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Subject: Who was alive during the 50s????
:D :D :D ............and is old enoughto remember stuff from that time?Unfortunatelu,I wasn't. :(:DWhat do you remember?Cheers! 8)
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A lot of people were-but I wasn't one of them. ;)
Cat
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Not I said the blind man 8)
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Tecnically, I was ALIVE during the 1950s. I was only alive for four months , though.I don't remember a thing about the 50s, though.
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My old man was alive in the 50's, he tell's me gas was 25 cents a gallon (canadian).
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Geeze, I was alive during the 50's (born in '46). and I did "like Ike" and remember before we had TV. All 4 of us (parant's, me, and sis) gathered on my parent's bed and listened to the radio shows - Fibber MaGee, The Lone Ranger, The Shadow. Then came TV, and I remember watching the (Brooklyn) Dodgers while dad napped on the couch - as they lost. There was pick-up baseball in the summer, and rolling down a small hill inside cardboard packing crates, and munching watercress at a clean spring near the house, and "helping" - maybe hindering - dad as he built an addition on the house - I often got him the tools he needed. There were times when I hated it because it was boring watching him work. I look back now and realize how precious those hours really were. Also biking to the "corner store" a few miles away, or to friends' houses, or just out on the "open road" hoping to run into the "woman" I admired from afar (I was, what, ten? But Pattie was HOT - although I wasn't exactly sure what that meant). It was a simple life, dad coached little league and was one of the boyscout leaders. Mom always worried about that "outdoor stuff". But times were not always easy. We always had enough to eat, and the mortgage was paid, but there wasn't a lot left over. All in all, man, it was great to be a kid though, and I think Mom and Dad were happy most of the time. Sadness when my grandfather died, and like I guess every family, some jealousies, especially in my Dad's family. Some of my Mom's sibs lived near by, and visiting them was great, especially in the summer, when Dad and my uncles would take me to Ebbit's Field to see the Dodgers play. On the way home I was often to tired to walk, so Dad would carry me on his shoulders. I also remember one New Years Eve. My parents and aunt and uncle went out. I stayed at Tio's Apt in NYC with my grandmother. I was a bit sick - from sneeking nips of rum - shhhh - and abuelita held me on her lap and stroked my hair - total peace and comfort.
Then again, the 50's. Korea, Mcarthyism, other really ugly stuff. But at that time I was too young to notice, too young to care.
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Geeze, I was alive during the 50's (born in '46). and I did "like Ike" and remember before we had TV. All 4 of us (parant's, me, and sis) gathered on my parent's bed and listened to the radio shows - Fibber MaGee, The Lone Ranger, The Shadow. Then came TV, and I remember watching the (Brooklyn) Dodgers while dad napped on the couch - as they lost. There was pick-up baseball in the summer, and rolling down a small hill inside cardboard packing crates, and munching watercress at a clean spring near the house, and "helping" - maybe hindering - dad as he built an addition on the house - I often got him the tools he needed. There were times when I hated it because it was boring watching him work. I look back now and realize how precious those hours really were. Also biking to the "corner store" a few miles away, or to friends' houses, or just out on the "open road" hoping to run into the "woman" I admired from afar (I was, what, ten? But Pattie was HOT - although I wasn't exactly sure what that meant). It was a simple life, dad coached little league and was one of the boyscout leaders. Mom always worried about that "outdoor stuff". But times were not always easy. We always had enough to eat, and the mortgage was paid, but there wasn't a lot left over. All in all, man, it was great to be a kid though, and I think Mom and Dad were happy most of the time. Sadness when my grandfather died, and like I guess every family, some jealousies, especially in my Dad's family. Some of my Mom's sibs lived near by, and visiting them was great, especially in the summer, when Dad and my uncles would take me to Ebbit's Field to see the Dodgers play. On the way home I was often to tired to walk, so Dad would carry me on his shoulders. I also remember one New Years Eve. My parents and aunt and uncle went out. I stayed at Tio's Apt in NYC with my grandmother. I was a bit sick - from sneeking nips of rum - shhhh - and abuelita held me on her lap and stroked my hair - total peace and comfort.
