The Past Was A Different Place

For some reason, the 1970s show The $1.98 Beauty Show came to mind recently. It was a briefly running variety program that looked like a beauty pageant but really was not.

Apparently, as with Sha Na Na, you can find full episodes digitized from videocassette recorder early adopters’ home collections:

Well, maybe it’s not that much different from what you see today as entertainment, but adjusted for the changing times.

And for the life of me, I cannot remember why this program came to mind. Sometimes, I think I’ve just got my brain on Shuffle.

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