well thanks for coming back my name is bill maher on the host of the program things they usually don't teach you today we're going to take a little different stance than we usually do most of the time history and things are taught in our schools to presidents in wars well what i'm going to do today in the name of this program is the history exam for the over fifty crowd so we're going to hask the young folks to sit back a little bit maybe learn something from the past and those folks that are in fact over fifty put your mind to work here and see what you what you can possibly remember the first question we have today all right in the mid forty's where were the automobile headlight dimmer switches located in your cars where they on the floor shift where the on the floorboard next to the clutch or next to the horn all right the answer is that of course was on the floorboard next to the clutch and you'll see by the next slide here the gives an example of it most of the folks they are used to having it on the  single switch the ball top of the royal crown cola bottle had holes in it why was it to capture lightning bugs and put them in there so they can breathe to sprinkle clo was having milk delivered in the problem in the north during the winter time cows got cold couldn't produce ice on the highways made it hard to deliver or the milkman leaving the livery is outside in fact the milk froze and the correct answer of course would be the caps did not hold well they were only like aluminum foil caps so whenever the milk all got cold it expanded and in fact would ruin the what was a popular chewing gum name for a game of chance blackjack gin or craps and if you happen to be and stores even today they still sell the black jack gum using what method did women use after the world war two if they were wanting to look like they were wearing stockings but because of rationing didn't have any available sun tanning the legs leg painting or just wear slacks that gave the correct answer is leg painting ok needless to say there were like women have places to get finger nails done today they would actually have stores that you can go in and get your legs colored if in fact you wanted to have this done to demonstrate a seam on the back of the leg they would use  liner to mark the picture as you see what postwar car turned automotive design on its ear because you couldn't tell whether it was coming or going the studebaker the nash metro or the tucker the correct answer on this one of course is a studebaker they had a number of accidents caused by this vehicle and were actually thinking about recalling at the time because of the fact drivers didn't know they were following or ahead of a vehicle coming towards them the nash and the talker both have been a number of movies you can see them here and i'm sure that you can remember that the tucker had its own program  was a popular candy when you were a kid strips of dried peanut butter chocolate licorice bars or wax coke shaped bottles with colored sugar water and it was the wax snickers all these candies were weren't just made in the last couple years some of the really popular ones with nestle's bars says these which in fact everybody misses and the candy strips that were dotted on paper how was butch wax used to stiffen a flat top haircut so it stood up to make floor shiny and prevent scuffing or on the wheels a roller skates to prevent rust and the correct answer before inline skates became popular how did you keep the roller skates attached to your shoes with clamps tightened bias keiki woven straps across the foot or long pieces of twine ok and the correct answer is clamps and the skate key alright seems to be maybe the folks in the fifties aren't the only ones who know the answer to these as a kid what was considered the best way to reach a decision consider all the facts ask your mom and the correct answer is any meaning my name oh that would work for anything of a father was giving us car keys to the kids on a friday night if you were packing a girl for the dance it i don't know why but it always seemed to work well what was the most dreaded disease of the forty's and fifty's smallpox aids or polio and the correct answer is polio and we happened to be in an area that in fact was at the forefront of this at the university of pittsburgh jonas salk in the mid fifty's in fact came up with the vaccine for polio it saved hundreds of thousands of lives prior to that time there were hundreds of thousands of individuals getting polio which he could in fact cause death or severe and he caps the united versity of pittsburgh had a fifty year anniversary in two thousand and five and here's a picture now of pittsburghers lining up in the of learning and one nine hundred fifty seven everybody all of a sudden jumped on this this bandwagon and it was for a good reason the graph that you're seeing now the historical graph is given up by the united nations and t hundred eighty and two thousand and four the numbers the sheer numbers of cases of polio one from almost seventy thousand down to a few hundred two thousand and four prior to that in the united give the shots in africa and south america and other areas then the cases of polio went down significantly so sorry to say that in the last few years because the third world countries number of cases are starting to get higher again but ok the correct answer would be from the strutters ball musical that was played in the mid fifty's i'll be down to get you in a taxi honey that was the name that was structured paul was one of the largest musicals on broadway at the here's one that's usually very interesting what was the name of caroline kennedy's pony was it old blue paint or macaroni the correct answer is macaroni kennedys had a very large group of animals even though john kennedy was only in office for a couple of years in one thousand nine hundred eighty one thousand nine hundred sixty three he had charlie tom kitten robin the canary blue bell and mary bell parakeets macaroni of young one president that probably got more trouble than ever was president johnston if everybody remembers that iconic picture of him holding up his beagle with the years ok and needless to say that caused him a lot of political problems he didn't have much of imagination either all right his two dogs male and female were called him and her so we have to excuse him i guess for not taking care of them well ok what was a duck and cover drill part of a game of hide and seek well you do when