Polyester was an instant success when DuPont introduced it in 1951. The American public was open to using the cheap synthetic fabric, which was machine-washable and wrinkle-free, for, well, almost anything. In the early 1970s, Lee Jeans began producing shirtlike jackets with matching slacks, marketing the easygoing ensembles as business attire. In 1974, the New York Times noted that the suits were a hot item but reserved judgment on the design’s longevity. In 1975, when Merriam-Webster got on board, the style’s popularity was peaking, although that didn’t seem to faze the handsome dudes in the Sears catalog.…

Bruce Springsteen Born in 1949

Living his roots The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame calls New Jersey’s famous son “a voice of underdogs and the working class” for his unsparing observations about life for those born without silver spoons. The personal becomes political After President Ronald Reagan’s 1984 reelection campaign name-dropped Springsteen, the musician responded by helping food banks and strike-relief efforts. In 2008 he endorsed then–Sen. Barack Obama, saying, “He speaks to the America I’ve envisioned in my music for the past 35 years.” Later, he played on the campaign trail and at the White House. The Boss on Broadway The White House gig inspired his show, Springsteen on Broadway, and Springsteen won a special Tony Award for the production. ~ Bruce Springsteen ~“You can’t have a United States if you are telling some folks that they can’t get…

Bruce Springsteen Born in 1949

THE ADVENTURES OF LOLA

Lola was a white dog, with brown patches on one shoulder and her head. She may have been a mutt, but she was a natural service dog. We lived in Reading, north of Boston, in a large house on several acres of wooded land in the 1950s and ’60s. Lola was wherever we kids were, playing games and sledding. She even let my sister Cindy dress her. My brother Steve was born with arthrogryposis in his legs. After each of his multiple surgeries, he relearned to walk, leaning on Lola. She seemed to know when to start and stop as Steve took tentative steps. Even when Steve could walk again, Lola stayed near him. Our younger brother, Jamie, learned to walk at Lola’s side, too. She never flinched if he pulled her…

THE ADVENTURES OF LOLA

LONG–LOST LETTER

Dear Deanna, Just a line to let you know I am well and hope you are too. I haven’t been able to find you a turtle yet but I will as soon as they come out (of hibernation). It is still cold, I guess. Well, it won’t be long now till Easter. I hope you have a good time. Well, honey, I can’t think of any more to write so I will close for this time. With lots of love, Daddy Lamond V. Tait, my father, was a sheepherder in the Arizona Strip, a remote district north of the Grand Canyon, when he wrote a letter to me, then 3, in 1942. Through a strange set of circumstances, I didn’t receive the letter until 46 years later. My dad was a true shepherd,…

LONG–LOST LETTER

WAVES CRASH CHOW TIME

My father, Keith Bourne, served in the Navy from 1982 to 1985. In November 1983 the ship he served on, the USS Leftwich, was sailing along the coasts of Washington and Oregon when it was caught in a severe storm. The waves were 30 feet high, causing the destroyer to roll nearly onto its side. Crew members who happened to be walking in the passageway during one of these rolls wound up walking along the seam between the bulkhead and the deck. An officer was nearly washed overboard but saved himself by grabbing on to the lifelines. After that, only the lookouts were allowed on deck until the storm subsided three days later. One day during the storm, my father and another sailor were mess cranking, the informal name for a period…

WAVES CRASH CHOW TIME

“MIRROR, MIRROR?”

When I began planning my autumn wedding to Don Sterling in 1960, my mother, a born and bred New Yorker, insisted that we shop for my dress in the city. I was after a high-fashion gown I’d seen in a bridal magazine. The bridal consultant at Bonwit Teller, a luxury department store on Fifth Avenue, told me the gown in the magazine was from the House of Bianchi and would have to be ordered. She suggested I try on some of the gowns the store had in stock before making my decision. I was disappointed—that is, until she helped me into a breathtaking silk peau de soie gown with a cathedral train, embellished with seed pearls and bugle beads. My mother teared up as she looked at me, and I knew this…

“MIRROR, MIRROR?”

Home Sweet Homes

We moved from the small Kansas town of Kingman to Wichita in 1951. Our little ranch house was the epitome of cookie-cutter housing. Two Dutch elms the city planted flanked each front yard on the block. Although the houses were alike, the families living in them certainly weren’t. Very quickly after we all moved in, new landscaping and other changes appeared at each property, as if to say “This is who we are.” Some houses sported a TV antenna, which was a big status symbol at the time. The first houses with televisions became the most popular on the street. The first family near us to get a TV had two preschool children. The parents magnanimously invited all the neighborhood kids to join them after school. Kids up through middle school age…

Home Sweet Homes

A HOUSE WITH GOOD BONES

A single mom in the early 1990s, I bought our ranch house with the help of a Federal Housing Administration loan. I was the third owner of the house, which had three bedrooms, one bath and a two-car garage. The bathroom and kitchen had olive green countertops, gold carpet and baseboard heaters. We loved every inch of it. I marked the growth heights of my son Kyle and daughter Christy on a wall by the hall. As the kids grew into teenagers, the house seemed to grow smaller. But a small house had unexpected benefits. It required us to be close in more ways than one. It taught us to wait patiently for the bathroom, greet each other as we passed in the hallway, and share space in the kitchen. Now my…

