Enjoy!!! Back to the 50s and 60s

[RAINBOWWAVES]

http://oldfortyfives.com/TakeMeBackToTheSixties.htm

[grammyof4]

Couldn't check it out yet, Rainbow, but that's my favorite era. I always say-Heaven is the 50s!

[grammyof4]

Okay--got to take a look. How cool, Daddy-O!
What great times. I wish my grandkids could travel back in time and experience just one day back then.

[Bones]

Originally Posted by grammyof4

Okay--got to take a look. How cool, Daddy-O!
What great times. I wish my grandkids could travel back in time and experience just one day back then.

Grammy, you know kids of today would be bored to death without TV,computers,high tech toys,etc. that we as parents have have provided.

[mariatherese]

That was wonderful!

I adore music from the 50's & 60's. I often joke that I was born in the wrong era. I wish I, too, could travel back in time and experience it (even if only to see the Beatles in concert).

Bones- I'm with you on that one. While I'm young enough to be included in the computer generation, I luckily escaped most of that due to coming from a poor family. I grew up reading... yes, actual books! And playing outside! Oh dear, imagine that! Most people my age buy their kids lots of video games and DVDs... when I have kids, all I am going to give them is a ball, a bat, and a bike, and I'm going to lock them out of the house and tell them they can't come back in until they've skinned their knees. LOL

I'm so old school about some things... sometimes I feel like I fit in with the old farts better than my own generation! ;)

[Bones]

Originally Posted by mariatherese

That was wonderful!

I adore music from the 50's & 60's. I often joke that I was born in the wrong era. I wish I, too, could travel back in time and experience it (even if only to see the Beatles in concert).

Bones- I'm with you on that one. While I'm young enough to be included in the computer generation, I luckily escaped most of that due to coming from a poor family. I grew up reading... yes, actual books! And playing outside! Oh dear, imagine that! Most people my age buy their kids lots of video games and DVDs... when I have kids, all I am going to give them is a ball, a bat, and a bike, and I'm going to lock them out of the house and tell them they can't come back in until they've skinned their knees. LOL

I'm so old school about some things... sometimes I feel like I fit in with the old farts better than my own generation! ;)

I just heard somewhere they were banning tag in their school.

[mariatherese]

what? that has to be a joke, please tell me thats a joke.

[Bones]

No,it's true. I know schools have done away with dodge-ball ! Boy,they were the good old days.

[T.S.]

Originally Posted by Bones

I just heard somewhere they were banning tag in their school.

Multiple schools have already done it. Something about kids feeling left out and other kids possibly feeling like "victims" or some other crap like that.

Much of this "need to be PC" stuff is going way too far.

[Bones]

I think the "REAL" reason lie in lawsuits.

http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/...1-28bb10765723

[mariatherese]

urgh these things make me worry about where our society is headed.

[RAINBOWWAVES]

LOL..I guess all the "its" will be left in limbo with no one to tag....LOL

[elfyum]

That's a shame - tag was cool! I'm glad to see dodgeball go though...
I hated that game! What a stupid game! Well, actually it was the people
who played it not the actual game...

[Bones]

How about when we got a group of kids together and played baseball,chose players and had a good time with "NO" parents involved !!!!

[milliebfit]

I remember the days where you did not have to go home until the street light came on!!

[Bones]

Gone all day and yes, and you better be home when the street lights came on or else.

[a1m1700]

Originally Posted by mariatherese

what? that has to be a joke, please tell me thats a joke.

Nope I heard it too.

[Curious George]

Ah the sixties my childhood , lets see I remember the Kennedy assignation because non of my friends wear around , everybody was home watching the funeral that day. School , well school sucked no mater what decade it was , it kept me from hanging out with my buddies an doing what we wanted to do kid stuff . back then you had to be really really dumb to get held back , see they never flunked anyone so if you know there system you never had homework , besides once you’re out of school for the day I figured that was my time so no homework . school was for meeting new kids an having fun not learning , although I should of paid more attention on the spelling part .back then in the summer when school was out you slept till whenever, got up had something to eat, got on your bike an took off for the day, you might come to change into cutoffs to go swimming ( we lived 2 blocks from a lake )get your glove to play ball or come home for supper if you didn’t eat at a friends house then gone again till 10 -11 an start the day over again .
Life was good as a kid back then , along the way you also gained some street smarts .
Somebody’s older brother was always trying to do something to ya. Life was fun an care free, there was also a lot less fat kids back then . I was skin an boons with bleach white hair we wear outside so much in the summer. Kids now days would never keep up with us back then. Ah the sixties, life was good! 70’s weren’t to bad either we wear allowed in bars an dance halls then , that’s another story.