your mother called you do some chores or hiding under your desk and covering your head and your arms during a bomb drill and the correct answer is duck and cover was during an aid bomb drills and schools now today they do that for tornado warnings or you know hurricanes as you've seen in recent past see here is during the cold war bert the turtle was used and to in fact sell to children the idea that this is something that you need for protection ducking cover in school is taken very seriously up into the late  sixty s they did a movie called duck and cover and burt was the star and the movie was sent to every school district in the country as part of the civil defense what was the name of the indian princess and the how do you do the show prince a second giulia prince in a summer fall winter spring or princess moon shadow and the answer is not moon shadows i just heard the answer is prince's summer fall winter spring and that individual was played by judy tyler and now the problem with judy tyler is very unfortunate she had a car accident and passed away at the young age of twenty two the other woman who took the position and there were only two of these and the time that the program was on was a woman named linda marsh ok and she only stayed on for a few short years what did the really savvy students do when mimeograph machine tests were handed out in school and they found the paper that they came from they mediately sniffed the paper because they believed we believed that it got them high made paper airplanes out of it to see could sail through the windows or write another people's name on it so make sure that they weren't the one to avoid a failure ok the correct answer t was immediately sniff the purple ink needless to say this was done on two parts one it didn't work and two the other thing was the teacher could see the purple ink on your nose so they knew what you did all right was that all the way around why did your mom shop in stores that gave green sent green stamps with the purchases one to keep you busy locking looking in the back which tasted like bubble gum  they could be put in special books and used for buying various household items or they were given to kids to be use a stick on pad two's ok the correct answer is reading for various household items now of course if you were here during the fifties you remember the food store that was up at the dolphins cross was called loeb laws and they gave ikrima stamps praise the lord and pass the blank this was a song after world war one but carried over into the fifties was it past the meatballs past the dames or past the ammunition i'm hearing with the answers in the background which is quite interesting praise the lord and pass the ammunition this was popular all the way through the fifties what was the name of the only vice president to ever write a top of the chart hit he was to say i don't hear anything that his name was charles dawes he was a vice president under the calvin coolidge administration in one thousand nine hundred five the one nine hundred twenty nine what was the name of the song nobody has an answer for that one either his heart in san francisco was it sent out frank sinatra tony bennett pat boone or bobby vinton and the answer is not bob even the answer is tony bennett tony bennett left his hard san francisco we all know where bob even left his heart all right being from canada burg bob even left his heart there all right and what it was bobby vinton actual name everybody stuck on this one stanley a very very long and distinguished list of movies that he had sung in at one time or another actually the list included sixty two major films so he in fact was definitely a local boy done good his father actually had a barber shop that my father grabbed me and took me to every week whenever i was younger whenever mr como we come in to perry i mean we come into the store it was like meeting the pope i had to be quiet shut up sit down but perry is not his original name either all right and perry's name is perino ronald coma so c had dick clark and american bandstand our local television had what was a channel eleven chile billy's dance land channel two clark races dance party or channel four bob shannon's dance around the clock on that hearing say the ant third was not the answer saturday afternoon was clark races dance party and in the sixty's i might add a lot of us went down there we were regulars on that program which was a lot of fun but bringing that idea during the sixty's and fifty's we all had places to go on like today some of the dance locations in western pennsylvania that were used by a lot of a lot of us back then lebanon lodge the grove down on in castle shannon on like now say david's coffee hell's up on mcmurry road used to have a place where we go and had local dance and band concerts less ministers coffee house of westminister church on one thousand upper st clair sank lower beach which is no longer there but it used to be on hayes road all right they used to have during the summertime two or three times a week they would have parties swim parties dance parties mineral beach finleyville area still in fact has opportunities i don't know if they have dances anymore but i know that they're still in operation harley's col palace which is still in operation  different name heading down towards washington on the right hand side before you get to the meadows it's the barn that's actually sitting there the allegheny county fair was a favorite from one thousand thirty through the one nine hundred seventy s and the west view dance land all right that actually was an operation a dance layla's an operation from one thousand and six to the one nine hundred seventy three the last and you had to be on the older side to get to this one would be the living room and the living room was an upper st clair michel's corners some of the people that made this all possible of course was the leader porky chadwick terry levy was out of canada's berg he had the radio station that was in the sixt very area and mad mike was another one another distro aki that in fact now i mean to say this this program was originally meant to go a lot longer because of the fact we had music but because of copyright issues we find that well we just couldn't do that so we're going to be doing here is ending up with a program that said hope hopefully brought some memories back it was short enough not to task too much and hopefully looking forward to seeing you in the future thanks for com