Dance Moves
This dance move is an alliterative Halloween classic favorite.
Monster Mash
A restaurant chain that started in 1957 in Santa Barbara, California, its name comes from a combination of its founders, Sam Battistone Sr. and Newell Bohnett. The name had racial complications.
Sambo's
Miss Scarlett in the library with a candlestick.
Clue
To overeat or indulge in a large amount of food, like this mud-loving animal.
Pig out
On November 22, 1963, the 35th president of the United States was killed while riding in a presidential motorcade.
JFK Assassination
Sung by Little Eva, it was also recorded by Grand Funk Railroad and Kylie Minogue. Come on baby, do this dance move with me. I know you'll get to liking it, if you give a chance.
The Locomotion
Originally part of the Tastee-Freez Company, this fast food chain was distinctive through its architecture and their fan favorite, the Club Burger. In 1975, the chain transitioned into Burger King.
Carrols
Mom visited a museum in Grapevine, Texas, where a guy used these plastic bricks to make paintings.
LEGO
A popular slang term in 1965, meaning gross.
Grody
The United States government engaged in a tense 13 day political and military standoff with the government of the Soviet Union in Cuba.
The Cuban Missile Crisis
Started by a Marvin Gaye hit in 1962, this other alliterative dance move is based off a gesture where you stick out your thumb.
The Hitch Hike
In 1966, this casual dining restaurant, its name combining a food and drink, was opened in Dallas, Texas, by Norman E Brinker. After declaring bankruptcy, all remaining locations were closed on July 29, 2008.
Steak and Ale
A Rube Goldberg machine-like board game where players first build a contraption that essentially captures other player's pieces, which are modeled after a small rodent.
Mouse Trap
This was how you would ask someone if they agreed with you about a certain situation and no they wouldn't need a shovel.
Can you dig it?
Apollo 11 was a spaceflight conducted by the United States and launched by NASA from July 16 to July 24, 1969.
First Man on the Moon
In 1961, Puerto Rico jazz musician, Ray Barretto, released this hit song which developed into a dance that thrived for years to come.
The Watusi
"What you're looking for, a place that offers more, the one that will please the whole crowd, the best burgers, chicken, and fish." A fast food chain shaped like a farm building, declined in the mid-80's.
Red Barn
A Hasbro line of action figures that represent four of the branches of the US armed forces.
G.I. Joe
The Rolling Stones immortalized this phrase for a fun time. It was used in their song "Jumpin' Jack Flash," repeatedly, and does not refer to oxygen or carbon dioxide.
It's a gas.
Civil rights activists who took interstate buses into the segregated Southern United States in 1961.
Freedom Riders
This rhyming dance move became popular from a song by the same name, recorded by the Olympics. "Shake your shoulders and wiggle your knees."
The Hully Gully
A unique dining concept that was known for its glass coin operated food dispensers. Customers could see and choose their meals from a variety of freshly prepared dishes. These establishments were also social gathering spots where office workers and even celebrities would meet.
Horn & Hardart Automat Cafeteria
"The game that ties you up in knots," and leaves you feeling like a pretzel.
Twister
Something that is beyond cool, extraordinary, or impressive, and not something that you can't see anymore.
Outta sight
A series of spontaneous demonstrations against a police raid on June 28, 1969, in Greenwich Village, New York, marking a new beginning for the gay rights movement.
Stonewall Riots