10 Signs You Were Born In The 1950s

[longknife]

Telling my age that I remember every single one of these. And, go down to the very bottom and click on the arrow to show a whole bunch of other near pictures. One of them is this:

I had at least 50 reels loaded with music. Even had them up to the 2000's.

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[pismoe]

it was good times !!

 

[Noomi]

I was not a blip in my mothers eye.

 

[Mr. H.]

I was not a blip in my mothers eye.

Thank goodness you survived your mother's choice.

And I mean that figuratively as well as sarcastically.

 

[Grandma]

Nice derail attempt, H.

 

[Howey]

Don't remember much except snow up to the second story windows of our house in Canada.

 

[Grandma]

I remember ads for cars with automatic transmissions being a feature point.

Chalkboards in school used to be blackboards, made from slate.

Baby Moon hubcaps.

Black Diamond bass strings.

Chicken a la king and baked Alaska.

Who remembers LBJ's "heavy heart" and the draft lottery?

 

[pismoe]

Moms stayed at home and the old man made enough money to support , raise [FEED] , house all 5 kids in halfway good style . No daycare and kids went to school starting in kindergarden rather than preschool and pre preschool . Everyone took a quarter to school for lunch and lunch was good and seconds were available for the asking . Mothers of my friends did the cookin and were the LUNCH LADIES , I liked the lunch ladies !!

 

[pismoe]

small fees were just getting started for hunting and fishing and I as a 12 to 20 year old never had a license . I never had a hunting or fishing license until the 90s and by then I was slowing down because hunting and fishing was a hundred miles away from where I lived . No fees for camping on public land that I remember and I camped all over the U.P. and north eastern USA , Canada especially in the late 60s . No motorcycle helmet or seatbelt laws in the mid 60s , no motorcycle operators license needed till about 1969 in Michigan. Hitch hiking was common and I hitch hiked all over the eastern - southern USA in the late 60s early 70s . I don't know if its even legal to hitch hike now but I'm not interested in thumbing these days .

 

[Big Black Dog]

I was born in 1951. Remember all of the photos. Life was great in the late 50's and early 60's. Had a ball growing up.

 

[Luddly Neddite]

Moms stayed at home and the old man made enough money to support , raise [FEED] , house all 5 kids in halfway good style . No daycare and kids went to school starting in kindergarden rather than preschool and pre preschool . Everyone took a quarter to school for lunch and lunch was good and seconds were available for the asking . Mothers of my friends did the cookin and were the LUNCH LADIES , I liked the lunch ladies !!

I remember the lunch ladies too. In my mind's eye, I can see big gallon jars of home-canned fruit that had been grown in a family-owned orchard. And, I remember the big to-do when the school district switched to commercially canned food because it wasn't considered to be as healthy.

Not all food was healthy though. I can remember that my mother kept a can on the stove where bacon grease was poured, kept without refrigeration and used to cook darn near everything.

People got plenty of exercise without ever belonging to a gym but people, especially men, were dying younger and younger. My own father was only 54 when he had a massive heart attack in a shopping center.

Like you say, my mother never worked until after my father died. He was a foreman on the paint crew for company called Capp Homes. They made prefab homes that were delivered half-built and assembled on site. His take home at the time of his death was right at $100 a week and a family of 5 kids lived on it.

 

[pismoe]

and I made a mistake , lunch was probably a nickel - dime a day rather than a quarter . Girls [and boys nowadays could go ] went to Home Economics where they could learn healthy diet as healthy diet became known .

 

[Pogo]

Telling my age that I remember every single one of these. And, go down to the very bottom and click on the arrow to show a whole bunch of other near pictures. One of them is this:

I had at least 50 reels loaded with music. Even had them up to the 2000's.

All @ 10 Signs You Were Born In The 1950s

A Concertone!

My dad bought a Concertone -- a much much older model -- when I was three years old. I was utterly fascinated. It led to an entire career in sound. I remember neighbors coming over to see this marvel of a machine that would record your voice and play it back to you, quite a novelty then.

Our family reel-to-reel looked more like this. I started using it at age 6.

Check out that "magic eye" tube over the heads. Playing back it lit up green, and when you went to record it went orange.

 

[pismoe]

I remember a kidthat had a reel to reel in the late 60s . He was an NMU college student and he had it in a small hard side camper trailer where we'd drink beer . It was said to be cool but I never saw the advantage over a stereo .