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

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[Conservababe]

My word, I would have never dreamed they still make the sprinklers.

I remember my first hair dryer in the early sixties. I thought I had died and gone to heaven, I tell you. It had a long hose and a big plastic bonnet. Before the dryer, I had to wash my hair on Saturday, roll it, and wait all day for it to dry. Back then, before hair dryers, if a girl told a guy that she couldn't go out with him because she had to wash her hair...she was'nt lying. LOL

[wardaddy]

Dad had associates killed in that fiasco and to this day to the best of my knowledge, their families have never been given a proper accounting. Some were Guard volunteers from Mississippi and Alabama as I recall and some were flying prop warbirds that they had trained in specifically for the task.

Later in my life, I knew a fair number of Cuban counter-revolutionary folks when I was in Miami and socialized with a few nicely since our politics dovetailed so well. Some of those guys had been imprisoned after the BOP disaster and then went on to fight for us in a proxy army in Africa against Cuban regulars. Very interesting group. One...a fellow named Bartholomew was caught slipping into Cuba in 92 or so and summarily executed.

[OregonRancher]

Don't forget the red car line....

[wardaddy]

Where's Jim?

[Dr. Luv]

For "people like us", these are the good old days. While I have some fond memories of growing up in rural Georgia in the 50's, having people hiss "ni**er" when I got on the bus is not one of them. Give me 2003 any day....

[Conservababe]

Oh, I don't think most folks want to go back, but it is fun to share memories.

[ErnBatavia]

Also the Mutt and Jeff bike cops, Marinelli and Smith

The one bike cop I remember was the Baby Huey lookalike, Boggs....he was always after the roadracers up and down Chevy Chase canyon.

[Ex-Wretch]

Where's Jim the alligator wrestler? Marlin would always leave the action stuff to Jim.

[JoeSixPack1]

As all memories are a snapshot in time etched on your brain, returning to the simpler life is but an ambition.

[Humidston]

Oh yeah! Funny.... The other day I was searching for something in my daughter's linen closet and saw my very first hair dryer sitting there!

It was/is blue, with that long tube and that poofy cap that swelled when you turned the motor on! And the exhaust on the side dried your nail polish at the same time.

Remember those round rollers with the plastic sticky stuff that stabbed you in the head? Before that dryer, I slept in those rollers!

[muggs]

You ought to check out the catalog. All kinds of things in there that bring back old memories.
http://www.vermontcountrystore.com/prdSell.asp?ProdGroupID=77&DeptID=1316&CatID=1318

My son told me he remembers the good old days when computers were so slow you could read the text as it scrolled by on the computer screen.

[Conservababe]

LOL, yes I remember those rollers. Once you finally got your head in a comfortable position on the pillow, you did not change it all night.

Did we really go through all that pain for boys?

[spectre]

"Big John and Sparkey"

Theme song.."If you go out in the woods today, you better not go alone. There's something out in the woods today, it's safer to stay at home. For every bear that ever there was, is gathered there for certain, because...today's the day the Teddy Bears have their picnic"...Tah Dah!

Great thread.

[Humidston]

Yep. And our hair was long. When it started getting dirty, you wore it in a pony tail.... along with that poodle skirt and that PAINFUL waist cincher, LOL!

[OregonRancher]

Don't forget dinner...
No elbows on the table.
No talking unless spoken to by an adult.
Mother was always served first.
Three of us rotated who would clear and clean, wash, dry and put away the dishes.
Permission to leave the table.

[GrandMoM]

....Howdy Doody, Clarabell, Buffalo Bob oh and....Kukla, Fran and Ollie

[ErnBatavia]

Jim? I think he "outed" himself and moved to San Francisco...

[Humidston]

And the "medicine cabinet" consisted of one bottle of aspirin!

[don-o]

For "people like us", these are the good old days. While I have some fond memories of growing up in rural Georgia in the 50's, having people hiss "ni**er" when I got on the bus is not one of them. Give me 2003 any day....

Fine. I undestand that. My mama raised me to call y'all "colored people". The N word was never spoken in our home.

We were taught that only the white trash called a colored person that. We got it.

But, surely there must be some memories beyond white folks calling you a name?

Even sad memories are good.

[reformedliberal]

"Sauce Americane"

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You can buy it in the Caribbean labeled "Salsa Americana"