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Posted on 05/29/2011 10:23:38 PM PDT by Dallas59
Yes, the Plymouth Valiant, nothing fancy, but they made for excellent basic transportation. The slant six,aka the leaning tower of power was virtually indestructable.
One of the dumbest mistakes GM ever made was selling that Buick V8 to British Leyland. The engines that go in the Range Rovers are of the same basic design.
I was 8years old in 1962. About that time, my aunt who was working for Westinghouse purchased a new Buick “Wildcat”so she gave my mother & father her 1956 something Buick. It was a green 4-door and had an armrest in the back so big you could sit on it (which my little brother did). These were the days before seatbelts,of course.
We called it “The Tank”. It was an awesome car.
Your recollections are the same I was making a few weeks ago after being dazzled by the hats and ‘Fascinators’ being worn at The Royal Wedding!
Since that wedding, I have seen old movies: Westerns where the ladies are wearing head gear quite like the English fascinators; and 1940’s movies where Lucille Ball, for one, was wearing elegant hats which must have inspired the milliners in London!
We wore hats everywhere - I was recently looking at my high school year book, and we young ladies were wearing our Easter clothes in pictures taken on our Senior trip to Washington, D.C., spring 1955. We flew to D.C. from New York ( we came from a town on Long Island). We were wearing suits, coats, or Toppers, hats, purses, and gloves!
And the boys were very well dressed.
Back then (’50’s), and for years before, the men wore hats everywhere - not baseball caps.
And not too many men had 'sports shirts.' Just white shirts, and ties. We didn't own too many nice (dress) shoes, so having a matching pocketbook (east coast; ‘purse,’ west coast) wasn't extravagant.
And buying new clothing was added to what we had been wearing for numbers of years before, not having to keep up with the latest fashion, making clothes ‘obsolete.’ We needed new clothes because we grew, and others were wearing out.
I can barely remember wearing slacks in the ‘50’s. . . maybe to go bowling.
By the ‘60’s we were married and started having babies. When our daughters were old enough, I can remember buying all 4 girls Sunday School shoes, and school shoes, twice a year! And sandals in the summer. Going to the shoe store included the entire family!
Don't think the girls had sneakers for YEARS - maybe the ‘70’s?
Nowadays, some of my granddaughters under age 12 have so many shoes of every description and style that I'm just blown away! Every 2 months or so - new shoes! Ah,memories of a simplier life! ~ Please Read My Tagline ~ (I've tried over and over to get that 'Tagline' sentence to stand alone, and it just won't happen - frustrating...)
And the cars.
At the end of the video, they slam the door of the car shut.
Listen to it. It sounds like a tank. LOL
Those were some seriously awesome cars in those days.
Graduated from a small Vermont HS in 1961 and I had been working part-time (for $1.00/hr) in a private grocery store for 2 years.
Didn't make much money but allowed me to be the only kid in HS who owned their own car; a 1953 Chevy
After graduating went to work for large chain store (and was making a whopping $1.50/hr) and worked for them until Oct. 1962, when I quit to join the USAF.
Worked in every dept. except the meat dept and that kid stamping can with a marker sure reminded me of what a laborious time consuming task this was compared to today when everything already has a bar code.
Likewise, running a register then, was no easy task whereby one had to actually punch the amount in manually as well as which dept the item was purchased from.
Today's checkers have it made as all they have to do (with the exception of some loose produce) is scan the items as fast as they can swipe them and simply hit the total button.
The amazing advancement of technology.
Listen to it. It sounds like a tank. LOL
Those were some seriously awesome cars in those days.
Yep, that's a fact.
And, the reason those of us who were around then and owned vehicles often referred to them as "irons!"
Of course that was reserved for those hot ones with V-8's that "went" if you know what I mean?
All the rest including 6 cylinder family cars--and especially the few foreign cars such as VW bugs--we referred to either as "sleds," or better yet, "Sh*t Boxes," which some of my friends today refer to most cars on the road as same. lol
Why is that? Guess cents are worthless now days.
My sister got some of our old family movies converted to DVD (btw, if you haven’t done this, please do!!! It’s not that costly.). In addition to seeing so many of our loved ones in their younger days, who have since passed away, there was this:
White gloves & a hat....on me, at about 4 years old! I almost fell over when I saw this. I don’t know the event, but it appears that it was to see the Christmas parade in downtown Cleveland in the mid 1960’s. The reason I think it was the parade was that the film went seamlessly from us leaving the house and then right to the parade. And most of the females were wearing gloves and hats!
I miss gloves and hats. I’d replace them with the tattoos I have to see females wearing today. meh
Loved your comments and your tagline. At least you remember wearing slacks. I wasn’t allowed to once I was too old for winter leggins which matched my coats as pants were for males only, not ladies. We finally were able to wear pants suits in our office in the 1970’s - but the top and bottom had to match. One of the biggest differences I do believe was the fabric of our clothes - wool in the winter and all cotton in the summer. All grown, woven and made in the U.S. And our clothing design was classic and simple. Once I quit changing sizes nothing ever wore out and it was not unusual to have a garment that was many years old but still looked like new.
Keep up the good fight. I like how you express yourself. Thanks.
Notice the shelves aren’t above the mom’s head so she doesn’t have wait around for someone to help get something off the top shelf. Also, the shelves are full not like today’s where whole sections may be empty. Obviously gas was cheaper back then since she didn’t stock up enough to last out the week.
I was making $2.06 per hour and considered it pretty fair wages.”
That was the first year I received a substantial raise from $244 a month to $276. My husband made $305 a month as a licensed aircraft mechanic - we thought we had it made. Owned a house, car, pick-up truck, a boat and had two babies. It would take 10 times that much income now to have what we had then.
Wow, but that was a great rant, thank you!
I’m having a tougher and tougher time watching stuff like this. It makes me so melancholic when I think about what America was.
I am sure that some stuff was good but other stuff was not. I believe that going ahead and making sure that America has a great future is healthier than living in the past which will NEVER happen again. We can make America like 1962 to SOME areas but it won’t and shouldn’t be exactly the same. WIth conservatives making gains and eventually will run the country, things will improve. Heck who thought after those horrible late 1970’s (worst time for America in my opinion) would have improved.
The first house we bought in 1960 was a 3 bedroom 1000 sq. foot ranch and it cost $12,900.00 Had to put 3000 down (borrowed and repaid) house payment was 56.00 a month.
A first home today is probably around 2000 square foot. I am visiting a lot of my friends in Norfolk these last two weeks (I went to five friends so far and more to visit) and cannot believe how large these homes are. I am going to buy a home in Annapolis in a few months. The problem with comparing 1960 to today is not possible because a 1000 square foot home is so small and not even possible to live in. Although there might not even be 1000 Sq foot homes built. It is impossible to compare.
In 62 I was making $3.25/hour and only paying $65/ month rent for a 2 bedroom house.
Wow! That was a huge amount of money. Back in the 90’s we actually had folks making that with minimum wage. Now that is totally ashame. How can someone make 3.25 in 1962 and then we made folks survive on that in 1992....wow.
As for kids behaving in public in those days...did we have a choice? I didn't know you COULD misbehave in public!
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