MACY’S PARADE – BULLWINKLE (1963)

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The year is 1963. From his debut in 1961 through 1983, Bullwinkle J. Moose was everyone’s favorite balloon in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Here he is floating above the streets of New York City just a week after the JFK tragedy. America needed a reason to smile, and Bullwinkle, trouper that he is, gave them plenty to smile about.

Little did we imagine on Thanksgiving Day 1963, that in 9 short weeks, a quartet of mop-topped singers from Liverpool, England, who called themselves The Beatles, would win the hearts of America, on CBS-TV’s Ed Sullivan Show. But, for now, lifting the spirit of an America in mourning, fell on the t-shirted shoulders of our Bullwinkle. And so it was on an unforgettable Thanksgiving 52 years ago.

Christmas will sneak up on you before you know it. It isn’t too early to start looking through your family photo collection. A beautifully-colorized image of your ancestors (suitable for enlarging and framing) makes a wonderful keepsake for the entire family. This year, “Give the Christmas Present of Christmas Past!”

JFK & JON JON (1962)

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The year is 1962. If you were alive then, and old enough to understand, you remember where you were when the news flashed its way into our TVs and radios on that November 22rd afternoon. I was in 4th grade at Mendham Township Elementary School in New Jersey. We were in Mrs. Roscoe’s class, when an announcement came over the loud speaker. We were in stunned disbelief. The teachers pointed us in the general directions of our neighborhood – and sent us home. I remember, Louie Sharp’s teenage sister telling us what was going to happen next. Ten minutes later, I burst through the kitchen door, yelling “Mom – President Kennedy’s dead! The Commies are gonna get us!!” That was over half a century ago. It just doesn’t seem possible.

On today’s American Photo Colorizing blog we have President Kennedy and Jon Jon sharing a light-hearted moment in the Oval Office. This is how I choose to remember the president, in this month where we remember the 52nd anniversary of that infamous day.

Christmas will sneak up on you before you know it. It isn’t too early to start looking through your family photo collection. A beautifully-colorized image of your ancestors (suitable for enlarging and framing) makes a wonderful keepsake for the entire family. This year, “Give the Christmas Present of Christmas Past!”

QUEEN OF SURF GUITAR (1963)

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The year is 1963. Kathy Marshall was only 13 or 14 years-old – but she was jamming onstage with such surf music luminaries as Dick Dale & His Del-Tones, The Crossfires, and Eddie & The Showmen (shown here). Dick Dale claims to have bestowed on her the title “Queen of Surf Guitar”. Surprisingly, Kathy never formed her own group – nor did she ever record professionally. But, those who remember seeing her perform with top local surf bands, say she held her own on stage with the best surf guitarists of the mid-1960s.

As you can see, the original photo was shot in color. However, the color had degraded so much that I had to not only restore the image presence, but it was necessary to add fresh color to it, in order to get the image back to 1963. Now, HERE’S an image befitting a Queen!