ANY REALLY "YOUNG" FOLKS THAT REMEMBER THE SIXTIES AND FIFTIES?

[The Yakima Kid]

I remember sitting in my dad's lap watching Combat when my mother went bowling with her league. I remember our station wagon had a seat in the rear that faced the back window - that was MY seat - I loved it! I remember putting Hershey bars on the radiators in the school lunchroom in the winter.

Phones with dials and cords, party lines, penny loafers, record players, cassette recorders.

My Mother the Car - anybody remember that show?

Yes. I remember My Mother the Car, Combat, Beverly Hillbillies and Petticoat Junction, The Real McCoys, Gumby and Pokey, The Littlest Hobo, My Friend Flicka, Fury, reel to reel recorders, and 8 tracks. I even remember the original Hee-Haw with Minnie Pearl and how a whole lot of people were seriously irritated when they gave the weekly saluted to Corvallis, OR. It seems that some of he faculty had never realized that they taught at an Agricultural College.

 

[The Yakima Kid]

Romper Room and American Bandstand, and having the Civil Defense people come by and have us try out the awful greasy survival lozenges we'd have to look forward to when the Russians bombed us.

Groucho Marx, Ed Sullivan, The 20th Century on every Sunday night, and those hot days of summer when we headed for the matinee at the local theater which was always downtown and walked to the corner store for ice cream sandwiches and freezing Milky Way bars - and the corner store was really on the corner.

The console stereo in the living room, trying to pretend to be a piece of furniture, with the big slot for holding both the LPs and 78s from my parents youth. Ramblers, and Studebakers, and Nashes and Packards and De Sotos. Pontiacs with the Indian head hood ornament that lit up at night, and the tail fins on Plymouths and Cadillacs.

Drive in movies with the entire family, and the playground that the kids all played on until it got dark enough for the movie to start.

 

[The Yakima Kid]

I remember that Combat was one of my favorite shows. And we had a station wagon with the same seat. We had the first color T.V. in the neighborhood, a guy had to come out and set it up, he took a big magnetic ring (the size of a steering wheel) and demagnetize it or something. It took him about an hour as we all sat and watched. I remember the first time I saw the NBC peacock in color. We would watch shows we didn't even like because it was in color, but most shows were still in black and white. Does anyone remember the Hobo Kelly Show ? I don't know if it was a local show or not. And Romper Room, how about American Bandstand when all the guys had to wear suits and ties to be on it.
My In laws still had a dial phone on the wall about ten years ago and still used it.

I've still got a dial phone in my living room.

 

[sourland]

Payday - deposit enough to cover the bills, go grocery shopping, and if there was anything left a night at the Drive In. Soda, candy and popcorn for the Princess and the kids and a six pack of Carling Black Label for me - simple, frugal, and we were HAPPY! Living within our means.

 

[The Yakima Kid]

Payday - deposit enough to cover the bills, go grocery shopping, and if there was anything left a night at the Drive In. Soda, candy and popcorn for the Princess and the kids and a six pack of Carling Black Label for me - simple, frugal, and we were HAPPY! Living within our means.

A & W Root Beer and local hamburger stands. And summer vacation meant camping trips.

 

[dawg53]

I remember our 56 Dodge Coronet. We had one exactly like the one in the photo. It was a tank... no power steering, push button transmission. Sorry for the small pic.

 

[sourland]

Power steering? What's that?

 

[Bunnylady]

Power steering? What's that?

Isn't that another word for a "back seat driver?"

 

[drumstick diva]

the carhops at Dog N Suds drivein- The first time the family went to a drive in movie theatre we saw"GYPSY," I still remember some of the songs from it.

 

[Highcotton]

Payday - deposit enough to cover the bills, go grocery shopping, and if there was anything left a night at the Drive In.  Soda, candy and popcorn for the Princess and the kids and a six pack of Carling Black Label for me - simple, frugal, and we were HAPPY!  Living within our means.

Hey Mable Black Label.