Lost in the Fifties (Whoa! How old are you if these images ring a bell?)

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[super7man]

Did you have a 6 transistor or a 10 transistor radio?

I asked my 22 year old son if he knew what the three little round plastic things were for. He thought maybe they were IUDs.

[V_TWIN]

Yep, the last one closed here in the early 80s.............my heart was broken when I heard the news.

[dalereed]

“That was excellent- gas 31 cents!”

When I was in high school in the early 50s gas was 13.9 cents.

[knarf]

Ha why ya, ha why ya, ha WHY ya ... Arthur Godfrey’s show opener

[illiac]

Some of the nest hot dogs (wink, wink) I’ve ever had....

[wideminded]

Did you see the price of a stamp?

According to an inflation calculator online, 6 cents in 1950 was the equivalent of 59 cents in 2014. If this is accurate, then relative to other things we buy, stamps are actually cheaper now.

[illiac]

nest = best

Darned eye surgery!

[oh8eleven]

Remember the GAS WARS! 14 CENTS A GALLON! 1964.
Plus a free set of glasses - or double/triple stamps - with a fill up ...

[Lurking Libertarian]

Back in the fifties, we had conservative Democrats like Sens. Pat McCarran (D-Nev.) and Frank Lausche (D-Ohio)—a species now as extinct as the brontosaurus.

And we had liberal Republicans like Jacob Javits and Nelson Rockefeller, also equally extinct.

The Democratic and Republican parties each had liberal and conservative wings back then; that changed, in a process starting with the 1964 election and being virtually complete by the 1972 election.

[Fresh Wind]

I asked my 22 year old son if he knew what the three little round plastic things were for.

Record collectors cringe when they see them (especially the metal ones) since they damage the records.

I bought a 6-transistor radio in 1958 for $19.95. Still have it, and it still works. Many of those 10 or 12 transistor radios had transistors in them that weren't even connected into the circuit. They were there just for the advertising value.

[Biblical Calvinist]

The Mouseketeers! Who could forget Annette and Darlene? Yeah, I’m old. (Most of these kids who were Mouseketeers are still with us..for instance, Darlene is 73 years old now, Cubby is 70 years old! sigh..)

[jonno]

IUDs

Do you mean LEDs?
8^)

[Chgogal]

According to mc5cents, that was an Airmail stamp. Today it costs $1.15. Thankfully we have email and skype. : )

[Jack Hammer]

Golden Age of youth and optimism.

It was a different world, now gone forever.

[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.

[jonno]

Oops - misunderstood your reference.

Yep, I could see the 45 inserts being confused for IUDs...

[Fresh Wind]

Nelson Rockefeller

Something I will always remember is a brief scene caught through the magic of live TV at one of the Republican conventions (I'm guessing it was '64).

Nelson Rockefeller was apparently drunk and fell over a chair.

[Phillyred]

America's first drive in is still open in Orefield, PA on route 309: Shankweiler's

[southernmann]

Most people are happy when they’re kids, besides, we were pretty isolated from the world and even our parents problems back then.

[the OlLine Rebel]

*******I miss the days I never knew.****