One Minute to Zero (1952) - IMDb

One Minute to Zero (1952) - IMDb  A little information on the movie I just mentioned, if you have not seen it, you might want to  put it on your list of to do.

Nat King Cole sings "When I Fall in Love"

An early 1950 song, introduced in a movie, One Minute to Zero, according to Wikipedia....what a song/1

Small Town FraminghamTito Puente Mambo Birdland

1950's Mambo, and Birdland...we all wanted to go to New York to Birdland

Small Town Framingham It's No Sin - 3 versions. Four Aces, Eddy Howard, Duprees

Come back to the high school days of the early 1950's when we all hummed and sang this song.  It rang out of our juke boxes and car radios thru the open windows in summer.  It played on the records in our victrolas....that is what we called the record player.

Small Town Framingham

+Richard Rotelli  born in Framingham and schooled in our public schools,  wrote a piece about his summer of work at the Dennison.  It was eye opening about factory work in our town, the people who worked there, and the culture of the time.  He may have given it to the Framingham History Center, in case you want to read it.  Richard Rotelli is also the author of two books, which you can find by googling him, or going to Amazon.com

Small Town FraminghamThe Hawaii Clipper Disappearance - Historic Mysteries

The Hawaii Clipper Disappearance - Historic Mysteries    Before the days of commercial travel over the sea, mysteries like this happened

small town Framingham, basements before air conditioning

A basement was a wonderful treat in the long ago days of the 1940's and 1950's.  Before air conditioning we had the front porch and a small fan that whirred hard to keep us all cool. The basement on the other hand remained cool most of the time, and so our parents had a living room in the basement, or a family room....but we did not know family rooms in those days, so it was our summer living room.  Some people even had a basement kitchen.

Our room had chairs, table, phonograph player and radio, plus standing lights to go between the chairs so the folks could read the evening paper and listen to the radio, or turn on the phonograph and dance on the basement concrete floor.  The summer living room in the basement doubled as our playroom, and when I became a teen, it was my party room.  Many times I had a party in the basement with my friends, thanks to a great Mom.