How many of you grew up in this era?

[Gracie]

Youngsters

I still call food OOL and sometimes refer to sex as ZUG ZUG

 

[bodecea]

Funny thread....considering the behavior modeling the current occupant of the WH is doing.

Politics in the Lounge?

tsk tsk

Do you disagree with the irony here?

 

[Gracie]

I did,

How about you?

We used to call that generation Hippies

They were reviled by their elders

That was 10 years before 'hippies', back during the time of Beatniks

Beatniks...who snapped their fingers instead of clapping with applause. LOL
I remember them well, but by the time I came of age..it was Haight Ashbury hippies.

 

[Auld Phart]

Funny thread....considering the behavior modeling the current occupant of the WH is doing.

Politics in the Lounge?

tsk tsk

Do you disagree with the irony here?

irony?

Still trying to bring Politics into the Lounge?

 

[Wyatt earp]

there were no gangs and drive-by shootings when we were kids
we played stick-ball in the street and built tree houses

And made our own stilts out of 2x2s,played army, smear the queer, shot off real fireworks, waded through creeks, rode our banana bikes everywhere, and..........

the banana bike was an INNOVATION in my mid-teens

I had a sweet 5 speed. I never did figure out how to have my girlfriend ride with me without crashing.

Joanie loves chachi how cute..

 

[Gracie]

Riding my bike everywhere..even at night. Ma used a whistle to call us home to eat. IF we were close enough to hear it, which usually we weren't.

 

[fncceo]

I did,

How about you?

I still do all those things.

Especially the spanking.

 

[Wyatt earp]

Riding my bike everywhere..even at night. Ma used a whistle to call us home to eat. IF we were close enough to hear it, which usually we weren't.

And the cops were always so cool to us kids.

.

 

[Wyatt earp]

Funny thread....considering the behavior modeling the current occupant of the WH is doing.

Politics in the Lounge?

tsk tsk

Do you disagree with the irony here?

irony?

Still trying to bring Politics into the Lounge?

Irony is political? I thought it was a higher level of comedy. Maybe not for all................................whatchagonnado?

We suggest you change your lady rag or something and lighten up

 

[Gracie]

Homeless people were rare..or never seen. Hobo's dominated the rails and that was mostly by choice.

 

[Gracie]

Funny thread....considering the behavior modeling the current occupant of the WH is doing.

Politics in the Lounge?

tsk tsk

Do you disagree with the irony here?

irony?

Still trying to bring Politics into the Lounge?

Irony is political? I thought it was a higher level of comedy. Maybe not for all................................whatchagonnado?

We suggest you change your lady rag or something and lighten up

Better yet...just STOP. We need an escape place and this is it. Take it somewhere else.

 

[Gracie]

1952 prices

House: $7,750
Average income: $3,515
Ford car: $1526-$2384
Milk: $.96
Gas: $.20
Bread $.16
Postage stamp: $.03
Hen Turkeys: $ .53 lb
Pkg of 6 Bran muffins $.21
1 lb pkg of M&M’s candies: $.59
Gillette Blue Blades, pkg of 10: $ .49
At Sears – – –
Ladies Corduroy Jackets: $4.99
Cotton knit blouses: $1.98
Men’s Rayon Sport Shirts: $3.66
Men’s cotton flannel shirt: $1.79
Red “Radio Flyer” wagon: $8.75
Westinghouse Open-Handle steam iron: $19.95
Men’s T-shirts and briefs – – –
T-shirts, 2 for $.59
Briefs, each : $.59

 

[Wyatt earp]

Riding my bike everywhere..even at night. Ma used a whistle to call us home to eat. IF we were close enough to hear it, which usually we weren't.

And the cops were always so cool to us kids.

.

I remember one time running into a restaurant seeing Tony's cop car out front ( yeah we knew all the local cops) and found Tony hitting on a waitress.. I yelled hey Tony a huge fight out back, he is like " just kid stuff?"

I am like nope 50 of them, he followed me and seen it , he is like "shit ".

Called for back up..

He seen me a month or so later with Armandos girlfriend in her car..

He is like bill..what the hell?

Great story's. Great memories

 

[TroglocratsRdumb]

Why did they stop showing cartoons on Saturday mornings?

 

[Dogmaphobe]

I can still remember my strict cuneiform teacher who would rap our knuckles with a chariot whip if we ruined a perfectly good tablet.

did you chew on your stylus

Not only that, but when very young, I used to eat the clay.

 

[Gracie]

there were no gangs and drive-by shootings when we were kids
we played stick-ball in the street and built tree houses

And made our own stilts out of 2x2s,played army, smear the queer, shot off real fireworks, waded through creeks, rode our banana bikes everywhere, and..........

Mud clod fights. Used to have buckets of water handy so we could roll up clods and smack the neighbor kids. No calling the law. No law suits because one had a rock in it and bonked a head. Just one big mess of mud everywhere

 

[Wyatt earp]

I can still remember my strict cuneiform teacher who would rap our knuckles with a chariot whip if we ruined a perfectly good tablet.

did you chew on your stylus

Not only that, but when very young, I used to eat the clay.

And played with mercury

 

[Gracie]

Why did they stop showing cartoons on Saturday mornings?

Because Sesame' St took over. I hated that and all those new cartoons so them not showing Sat morning was no biggie for me anymore. I still had my bike. And buckets of dirts and water.

 

[Bruce_T_Laney]

I did,

How about you?

I was never spanked... They beat the snot out of me, so maybe I was the era before that Liberal way of raising a kid ..

 

[Wyatt earp]

there were no gangs and drive-by shootings when we were kids
we played stick-ball in the street and built tree houses

And made our own stilts out of 2x2s,played army, smear the queer, shot off real fireworks, waded through creeks, rode our banana bikes everywhere, and..........

Mud clod fights. Used to have buckets of water handy so we could roll up clods and smack the neighbor kids. No calling the law. No law suits because one had a rock in it and bonked a head. Just one big mess of mud everywhere

You remind me of my childhood friend pam( she grew big and fast) we used to have so many pool parties, going to the zoo's, the parks around Illinois...

She lived on a court so you knew what that meant we could block it off..