Mary Tyler Moore started her brilliant TV career in a series of 1956 Hotpoint appliance television commercials.
Mary Tyler Moore started her brilliant TV career in a series of 1956 Hotpoint appliance television commercials.

Old Fashioned Baked Apple Pie
Compliments of Angela Powers
Pie Filling Ingredients:
6 cups thinly sliced apples (prefer Granny Smith apples; 6 – 8 apples)
¾ cup sugar (brown or white sugar)
2 Tbsps corn starch
1 tsp ground cinnamon
¼ tsp salt
1/8 tsp ground Nutmeg
1 Tbsp lemon juice
½ tsp lemon zest
2 Tbsps butter
Crust Ingredients:
1 stick of butter
3 cups of flour
1/8 tsp salt
¼ cup of ice water

KUGEL RECIPE
Compliments of Pearl Wilder
Ingredients:
1/2 lb noodles (medium) cooked & drained
Pinch of salt
¼ cup sugar
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp vanilla
1 lb cottage cheese (not creamy)
1 cup sour cream
6 eggs
1 stick butter



Howard McNear, 1905-1969, was one of the great character actors. He played Doc Adams on the Gunsmoke radio program and barber Floyd Lawson on TV’s Andy Griffith show. McNear’s first TV appearance as barber occurred in 1958, giving Wally Cleaver a shave on “Leave it to Beaver”.
The youthful prank of flinging worn out sneakers over telephone wires as a rite of passage may not have originated in Philadelphia, but one of its finest examples was rendered in North Philly, circa 1990.



When kids hung out in the neighborhood and played ball. They used their thumbs to grip a broomstick rather than to send texts…

Veronica’s Lake’s locks nearly ruined America’s WWII war effort.