It's good to look back and recall all those happy moments. We were dirt poor, but as my brother said "Everyone was poor then - we were all just too happy to notice it." I remember the canning we did; the gardens we planted; and most of all - I recall Mother and Daddy fixing a big box of food for a neighbor family, when we could just about afford our own food, but most of it was raised on the farm.
Everyone worked and helped one another. We did a lot of walking and all the neighborhood kids would get together for a game of "kick the can", hide and seek, or some other made up game.

I remember going to the movies with my sister when we were little (early to mid 60s). for 50 cents you could get in, and have popcorn, candy and a pop. We were kind of poor ,so we only got 35 cents so we could get pop and OR popcorn or candy. This would be the Saturay kiddie show. It was usually a double feature and a couple of cartoons.

I was recalling a lot of things when I was a child - it would take a book to write all of them. I was born in 1932, so there would be many, many years of reminiscing. Can you all see the differences between "yesterday" and today?
Dodee

I also grew up in Detroit - Moved away when I was 22. I remember Stopel Park - probably 4-5 blocks away. On Saturday nights in the summer they had an old time band concert in a little bandstand - if the wind were just right I could hear them while sitting outside on the back porch. And block parties where they'd use those sawhorses and close off the street. It was the only time I was ever allowed to ride my bike in the street! Magical memories.

Remember all of them.

Remember Slim Jim pants with the zippers on the bottom sides...buttoning up our sweaters backwards, the little snowball collars you could tie on....rabbit fur muffs....Pat Boone Shoes (white bucks)...Fabian...laffy taffy....aqua net....setting your hair with flat beer...couldn't we go on and on and on.....

Oh, this thread is making me cry....I can relate to almost every response. Another memory....My Dad passed away from cancer when I was 4 and my sister2 and a half. Shortly after my maternal Grandma came to live with us. Our house was not big and my and my sister's bedroom was a small room off the kitchen. I remember falling asleep to the murmur of my Mom and Grandma's voices from the kitchen where they sat playing cards or just chatting. I always felt so safe. To this day I can't fall asleep unless I have the TV or talk radio on...turned low so it is just a background murmer.

I remember that whenever my grandmother came to visit my dad would lay in a supply of Strawberry Nehi.
Does anyone ever remember a soda called Little Tom. It was these 8 oz bottles of soda, all different flavors. My dad would buy cases of it during the summer months cause we kids would be drinking pop more at that time. We loved it, but not sure if it was because of the flavor or the kid sized bottles.

Amen!!!! My grandkids love to hear stories about the days we grew up in. My oldest (14 Yrs) said he would have loved to lived back in the 50's when life was simple and carefree. He is my computer geek and while he is on the computer he listens to music from the 40's and 50's. It amazes me!!!!!! Knows all the words to the songs----better than I do!
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Huh?

Okay, you explained about their ages, but you never finished the sentence. One of the whats? One of the town scarlet women?

Actually, yes and no. Not for a hair product, but I remember a TV commercial (it was also a TV ad) about kids putting on a Christmas play. A woman is straightening the halo of a little blond girl with glasses, and calling out, "Halo, everybody, halo!" I think it was either an ad for Kraft cheese or for laundry detergent.

I never quite got why she was saying that, so maybe it was a reference to the hair commercial.

I grew up mostly in s.California and remember walking over to my cousins house 2 miles away barefoot. We'd see how many pop bottles(.03 for each)my aunt had for us to put in the wagon and take to the store to buy candy and soda pops.
Anyone recall the Helm's bakery trucks? They were yellow Chevy panel trucks and had lots of shelves built into them to hold all the baked goods for sale. I was born in 1957.

I was born in 1943 and raised in St. Paul, Mn. I wouldn't trade the 50's and 60's for anything. We truly lived and it was the last of the Happy Days. All the memories written, were wonderful to read, as they all brought back many beautiful, wholesome, honest living memories we all have shared, in one place or another.

I was raised in Portland,OR and they had a penny saver store, that we would walk to, the candy was 1 cents and the candy bars were a nickle. and there was a sence dairy we would walk to to get a fudge sickle, and I remember people getting milk delevered in glass containers. God bless. life was so simple then.

