The show "AMERICANA – The Way We Were" looks back on American life by way of old public domain newsreels, films and public/civic documentaries. Each episode contains one or more snippets of the way American life used to be. This show is very enlightening, sometimes very funny always quaint and illustrative of how simple life in the United States once was. Whether it is a look at Dating in the 50’s or the use of Good Table Manners the construction of the 1964 World’s fair in New York or everyone’s favorite TV commericals from the 40’s and 50’s there is something for everyone in the episodes of “AMERICANA – The Way We Were”.