DO YOU REMEMBER...

[John Roberts]

Re: Re: Mmmmmmmmmmmm

Not Catholic, but still love Necco's...especially the all chocolate ones. Yummy!

Had a near death experience with those when I was a two year old sucked one up my wind pipe.....My mother whacked it out of me holding me upside down and planting some solid whacks on my back..........Two years old I almost drowned, stuck a barbecue fork in the fuse box fortunately my older brother had enough sense to throw the breaker before grabbing me(The fork was glowing cherry red) or we would have both been fried when he grounded us, and of course tried breathing Neccos.....amazing I survived that year as my mother is a strong practicer of denial I suspect other events occurred in that time frame....

Use to walk to the corner drugstore and buy comic books...they actually had a soda fountain there......my first banana split was consumed there.........great milkshakes.....I forgot about the milkshakes!

 

[John Roberts]

Re: Re: Mmmmmmmmmmmm

Not Catholic, but still love Necco's...especially the all chocolate ones. Yummy!

Had a near death experience with those when I was a two year old sucked one up my wind pipe.....My mother whacked it out of me holding me upside down and planting some solid thumps on my back..........Two years old I almost drowned, stuck a barbecue fork in the fuse box fortunately my older brother had enough sense to throw the breaker before grabbing me(The fork was glowing cherry red) or we would have both been fried when he grounded us, and of course tried breathing Neccos.....amazing I survived that year as my mother is a strong practicer of denial I suspect other events occurred in that time frame....

Use to walk to the corner drugstore and buy comic books...they actually had a soda fountain there......my first banana split was consumed there.........great milkshakes.....I forgot about the milkshakes!

 

[JennyOmanHill]

Didn't have this myself, but remember playing with my cousins!

http://www.timewarptoys.com/rockem.jpg

 

[Arden]

IF YOU WERE BORN IN 1950...

*The population of the United States as reported by the 1950 -Census is 150,697,361. The population of the world is approximately 2.5 billion.
*The population of the world is 2.52 billion
*64% of Americans now live in cities
*There are 1,667,231 marriages to 385,144 divorces (23%). By 1998 there will be 2,256,000 marriages and 955,000 divorces (43%)
*Median age for 1st marriage is 22.8 years old for men and 20.3 for women. By 1998, it will be 26.7 years old for men and 25 for women. Noting statistics one above, you can assume older but no wiser. Marriage prospects of single men and women.
*A.C. Nielsen's Audimeters track viewer watching.
*Walt Disney's Cinderella opens in theaters.
*Sugar Pops are introduced.
*Antihistamines enter popular use for treatment of allergies and head-colds.
*RCA 45 RPM record attachment - now you can play RCA’s new 45’s! - includes 6 records - $12.95
*Zenith introduces "lazy bones" tuning - change all television stations from the comfort of your easy chair. Hand held device plugs into TV.
*Silly Putty is introduced!
21.6 percent of wives worked outside the home. By 1960, that number hit 30.5 percent. The reason for the jump? There was simply so much to buy.
*The Pillsbury Company launches it's annual "Bake-off" to promote flour.
*Pillsbury and General Mills introduce prepared cake mixes.
*CBS receives an FCC license to begin broadcasting in color.
*Ball-O-Fire gumballs arrive!
*KRAFT® Deluxe process cheese slices - the first commercially packaged sliced process cheese - are introduced.
*North Korea invades South Korea. Truman orders the U.S. into the war. 3 million soldiers and civilians will be killed or wounded before it ends in 1953.
*36.3% of all advertising dollars are spent on newspapers - 3.3% on TV. See chart of all ad dollars.
*The U.S. will import 21,287 passenger cars. That number will climb to 668,070 by 1959, which will be a stellar year for imports.
*Guys & Dolls opens on Broadway.
*Albert Einstein warns against the hydrogen bomb, which President Truman okays building.
*USSR announces they have developed the atomic bomb.
*Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel and the Port Authority open in NYC
*Swiss parliament refuses voting right for women. A pox on your clocks, gentleman.
*Pulitzer prize awarded to Rodgers & Hammerstein for South Pacific.
*Hank Snow makes his first appearance on the "Grand Ole Opry"
*Hopalong Cassidy, starring William Boyd, debuted on TV and 600,000 Hoppy lunchboxes were sold in 1950 alone
*Seeburg begins selling jukeboxes which play 45 RPM records, which would become THE jukebox for soda shop, bowling alleys and bars.
*Nobel for literature awarded to William Faulkner
*Paul Harvey begins his national radio broadcast
*Death penality abolished in Belgium
*Prince Rainier III becomes ruler of Monaco
*Brinks Robbery in Boston - 11 men - 2.8 million - 17 minutes
*Alger Hiss is convicted.
*Joseph McCarthy begins Soviet witch hunt.
*Leo Fender's guitar company introduced their Broadcaster and Esquire models, the first mass-produced solid body electric guitars.
*Smokey the Bear gains national popularity.
*Minute Rice is launched with the first consumer advertising ever put behind rice.
*The Open Kettle, a coffe and donut shop in Quincy Mass. is renamed Dunkin' Donuts. The first franchise is offerred in 1955.
*PaperMate is the first leak-proof ballpoint pen in 1950.
*Haloid Corporation (later renamed Xerox) develops the first xerographic copy machine.
*Tennis admits first Black woman, Althea Gibson.
*There are now 2,200 drive-in movie theatres, twice as many as in 1949.
*Diner's Club becomes the first credit card.
*Peanuts debuted on October 2, 1950.
*FBI institutes the 10 Most Wanted list. Wanna see the current crop of Bad Guys?
*Cartoonist Hank Ketcham created one of the most enduringly irresistible imps in the world., "Dennis the Menace." By 2000,Today the comic panel appears in more than 1,200 newspapers in 48 countries and in 19 languages.
*There are 407 beer breweries in operation.
*Nobel peace prize awarded to Ralph J Bunche. This first Black recipient was undersecretary of the U.N. at the time.
*Telephone Answering Machine created by Bell Laboratories and Western Electric.
*Mother Teresa founded the first Mission of Charity in Calcutta, India.
*President Harry Truman ordered the Army to seize control of the nation's railroads to avert a strike.
*There are 10,500,000 TV sets in 10,400,000 homes.
*The first self-service elevator is installed by Otis Elevator in Dallas
*There was a 34.3% business failure rate. Chart for 1946-1964
*There were 34,763 motor vehicle related deaths. While in the air, there were 6 accidents resulting in 144 fatalities.
*Unemployment is 5.3%
*US GNP (Gross National Product) is $288.5 billion

