Jazzy July
Many people wear these three colors to celebrate the Fourth of July.
red, white, and blue
They are the colors of the U.S. flag. Many people fly the flag on this day.
With the television becoming more common, the airwaves were filled with entertainment, news, and these segments, which paid for free programming.
commercials
This was the decade that launched jingles and slogans into the stratosphere. Companies enticed buyers with must-have products through TV commercials. The era of “keeping up with the Joneses” was born.
Ribeye and skirt
steak cuts (or beef cuts)
Ribeyes are tender, marbled cuts, best panfried or grilled over dry heat, while skirt steaks are a tougher cut, best marinated in an acidic sauce and then flash-seared.
This suspension bridge spans the Golden Gate Strait and connects San Francisco to Marin County.
Golden Gate Bridge
It was built in 1937 and is one of the “Seven Wonders of the Modern World.” It was one of the greatest engineering feats of its day.
These purple, white, yellow, and variegated flowers are among the first to bloom in spring.
crocuses
They are grown from corms, which are smaller and rounder than bulbs and layered like an onion. To everyone but horticulturists, crocuses are grown from bulbs.
Eat some funnel cake and take the grandkids to ride some rides at these state and county events, if one starts in July near you.
a fair
The focus of state and county fairs is livestock, horticultural, and craft competitions, but entertainment features draw the crowds. Fairs typically run from May through October.
City dwellers fled to housing developments in these areas.
suburbs
It was the ideal place to raise children, and life in the suburbs became more family-centric than in the cities.
Granny Smith and pink lady
apples
Granny Smith apples are eaten raw and often used for baking. Pink lady apples are crisp and tart with a hint of sweetness.
This New England city is the home of Faneuil Hall Marketplace, where early freedom fighters gathered.
Boston
The Founding Fathers called it the “Cradle of Liberty.” Today, it’s a Top 10 visitor destination, a bustling marketplace with shops, locally grown produce, eateries, and street performances.
From the poem “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud,” a “host” of these flowers are grown from bulbs.
golden daffodils
These large flowers with a central trumpet emerge in early spring.
On July 6, 1885, Louis Pasteur experimented on a nine-year-old boy who had been bitten by a dog by injecting him with this vaccine.
rabies
The dog was rabid, and the vaccine was unproven; fortunately, it worked, and Pasteur saved the child’s life. It was a gamble worth taking.
During the 1950s “Golden Age of Television,” this iconic sitcom centered on two couples living in New York City: a bandleader and his mischievous wife, and their landlords.
I Love Lucy
The series originally ran from 1951 to 1957, and it still runs in syndication today.
Tagliatelle and vermicelli
pasta
Tagliatelle comes from Northern Italy and dates to the 15th century. Vermicelli is used in soups and in seafood dishes.
Robert Mondavi transformed this valley into wine country.
Napa
Cesare Mondavi entered the wine industry in the 1920s. His son Robert studied chemistry, an essential part of winemaking, and, along with his family, bought his first winery, a 160-acre vineyard. The cost was $87,000.
This Christmas favorite is grown from a giant bulb.
amaryllis
The amaryllis plant can live up to 75 years with proper care.
When it’s too hot to play a full round of golf—or even a nine-hole round of golf—try this quick, alliterative golf game.
putt-putt
The game consists only of putting, but many courses are both imaginative and challenging.
Drab World War II styles evolved into color and pattern, and women’s dresses returned to this type of waist, popular during the late 19th century.
cinched (or fitted, or similar)
Polka dots were everywhere, a flourish not seen during the war years.
The type of vegetable broccoli, cauliflower, and Brussels sprouts are
cruciferous
Cruciferous comes from a Latin word meaning “crossbearing”; the vegetables are so named because their four-petaled flowers resemble a cross.
Other, less-obvious cruciferous vegetables include horseradish, radish, kale, and watercress.
This original farmers’ market in the Public Market Center is synonymous with Seattle.
Pike Place Market
It was founded in 1907. According to its website, it’s “one of the oldest and largest continuously operating public markets in the United States.”
This tall, spring-blooming flower is named for a Greek goddess and is available in a huge array of colors. Its varieties include bearded, dwarf, and Dutch.
iris
It’s grown from a rhizome. Each bloom has three upright petals and three downward-facing petals.
On July 5, 1946, showgirl Micheline Bernardini introduced this garment to the world in Paris.
the bikini
Two-piece swimsuits were already worn, but this was the first unveiling of a bikini.
Even wealthy men shifted toward this generic type of clothing when not at work.
casual
While many wore sweaters under their jackets, younger men preferred white T-shirts, popularized by 1951’s A Streetcar Named Desire.
Spring and egg
rolls
Spring rolls are thin pancake wraps from China, filled with vegetables and sometimes meat. Egg rolls are a similar, wider-Asian take on spring rolls, but they’re fried and crunchy.
Consistently the most-visited U.S. National Park, it hosted 11.5 million visitors in 2025.
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
It’s located in Tennessee and North Carolina. Because of its elevation, it sometimes offers skiing in winter, which isn’t common in the South.
This roselike spring flower is grown from a bulb.
ranunculus
They are also called buttercups, but they bear no resemblance to daffodils. Pick a bunch of them, and they look just like a bouquet of roses.