Then again, the 50's. Korea, Mcarthyism, other really ugly stuff. But at that time I was too young to notice, too young to care.
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:)Yeah,if I had been born soon enough,i would have at least been around then---old enough to remember when rock and roll was young,and you could hear all the neat songs on the radio,all the time!And the cool 50s clothes,too!I mean,stuff in the 70s was imaginative,but when I was a kid I often felt all the fun stuff happened way before i was born :(Cheers!
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I was alive for most of it, born 1951. I remember when the Lincoln cent changed the reverse from two tuffs of wheat to the Lincoln Memorial in 1958. I barely remember Ike, Don't remember a time without TV and cars were easily recognizable by make model and year. Foreign cars were usually expensive sporty or luxury types and rare at that. I can remember the first jet passenger planes taking to the air. And I remember Sputnik, the first satelite lauched into orbit. Oh yeah, the TV was black and white, (the whole world was colorless until color was invented by Al Gores' dad circa 1962). Color TVs soon reflected this change. I remember they called them the nifty fifties. So what do we call this decade? We had the 50's 60's 70's 80's 90's and now it's the 00's, but how do we announicate this? The Oh-Ohs or how about the oughties. Ought was the digit zero as expressed by Jethro Bodien on the Beverly Hillbillies when he did his cyphering. So what do we call this decade anyway. The fifties made more sense. :D
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Well, I was born in 1959, so I kinda missed 'em.... ;)
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I was born in 1947. First one quick serious note: There are a lot of people who have bought into the notion that the Fifties were oppressive and the Sixties was this great time of liberation (think the movie "Pleasantville"). To each his own, but even though I was a kid, I was pretty aware for my age, and my memories were altogether different.
Music: When I was 7-ish,Before there was rock & roll, we used to watch the Lucky Strike Hit Parade, and we would listen to records on Sunday afternoon. First my mother would put on some would be some weepy records from the old country (Hungary), but soon enough, the fare would change to something more contemporary. There was "Dungaree Doll" (Eddie Fisher): "Yellow Rose of Texas" (Mitch Miller); "Sh-Boom" (Crewcuts); "Dance With Me Henry" (don't remember the artist); anything at all by Guy Mitchell. I remember some of the earliest rock songs when they were new - "Why Do Fools Fall in Love" (Frankie Lyman); "Rock Around the Clock" (Bill Haley & the Comets - in 1955, that was the theme for "Blackboard Jungle", a movie about juvenile delinquency. 20 years later, that same song was the theme for "Happy Days", an upbeat nostalgia sitcom. What does that fact alone say about the direction of our culture?); the early Elvis - "Heartbreak Hotel", "Hound Dog".
I was in 4th grade for the election of 1956; at recess, the Stevenson kids would chant, "Ike and Dick/make me sick", while the Eisenhower kids retorted, "Whistle while you work/Stevenson's a jerk/Eisenhower/has more power/whistle while you work" If you've ready any of my political parodies, you can guess which camp I was in. The election was overshadowed, for me, by two other events that same November; one, the sale of our house and move to Miami; two, the Hungarian revolution. My father predicted Eisenhower would wait for the election to be over, and then he would intervene. He was wrong, and in 1960 he voted Democratic for the only time in his life. Neither of my parents were religious; the only time I remember my mother praying was when the Russkies sent the tanks into Budapest. I remember my mother, afte we had moved, writing to InteRescue and Catholic Charities (like the mother in "American Rhapsody" - an obscure but wonderful movie), trying to get my cousin out of his DP camp in Austria and to the States.
Culturally speaking, the capital-S Sixties didn't really reach my corner of Middle America until about 1964. My high school yeas (1961-1965) had far more in common with the Fifties than they did with even 1966 or 1967 - the change really was that abrupt. Was it a change for the better? That's a point we can argue endlessly and never agree. But just think of the music then and now - of course there wee virginities lost and bastards conceived while listening to the Platters or Brook Benton - the same is true of the music of Rudy Vallee, Stephen Foster, the medieval troubadors for that matter. But it was still about love, not abusing "bitches" and Hos". It made you think about marriage and kids (sometimes too young - an awful lot of those young marriages ended in divorce). Even "Linda Lou", probably one of the raunchiest songs of the Fifties, ended with the singer wanting to "marry her on Sunday". Come to think about it, there were a lot of religious imagery in those songs, "A Sunday Kind of Love", "Church Bells May Ring", "The Angels Listened In".