1950 TOP MUSIC CHART...

SONG /ARTIST
Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer Gene Autry

White Christmas Bing Crosby

I Can Dream, Can't I? Andrews Sisters

I Wanna Be Loved Andrews Sisters

Music! Music! Music! Teresa Brewer

If I Knew You Were Coming, I'd Have Baked You A Cake Eileen

All My Love (Bolero) Patti Page

The Third Man Theme Guy Lombardo

Mona Lisa Nat King Cole

All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth Spike Jones

Sisters Rosemary Clooney and Betty Clooney

Bewitched Doris Day

Rollin' Stone Muddy Waters

Tennessee Waltz Patti Page

Rag Mop The Ames Brothers

All My Love (Bolero) Patti Page

Harbor Lights Sammy Kaye & His Orchestra

The Cry Of the Wild Goose Frankie Laine

Sentimental Me The Ames Brothers

A Bushel And A Peck Perry Como and Betty Hutton

Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo Perry Como with the Fontane Sisters

Chattanoogie Shoe-Shine Boy Red Foley

Goodnight Irene Gordon Jenkins & His Orchestra and The

Daddy's Little Girl Mills Brothers

The Old Master Painter Richard Hayes

(I will add the rest of the 1950s when I'm able, one at a time)

 

[alwaysawake]

I remember one of the most popular magazines in the world published it's first issue on the month/year I was born--November 1953. It was Playboy and the first cover photo was Marilyn Monroe.

 

[redrider4u]

I remember one of the most popular magazines in the world published it's first issue on the month/year I was born--November 1953. It was Playboy and the first cover photo was Marilyn Monroe.

yes, and there was no vol or year number, cause hugh was not sure if he could publish another one.

 

[Soron]

Do You Remember?

http://www.artwallpapers.com/data/military/vietnam_war/02/vietnam02.jpg

WHAT'S GOING ON
(Marvin Gaye)

Mother, mother, there's too many of you crying
Brother, brother, brother, there's far too many of you dying
You know we'ver got to find a way
To bring some lovin' here today, hey

Father, father, we don't need to escalate
War is not the answer, for only love can conquer hate
You know we've got to find a way
To bring some lovin' here today

Picket lines and picket signs
Don't punish me with brutality
Talk to me, so you can see
Oh what's going on, what's going on
Yeah, what's going on, ah, what's going on
Ahhh....

Mother, mother, everybody thinks we're wrong
Ah but who are they to judge us
Simply 'cos our hair is long
Ah you know we'ver got to find a way
To brind some understanding here today

Picket lines and picket signs
Don't punish me with brutality
Talk to me, so you can see
What's going on, yeah what's going on
Tell me what's going on, I'll tell you what's going on

 

[JennyOmanHill]

P.O.W. bracelets

http://www.powfoia.org/bracelet.jpg

I was thrilled to see my "name" return! Spent hours watching the t.v. as each returning POW stepped off the plane.

 

[alwaysawake]

Who remembers one of the first "reality" shows, Candid Camera, starring Allen Funt? (He died back in 1999 and he was 84.) I'll always remember--"Smile! You're On Candid Camera!"

He also appeared with Lucille Ball with his Candid Cameras.

 

[Gil_T2]

I remember one of the most popular magazines in the world published it's first issue on the month/year I was born--November 1953. It was Playboy and the first cover photo was Marilyn Monroe.

