Every day I come to work, I pass by an old television set that's on display in our lobby. A sign indicates that it is from the 1950s. I've been invited to a place where this TV would fit in very nicely.

I’m in the dining room inside Kay Adams' home on Erie's west side. You walk in and you go back in time and see what it was like to be at a swinging soda shop during the fifties and sixties.

You can sit down at a booth and pretend you are with the gang from Happy Days.

There's a working jukebox that plays records by artists such as The Four Seasons, Fats Domino, and The Supremes. The song Sixteen Candles by The Crests is now playing.

Adams is 86 years old and was a teenager in the 1950s. She later owned many restaurants in the region, including a drive-in in Meadville called Sherrie's. It featured car hops on roller skates.

She moved into this house eight years ago and decided this dining room would be perfect to pay tribute to the fifties and sixties.

"I feel fantastic about it,” she said.. “But, I'm thinking to myself, ‘my neighbors don't even know that it's here.’ Nobody does."

Elvis Presley is featured prominently in the room. There's a wooden figure of "The King" on the wall. He’s shaking his hips. There's a musical Elvis lamp that plays one of his most memorable hits.

The room pays tribute to poodle skirts, Betty Boop and movie stars of the day, including the most influential of them all back then - James Dean.

“He was amazing,” she said.

Photographs are everywhere. There’s a photo of The Drifters. Adams was invited to dance on stage with that group during a concert in the 60s.

She did not forget about the most recognizable automobiles of the era. That includes a plastic model of a 1957 Chevy.

However, her favorite car on display was from another decade.

It was owned by Kay and her late husband. It's a photo of a souped-up 1972 Ford Torino that shot flames from its dual exhausts.

"We had a lot of fun with that. Illegal, but we had fun,” she said.

People had a lot of fun 60 and 70 years ago. Just ask Adams.

"It's been a good life,” she said. “That's all I can say. It's been a good life.”