[Wyody]

So many folks across America make it sound like they had a normal life in those decades. I dunno where I went wrong.
My '50's and '60's were straight out of a Norman Rockwell plate - big-nosed giant males with hair growing out of everywhere up on the dais at church, large cops with Irish accents straight off of TV. They held a lot of the black kids back even in 1st grade - but that's cause my neighborhoods were almost totally white. They didn't seem to get held back at the schools just a few miles away which were largely black but also some white.
No city bus - the bus came in from the town about 30 miles or more away and headed to town - you could catch it. The trolley-lines were just coming down downtown but the tracks were still there.
Baseball was still interesting, football players didn't talk yet, basketball had like one or two black players. The Boy Scouts were still pro-American, the Girl Scouts were only talking about cookies. Only a few folks knew about General Ebony dissenting with JFK - very few know that Oswald's first shot was aimed at Ebony - flew his flag upside down he did.
Guys didn't know what to do with their hair. They'd stand in front of the mirrors carefully wetting and combing back their proposed duck-tails only to take a paper-towell and rough-up the front to hang wildly. Cuban Beatle Boots weren't in yet. No Nehru jackets yet. Even the bad-ass boys still owned a sport-jacket & tie. There was no such thing yet as a "Muscle Car" ... or a mustang. Fast-Food was still a trip to the drive-in where the food came on a tray that attached to the driver's window. Jack Nicklaus' name had not yet been heard. Babe Ruth was still the king. Elvis was alive and very, very weird - until he went to war - until he started doing movies.
Perry Como was "hep". James Brown was well-groomed. George Carlin and Willie Nelson still wore short-hair and suits on TV. Everbody knew of "Topo Gigio" but nobody had yet heard of "Big Bird" or "Oscar the Grouch". People knew who Steve Allen was but had not yet heard the name "Johnny Carson". Jackie Gleason was still a Honeymooner. We had a swimming pool down the street - after a spell anyway - and every summer day went that direction. Roller Skating was still a common date. Bowling was still a life-ambition.
No-lead Gas was what you had to drive several miles for to get a gallon 'cause the mower seemed to run better on it - also called "white gas" - and Americans were finally done with stealing tens-of-thousands of children from Appalachian families to raise as their own with the courts and judges in their pockets and the Appalachian families just S-O-L, Americans were finally just about done stealing tens-of-thousands of Phillipine children and Korean children ... to raise as their own (hey, it's what America does - find a war - then go "rescue" the children) - Disney World did not exist. The X-15 was still a household word. The Race to the Moon had not even been stuttered yet. There was no such thing as a "dirt bike" - if your Harley didn't make it thru the mud, it was 'cause you didn't know how to ride it! Fishing was still a national past-time. Lard was still meat-lard. I tell you whut though - lugging those big ol' cell-phones with the crank around was not for light-weights ! Sewing machines still worked better than typewriters. Copies were "Carboned" or "Mimeo-graphed". You could still erase type.
The new car in the driveway cost about $2300.00 - made out of steel and rock and tree-parts.
And Eisenhower had not yet told America that we had "advisors" in Viet Nam.
Sigh, I miss the old days George. I miss the "not being told anything" days. I miss the innocence ... even though we did just leave cousin Joey tied up in the barn behind the hay-bales and starched little sister's hair in her sleep.

[Curious George]

Ya the old days ! we wouldn’t get by with half the crap now days as when I was a kid
They have taken all the fun out of being Denis the menis. Bought me a 74 black 4 wheel drive short box Chevy with mags an big tires in 76 for 4500 . when I started driving gas was .20 an minimum wedge was 1.65 . back then when the cops pulled you over for drinking they would get everybody out of the car make you walk the line, figure out who was the least wasted an make him the driver an say go straight home now. Up around my cousin’s farm you would always see tracks through somebody’s wheat field wear some drunk drove . ah yes memories when we wear young , I think I should make a time machine.

[Wyoming53]

Here's a Jukebox that goes back to 1950. Give it a try.

Playa Cofi

[Wyoming53]

How'd I kill the thread?

[Wyody]

I don't think you killed it, Fitty. I think we just all got older!
I remember the '50's. They lasted until about 1965 or so. Heck, maybe they were really the 40's in disguise - I dunno - wasn't there in the 40's but it was a time that seemed to say "time doesn't change".
Then, all the stuffing got taken out of that pillow!
No more naivete' ... until somewhere in the 80's ... when a lot of folks seemed to say "okay, we're tired of the light. Would you please pull the wool back over our eyes"?
And here we are - with Fitty wondering if his jukebox killed the thread.
And Reagan is still president (yes, the actor).
And I remember so well, remarking to others in the 80's that "this seems just like the 50's so, if everything goes in a circle, the 60's should be coming around again" ... but they haven't.
And Kerouac's "On The Road" is still a gypsy masterpiece.
And Beat Poets remain more existential than Hippy poets.
And the Maharishi is still young.
And Falcons are still considered cool.
Gas is still .19 cents. And so are smokes.
And Lake Woebegone is still a figment of an idea in a young Garrison Keilor's brain.
Mickey Mantle is still King. Whitey is still a Ford.
And still, nobody is talking about Eisenhower's mistress.
Ahhhhh. The old days. ........ and wool.