Memories of Growing Up in the 40's and 50's (and since, even)

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[GrandMoM]

....and us girls would have to wear hats and gloves to church and the boys, white shirts and ties.

....oh, and when cokes were finally bottled in 8 oz bottles, nothing tasted greater than an ice cold coke.

....Does anyone remember how long before Pepsi came out?

[maestro]

WoW!..........your#36).....radio........BTTT

With 50 TV channels to watch today I still can't find anything that compared to "Terry and the Pirates", or "Paul Lavalle and the Cities Service Band of America." or "Fred Allen" or "Amos and Andy"....and so many other radios greats.

KDKA,.etc.,.............'Big John and Sparky'

'Mary Heart'......sure.

:-)

[hardhead]

If you live anywhere, say from Denver westward, tune in KNX 1070 out of L.A. at 9PM PST. They have old-time radio every night for an hour. Tonight being Saturday, The Jack Benny Show and the Great Gildersleeve.

[BunnySlippers]

I remember milk in waxed cardboard in the market with crimped tops ... or in bottles what were delivered. I remember buying bread ... all of it in waxed paper, not plastic bags. I remember the Helm's man and the ice cream man with various treats. I remember a HUGE Mar's Bar for .05 cents ... black babies candy ... and training to take my First Holy Communion with Necco Wafers.

[Chemist_Geek]

If another kid's folks got on to you, well my folks never defended me if I was scolded by another kid's parent!

Parents didn't automatically and reflexively take their child's side in a dispute with the teachers either. In fact, if a teacher had a problem with a child, they could count on the parents' support.

[eeriegeno]

Caleb Bradham of New Bern, North Carolina was a pharmacist. Like many pharmacists at the turn of the century he had a soda fountain in his drugstore, where he served his customers refreshing drinks, that he created himself. His most popular beverage was something he called "Brad's drink" made of carbonated water, sugar, vanilla, rare oils, pepsin and cola nuts. "Brad's drink", created in the summer of 1898, was later renamed Pepsi Cola after the pepsin and cola nuts used in the recipe. The name was trademarked on June 16th, 1903. After seventeen years of suceess, Caleb Bradham lost Pepsi Cola He had gambled on the stock market, he believed sugar prices would raise but they fell instead. Pepsi Cola went bankrupt in 1923. In 1931, Pepsi Cola was bought by the Loft Candy Company Loft president, Charles G. Guth reformulated the popular soft drink. In 1940, history was made when the first advertising jingle was broadcast nationally. The jingle was "Nickel Nickel" an advertisement for Pepsi Cola that refered to the pepsi price and the quantity for the price. "Nickel Nickel" became a hit record and was recorded into 55 languages. In 1964, Diet Pepsi was introduced.

[wardaddy]

Milk tasted better then no doubt. All the old local brands are gone.

I did my senior HS year at Fairhope(74/75) while my dad built the Lake Forest community at Daphne for Diamondhead Corp. We rented a bayfront home very near to the Grand Hotel at Point Clear......absolutely wonderful environs that Eastern Shore is.

[don-o]

I really believe that the day that JFK was assassinated was the very day that all things changed here in the USA.

As do I.

I was 13. My family had not been a JFK family. But, when I arrived home, and saw my sister crying in Mama's arms, I made fun of her.

I was wrong. Sister had the right response.

[wardaddy]

Hollywood TV series plot lines have a life of their own don't they?....second only to soaps

[savedbygrace]

I remember as a teen in the 60s sneaking into the drive-in for all night movies. Two or three of us in the trunk, one guy driving. One time, the driver realized he didn't have any money when he was two cars from the booth. We had to push open the back seat, hand him some money, then hold the seat closed, so the ticket dude didn't see us.

About 4 or 5 am, we got free doughnuts at the snack bar. Good thing, 'cause the flicks were all stinkers.

[Willie Green]

KDKA,.etc.,.............'Big John and Sparky'

I'm afraid you have me stumped on that one.
I can recall Rege Cordic and Ed & Wendy King (among others),
but BJ and Sparky draws a blank.

[octobersky]

...the day that JFK was assassinated...

I was three. That's my earliest memory.

[GrandMoM]

....THANKS for the info.

....don't recall Pepsi for a few years after I was drinking Coke.

[Chemist_Geek]

First American space flights. Our school did not have TV. But, I took my transistor radio to school, and teacher let me listen to the reports and scrawl them on the chalkboard.

I remember doing that with the first shuttle flights. I took a transistor radio to school for Reagan's inauguration, and they broke in with the Iran hostage release announcement...

[Dog Gone]

I remember racing home from school on my bike to tell my mom the news that President Kennedy had been "assassicuted." My mother already knew, and didn't make fun of the word I accidentally invented.

[jellybean]

Please add some of your wonderful memories...

[Ex-Wretch]

How about shoe-locs? I loved those things and because they were so cool. Also, putting those half-moon metal cletes on my heels and sounding sooooo clicky cool walking down the hallways at school!

[wardaddy]

Howdy neighbor.

My dad was a USAF Major tac fighter pilot involved to some degree with the Bay of Pigs. Needless to say his views on JFK were not real warm after that....not to say anyone celebrated his killing but I don't recall much mourning...more just shock and my dad saying early on that he felt there was a connection between the two.

FWIW.

[CyberAnt]

Everyday my mom gave me a quarter for lunch (17 cents), and the change was spent on penny candy.

[GWB00]

Next week I will be turning 35 years old. Over the Christmas Holiday I spent a lot of time thinking about how much things have changed since I was younger. While, I don't remember my first pizza (we ate it often) and making telephone calls on a party line, I do remember things that no longer exist or have observed its evolution. I am not a fan of VH1, but they did do a day long program about the 1980's and pop culture and I forget many things that were apart of that decade (i.e. Terrence Trent Darby). You can always look back and think about the "good ol days", but I have concluded that the focus should be on the future. The 1980's was a great decade, but I was not totally aware of the Soviet threat, how much power the Democrats had in congress and the lunatic ideas of the left like wanting to unilaterally dismantle our nuclear weapons. Sean Hannity's book brings up a lot of these points and I am grateful that those days are over. I am an optimist and believe the big lie of liberalism is coming to an end. It will not happen overnight, but one day in early 1990 we woke up and Communism died. It is nice to look back and recall good times with friends and family, but right here, right now, there is no other place I would rather be.