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

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[Chgogal]

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

[Chgogal]

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.

[Chickensoup]

Nice, the typewriter however, was from the thirties.

[Chgogal]

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.

[Chickensoup]

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.

[Chgogal]

LOL

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

[Chgogal]

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.

[expat_panama]

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...

[expat_panama]

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

[Fiji Hill]

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.

[Chgogal]

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.

[Chgogal]

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.

[HandyDandy]

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.

[Fiji Hill]

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.

[Chgogal]

What probably happened, I had a nickel and my sister had a nickel and the storekeeper was real smart/kind. ; )

[Chgogal]

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. : )

[morphing libertarian]

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

[Fiji Hill]

Popular songs of the 1950's often had Christian themes or overtones, such as the following:

• I Believe Jane Froman (1953)

• Crying in the Chapel--June Valli (1953)

• This Old House--Rosemary Clooney (1954)

• The Bible Tells Me So--Nick Noble (1955)

• He--The McGuire Sisters (1955)

• A Wonderful Time Up There--Pat Boone (1958)

[Sparklite]

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.

[morphing libertarian]

and all those A tickets left over.

[Sparklite]

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.