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Posts: 8,574Any oneover the age of 50 can add to this list.....after all it is so long ago we will need to help each other remember:
you remember NEW MATH and still don't get it
You weren't allowed to go to school in pants if you were a girl
you were confused by why your mom cleaned the bathroom in flats and pedal pushers and Mrs. Cleaver wore high heels and a ruffled apron
you remember FIZZIES and a happy fizzies party was letting it disolve on your tongue
(I loved the root beer ones best)
You remember the film Reefer Madness -
You thought patent leather shoes were the coolest but had to wear saddle shoes to school
They gave you the My Weekly Reader in school and you thought it insufferably dumb
You left your doors unlocked
so did your neighbors
Mom and Dad had separate beds.....just like on TV
but then got the newest....KINGSIZE!
You remember your first TV, B&W and there were 3 stations. WOW!
You actually did do "Duck and Cover" drills at school
You were in school the day President Kennedy was killed, and it was the day before Thanksgiving
You loved the smell of copier fluid when you ran of mimiographs for the teacher...it was an honor
Bicyles had 2 speeds. Stop and go.
You saw the Beetles on the Ed Sullivan show- again first run
You could walk to school without anyone worrrying about you
Neighbors who saw you walking home would give you a ride....and you could take ti safely
You thought Stripe toothpaste was newest bested
"You wonder were the yellow went when you brush your teeth with............"
The best shampoo was Breck
McDonalds was an amazing innovation
You went to sock hops
You had more than one family on your 'party-line'
GASOLINE WAS 25 CENTS A GALLON
and when your dad filled up with gas you sometimes got a glass bottle of Coka Cola from the big red chest that was filled with ice and cold water
The only watch anyone wore took a licking and kept on ticking
'It's Shake and Bake and I ........."
Wolfman Jack wasn't beamed al over the world
Fruit in the store tasted like fruit
"I like Ike" buttons did NOT refer to Ike and Tina Turner
Long trip monotony was broken up by 50's technology: Burma Shave
There were choices, Butter and Oleo
the penny candy counter was a penny........
more to come I am sure
We wrote at school using a pen with a nib using ink, and each day or week you would stand in a line and get the ink well filled.
The Beatles, with Elivs Presley, Cliff Richard, were the latest rock and rollers.
It was safe to accept sweets from a stranger.
A penny bought you lots of things.
We were given fresh fruit and milk every day at school.
And South Africa was still 50 years behind the rest of the world !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Lynette
bears by beesley TMDilu! Remember GO GO BOOTS! 
Many Hugs Louise
Estelles canal bears and Tod Teddiesflouresent bobby socks,
full circle skirts with huge musical notes round the hem
that would make a twig look huge
real glass waisted coke bottles
third of a pint bottles of free milk at school
the end of sweet rationing :dance:
Ahhh...the memories............
Mom didn't work, she stayed home with the kids.
Every one in the family sat down to a home cooked meal at the dining room table together.
No seat belts in cars
No bicycle helmets
:hug: Ellen
Estelles canal bears and Tod TeddiesOne of my greatest memories from the 50s was being taken to see the King give a speach on Portsmouth Guildhall steps. He took me on the crossbar of his bike and we got stuck in the tram lines and nearly missed it
Terries BearsI loved my hula hoop!
Saturday was special because we got to go to town and had 25 cents to spend on whatever we wanted.
Newcastle, OntarioCrinolines (Spelling?) under big skirts - my sisters wore them - I hated skirts! I look at all the lists and can say "yep" to everyone. I guess that makes me old NOOOOOO!
Hugs,
Brenda
Patsy Lake BearsGoing to the Mattinee on a Saturday morning to watch Roy Rodgers .. Hopalong cassidy and Flash Gordon ..having yoyo comps half time ...Paper nylon underskirts starched with sugar water ..... listening to the serials on the radio ...
Estelles canal bears and Tod TeddiesOh Patsy were you in the UK then, you have just described my Saterday mornings to a tee and we all cheered when the good guys came on :clap:
I was never allowed to go to the cinema on Saturdays mornings...instead I had to go with my Mum to Sainsburys ..when the assistants worked behind long counters and served pats of butter wrapped in paper and poured sugar into blue bags and tea was bought in quarters and sausages were hung in loops on hooks..and we lugged all the shopping home on the bus.
We had lino on the floor and our radio had to warm up before it came on...so did the telly...and when we were kids we used to watch the test-card till the kids programmes came on...can you imagine!!!!
Patsy Lake BearsRag rugs in front of the fire .. Black lead fire surrounds with the oven and the kettle used to be on the top all the time.. boiler in the corner of kitchen ..... Sunday's a baked dinner of sorts .. Mushy Peas, Yorkshire pudding on the dinner and then with jam for sweets... going for walks on Sunday evening (Summer) Mondays wash day washing was always boiled in the copper and then transfered into the tub and swished around with the dolly peg and then put through the mangel oh yes and blue bags to keep the washing white....... Bubble and squeak for dinner usually left over from Sunday...
Posts: 8,574In california we had TRAMPOLINE parks. Where 15 or 20 trampolines would be set up, actually the one I went to the werent up, they were level with the ground and you jumped down, it was dug out underneath
Chuckles the Clown
Engineer Bill
Meeska Mooska Mouskateer......
The scarriest thing in the world was the Twilight Zone....and I still think about that scary mythical creature- on the wing of the plane.....William Shatner???
People actually went to other peoples homes to vote
and more people did vote
POLIO
Posts: 1,153Halloween lasted 3 nights and the kids were out in the dark alone and nothing happened to them...and you could eat the candy.
Slumber parties...Friday nite dances at different friends house.
Buzzin the drive in.
"He lit a match to check his tank,
That's why they call him skinless Frank"
Burma shave.
Past Time BearsPixie Stix, pouring peanuts into a bottle of Dr. Pepper, candy aspirin, "bubble" haircuts, cat eye glasses (spectacles), paying $.09 to get into the local movie theater, poodle skirts, roller skate keys, walking on stilts, drive-in movies, jeans with the legs rolled up, bobby sox, penny loafers, dancing the jitterbug, Johnny Mathis, Bill Haley and the Comets, Fats Domino, ELVIS 
and much, much more. What a decade!
Hula hoops !!!!!!!!!!! boy were they just fun, and good for the figure,
Jenny I did not know you fitted into the golden oldie group ?
Trampolines- I can still do a sumersault ? (spelling) much to the amusent of my nieces and older sister
Lynette
Lynette I was born in 1955 so I just remember the 50's ......but more of the 60's
