Posted on 02/21/2007 10:07:19 AM PST by Incorrigible
...and many busineeses, if they opened at all, opened after church...and there was actually groves and pastures in SoCal...There were no freeways....Soft drinks were a nickel...Cheap burgers were 4 or 05 for a buck...There was boogie woogie and blues, but no rock 'n roll, yet...Most moms stayed home and maintained the family...
Pretty interesting. Now the SCA can have divisions: Renn, Early 19th, Late 19th Century and 1950's :)
Didn't everyone sleep in twin beds in the 50s anyway?
Heehehee
Masters?
Rotary phones were a post-1950 addition to most homes.
We had a phone which had no dial. When you picked the handset up, there was a sometimes friendly (sometimes unfriendly) voice on the other end saying "Number, please".
Except for the History Channel.
Those old TV's were pieces of furniture, weren't they? Entire families could have lived inside the cabinets.
And when the TV died, you could remove "the chasis" (gut the electronics) and place a fish bowl where the picture tube was. :-)
>>We had a phone which had no dial. When you picked the handset up, there was a sometimes friendly (sometimes unfriendly) voice on the other end saying "Number, please".
My parents talk about the 'joys' of the party lines they had.
While color photography certainly existed in the '50's black and white film was still common. My family had studio portraits taken in black and white and hand colored by someone at the studio.
Also, someone needs to tell this woman that lipstick was indeed common in the '50's. Conditioners, not so much. Moreover, if you washed your hair once a week that was considered enough. My family didn't have a shower. We had to wash our hair in the sink and that wasn't so easy. For some reason I don't recall our hair looking greasy -- maybe our non-use of conditioners had something to do with it.
My family also didn't have an automatic washer or dryer. We used an electric powered wringer type washer and hung the clothes outside to dry. (Or in the basement in winter.)
No-wrinkle fabrics weren't around either. Pretty much everything had to be ironed -- tablecloths, men's boxer shorts, dress shirts, sheets, handkerchiefs (used instead of paper tissues), etc. Ironing took many hours and was less fun than surfing the Internet.
Now, they feel like they can't have a normal conversation. And by losing that skill, they become fearful of them. I feel like part of the reason to do this is we're in this spiral that's not good.''
SO TRUE. The kids today have a very hard time articulating. So much of what they say makes no sense and they pepper their conversations with "like" every other word.
Crisco? What about good ol' lard? I remember my mom and dad using lard many times.
Boy, I miss those old bullet bras (not).
One problem is that if she used a tv, how would she ever replicate the very limited programming of 1950? TV would only show her what's available now.
Besides, people watched so little television then that she's better off not watching at all then watching an unrealistic 3-4 hours a day.
There were pieces of multi-colored cellophane available to slap over your TV screen so that you could watch "in color."
Never mind that people had green faces and the colors on the cellophane had no relation to the picture on the tube.
It was COLOR, darn it!
That brings back memories. My girlfriend had a party line at her house and she'd want to talk and have to beg the other person to get off the phone. Boy, there were some funny scenarios back then.
I have a cell phone but I hardly use it. Before my husband died, he told me he was going to cancel my phone since I did not use it. I hate to talk on the phone.
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