No More White Stuff

From the time I was born 80 years ago until I married at 22, my home was a three-bedroom, two-story colonial house in Eggertsville, outside Buffalo. It was a good fit for our family—my parents, Walter and Pearl, my brother, Michael, my sister, Barbara, and me. It was a nice white clapboard house built in the 1940s. Its only downside was the wood siding, which meant frequent painting—and it was a huge project each time. When Michael and I were small, the neighbors would get together every summer to paint one of their houses. For our immediate neighbors, this system meant that each house got a fresh coat of paint every four years. When Michael and I were old enough to swing a brush, our parents drafted us into the house-painting brigade.…

No More White Stuff

OUT OF CALIFORNIA, A NEW EASY–LIVING STYLE

West Coast architect Clifford May designed the first ranch in 1931, based on California’s Spanish colonial dwellings. Both the original colonials and May’s updated versions had sprawling, single-story footprints, gently sloped or flat roofs, and distinct horizontal lines. Unlike the two-story or saltbox styles back East, the ranch had an open floor plan, with low or no walls separating kitchen, dining and living areas. Rear sliding doors oriented focus to the backyard, where the family relaxed on a patio or around a pool. Most ranches were under 1,300 square feet, but picture windows made them feel bigger. The style suited warm climates, but posed problems in wet or cold areas—rain pools on a flat roof, and sprawling, single-story houses are harder to heat. But the design was adaptable, affordable and easy to…

OUT OF CALIFORNIA, A NEW EASY–LIVING STYLE

Perfect Place to Raise a Family

When I was born in the early 1960s, my young parents lived in a row house in Allentown. IBM offered my father, Robert Bauer, a job at its offices in Endicott, New York. I wasn’t quite a year old and my mother, Margie, was pregnant with my brother Eric. So Dad had to go to Endicott alone to look for a house that would suit his growing family. Mom gave Dad a wish list, but most important for her was that the house have a big yard. She’d grown up in Oregon and wanted her kids to enjoy the outdoors, too. They chose a brick ranch built on a hill with a driveway leading to a one-car garage. All the houses in our neighborhood looked different from each other on the outside—ours…

Perfect Place to Raise a Family

A DELICIOUS BEGINNING

Unusual weather had created a silver thaw in our small Washington state town of Pacific on New Year’s Eve 1968. Authorities closed all the highways, with only emergency vehicles permitted to use them. With everyone’s holiday plans canceled, I invited the neighbors to walk, ski or sled their way to our house for a party. I wrote just one invitation and had my boys show it to each neighbor. “We are all stuck close to home,” I wrote. “But come as you are. If you were planning to take something to a party, bring it here and add it to ours for a big New Year’s Eve potluck. There will be food, music, board games and entertainment for all ages. Bring the entire family!” I was surprised at how many came, in…

A DELICIOUS BEGINNING

WAXING NOSTALGIC

Lifting the flip top on a box of rainbow-hued crayons is like opening a time capsule. Binney & Smith, the company behind the beloved Crayola brand, introduced the first box of eight waxy coloring sticks in 1903. While Europe was the birthplace of the modern crayon—made from a mixture of charcoal and oil—Alice Binney, a teacher and the wife of company co-founder Edwin Binney, suggested Binney & Smith create an inexpensive alternative to the imported versions. The company, based in Pennsylvania, already knew how to manufacture steadfast pigment—automotive tires sported Binney & Smith carbon black, and farmers dressed up their barns with paint tinted with Binney & Smith red oxide. Alice Binney dreamed up the name Crayola, combining the French craie (chalk) with “ola,” a short form of oleaginous or oily. The company’s…

WAXING NOSTALGIC

KNOW WHEN TO FOLD ’EM

1961 ALL ON THE TABLE Premium suitcase maker Shwayder Trunk, which named its uniquely tough line of luggage Samsonite after the strapping Bible figure, diversified into the furniture business when the Great Depression caused suitcase sales to plunge. At one point during the 1930s, card tables were the company’s top sellers. 1961 DANISH PORTABLE Modern curves, the made-up name Scanda and a model of a Viking longship: Samsonite’s fashionable folding table made the most of the midcentury Scandinavian design trend. 1961 IRONING OUT DESIGN DETAILS Rid-Jid was a trademark of Minnesota-based J. R. Clark Co., maker of a range of household products, such as step stools and clothing racks. The folding system and swooping legs of this stylish pedestal table borrowed elements of design from Rid-Jid’s metal-top ironing boards.…