That's an old joke from the 50's!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Edie

Good Grief! I remember sweaters (cardigans) worn backwards. Remember the drawer full of different collars? Argyle knee highs? I had Bucks (those were the Pat Boone white buck shoes), scarves around our necks that had to be tied just so in a square knot that we wore with the knot either at the front or off to the side. Pep Cereal, 7-Up candy bars. Yes, I feel sorry for the kids who missed that time in the 50's. So much innocence. Remember when we had to sneak "Peyton Place" into the house to read under the covers? It was such a "dirty" book. My golly, I hear ten times worse than that on an audio book. And now they say THAT word and I rememb er the first time I ever heard THAT word, I came home and asked my mother what it meant - she knew! But told me it was the worst word there was and I was never to say it to anyone at all ever, much less say it to myself. The wrath of the mother would be upon me had I ever said that word. At 72, I still do not say that word, but I sure have heard other oldsters belt THAT word out without batting an eyelash. It was such an innocent time. Edie

Oh, yes - the saddle shoes - I loved them 'back then'. We were married in 1955; our daughter was born a year later in 1956 nd our son in 1957. To this day, our daughter's favorite songs are the "Oldies". We lived in Illinois then and a little in Ohio in the 50's. Loved those times.

I am originally from Springfield Illinois, and remember the boys folding up the hems of their Levis so the seam was displayed proudly - and I wore skirts and with my socks pulled up so no one could see the skin on my legs........ WOW - have times changed - it seems like wherever you look now, women and girls have their breasts exposed!!

I was also born in 1932,all these stories bring back so many memories. My grands like to ask me to tell them about the Olden Days,. I even convinced the youngest that I came to Texas in a covered wagon.....So much fun te rememinence.I graduated hi school in1949 now that is some memories......

Oh, Peyton Place. My girlfriend told me that something 'really dirty' was on a certain page. Don't remeber what page or what it was but I'm sure it wouldn't even raise an eyebrow nowadays. Whatever it was you had to use your imagination to figure out what it was, but we were so young and innocent we had no clue, LOL! Oh, I'm so enjoying being "Back in the 50's again". May in Jersey

Yes and what about sneaking around to read Lady Chatterleys Lover. WOW

you are so right. my great aunts would take me to coney island every summer and Steeple chase and nathans were first on the list.

Remember bell bottoms,poor boy sweaters, fishnet hose, and mini skirts? And trying to hear the dirty words in "Louie, Louie"? And Tangee lipstick that was a different color on other girls.

Yes, Edie, they were innocent times and I sure do miss them. The words that are used on television nowadays weren't allowed to be spoken back then. I couldn't believe my ears when that started. And exposure of body parts -- my, my!! Times have definitely changed and not so much for the better I'm afraid.

hry kids,
aSo much we didnt do or want too do I f i was going on a date,I had to be home by 10:00 and then only on a Fri. or Sat. Even in N.Y city things were rather inocent. How things have changed since then, now Im just glad to live in texas ,seems things are nice and slow here. I also have room tto move around ,homes are homes not holes in a wall.
aLSO ROOM TO PARK A CAR. All inall i love n.y. but am glad to live here.

I remember walking around the corner to the "Pink Store," to buy Kits (remember the little square chewy candy), getting dressed up to take the bus downtown, flour bins in the kitchen and, God Forbid, cooking with bacon grease! Also, knowing and trusting the mailman and the paperboy. Then there were those turtles that you could buy from the aquariums at Kresgee's, TG&Y and Woolworths. Also, good music with no warning labels on the cover! Oh, those were the days, weren't they?

Oh boy...just listen to us talking about "Good Old Days." And we used to laugh at our parents when they talked about the "Good Old Days". What goes around comes around!!!
My kids think it's really funny when I tell them that even when I was engaged to be married I had to be home by 11:00 on a Saturday night.
I really mis Woolworths Dime Store, sitting at the counter eating cheeseburgers and fries for 1.00.

SO, did I. I ironed all the 'flat stuff'. And, no pay, but better still. I got to listen to the soaps on the radio. We started in the morning with Arthur Godfrey, then Don McNeil and the Breakfast Hour from the Sears Tower in Chicago, then later The Brighter Day, The Secret Storm and my all time favorite, Ma Perkins. Did you know, that Virginia Graham from the 'Girl Talk' show of the 70's was Ma Perkins AND, Ruth Martin from All My Children was her daughter inlaw in the program and that Judge Loyal's daugher Penny, IFrom As the World Turns) was friends of all of them and she and Virginia Graham had cameo appearances on All My Children. But, don't ask me what I age for Breakfast this morning. hahahaha

My favorite memory is of going to the movie theater....only one in town. I could get in for 9 cents. A coke ( in the small bottles, 6oz. I think) was 6 cents. A bag of popcorn was a nickel and a Snickers candy bar was also a nickel. The whole outing cost only a quarter! Late 50's....those were the days!

