"Those Were the Days" record owned by Jean Stapleton
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content: "Those Were the Days" 45 rpm record owned by Jean Stapleton, an actress and activist best known for portraying Edith Bunker in the CBS television series, <i>All in the Family</i>. Carroll O'Connor and Jean Stapleton sang this nostalgic theme song at the beginning of each episode. The song reminisces about a time where "girls were girls and men were men" and "everybody pulled his weight." <p>
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content: <i>All in the Family</i> was a CBS television series created and produced by Norman Lear. The sitcom was popular throughout its 1971-1979 run and was lauded for its exploration of social and political issues of the 1970s, what Lear called “real people dealing with real issues.” The show told the story of the Bunker family, a white working-class family from Queens, New York. Archie, the stubborn and socially-conservative patriarch, often clashed with his wife, the sweet, naïve Edith, his feminist daughter Gloria, and her liberal husband Michael. Archie’s living room chair became the family’s meeting place for heated debates about a plethora of issues dividing America – women’s rights, racism, homosexuality, the Vietnam War, and the generational divide between Baby Boomers and the World War II generation.<p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Gay Rights
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content: LGBTQ Rights
label: Subject
content: LGBTQ
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2017.0150.23
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content: 2017.0150
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content: 2017.0150.23
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content: record
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 in; 17.78 cm