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I Am a Child of the 1950s and 1960s

I Remember...

By: allycat419
Written on August 13th, 2008

stores being closed on Sundays, S & H green stamps, mothers wore aprons in the kitchen, fans with bowls of ice in front of them to cool off, starch in the laundry, dresses and hats and gloves in church.....toasters from the bank, women in curlers smoking in the grocery store...roller skates with keys...5 cent candy bars...5 cent hotdogs, 10 cent cokes...Chatty Cathy dolls...summer block parties...sitting on dad's lap to ''drive''...Dippity Do,..

NOT HAVING...computers, cell phones, cable tv, microwave ovens, 101 different fast food places, drive thru anything...video games...cd's...mp3 players, vcr's, color tv's,

By: allycat419
Age: 46-50 , Female
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  • idispair
    idispair

    broken car windows cause mum forgot to unhook the speakers .

    taking glass cool drink bottles to the shop so you could get money for them, sticky vinyl lounge chairs, vegimite collector glasses ( vegimite used to come in class jars that you could use as drinking glasses)...cindy dolls,vallients FJ Holdens, radiograms, vinyl records..poofas'...swedish furniture.....haberdashery shops, personal shop accounts. pointy bras,

    Aug 13, 2008
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  • allycat419
    allycat419

    I was fortunate to live next door to a drive in theater a few yrs ago (one of very few left in the country!!), so my son got to experience them too...We miss it now....



    The dancing food on screen at intermission??

    Aug 13, 2008
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  • mysticsovereign
    mysticsovereign

    I'm laughing out loud (and I can spell the phrase out, too!) I was soooo excited to go with my mom to the S&H Green Stamp store with all those stay-up-late on Friday to paste the stamps in books! Isn't it great to see so much change? I remember: buying cigarettes for my mom from a machine & the change was taped to the pack...going to drive-in movies with the folks dressed in your pajamas...station wagons (notice the tricked out mini-vans look more & more like them)...the Good Humor Man...Yeahhhhhh!

    Aug 13, 2008
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