Oh mrspete - I had forgotten all of those memories - do you remember "The Legend of Hilltop House?" Pinky Lee? Oh yes, Virginia Graham with her boufant hairdo - Its all coming back to me now!

How about Whispering Streets and My True Story? A popsickle at the Dairy store was a nickel. Cherry coke and straws for all your girlfriends. Dairy Queen cones for a nickel. White Castle Hamburgers for a dime. The 50's, what beautiful memories, what wonderful times. At school dances my dad would take me and pick me up. On dates had to be at 8:30.
Streetcars to go downtown. But had to dress up, as you didn't know who you would meet. Pink lee and Howdy Doody.
Love this. We could write a story.

I do not remember the Legend of Hilltop House nor Whispering Streets, but I do remember My True Story and those delicious Cherry cokes at the Drug Store and the Jewelry Store in my home town in WV. I'm not sure who Pinky Lee is. If it was on TV, then I didn't get to see much until 1964, we didn't have a TV nor access to one. That's why I played Roy Autridge hahahaha, I didn't even know the name of the TV or Movie cowboys. But I knew who Matt Dillion was. Sunday Evening before Church we could listen to Skid Row, Johnny Dollar and Gunsmoke and the Great Gildersleeve! brrrr it was scarey, screeching door and all. What about Barnabus Collins?? what was the name of that program, it was on for years and years, TV and Radio?

wow this is so much fun.

I grew up on a farm in Michigan, I remember as a 5 yr. old getting up at dawn to go down to the neighboring strawberry farm to pick the berries for market. I'd trade my mom's homemade bread sandwiches for Wonderbread ones -what an idiot I was! I remember the winter I was 7 and my brother was 11. We disobeyed my mom and double dog dared each other all the way down to the edge of the cold, fast running, only frozen over by the banks creek on the farm. I slipped on the ice and went in, cotton padded snow suit sucked up water and I was going under for the last time. It's weird to be 7 and know you're dying. My brother managed to snag me from under the water with a branch and drag me to shore. We were covered in ice by the time we got to the house. My mom [who was pregnant with my sister at the time] screamed, cried, hugged us, swatted us then hugged us again. My brother died too young-health problems from Agent Orange- but he'll always be an eleven year old hero to me.

hey does any one remember Helen Trent or our Gal Sunday or young Dr malone. on the radio the were fun to listen to, but i never watch them in any way on TTV. im just to busy just to sit and watch,besides them they were only 15 min shows What a waste of time, id rather be quilting and listen to ILDIVO.
or country.

I remember the Young Dr Malone, for sure. And yes these programs were 15 minutes each until late '60's on TV. Our first real interest was The Edge Of Night. It came on as we got home from school and mother was playing with an old TV that when it got warm the picture would roll then it would snow and all we got was dialog, but 'Mike Carr' said a bad word and they fired the actor. lol The actor was the late John Larkin. Then it was on, we wanted to find out who the new guy called Mike was. Mandel Cramer was the Chief of Police and he was Johnny Dollar on the Radio, too. Boy, the memories. Thanks y'all.

Blessings, Ruth

I grew up in a small town (population 250?) in the Pacific Northwest. Twice a week my mom and I walked to the Igloo (a real butcher shop) and Adams (the general store). Every month my dad cashed his paycheck and they paid the bills with money orders, including the mortgage. I was 8 before they got a checking account. At the butcher shop, owned by an old German man, they actually had penny candy. Once a week I could get a jawbreaker. Adams had square nails in the wood flooring. I think I was 10 before I first saw an ice cream truck. We only had one car and my dad used it to go to work so we walked everywhere we needed to go.

Those were all great times and how nice it was not to have or even know about credit cards or bills that cant be paid. I know my parents never had a credit card,and my grandparents always paid cash for all they had. Im back to all cash and no credit and now peace of mind. the ss doesnt go far but its still better than a credit card.

I know what you mean, doggies. You can't borrow from tomorrow. My daddy said, " A man is never free when he owes." I am a firm believer. It will give you ulcers and restless nights. Makes it twice the evil. Thanks for mentioning of this way of life. Blessings, Ruth

this Sat. the aLZHEIMERS ASSOC.is doing a walk of 5k in Brakenridge park. we are hoping monies raised will help to find a treatment or cure . My husband had it for 10 yearsand for 9 yrs didnt know what was going on or who I was
Lets hope a treatment is found during our lifetime ,since everyone We know is getting older