Memories of Growing Up in the 40's and 50's (and since, even)

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[Dakotabound]

This has several anonymous postings on the web, so I have no idea who the author was.

Posted for your reminiscing pleasure on this Saturday in January.

[Willie Green]

White Castle sliders have been around since 1921.

[Commander8]

I was born in the late '70s and grew up in the 1980s. I remember the '80s as a simpler better time.

[xJones]

I remember being adjured very strongly, when starting elamentary shcool, "If you get a spanking at school, you'll get a bigger one when you come home." In those, the paddle was used, nobody was hurt but discipline was maintained.

[Chancellor Palpatine]

White Castles - Also known as "sames" or "zacklys", because they make your breath smell zackly the same as your butt.

The restaurant can also be identified by the following names - Whitey Castile's, the Porcelain Palace, or my personal favorite, Le Chateau Blanc (for 5 star dining and the finest in French cuisine).

[mountaineer]

I've eaten two White Castle sliders in my entire life, and both gave me splitting headaches! Maybe they were vintage 1921 hamburgers.

[rooster1]

Born in 1947. Remember those days well and wish time travel was a reality and I could go back.

[Willie Green]

WHITE CASTLE HAMBURGERS - SLIDERS
Yield: 10 servings

      2 lb Lean Ground Beef
    1/4 c  Dry Minced Onion
    1/4 c  Hot Water
      3 oz Jar Strained Beef Baby Food
    2/3 c  Clear Beef Broth
      1 pk Hot Dog Buns

Soak 1/4 cup dry minced onions in 1/4 cup hot water until soft while you mix 2 pounds ground beef with 3 ounce jar of strained beef baby food and 2/3 cup clear beef broth. Keep patties uniform using 1/4 cup meat mixture for each patty, flattened to 1/4" and fried quickly in 1 T oil per patty on a hot griddle. Make 3 or 4 holes in patties while frying. Cut hot dog buns in half. Cut off rounded ends. Fry 1 t onions under each patty as you turn to fry 2nd side. Slip each patty into bun with 2 dill pickle chips, mustard and catsup.

[LiteKeeper]

I was born in 1944 - to place myself on the time line.

I still remember that you didn't sass other kids' parents either. Because, somehow my parents found out about it before I could get home.

And we never locked our doors...how would our friends get in?

And we only had one car, Dad used it to get to work, so we had to walk everywhere, or wait for Dad to come home.

And we went to the Saturday matinee theater for a double feature and a cartoon for a dime!

We drank a lot of orange juice since we had five orange trees in our backyard, and we played in the orange groves at the end of the block (So Calif)

We would go to the other end of the block to my uncle's house and make fresh peach ice cream every Sat night during the summer. Course, we had to crank it because they hadn't put electric motors on the ice cream makers yet.

And we dressed up to go to church every Sunday morning. Coat and tie was the standard.

We would also sit around the radio in the evenings and listen to the variety and drama shows. Boy, did we have an imagination in those days. No TV screen to show us what was going on.

I'll have to keep remembering...more later, perhaps.

[Arkansawyer]

Just last week I was telling my kids that I was 14 when I first ate pizza. It was on the way back from a Boy Scout canoe trip into Minnesota & Canada (Charles L. Sommers). A couple of girls in Owatonna, MN bought it at a place called King Tut's Pizza. The girls loved our Southern accents and treating a friend and me to pizza. That was in 1966.

[SeeRushToldU_So]

Some of this sounds familiar. It gripes my butt to no end if kids don't say "sir" or "m'am", including and especially my kids.

Actually I remember an awful lot of this, except the snow. It doesn't snow much in south Georgia.

[Mike Darancette]

I tell my kids that we had to walk 5 miles to school (one way) through the deep snow watching out for ravenous wolves and bandits. We were too poor for sack lunches and the one room school didn't have a cafeteria so we had to go home for lunch.

When the kids say, "but, dad you grew up in Los Angeles", I tell them about global warming.

[crystalk]

That is just what Trent Lott was tryin to TELL y'all. If Thurmond had won the 1948 election, none of this would ever have gone away, and none of this BS we live with now would ever have come upon us.

[Arkansawyer]

I was always more afraid of my friend's parents than my own! If another kid's folks got on to you, well my folks never defended me if I was scolded by another kid's parent!

[rooster1]

You hit the nail on the head!!!!

[carmody]

If you could go back you wouldn't have the internet, wouldn't be posting on this fine site and we'd still have to look forward to President Bill Clinton! Don't ever wish to go back! :)

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

My kids say Yes M'am...and yes Sir....... but they are an exception in this area.......

[mountaineer]

Pizzas were not delivered to your house back then, but the milk was.

Living in Pittsburgh in the late 1960s, we had metal milk boxes outside our front door for deliveries from the dairy man. Those boxes were especially useful in winter, when we used them to store our snowballs for the big battle with the other kids in the neighborhood.

[The Citizen Soldier]

Born in 1947

Vintage year my friend!

On my 25th anniversary, my kids invited my best man who was also my best friend growing up in those "formative years." After the celebration, he and I drove to where we grew up and drove all around at 5 mph recalling everything we could. Man, talk about time travel. Cheers.

[Mears]

Our big treat was a visit to Howard Johnson's.