VSL May 2008

Channel: Music

Watched 2225 times.

Tags: Frankie | Laine | 50s | fifties | 60s | sixties

Retro Rockabilly Video!

Channel: Cars

Watched 1778 times.

Tags: rockabilly | rocknroll | oldies | music | doo wop | video | fifties | atom | bomb | 50s | 1950s | rockandroll | 55 | 57 | chevy | racing | songs

Entering Greenfield Village is like stepping into an 80-acre time machine. It takes you back to the sights, sounds and sensations of America’s past. There are 83 authentic, historic structures, from Noah Webster’s home, where he wrote the first American dictionary, to Thomas Edison’s Menlo Park laboratory, to the courthouse where Abraham Lincoln practiced law. The buildings and the things to see are only the beginning. There’s the fun stuff, too. In Greenfield Village, you can ride in a genuine Model T or “pull” glass with world-class artisans; you can watch 1867 baseball or ride a train with a 19th-century steam engine. It’s a place where you can choose your lunch from an 1850s menu or spend a quiet moment pondering the home and workshop where the Wright brothers invented the airplane. Greenfield Village is a celebration of people — people whose unbridled optimism came to define modern-day America.

Channel: People

Watched 1228 times.

Tags: Greenfield | Village | Henry | Ford | Museum | Americas | Greatest | History | Collection | Exhibits | Abraham | Lincoln | Thomas | Edison | Menlo | Park | Detroit | DMCVB

The Front is a mainstay in downtown Berkley, doubling as an American biergarten as well as a martini lounge. Enjoy the Old World charm and laid-back style of the downstairs or chill out in the '50s-style lounge upstairs, where live music plays every weekend.

Channel: People

Watched 1773 times.

Tags: Berkley | Front | Downtown | Beer | Garden | Biergarten | Martini | Lounge | Bar | Hotspot | Nightlife | Detroit | DMCVB

Chuck Griffiths demonstrates the Aikido push ups as they were done under Kenshiro Abbe Sensei in the 1950s, they are still a part of the exercises at all the Ellis Schools of Traditional aikido in the UK and USA.

Channel: Sport

Watched 1570 times.

Tags: aikido budo martial arts

Everyone likes drink driving commercials because although nothing's shocking anymore, people like to think they would have been shocked if they saw them in the 50s.

Channel: Strange

Watched 14397 times.

Tags: funny advertisements