The Years Gone Bye: A Yearly Snapshot of the People, Places, and Things that Captured Our Attention for 50 Years - Softcover

Rocco, Lorraine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1434391795 ISBN 13: 9781434391797

Publisher: AuthorHouse, 2008

Synopsis

Remember the 50s . . . when there were 2,100 drive-in movies, our income was $3,700, a new house cost $9,000 and we discovered ?The $64,000 Question? was rigged? The 60s . . . when mini skirts raised eyebrows, Chubby Checkers did the Twist, John Glenn orbited the earth, and Martin Luther King, Jr, had a dream? The 70s . . . when Archie called Edith a ?dingbat,? Jaws was a blockbuster, the ?Gatsby? look was in, gas cost 57 cents, and a Ford Mustang, $4,000? The 80s . . . the time of Mohawks and Big Hair, the Berlin Wall fell, cable aired its first MTV broadcast, and Cabbage Patch Dolls were flying off the shelves? The 90s . . .when eyebrows and belly buttons got pierced, everyone danced the Macarana, gangsta rap erupted, and the police chased O.J. down the L. A. Freeway? Read "The Years Gone Bye" and discover how pop culture changed our world in just 50 years

About this title

Synopsis:

The Years Gone Bye takes you back to a time when ...A * a thong was something you wore on your feet A * a blackberry was something you ate A * and mini skirts raised eyebrows A * Elvis was drafted into the army A * Archie called Edith a "dingbat" A * and Forrest Gump became a household name A * America landed on the moon A * divers found the Titanic after 73 years A * and the police chased a white Bronco down the LA Freeway These snippets are just a few threads of the thousands of strands of pop culture and history that weave this book into a tapestry of the last half-century.

About the Author:

Lorraine Rocco is a former elementary school teacher and a current Park House Guide at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.As a journalist, she has published more than 50 human interest articles in the Philadelphia Inquirer. Among her writing credits are four First Place Awards at the Philadelphia Writers Conference and an Honorable Mention for Special Writing in a New Jersey Press Association Contest.Her first novel, Secrets of the Heart, will be published in the fall of 2008. She makes her home in Marlton, New Jersey.

About this edition

• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1434391795
• ISBN 13: 9781434391797
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 124