Archie Bunker for President
by: Fritz
Wed Aug 27, 2008 at 22:22:23 PM EDT
http://pamshouseblend.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=6703(Oh Fritz - great post (great pic!) Thanks! - promoted by Julien Sharp)
The year was 1972. It was an election year — and the Democratic primary was heating up with names like George McGovern, Hubert Humphrey, Sam Yorty, Eugene McCarthy, Shirley Chisholm, and Edwin Muskie vying to run against Richard Nixon. There was also another name being presented as a possible presidential candidate. Archie Bunker, a character on a new and controversial TV sitcom was being promoted for the office through t-shirts, bumper stickers, buttons, and other merchandise.
That summer, our family went on a typical roadtrip vacation. We started out in Anaheim, California driving east to visit family in Kansas and Nebraska. One of the first things our family did to prepare for a roadtrip was to go shopping for new outfits. My mom liked to see the entire family dressed up in matching costumes. That election year, Mom decided that patriotic red, white and blue was the way to go. She was quite a character.
At the department store, my twin brother Frank and I spotted red, white and blue Archie Bunker for President t-shirts. We had to have them! Mom chose a red, white and blue tank top and matching hot pants for herself. Dad got saddled with a stars and stripes shortsleeve collared shirt and jeans.
