I'm a Fool To Do Your Dirty Work: 10 Songs About Infidelity
I'm just going to say it -- the inspiration for this post is that for my entire life up until now, for some reason, I've attracte...
Showing posts with label 1950s. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1950s. Show all posts
Tips For Tramps: When A Girl Is A Tease (1952)
Ladies, are you a woman that briefly looks at a man you find attractive with a sexy gaze and then averts your eyes? Have you ever dropped...
My Retro-Related New Year's Resolutions
How many of you have quit your New Year's resolutions already? Like most folks, I made my share of serious ones: work out more regularly...
Howdy, Partner: What the Kiddos Wanted to Be For Christmas in 1959
This will be my last post before Christmas, so before we get into it let me just wish all of my readers that celebrate it a very merry, h...
Wanna Curdle? Why I Love Cottage Cheese
I love cottage cheese. Well, somebody had to say it. Cottage cheese is often overshadowed these days by Greek yogurt, and gets a bad r...
100 Years of Halloween Costumes in 3 Minutes
Mode.com has been giving us some great videos this year showing the evolution of style during the past century. Their latest, 100 Years o...
Not Your Pop's Playboy Anymore
"What sort of man reads Playboy?" In light of the news this week about Hugh Hefner's famed mag ditching nude photos from th...
Rejoice, Single Ladies: The "Old Maid" Term Is Dead
Yep, you heard it here first on Go Retro: the Old Maid is dead. I'm not a fan of elder abuse, but it was about time someone took ...
Go Retro/Be Retro Bowling Shirt Giveaway!
It's been eons since I've been able to offer a giveaway on Go Retro, so I was excited and grateful when a company named Be Retr...
Jack LaLanne's Words of Wisdom on Being Happy
I posted this video clip of Jack LaLanne a few years ago when the fitness pioneer passed away at the age of 96, but I have never forgotte...
Movie Review: The Identical (2014)
Do you ever stop to think about what may have become of Elvis' twin brother had he lived? No? Well, not to worry, because someone in ...
Land of the Lost TV Series #8: The Continental
It's easy to complain sometimes about the multitude of reality TV shows--some of the truly bad variety--that still pepper network and...
New REBEAT Article: It's the Same Old Song (9 Notable Cases of Music Plagiarism)
Music plagiarism has been a hot topic in the news lately, first plaguing Sam Smith and now involving Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams...
Teaching An Old Tube Some New Tricks
Vintage television sets pose a conundrum for the retro lover: they are awfully cool to look at, but require some finagling with a converter ...
Book Review: The Aviator's Wife
Have you ever envied the spouse of your favorite celebrity crush and wish you could trade places with her (or him)? Well, don't. At le...
The Weird World of Walter and Margaret Keane
The day after Christmas I went to see the new Tim Burton film Big Eyes starring Amy Adams and Christoph Waltz as Margaret and Walter Kea...
Proof That Old Timey Halloween Was Way More Terrifying Than Modern Day Halloween
They breed. I did a blog post on this topic some years ago, but thanks to the proliferation of these photos on Pinterest and Flickr, it...
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