Tuesday, August 8, 2017

Fifties Flashback.


My daughters used to say, "Back in the 'olden days' when you grew up, Mom ... " and then ask a question about how things were done.  I came across this recently and it reminded me that the world of the Fifties really was different from the one they grew up in.  No wonder they had so many questions!

Do any of those ring a bell with you?







Me and my sister in the 1950s. 
 
I'm on the left, the one with sausage curls (just like Shirley Temple, doncha know!) and Nancy is wearing white knee socks with her Easter dress.  







16 comments:

  1. Bread was always white. Everyone had sugar in their tea. My mother and father had never been out for a meal till the 1970s. Every room had several ashtrays. My aunt used to come every Sunday to tea and brought a tin of luncheon meat with her as a sort of contribution to the cost of the meal, and we were glad to receive it.

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  2. Love the picture and that list sounds about right. We never had soft drinks in the house except at Christmas and New Years. Everyone smoked, even my grandmother and the other one dipped snuff. No one was divorced. Many women didn't drive--my mother didn't until she was in her 40's. My mom was the only working mom we knew.

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  3. Yes, I regret to say that I recognise all of that. And Janet and John's comments, above. Nostalgia's not what it used to be, is it?

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  4. you and your sister are so sweet..life has changed a lot..

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  5. Yep! They all rang a bell. The boxed pizza kits came out at just th right time when I was a teen because it was FUN to make them up nd Mom let us. Love the curls!!!!!

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  6. Soft drinks only came in cola, orange and lemon lime flavor and glass bottles. They were sold out of big metal chests and you had to use the bottle opener on the side of the chest to remove the metal cap. If I remember right, they cost 10 cents and you kept the bottle.

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  7. My mom was the only working mom we knew.


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  8. Yes we have seen so many changes in our lives, it sometimes feels we lived on another planet. Nice to see the list you made. I can remember there were no parked cars in our street and in the evening we played a kind of baseball on the street as there was no traffic at all in Amsterdam in the evening.

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  9. That's a gorgeous photo of you and your sister, Cynthia. I grew up in a multi cultural household (Italian and British Australian) so I experienced some different foods which are everyday here now. My dad also had Greek, Jewish and Turkish friends so their foods were familiar to me too.

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  10. Yup! Born in 1951 and all that was very familiar. My grandparents had a party line. I remember the first TV--tiny black and white--and the first color one many years later--OMG! Pin curls. Our live-in babysitter had spit curls around her face and snapped gum--LOL! Saddle shoes and white socks. There were no t-shirts yet. Just cotton blouses, shirts, and pants...or dungarees (but nobody wore those because they were for the farm or chores). Dads in plaid burmuda shorts in the summer. Rusty old bikes you had to stand up to pedal. No AC--only well-to-do folks had window air conditioners. No such thing as a separate freezer right in the frig--some had that little box that got smaller and smaller with ice build up. The "freezers" were huge deep freezers usually in the basement or garage. Food? Meat, potatoes, vegetable, bread slices, and milk. Or (being midwestern) hotdishes bakes with exotic things like tator tots on top. Such a different time--yes. :)

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  11. We never went to a restaurant but packed sandwiches in wax paper and put them in a brown bag to take in the car and have on the way if we thought we might get hungry. Fresh bread every week!! I loved that part! We mainly had fruit that was canned...sauce...I loved the raspberry sauce and can still taste it if I concentrate hard enough. Blueberries , peaches and pears and of course rhubarb sauce too! Homemade sauerkraut. Everyone had a a garden...yellow beans were my favorite. I didn't feel deprived because we never knew what we were missing.
    On Saturdays when I was a teenager in the 1960's I cleaned house all day on Saturday, put a boxed pizza together and put it in the oven, then washed and set my hair and sat with the hair dryer on my head...remember the plastic hair dryers with the tube? Fun memories:)

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  12. I remember those things. Cute photo of you.

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  13. Oh Cynthia, you probably know how much I loved the 50's. All those things sound so familiar. I would go back and do it all over again. Life was perfect back then. That is such a good picture of you and your sister.

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  14. Jewish and Turkish friends so their foods were familiar to me too.


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  15. I don't remember the fifties, but I do remember how simple and honest my childhood was. There nothing fancy about it. Life is very different now, but i love how so many are reaching back to simpler ways - many of the younger generation here are going packaging free and learning gardening, composting, cooking from scratch.

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