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

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[visualops]

Oh yeah, the air raid siren drills!

[Exit148]

Remember when the TV went off the air with the playing of the National Anthem, then the screen went all scratchy ----and that sound!! If you fell asleep before the program ended, that sound woke you up. I can still hear it!

[WVNan]

!.....it's a wonder we're not all bald!

LOL. Bald, eaten up with cancer, arrested, gone to the dogs and every other thing that people think will happen if they suffer an inconvenience of any kind.

[visualops]

>>We first got Shakeys around 65 or so....served black beer and you sat at long tables with checkered cloth and they did sing alongs with banjos<<

Yep, I remember going to eat there a couple of times as a kid. Couldn't you watch them make the pizza thru the window?

[Little Bill]

You were probably too young to see the Hookers and the sailors, Boston in those days was the best liberty town on the East Coast, according to my Dad. He met my mother at a USO thing, Her Irish Catholic ways straightened his young a## out.

[SamAdams76]

Ever since civilization began, elders have always been reminiscing about the "good old days." Contrasted, of course, with the spoiled rotten kids of today who never had any hardship and don't appreciate a damn thing. (These being the kids that they raised, of course, but that somehow never comes into it.)

Of course I am guilty of the same thing. I'm always lecturing to my kids on how different things were when I was growing up during the 1970s. No computers. No VCRs. No video games. Why we didn't even have cable TV. But we knew how to have a good time. For example, we would put on our platform shoes, polyester bell-bottom pants, silk shirts and head on to a disco dance at the high school where we would listen to real music. Not that headbanging crap that kids listen to today but real bands like the Bee Gees, KC & The Sunshine Band, The Ohio Players, Grand Funk Railroad. Those were the days...

[WVNan]

LOL. If it was an insult then I'm in it with you friend. Where did the years go? It seems like yesterday.

[strela]

Although there is much that was good about the 40s and 50s, you can call me spoiled because I like things like antibiotics, the Internet, being able to travel anywhere on the planet in hours instead of weeks, and air conditioning. I can do without polio and whites-only drinking fountains as well.

[foreverfree]

Of course, for the blacks, life was a little tougher back then. Segregation, especially in the south, made it so. Never forget that (even if you're white like me). :-/

foreverfree

[visualops]

Where did you grow up?

Do you remember May Day and all the hippies in tents all over downtown near the monuments?

[Exit148]

"Or they took a doily from under some knick-knack and wore that!! Even a kleenex held on by a bobby pin! Strange days back then."

You didn't DARE go into a Catholic Church without sth on your head!!!! To this day, I feel strange if I am in a church - any church, without a head covering. At that time, it was really drilled into you, -----and the guilt stays. (Don't get me going on those man-made rules!!)

[WVNan]

Before the hair-dryers and rollers, there were those horrid 'pin curls' with a bobby pin pushed thru

Before those horrid pin curls, there were those rags that your hair was wrapped around and then tied in a knot. I would go to bed looking like I had stuck my tongue in the toaster.

[wingnuts'nbolts]

Ah, for the sound of Martin Block and the Hit Parade with the top ten hits.....Saturday mornings.........before TV and Dick Clark. Unfortunately poor Martin was not pretty and his disk jockey days were over, but that voice was deep velvet.

[Humidston]

So,okay, when are we finally going to admit that we teased our hair?

You mean when we all looked like cone heads? When women could have easily smuggled something inside there?

Not me! ;-D

[Willie Green]

Remember when the TV went off the air with the playing of the National Anthem, then the screen went all scratchy ----and that sound!! If you fell asleep before the program ended, that sound woke you up. I can still hear it!

I remember that some stations showed just the test pattern during the day.
(Perhaps they didn't have enough programming for a full schedule.)
Anyway, my parent's called it the "hiccup station" and told me to watch it to cure my hiccups.
I was young enough to believe them, but maybe now I can sue them for child abuse.

[WVNan]

That's what I use mine for too. They are also right useful for cracking nuts and pressing flowers.

[Howlin]

And now we all pay top dollar for sound screens that make that SAME white noise so we can get to sleep at night without "hearing anything." :-)

[Humidston]

Alas, I religiously attended the Saturday morning fun club so I rarely listened to the radio. I must confess I vaguely remember the name but not the velvet voice.

[Humidston]

LOL!!!!!

[Howlin]

They were little colored plastic clothes pins, like you hang laundry up with, that we wore on our collars.