Now that Daylight Saving Time is changing the second Sunday in March at 2:00am and revert back on the first Sunday in November, I wondered why we even observe this at all. What happened to REGULAR time?
Daylight Saving was originally started in 1966 when most of the United States observed Daylight Saving Time from […]

In older movies you can sometimes hear the characters referring to drinking “Grape Nehi.” I always wondered what happened to this drink that was once so popular.

Nehi, a flavored soft drink, actually had many flavors including Grape, Orange, Root Beer, Lemonade, Peach, Strawberry, Fruit Punch, Wild Red, Pink Lemonade, Chocolate, Blueberry and Blue Cream. […]

Whatever happened to the old names of infections and illnesses? Do you ever read old novels and wonder what they are talking about? We become more scientific in our use of disease names and thus the change. Here is a little primer to help you translate all those strange infirmities you might […]

Pat Priest, played the “normal” daughter on The Munsters. Pat was born in 1936 in Utah. Her mother, Ivy Baker Priest was US Treasurer for Eisenhower and California’s Treasurer for Regan when he was Governor. In the 1950s she won a beauty contest in Washington DC and then moved to California […]

Butch Patrick was born Patrick Alan Lilley on August 2, 1953. He is best know for his role as Eddie Munster in The Munsters. Patrick did make several other appearances in television shows in the 60s including Mister Ed and Gunsmoke, as well as eight episodes of My Three Sons.
In the 1980s, […]

Al Lewis will always be remembered as the crazy Grandpa on The Munsters. He was born April 30, 1923 in New York and started his acting career as a circus performer in the late 1920s. Many facts about his life are not well documented. He claimed to earn a college […]

Fred Gwynne will always be best remembered for his role as Herman Munster on the TV show The Munsters. However, he had numerous other memorable roles as well.
Fred was born July 10, 1926 in New York City to a wealthy family. He attended private schools and got his start in acting there. […]

Yvonne De Carlo is probably best known for her role as Lily Munster in the television sitcom The Munsters. Before that, she had a “higher” role as that of Moses’ wife, Zipporah, in The Ten Commandments.
Yvonne was born September 1, 1922 in Canada as Margaret (”Peggy”) Yvonne Middleton. At the age of […]

On January 8th, Yvonne De Carlo, better know as Lily Munster, passed away. In her honor, I have decided to do a series of Whatever Happened To… The Munsters.
The Munsters was a sitcom that ran from 1964-1966 for a total of 72 episodes. I remembering watching the show after school in the […]

Karen Dotrice played Jane Banks, Michael Banks’ (Matthew Garber) brother in Mary Poppins. Karen was born November 9, 1955 in England. She started acting at the age of four with her parents who were stage actors. She was discovered by a Disney scout and taken to meet Walt Disney.
She acted in […]