I expect a lot of argument on this, but for me, get rid of the segregation and add computers and air-conditioning in every house, and I wouldn't mind going back. Not at all.
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Elvis!
Elvis was alive in the 50s..
and oh yeah
Lennon,McCartney,Starr,and Harrison were too.
;)
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I remember candy in the candy counter at the corner drug store (with a soda fountain) was not packaged, just piles of fireballs, gumballs, and all kinds of stuff. They would put whatever you pointed to in a little brown bag, then chant an ancient prayer before you downed the contents in one chomp.
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:D :D :D ............and is old enoughto remember stuff from that time?Unfortunatelu,I wasn't. :(:DWhat do you remember?Cheers! 8)
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The Sid Caesar Show
I Love Lucy
Baseball when the game was king, not the $$$$!
Safe streets / Unlocked doors at night
Rock n' Roll with innocent lyrics
Respect for authority
Racial harmony (for all appearances anyway)
Flipping baseball cards
The local soda shop
Girls looking like girls / Boys looking like boys
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Rock n' Roll with innocent lyrics
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Ironically, parents/adults of the '50's looked rock & roll as "evil".
Though best if I didn't post anything else since I don't want to spill any ignorant comment. (I wasn't alive in the 1950's)
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I was there and I would go back (even without air conditioning) in a heartbeat. I miss the music, sock hops, slow dancing where you actually touched, the summer's Old Fiddler's Reunion with great fiddle playing, lifestyle, relative honesty, dinner with the whole family with real food from your garden, etc. Yes SOME of the social change since then was for the better but some is questionable. And yes when girls were girls, especially in short shorts (not that there aren't real girls today!)
Just another old Dinosaur...
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Actually, no one was.
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Actually, no one was.
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;) ;) :D :D ;D ;D 8) 8)Actually,some people on this board were alive during the 50s!Cheers!
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I was there. Take it from me, nobody was.
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Nah, of course that's not true. That's when the counter culture really got underway. The moment Jack Kerouac saw Elvis, he knew there was a connection between the Beats and Rock and Roll. It came to fruition when Bob Dylan smoked dope with the Beatles in London in 1964 or 5, but a lot of us knew what was going on long before then.
I'd love to learn more about mass media hipsters of the fifties, DJ's like Pat Pattee in Portland, Oregon, Joey Reynolds in Buffalo, for example, comedians like Lenny Bruce, Paul Krasner, etc. and their influence on people who had opted out of the Eisenhower version.
If you were alive during the 50's, who kept you alive?
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Primarily my parents, I suppose (I was 2 when the decade began, 12 when it ended.) If that sounds obvious, just remember nearly one in three children conceived in our "enlightened" decade doesn't get that consideration.
Memories of childhood are never perfect, but I was pretty aware for my age, and if I had it in my power to design an earrthly paradise, it would resemble the Fifties of my childhood, with a few changes, far more than the society you see around you today. I'm sorry to hear your memories of that period were so bleak. Maybe I was just more fortunate than you.
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I was there. Take it from me, nobody was.
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Nah, of course that's not true. That's when the counter culture really got underway. The moment Jack Kerouac saw Elvis, he knew there was a connection between the Beats and Rock and Roll. It came to fruition when Bob Dylan smoked dope with the Beatles in London in 1964 or 5, but a lot of us knew what was going on long before then.
I'd love to learn more about mass media hipsters of the fifties, DJ's like Pat Pattee in Portland, Oregon, Joey Reynolds in Buffalo, for example, comedians like Lenny Bruce, Paul Krasner, etc. and their influence on people who had opted out of the Eisenhower version.
If you were alive during the 50's, who kept you alive?
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I'm sorry to hear your memories of that period were so bleak. Maybe I was just more fortunate than you.
Uh, Beave, can we stay on topic here?
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