Category: Vintage

Vintage TV: Happy Halloween with the Addams Family

October 30, 2024

The Addams Family was a television series that ran from 1964 to 1966. The gothic theme featured four principal family members. John Astin played the role of Gomez Addams. Carolyn Jones as Morticia, his wife.

Morticia and Gomez had two children. Their daughter Wednesday and their son, Pugsley, played by Lisa Loring and Ken Weatherwax.

Jackie Coogan played Uncle Fester and Blossom Rock as Grandmama Addams. Ted Cassidy played the butler Lurch, whose dialog was primarily grunts and groans.

You Tube Video: Halloween With The Addams Family

Home Exercise 1950s

March 18, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PP4D9LU-LjY

Johnnie Lee Macfadden, daughter of early health and fitness expert, Bernarr Macfadden, is shown in this vintage home exercise film.

OBITUARY J. L. Macfadden, 88, An Expert on Fitness

Johnnie Lee Macfadden, an author and physical-fitness advocate, died April 6 at her home in Manhattan. She was 88 years old. She died after a lengthy illness, her family said.


A native of Fort Worth, Mrs. Macfadden had a first career as an interior designer. In 1948, she became the third wife of Bernarr Macfadden, the physical culturist and publisher who died in 1955 at the age of 87. She was a regular monthly contributor to her husband’s publications, “Physical Culture” and “Health Review,” lectured on fitness, appeared on television talk shows, developed her own line of creams and lotions, and maintained a counseling service on mental and physical health in her apartment until the time of her death.


She was the author of “Barefoot in Eden: The Macfadden Plan for Health, Charm and Long-Lasting Youth,” published by Prentice Hall in 1962. Mrs. Macfadden is survived by a son, Jack of Brooklyn; a daughter, Carol Tumbridge of Denver; five grandchildren, and six great-grandchildren.

Source: The New York Times – 4/29/1992