1947

1 Tommy Dorsey TOMMY & JIMMY DORSEY ORCHESTRA
2 Continental Cabriolet Leadership in auto design
3 Dick Tracy Two way wrist radio introduced in 1946 propelled the cartoon this year.
4 Jumblo Elephant size bubbles / from a gun.
5 Winchester You may be missing something.
6 US Steel Where would you be without steel?
7 Bambi Bambi with mom.
8 Bambi Without mom / your mom is looking over in the theather making sure you are crying.
9 Reddy Kilowatt A mascot for electricity.
10 Hollywood Beauty Soap Just in case you want to be that beautiful.
11 Curious George Will meet Forest Gump.
12 Chiquita Banana Labels Stuck on Telephones.
13 Chesterfield Cigarettes Ted Williams and Stan Musial hawk cigarettes.
14 Botany Ties Pin-up work by Williams sells mens ties.
15 Voice of the Turtle Ronald Reagan heard a voice for sure.
16 Shoneys Making that good ol' American Burger since then.
17 The Howdy Doody Show Sold television sets to Boomer parents that needed that baby sitter.
18 Howdy and Bob Smith Forty-eight freckles / one for each state in the Union.
19 Hank Williams Godfather of country music.
20 Camel Cigarettes Polo Player Cecil Smith Hawks.
21 Sad Sack A second book of comic strips called "The New Sad Sack", released in 1946, propelled the cartoon this year.
22 Buffalo Bob Smith Buffalo Bob Smith died in Hendersonville, North Carolina on July 29, 1998. He was 80 years old. He treated the puppets as if they were alive and to us they were, and somewhere in all boomers Buffalo Bob lives.
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24 Roswell UFO crash New Mexico.
25 The Doomsday Clock What we are headed for?
26 The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer. Cary Grant as Dick. Myrna Loy as Margaret. Shirley Temple as Susan.
27 My Favorite Brunette Bob Hope
28 The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. Danny Kaye
29 The Hucksters Clark Gable Deborah Kerr
30 Angel and the Badman John Wayne Gail Russell
31 Old Thompson When it is got out friends drop in.
32 Miracle on 34th Street Edmund Gwenn Natalie Wood
33 Andrews Sisters Road to Rio
34 A Gentleman's Agreement Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire
35 Greyhound Racing Another actviity those returning GI Joes loved.
36 Stanley Cup Last year for stovepipe design. Holder: Toronto Maple Leafs

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