Posted on 02/21/2007 10:07:19 AM PST by Incorrigible
My grandma was born in 1900, and I remember thinking she didn't get a radio until she was 27 and a tv until in her '40's. They were comfortable financially.
The Vermont Country Store carries a lot of 'old' cosmetics and fragrances and household items from the 30's 40's 50's, etc. I especially love their Christmas catalog because you can order lots of old-fashioned, wonderful foods and candies that aren't in the mainstream any more.
I went to the McDonald's on Florence and Lakewood in Downey, Calif in the early early fifties. It is on the National Register today, and can never be torn down.
I haven't read it. I had it on my amazon wish list for awhile, but couldn't afford it on my student income. Now that I'm a rich professor, maybe I should pick it up.
My husband is blind,and we get books from the Libary of Congress, so I will order it for him from them. I understand that this book is well worth the money.
"I'm curious why she has the phone facing away from her."
I'm not sure, but the typewriter (that funny looking thing next to the telephone, for you young'uns) is backwards also.
I remember taking typing class on manual typewriters in the 8th grade (1980-1981).
Remember when the font choices were Pica and Elite? And once you bought the typewriter, that was it. Unless you had a fancy IBM typewriter with that ball thingy.
White out, carbon paper, I could go on and on...
In 1950 women used an aspirin tablet for birth control. Held between the knees.
I talked to a gynecologist a few years ago who's practice had been next to the UT campus since around 1960. He said if the average University of Texas co-ed from today had come into his practice in 1960, he would have assumed she was a prostitute. According to him, in 1960, the average UT co-ed was a virgin, and that the ones who were sexually active were generally either married, or had been with only one boy, whom they had been dating for several years.
Statistics back up his argument. Abortion was illegal, and the illegal abortion industry was far smaller than Planned Parenthood would have you believe. The out of wedlock birth rate for whites was around five percent, blacks around seven percent. A lot of things have changed, but random sexual intercourse with strangers was much more unusual in the fifties.
"I would starve to death today, before I would use cloth diapers."
You can use cloth diapers for food? Dang. I been addressing the wrong end.
"Never mind that people had green faces and the colors on the cellophane had no relation to the picture on the tube."
As I recall, the overlay was blue on the top half, green on the bottom half. It worked great on landscape shots. LOL
Another overlay was used for Winky Dink, wherein you used crayons to draw bridges and things for Winky Dink to walk in. FWIW, Winky Dink was hosted by Jack Barry, who went on to MC some of the biggie quiz shows of the time.
your console mahogany comment was a good one. I went recently to K-Mart and asked the young lady in electronics if they had rabbit ears. She said I should look in the Halloween costume section. Geez!
Try using it after doing your nails.
Ping! A lot of TV related content here
My nails?
I mean putting on nail polish. I would try to dial with a pencil.
We did not get one in my little town until Lubbock got a station - and we could receive it. (I was in high school - mid-50's).
well this is EMU
and she is in Ann Arbor, which is a liberal enclave
OTOH it does say that her subject is the impact of modern technology on society so until she cranks out her thesis, I'll give her the benefit of the doubt.
This little role play may actually give her some insight -
hopefully she combines it with some interviews of folks who actually lived it.
Your parents must have been forward thinking and very well off.
They lived in New Jersey. My Dad was a sales Manager at that time. Mom said all the kids in the neighborhood came over and watched it.
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