KNOW WHEN TO FOLD ’EM

CEDAR–LINED TIME CAPSULE

When I graduated from high school in Spokane in 1966, my boyfriend, Rick, surprised me with a Lane cedar-lined hope chest for a graduation present. I’d told him my friend received a chest from her fiance for Christmas, so I was thrilled that he took the hint. Rick and I weren’t engaged yet, but we were certain we’d get married. My family teased me about planning for marriage so young—I was 17—but I loved my hope chest and enjoyed buying household items to store in it for my future home: place mats, napkins, pillowcases, measuring cups, pie plates. We married three years later. My chest moved with me to Germany, to several midwestern states, and back to the Pacific Northwest. It was always a treasured piece of furniture in our bedroom. Today it…

CEDAR–LINED TIME CAPSULE

STAR TREK MISSION

Star Trek premiered in 1966, shortly before my sixth birthday. I loved the series, and my favorite character was Montgomery “Scotty” Scott, the chief engineer on the USS Enterprise. I am not sure if it was Scotty’s devotion to his job or that he was Scottish, one of my nationalities, that made me appreciate the character. I was quite saddened when the original series went off the air in 1969, but I continued to be a fan through the books, movies and TV reruns. In 1983, I learned of a Star Trek convention featuring James Doohan, the actor who played Scotty. The event was in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, driving distance from my home in the Quad Cities. I was in my early 20s, but I wasn’t comfortable driving to the convention by…

STAR TREK MISSION

BASHFUL BALLERINAS Shy and awkward, we girls were not happy when Mom enrolled us in ballet lessons in Brick Town. After three years, she put an end to our misery, but not before several dreaded dance recitals, including this one in 1965 when I was 9 and Jen was 5. ELIZABETH MAHON POINT PLEASANT, NJ CUTE SALUTE When I was 8, I took dance lessons from three different studios in Fresno, but tap was my first love. This military number is from 1945. JOAN ZOLDOSKE • CLOVIS, CA DOUBLE TAP My tap partner Phyllis Ribble, right, and I are clutching the silver dollars we won in our town’s dance contest in 1935, when we were 11. AVIS CLAEYS • TUCSON, AZ MISS ALYCE’S DANCE SCHOOL Mom loved to sew, but love might not have been what she felt as she…

ONE–YEAR WONDER

Old cars have always fascinated me. I’ve owned models from 1949 and 1956, and several from 1957. While in Texas on a business trip in 1999, I spotted an ad for this vehicle in a local buyers guide. After returning home I called the owner and arranged to make the trip back south to look at it. I found that the car was complete and mostly rust free. I rented a U-Haul trailer and towed it home to Wisconsin, where I had it painted, overhauled the engine and did some minor customization. This wagon has become one of my favorites because of its rarity. A one-year-only model, it turns heads whenever I drive it. People admire it but often can’t identify it by model or year. I think part of the mystery…

ONE–YEAR WONDER

ACROSS 1 1963 Beach Boys song, 2 wds. 5 Long for9 _____ Speedwagon10 “On the wind that lifts her _____ through the air” (Beach Boys lyric)12 Be situated13 A or B of a record15 Surfer’s need17 Small restaurants19 Swiss mountain21 Italian river22 Beach Boys co-founder, 2 wds. 26 Shaft of sunshine28 Existed29 1965 Beach Boys song, 2 wds. 30 “Wouldn’t it be _____?” Beach Boys hit 32 Two-door car type referenced in two Beach Boys song titles34 At the crack of dawn36 “_____ Only Knows” 1966 Beach Boys song39 Driver’s license, for one40 Beach Boys song from album Surfer Girl43 “Strange _____” 1967 song by Cream46 Biblical texts47 Beach Boys co-founder, Brian _____ DOWN 1 1971 Beach Boys song, 2 wds. 2 Woman’s name in the title of a 1965 Beach Boys song 3 Misbehaving tots4 Blue sky…

My family lived in sleepy Pico Rivera, outside Los Angeles, in 1952. Transplants from New York, we had lived in California for 10 years. I was 14 that summer, when my brother, Mike, my mother and I took a trip back east. First we took Santa Fe Railway’s El Capitan from LA to Chicago, where we visited family for a couple of days. The landscape was barren desert and boring farmland, so Mike and I counted telephone poles until we fell asleep sitting up in our seats. We couldn’t afford a sleeping compartment, but I decided if I ever took the train again, I’d travel in one. Lots of relatives awaited us in New York. I hardly knew them because we’d moved when I was so young. We stayed with our grandparents…

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KITCHEN GALLERY

Back in the late 1990s, I bought a book of posters designed by artist Peter Max at a used bookstore. A few words about the artist: He was born in Germany in 1937 as Peter Max Finkelstein. His family moved to avoid the unrest during World War II and finally settled in Brooklyn, New York. During the 1950s, Max studied art at the Louvre Museum in Paris and the School of Visual Arts in New York City. He went on to be very influential in the pop art movement, creating colorful surrealist artwork for major events such as Super Bowls and the New York City Marathon. The book of posters I found contained 16 loosely bound reproductions of some of his most famous pieces on heavy, glossy paper suitable for framing. I…

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