Daily Life and Popular Culture in the 1950s

Daily Funnies for Seniors & 50+ ^ | 10/12/2020 | unknown

[sodpoodle]

Long, but wonderful

[sodpoodle]

I remember all of these;)

[humblegunner]

Any reason you couldn’t post any of it?

[the OlLine Rebel]

Well for one thing, it’s a VIDEO.

[humblegunner]

And here’s the link to it, now that everyone is able to
see that it’s a video. Not so hard to do really.

https://youtu.be/DFfaxktY-48

[polymuser]

Oh, yeah! Pogo sticks, chemistry sets, pocket knives, BB guns, M80s and one of my favorites...

[Mears]

Just watched it-booooooring.

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[Veto!]

I remember it all too.

Gee, those were great days. So civilized. We did live pretty high on the hog...my dad was a huge success, so when the average house cost $5,000 to 10,000, ours was $35,000. In todays money, my dad would have made $625,000 per year. No big deal, there were far wealthier people in the ‘hood and we all did exactly the same thing less well-off people did. Saturday afternoon movies, watched TV in black and white on those round screens, etc, etc.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Be sure to look up “Revolting Recipes of the 1950s”.

A friend suggested that America’s five food items at the start of the decade were meat, fat, flour, salt and sugar. But soon they had gelatin, hot dogs, tuna fish, liver pate, pineapple and standardized A&P chicken.

Their cooking containers were loaf and casserole pans, jello molds and a skillet.

[MCF]

It was a good take on the 50’s but missed on the growth of the suburbs,
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[dznutz]

That is how we learned responsibility, playing with all of those dangerous things as a kid. /s
We used to set the jart rings up in the backyard, then walk out front and launch the jarts overhanded from the street, over our two story house. I’m amazed we all emerged from the 1970’s unscathed.

[Mr. Jeeves]

The ultimate resource: James Lileks: The Gallery of Regrettable Food

[polymuser]

Seafood mousse. Actually pretty tasty!

[gnickgnack2]

Been following him for decades. One can surely get lost for an afternoon or two on his website.