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Posted on 04/27/2024 10:38:51 PM PDT by RandFan
Check out the YouTube circa 1956.
I want to know if life was like that: Congested dance halls, Rock n' roll, a post-War boom?
Seems like another world... One you kind of hanker for.
Can any Freepers recall the era depicted?
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This is a cloth yo-yo. A good way to use up scraps, to make dolls or entire quilts:
The 1950s were not perfect. It was a frustrating decade for the USC Trojans, who went 2-7-1 against UCLA, 3-7 against Notre Dame and 1-1 in the Rose Bowl. The 1957 season, in which USC wone only one game, was its worst season of the century.
The only bright spot came at the end of the 1950 season in which a team that had gone 1-5-1 including a 39-0 blowout by UCLA, rose to the occasion on the last game of the year to win 9-7 over a Notre Dame coached by the legendary Frank Leahy, one of the game’s greatest coaches.
Same here. Born 1940. High School and college in the 50’s. Just about all the points I can think of are touched upon in this thread. I could write a book about it. A few things I can add. We basically didn’t think of or were affected by government at any level...except police!! Filthy federal government hadn’t stuck it’s filthy nose into every aspect of everyday life yet. We took great joy in much simpler and creative activities. Love and romance were actually a thing then. (I got married at 20 and still married to same woman 63 years later.) There was infinitely more freedom. (I could walk out of my house with my 22 and go plink to my hearts content in nearby woods.) I could go on and on. Fast forward to now. What can I say? Incredible advances in science, technology, medicine etc. But socially and culturally? A deep, dark brown shade of caca.
Every town I've lived in has a public library. I usually check out books there before purchasing them for my private library.
I do not remember your #3. In my part of the country it was quite the opposite, it was a period of optimism. And Eisenhower made the Interstate Highway system of roads possible. So, he wasn’t exactly a do nothing president. As far as the 60’s go, it was Kennedy who set the stage for civil unrest in the 60’s, and then Johnson who made everything else worse. We should never have been involved with Vietnam. Approx. 60,000 of our young men killed hundreds of thousands wounded physically or mentally. Maybe for you the times were different, but for me and those in my neighborhood the 50’s were good times. The 60’s were a mixed bag.
Elvis shot his television in the 1960s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYJ5vbSt9K0
And (God help us) now...
That first pic is from an orgy in the sky party, very popular in the 50s.
LOL...Yep, definitely him. And his wife was hot, to boot.
I totally forgot about the cardboard that Dad’s shirts came in! Yes, that was great construction board for all sorts of signs and projects! Before hot-melt, glue, too.
I worked in paper mills in the early and mid 80s starting up and servicing kraft recovery boilers. That stuff did STINK to high heaven. It permeated your whole body and you couldn’t wash the smell out. We used to put apple cores in our cars to capture the odor, but I don’t think they did anything. I haven’t been in a mill for about 50 years and I believe they have done a lot to deodorize the process.
Still remember going into my grandmoms house and seeing a huge pigs head in a wash basin. She would make scrapple out of it. She also would gather dandelions and make dandelion wine out of them. She also made root beer out of Sassafras roots. On Saturday afternoon we would all go out and pick huckleberries and grandmom would make a pie for dessert for Sunday dinner. That or go down into the cellar and bring up two jars of Brandy peaches.
I think that came later. "Brylcreem; a little dab will do ya"
Butch Wax is what we grew up with.
Butch Wax ad:
Butch Wax is one of the most important wax products in history. It was used for crew cuts, flat tops, and it also has modern use cases today!
Everyone knew who the school fruit was. No one cared...just a joke
Girls were adored and shotgun weddings “the rule”.
Lot’s of REALLY tough kids and adult male WW2 vets around.
Corporal punishment.
Cops would beat you up then you got the belt when you got home.
Rock music on radio 24/7. The Elvis revolution.
Yes, church every bloody Sunday.
Friday night fights...Joe Louis, Rocky Marciano, Kid Gavilan..
Bonanza, Have Gun Will Travel, Gunsmoke, The Rifleman...
Saturday cartoons at the movies.
Popcorn at the movies.
Bob Hope, Jack Benny, John Wayne, Marlon Brando, Jimmy Stewart, Audie Murphy..
Rita Hayworth, Marilyn Monroe, Debbie Reynolds, Audrey Hepburn..
Pea shooters.
Your first 22.
Discovering the joy of fishing.
And on and on. Truly halcyon years.
And you got a big piece of chocolate cake at the school cafeteria!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XGG1NouAzg
“I can still smell the coffee grounds being ground up at the A&P....”
I’d forgotten that. In the coffee aisle, Dad would put a bag under the grinder and the beans were freshly ground. The smell was heavenly.
“I can still smell the coffee grounds being ground up at the A&P....”
I’d forgotten that. In the coffee aisle, Dad would put a bag under the grinder and the beans were freshly ground. The smell was heavenly.
“I want to know if life was like that: Congested dance halls..”
I lived through the whole thing and never saw anything that frantic except maybe on American Bandstand. The boogie woogie craze in the 30’s was another thing,
People wore letterman jackets, ate burgers and drank milkshakes made by Mel and served by Flo, and rocked around the clock. The rebels did the same thing but their jackets were leather and they jumped jetskis over a shark. Wearing leather jackets.
For the kids; TV, cowboy movies. Good guys wore white hats. And the good guys always won. Bicycles, summers without shoes.
To quote Charles Dickens; "It was the Best of Times..."
My male fourth grade teacher in 1960, Mr. Razman, was a take-no-prisoners type. He could hit you on the noggin with a piece of fastball chalk in a flash. He was probably a WW II vet.
Oh yeah! I don’t remember any discipline problems in those days, few and far between as they were, that the offender got away with it!😎
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