Tuesday Taylor, the doll with a glamourous wardrobe, ski lodge and penthouse apartment was created in 1975 for Generation X. Designed and marketed by IDEAL, she was produced to rival Barbie. Unfortunately, Tuesday faded from the scene in 1978, the year Mattel...
To Nostalgia With Love. But Please Stop Texting Me When my best friend Louisa (1970-2024) was still the editor of Oklahoma Today, I showed up to her office in Oklahoma City's First National Center with a 1979 Barbie Dream House. I'd discovered it at a local thrift...
My friend in red tights and tennis shoes, circa 1971 This is a picture of my friend and her little brother. It was taken in the early 1970s when she was living in base housing. I first met her in the late 1970s at a church camp in East Texas. In the fall of 1985, I...
Who Is Dorothy Stratten? Dorothy Stratten (1960-1980) was a Canadian-born Playboy playmate and actress. Sadly, she was murdered by her husband Paul in the midst of a divorce battle. I stumbled upon Dorothy's story on a website dedicated to the late beauty. The author...
How To Trim A Hoop Baton, etc. Check out these beautiful pictures of Bridgy twirling her hoop baton on the sideline at the McGuinness Homecoming game on September 21, 2023. The theme of the game was "gold out" so we trimmed her hoop baton with this amazing gold...
DAILY PHOTO: Three-year-old Toni wears a granny square afghan poncho and matching skirt, March 1971. ✌️ I love her go-go boots! That's the thing about ponchos. If you had one it was probably made by someone who loved you. 🧡💛 (Photo Credit: Toni L., a longtime follower...
My Madaonna Wannabe Days One thing I don't admit to very often is that I have always been a huge Madonna fan. I fell in love with her music after hearing Borderline on the radio in February 1984. I was living in Northeast Oklahoma at the time and crossing the border...
Today's Daily Gen X photo is a vintage Charlie the Tuna of Sorry-Charlie fame! I am able to share it thanks to the generous spirit of Shannon Kringen, a Gen-X artist who was born in 1968. I appreciate Shannon allowing me to bring this wonderful photo to a larger...
Transformers: “Like No Toy Robots I Had Ever Seen” Well this just happened… It was nearing 4 pm and I was frantically clacking away at the keyboard because I knew there was not much time before…too late. “Daddy!” boomed a voice from across the room, splitting the air,...
1980s Scrapbook Today’s Daily Photo is a page from my 1980s scrapbook. It features church ribbons from the 80s and field day ribbons from the 1970s. The church ribbons belonged to my mother. She let me have them when I put the scrapbook together all those many years...
Oh, I could write a sonnet about your Easter bonnet, And of the girl I'm taking to the Easter parade. --Irving Berlin, 1933 Thanks to the worldwide pandemic, there won't be an Easter Hat Parade in New York City this year or, for the matter, anywhere else in the United...