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Lost in the Fifties (Whoa! How old are you if these images ring a bell?)
http://safeshare.tv/w/FEDEwZHZXu ^ | Don't know | Don't know

Posted on 09/18/2014 9:58:36 AM PDT by Chgogal

It's a video and a very cool video IF you are a certain age. And I am. ; )


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Humor; Miscellaneous; Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: 1950s
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
My Dad was the same way. Is yours Dutch by any chance? : )

For my 6th Birthday he was supposed to take me to see 101 Dalmatians. He refused to spend the money on a baby movie and took me to see Lawrence of Arabia. I could not believe that Omar Sharif refused to share his water. Bad boy, very bad boy.

61 posted on 09/18/2014 12:01:24 PM PDT by Chgogal (Obama "hung the SEALs out to dry, basically exposed them like a set of dog balls..." CMH)
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To: jacquej

Nice, the typewriter however, was from the thirties.


62 posted on 09/18/2014 12:04:49 PM PDT by Chickensoup (Leftist totalitarian fascism is on the move.)
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To: adorno
Yup, I noticed that as well, but what the heck. I didn't like that Pan Am show and watched up until Berlin.

The memories are great. We had so much fun.

63 posted on 09/18/2014 12:04:58 PM PDT by Chgogal (Obama "hung the SEALs out to dry, basically exposed them like a set of dog balls..." CMH)
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To: wideminded

No stamps were about 2 cents in the early 50s and 3 cents in late fifties. I remember in the sixties when they became 5 cents.


64 posted on 09/18/2014 12:06:37 PM PDT by Chickensoup (Leftist totalitarian fascism is on the move.)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
LOL

Sounds like today's airlines and the down sizing of the seats.

65 posted on 09/18/2014 12:07:47 PM PDT by Chgogal (Obama "hung the SEALs out to dry, basically exposed them like a set of dog balls..." CMH)
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To: HandyDandy

OMG, I remember those. We fought over the red ones. And the dime store let us buy half of the double Popsicles for 5 cents.


66 posted on 09/18/2014 12:12:01 PM PDT by Chgogal (Obama "hung the SEALs out to dry, basically exposed them like a set of dog balls..." CMH)
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To: Chgogal
Whoa, great minds think alike!

This morning I'd been thinking about how so many pop songs in the '50's were all about falling in love and getting married --and how somewhere that theme got set aside, then ridiculed as 'old-fashioned', and somehow now we've gotten to the point where celebrating marriage and raising a family is a crime against minority "lifestyles".

Maybe the '50's didn't "go" anywhere because they embraced reality and it's the pop fads that will be doing the coming and going...

67 posted on 09/18/2014 12:13:28 PM PDT by expat_panama
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To: Chickensoup

Remember the ‘penny-postal-card’ that we used for entering TV contests?


68 posted on 09/18/2014 12:14:59 PM PDT by expat_panama
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To: Chgogal
Who's the leader of the club that's made for you and me? M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E

And woe to the kid whose name amounted to 11 letters. His colleagues would sing the song and substitute his name for Mickey Mouse.

69 posted on 09/18/2014 12:16:48 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: expat_panama
The music was much more romantic then. Things changed between the years 1971 and 1975. I when I graduated grammar school no one was divorced. My sister graduated 4 years later and half the class had divorced parents. So sad.
70 posted on 09/18/2014 12:18:07 PM PDT by Chgogal (Obama "hung the SEALs out to dry, basically exposed them like a set of dog balls..." CMH)
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To: oh8eleven

I remember going to A&P with my Mom and collecting the stamps. Then sitting next to her and helping glue the stamps in the books. I also remember the catalogs.


71 posted on 09/18/2014 12:20:56 PM PDT by Chgogal (Obama "hung the SEALs out to dry, basically exposed them like a set of dog balls..." CMH)
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To: Chgogal

I can’t recall ever buying just a half of a Popsicle. I do remember that the “bag”, or wrapper was open on one end and the sticks stuck out. I always wanted to be the one to break them apart (sharp rap against the corner of a counter). Used to make those fan shaped things with the sticks (for throwing). And I think somebody I knew used to chew on the wrappers till all the flavor was out.


72 posted on 09/18/2014 12:20:59 PM PDT by HandyDandy (After such knowledge, what forgiveness? T.S. Eliot)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
In 1959, we went to a theater to see a movie. It was 25 cents for kids, 50 cents per adult. My dad almost had apoplexy over that price!

In August, 1959, we went to Disneyland. My dad complained that the trip, including parking, admission, rides and food had cost our family of five a king's ransom of $30.00.

73 posted on 09/18/2014 12:21:00 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: HandyDandy
What probably happened, I had a nickel and my sister had a nickel and the storekeeper was real smart/kind. ; )
74 posted on 09/18/2014 12:33:28 PM PDT by Chgogal (Obama "hung the SEALs out to dry, basically exposed them like a set of dog balls..." CMH)
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To: Fiji Hill
And woe to the kid whose name amounted to 11 letters. His colleagues would sing the song and substitute his name for Mickey Mouse.

The kids in your neighborhood were smarter than the kids in my neighborhood. Thankfully. : )

75 posted on 09/18/2014 12:35:06 PM PDT by Chgogal (Obama "hung the SEALs out to dry, basically exposed them like a set of dog balls..." CMH)
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To: dalereed

1963, I paid 22.9 in Pomona CA. Jimmy’s gas station Hamilton and Holt.


76 posted on 09/18/2014 12:35:36 PM PDT by morphing libertarian
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To: expat_panama
Popular songs of the 1950's often had Christian themes or overtones, such as the following:
77 posted on 09/18/2014 12:42:09 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

I bought a 1964 Chevelle Malibu SuperSport as Chevelle first came out -— November of 1963. The sticker price was $3290.

As for the video, I remember all that, but the video is too NYC-centric. Good stuff, though.


78 posted on 09/18/2014 12:43:18 PM PDT by Sparklite
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To: Fiji Hill

and all those A tickets left over.


79 posted on 09/18/2014 12:43:43 PM PDT by morphing libertarian
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To: knarf

A singing group on Arthur Godfrey’s show recorded a song I’ve loved throughout the years. It was “Born to Be With You” by the Chordettes. I have it on CD, now.


80 posted on 09/18/2014 12:45:12 PM PDT by Sparklite
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