[andysandmikesmom]

Growing up in the fifties was great...wax moustaches, wax lips, wax bottles, with the sweet syrup, watermelon slices, Necco Candy, 7up bar, Chunky Bar, Chuckles, penny ice cream cones(wafer cone, marshmallow and sugar fake ice cream), nickel popsicles, fudgesicles and creamsicles for 7 cents, ice cream cones, ice cream sandwiches, frozen bananas, and ice cream bars, all for a dime....

We used to go to a place in Chicago, called Prince Castle...mom and dad would take us there about once every two weeks...we always all got the same thing...two hamburgers, an order of fries, and a chocolate shake...one time by accident they gave us 3 burgers apiece, but only charged us for 2 apiece...mom and dad never told the counter person..we just gobbled up those goodies, thinking we were so tricky...

Later on, after Prince Castle, folded ,we went to White Castle, for those scrumptous little burgers...

TV was always black and white...I remember as a kid, going past someones house, the people who lived in the basement had the newest thing, a color television...me and my brother and cousins, used to crouch down and look through the basement window to get a look at that colored TV...

Remember those old black and white TVs, if something went wrong with the Tv, your dad took off the back of the set, and looked to see which tubes were burned out...took them to the local drugstore, and put them in a tube tester...if the tube was no good, you just buy a new one, stick it in the set, and voila, your set worked again...no need for paying a TV repairman, or like today, just throwing out the set, and buying a new one...

Our first Tv, was bought from 'Mad Man Muntz', as my dad called him, and that set lasted probably 15 ys....

Remember the gum ball machines, and the prize gumball...I would always take my pennies, and put it in the gumball slot, and always wished to received a charm or gift, rather than a gumball, and the big prize, was the yellow gumball with the red circle around it...if you got that one, you turned it into the corner store guy,who knew your name, and knew your parents....he then gave you a candy bar, in return for the prize gumball...you thought it was your lucky day, when you got that prized gumball...

[TheGrimReaper]

Thanks for the memories.
God, I miss the 50's.

[Nea Wood]

Our first Tv, was bought from 'Mad Man Muntz', as my dad called him, and that set lasted probably 15 ys....

My father worked for Muntz TV in Chicago for a while. Maybe he was the salesman who sold your dad the TV! :-D