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

[Bunnylady]

Tinsel - our tree always had tinsel. We had to put it on 1 strand at a time. If you put it on in clumps, you got in trouble. My evil sister would grab mine away and throw it on the tree. Then she would call our mother and say, "He's just throwing it on the tree."

Real tinsel was very pretty - hated the plastic stuff.

"Real" tinsel had lead in it, which is why it got phased out. It did have a beautiful "drape" that the plastic kind never matched. My parents had a clip of old 8mm film (remember those?) of my brother (who was a toddler at the time) running back and forth, putting one strand of tinsel on the tree at a time, Then we realized he was putting it all on the same branch.

I remember the bubbler lights. Somewhere around here , I have a set of mini bubblers (and no, that most definitely is not water in them!!)

 

[Highcotton]

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I remember the bubblers. They were shaped like imitation candles. We always had a green Christmas Tree with the lights of all colors and tinsel and angel hair. We liked to put the angel hair around the lights so the lights lit it up . We also had the bubblers for a few years. We were always excited. On Christmas Eve we ate candy and nuts. My dad would crack pecans, walnuts and brazil nuts for us and we were always stuffed.

 

[Highcotton]

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Right it doubled for an Audiotorium. Our school had a donkey basketball game in the Gym in the mid 50s.

 

[Highcotton]

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I will bet you were a hit with your dad.

 

[Highcotton]

Does anyone remember the weekly reader? I remember reading about Sputnik in it. I remember the teacher saying they would never be able to put a man into space because it would require too much power to lift a man and the vehicle he was in. I was amazed by the Dick Tracy wrist radio and now smart phones are light years beyond that.

 

[sourland]

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Down the stairs, across the road and up the hill - looked back and there he stood by the side of the road buck naked hollering, "Boy, you have to come home sometime." Run, George, run.

 

[chickisoup]

I, being the cute little girl I was, just gave my daddy the quivering lip and big eyes and my brothers got yelled at for letting me do it!

 

[sourland]

Trust me on one thing - no one EVER called my evil sister a 'cute little girl'. The stories of torment that I could tell.

 

[The Yakima Kid]

I remember those huge bulbs too and how hot those things could get ! The first tv show I remember is Gunsmoke. My dad bought one of those things you put over the screen that was supposed to make it look like it was in color. It was green across the bottom, kind of pinkish across the middle and blue on the top. The first time ol Hoss and Little Jo went riding up the hill and turned from green to pink to blue me and my brothers laughed so hard my dad got mad and took it off!

I can remember watching Gunsmoke, the Untouchables, Wagon Train, Naked City, Perry Mason, Rawhide, Dragnet, and my favorite, Highway Patrol starring Broderick Crawford - at our house the show was known as "Slob." My Dad would call me over and say, let's go watch Slob, and we'd go into the combination formal dining room/TV Room and Family Room and watch him roar up and down the highway in incredibly rumpled suits.

 

[memphis]

Remember having to get up to change the channel? We also had to fiddle with the rabbit ears whenever we changed channels. Also remember the first time I saw a color TV. It blew me away.