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Old 03-11-05, 10:38 PM  
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Interesting "What's My Line"

Last night as I was channel surfing in the middle of the night, I found a "What's My Line" show from 1955 and one of the guests was a woman named Marlene something (her name did not sound familiar to me). The panel was supposed to guess her occupation and on the screen it said she had her own t.v. show "demonstrating reducing exercises". I just thought it was kind of interesting...
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Old 03-11-05, 11:07 PM  
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Last night as I was channel surfing in the middle of the night, I found a "What's My Line" show from 1955 ...
My daughter was born in 1955. I remember watching that series, but not that particular show.

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Old 03-11-05, 11:11 PM  
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Last night as I was channel surfing in the middle of the night, I found a "What's My Line" show from 1955 and one of the guests was a woman named Marlene something (her name did not sound familiar to me). The panel was supposed to guess her occupation and on the screen it said she had her own t.v. show "demonstrating reducing exercises". I just thought it was kind of interesting...
I can't imagine say, Callan Pinkney on "What's My Line." Not that I don't love Callan and don't think she has a nice sense of humor.

I wonder just when deliberate exercise in the U.S. became a reality...up until at least the turn of the century, I'm sure that people were working so hard that being fit was not even a real concept. But at some point, as technology advanced and foods became more calorie-dense (and thin-ness became a cult)...I wonder what the absolute very first at-home workout was?

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Old 03-11-05, 11:11 PM  
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I once saw an old episode, and it had the man who invented the treadmill on there (Mr. Trotter), and at the end, they showed the first Trotter treadmill. It's hard to believe that there was a time when there were no treadmills .
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Old 03-12-05, 12:33 AM  
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I love those old game shows on GSN. There's an episode of "To Tell The Truth" from the early sixties that features a woman weightlifter who wrote a book advocating weightlifting for women. And this was a good quarter-century before the Firm came along.
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Old 03-12-05, 06:47 AM  
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You late night surfers into Game shows, keep an eye out for a What's My Line? episode featuring MOI as the subject. That would be circa 1971. The mystery guest on the show is Art Carney, and if you watch through the credits, you can see me performing the "Soupy Shuffle" with Soupy Sales. Ah, the memories.

Back then, I was cultivating a long flip with the red hair--although you can't see the color because the show was in black and white. My navy dress featured a pattern of ladybugs that my husband remembers to this day. It's a kind of standard for new dresses I buy: "Oh, that one is almost as cute as the ladybug dress."
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Physical fitness, once called physical culture has been around longer than you might think. It grew up along with a growing middle class in the late 19th century. Here's just one article culled from wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugen_Sandow
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Old 03-12-05, 08:00 AM  
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A search of TV Tome showed:

Game 4: Miss Marlene Gornall - "Demonstrates Reducing Exercises on Television" (salaried; brunette; John never mentioned the name of her program or the call letters of the station it airs on; from Pittsburgh, PA)

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Episode Number 259
First Aired May 15, 1955
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Old 03-12-05, 08:03 AM  
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Barb -

I love that anecdote!!! And the fact that the ladybug dress has become the dress by which all others are judged.

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