When Phones Had Cords
These sat on top of TVs to get reception from the stations.
What are antennas?
A graham cracker or plain piecrust with a filling of cream cheese and sour cream are the basic ingredients for this dessert.
What is cheesecake?
This is the typical emotion signified by a red rose.
What is love?
Featuring upbeat music with relatable lyrics, this ’60s musical group is synonymous with surfing, sun, and summer fun.
Who are the Beach Boys?
One of this artist’s unforgettable hits, featured in Blue Hawaii, begins, “Wise men say only fools rush in.”
Who is Elvis Presley?
An item delivered by the post office and a man
What is mail/male?
Metal ice trays had these on top.
What is a lever?
Strawberries piled high with a generous dollop of whipped cream, served on this type of cake, make a favorite summer dessert.
What is shortcake?
Of seeing lightning and hearing thunder, we do this first.
What is seeing lightning?
To do this is to flip through TV channels with a remote.
What is to channel surf?
This 1964 tune, titled “Fly Me to [this place],” was released by Frank Sinatra and Count Basie.
What is the moon?
To be wrong or make a mistake, and one who inherits
What is err/heir?
To make a copy of a handwritten or typed document, you slipped this between the sheets of paper.
What is carbon paper?
This Italian dessert features a hard shell filled with ricotta cheese and flavorings.
What are cannoli?
The deepest point of Earth’s surface is located in this ocean.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
This is the Beach Boys’ only album with surfer in the title.
What is Surfer Girl?
This 1960 Paul Anka hit is about adolescent infatuation.
What is “Puppy Love”?
A wedding ring, a musical group, and something that is prohibited
What is band/banned?
Cameras didn’t have built-in flash capability; instead, you had to buy these if you needed more than room light.
What are flash bulbs?
This classic layered Southern dessert is made with bananas, vanilla pudding, whipped cream, and vanilla wafers
What is banana pudding?
When wearing a man’s shirt, the buttons are on this side.
What is right?
The first account of surfing took place in these islands.
What is Hawaii?
Roy Orbison’s breakthrough came in 1960 with his hit about “only” these people
What is “Only the Lonely”?
A type of business investment and the building in Washington, D.C., that houses the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate
What is capital/Capitol?
Before the 1980s, these one-way radio devices were primarily used by doctors
What are pagers?
This is the Italian version of a snow cone.
What is Italian ice?
This is the shape of a stop sign.
What is an octagon?
This term describes a wave going over a surfer.
What is barreling?
Dean Martin originally performed the 1954 tune that begins, “When marimba rhythms start to play, dance with me...”
What is “Sway”?
Something without embellishment and a form of rapid transit
What is plain/plane?
These wall- or desk-mounted devices could be found in schools and places of business and featured a detachable compartment and a hand crank.
What is a pencil sharpener?
This French egg custard is served with a burnt toffee crust.
What is crème brûlée?
The Statue of Liberty holds this in her left hand.
What is a tablet?
The university in this Portuguese city offers a postgraduate program in high-performance surf coaching.
What is Lisbon?
This 1967 hit by Smokey Robinson & the Miracles begins, “Now if there’s a smile on my face, it’s only there tryin’ to fool the public.”
What is “Tears of a Clown”?
Committee and guidance
What is council/counsel?