1948

1 Frank Sinatra at the Copa With a new bevy of Copa Girls
2 Red River John Wayne / Montgomery Clift
3 Ava Gardner Sells Lux Soap
4 Walgreens Touting accuracy.
5 Rice Krispies Get those cloth dolls of "Snap Crackle and Pop.
6 Phil Rizzuto Rookie Card
7 Pat Boone here with Ted Mack Ted Mack was the host of the Original Amateur Hour. Prelude to American Idol
8 Milton Berle Selling that Texaco Gasoline.
9 Jeepster Original SUV
10 Ed Sullivan Remember Topo Gigio?
11 April Showers Moms vanity table.
12 John Cameron Swayze Remeber the Timex Watch Commercials?
13 Old MacDonald Farm Game E I E I O
14 Buick Super Estate Wagon For the McMansions of the day. Actually very pretty lines on that car.
15 Billie Holiday "Don't Explain" Decca Records
16 Unfaithfully Yours Rex Harrison Suspects Wife of Cheating
17 Ronald Reagan Hawks for Chesterfield and Radio free Europe
18 Foghorn Leghorn hears it from Henry Hawk. Who among us hasn't been on one side or the other of one of these?
19 Crosley Automotive Selling 44 Miles per Gallon in 1948.
20 The Lady From Shanghai "I told you..... you know nothing about wickedness."
21 Daffy Duck We remember him battling a Nazi goat intent on eating Daffy's scrap metal in Scrap Happy Daffy (1943).
22 Humphrey Bogart Selling Pens the size of Cigarettes.
23 Return of the Vampire Bella Lugosi / Eerie! Terrifying! Chilling!
24 Tucker Advertisement The Tucker Sedan was an advanced automobile conceived by Preston Tucker produced in Chicago in 1948. Only 51 examples were made before the company folded under false allegations of fraud.
25 Perry Como Inducted into the Long Island Music Hall of Fame in 2006. Passed away May 12, 2001. "You can't pull the wool over my eyes."
26 Marvin the Martain Marvin the Martian made his first appearence this year in Haredevil Hare.
27 Max Schmeling The only Heavyweight World Champion to win the title on a disqualification / A true champion in 1938 Schmeling risked his own life to save two Jewish children in Nazi Germany.
28 A Special gift for him. Really is it the shirt?
29 Bogart in Sahara A microcosm of Allied forces works together to defeat a much larger German force.
30 Methadone ad. When relief of pain is of paramount importance.
31 Road Runner & Wile E. Coyote Wile E.Coyote must try but never succeed.
32 Josephine Baker Limited Engagement in New York
33 Crouquet Advertisement Cookout with the family.
34 Budweiser Have a cold one.
35 Dark Passage Bogart, convicted of murdering his wife, escapes prison to prove his innocense.
36 First McDonalds The start of something big.
37 Lincoln Logs Here is a version of the toy you are sure to remember.
38 66 Special Cadillac Unleases a Special where does 66 come form?
39 Treasure of Sierra Madre Bogart goes for the gold.
40 Paleface Jane Russel and Bob Hope whoop it up.
41 Stan Musial Named Most Valuable Player (MVP) 1943, 1946, and 1948. Musial played all of his 22 years of professional baseball with the St. Louis Cardinals.
42 Stetson Hats Who hasn't wanted one.
43 In Out Burger We love our burger joints.
44 If You Knew Susie Eddie Cantor and Joan Davis as husband and wife make for a great comedy.
45 Buick Roadmaster What a great parade car.
46 Texaco star theater Where are the fashion police when you need them?
47 Alger Hiss Takes Oath Alger Hiss, accused of Communist espionage, takes an oath during hearings before the House Committee on Un-American Activities. He denied Whittaker Chambers' accusation that he was a Communist. August, 1948.
48 Berlin Airlift In June 1948, the Soviet Union attempted to control all of Berlin by cutting surface traffic to the city of West Berlin. Starving out the population and cutting off their business was their method of gaining control. Truman reacted with a continual daily
49 Alger Hiss Mug Shot Alger Hiss guilty of perjury as charged on both counts.
50 Cost of Cold War 31 American pilots and 39 British lost their lives during the airlift.
51 Nixon reading news of Hiss. In the 1952 elections, Republicans blame Hiss and the Democrats for betraying the national interest at Yalta and the first U. N conference. Republican vice presidential candidate Richard Nixon makes the Hiss case a centerpoint of his campaign, attacking
52 Hiss Guilty Hiss is freed from prison after serving three years and eight months.
53 Morey Amsterdam In 1948 he began hosting The Morey Amsterdam Show.
54 Babe Ruth We lost him this year.
55 Babe Ruth's Grave Marker Lost Chanmpion.
56 Ben Gurion declares independence Ben Gurion declared the establishment of the State of Israel on May 14, 1948.
57 New State of Israel On Friday May 14 the Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel was signed by members of the National Council gathered at the Tel Aviv Museum, representing the Jewish community .
58 Cold War Fighters Called to duty again.
59 Hamlet Laurence Olivier
60 Key Largo Edward G.Robinson Bogart / Bacall
61 Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstien
62 Captain Video
63 RULDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER On behalf of Montgomery Ward & Co.

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