What a wonderful year 1953 was as it's my entry to this world year too. recently was chatting to ppl of our era & the PLAYBOY mag came into it & I remembered my dad had a lrage stash of them in the garage with #1 included so raced over there but mum said he put them out a month ago.

 

[Gil_T2]

Who remembers one of the first "reality" shows, Candid Camera, starring Allen Funt? (He died back in 1999 and he was 84.) I'll always remember--"Smile! You're On Candid Camera!"

He also appeared with Lucille Ball with his Candid Cameras.

CANDID CAMERA was big in AUSSIE too &it's amazing how none of the copies of the show worked yet I'm sure it was a top rating show in the US like it was here.

 

[tonitits]

CANDID CAMERA was big in AUSSIE too &it's amazing how none of the copies of the show worked yet I'm sure it was a top rating show in the US like it was here.

We used to ALWAYS watch Candid Camera, I loved it when he said "Smile you are on Candid Camera" They revived it with his son and Suzanne Sommers, but I don't think it was as good as I remember the original.

 

[jacintexas]

Who remembers one of the first "reality" shows, Candid Camera, starring Allen Funt? (He died back in 1999 and he was 84.) I'll always remember--"Smile! You're On Candid Camera!"

He also appeared with Lucille Ball with his Candid Cameras.

Before cameras, Allen Funt did the show on radio.. It was called Candid Microphone.. it started in 1947 and then became Candid Camera in 1960 when it debuted on CBS...

 

[Arden]

Girls... do any of you remember Betsy McCall paperdolls? They came inside of McCall's magazines.

http://www.dollinfo.com/images/Betsy60-0z.jpg http://www.dollinfo.com/images/x5910DDong.jpg

 

[Arden]

Re: Do You Remember?

WHAT'S GOING ON
(Marvin Gaye)

Mother, mother, there's too many of you crying
Brother, brother, brother, there's far too many of you dying
You know we'ver got to find a way
To bring some lovin' here today, hey

Father, father, we don't need to escalate
War is not the answer, for only love can conquer hate
You know we've got to find a way
To bring some lovin' here today

The song of songs...

Who can forget Country Joe and the "I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-to-Die Rag"... http://www.countryjoe.com/feelmus.htm There's Listen to the song link at the top of the page...

http://www.countryjoe.com/wood2.jpg

I remember the day they announced we were pulling out of Vietnam. I was sitting in history class at high school, and they announced it over the PA system. The entire school started clapping and cheering, it was incredible. So many of us had family involved in the war.

 

[Arden]

Who remembers one of the first "reality" shows, Candid Camera, starring Allen Funt? (He died back in 1999 and he was 84.) I'll always remember--"Smile! You're On Candid Camera!"

He also appeared with Lucille Ball with his Candid Cameras.

Candid camera was great!

Speaking of Lucy, does anyone remember the movie called "The Long, Long Trailer"... I t was made in 1954, and was one of the few full length films she did with Desi. It was so funny!

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/6301972279.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

 

[Arden]

Re: P.O.W. bracelets

http://www.powfoia.org/bracelet.jpg

I was thrilled to see my "name" return! Spent hours watching the t.v. as each returning POW stepped off the plane.

My sisters and I each wore one. When the plating on the inside of mine wore off, I developed an allergic reaction to the base metal and had a horrible rash up and down both forearms. I switched back & forth between both wrists in an effort to not abandon wearing it. I remember painting the inside of the bracelet with clear nail polish to try and keep it from touching my skin. I finally had to quit wearing it, and it stayed in my dresser drawer for decades.

I just found out that you can view rubbings made of names from the Vietnam Memorial Wall...

http://www.vietnamwall.org/search.html

Calvin Walter Maxwell... This is the first time I've seen his name in decades, he was the one whose bracelet I wore.

 

[Arden]

What a wonderful year 1953 was as it's my entry to this world year too. recently was chatting to ppl of our era & the PLAYBOY mag came into it & I remembered my dad had a lrage stash of them in the garage with #1 included so raced over there but mum said he put them out a month ago.

I must be the only one whose father never once had an issue of Playboy at home... must have been a Catholic thing, lol... or else he kept them at work!

 

[Arden]

Re: Re: Re: Mmmmmmmmmmmm

Had a near death experience with those when I was a two year old sucked one up my wind pipe.....My mother whacked it out of me holding me upside down and planting some solid whacks on my back..........Two years old I almost drowned, stuck a barbecue fork in the fuse box fortunately my older brother had enough sense to throw the breaker before grabbing me(The fork was glowing cherry red) or we would have both been fried when he grounded us, and of course tried breathing Neccos.....amazing I survived that year as my mother is a strong practicer of denial I suspect other events occurred in that time frame....

Oh my God, JR... you were a disaster waiting to happen! We're glad you made it this far!

 

[Supertek]

Not only food, but music gets me nostalgic. I can be sent into a time warp when cirtain songs come on the radio from yester-year.

For example " The Lion Sleeps Tonight" was always playing in my Jr. High lunch room. Billy Joel's "Just the way you are" reminds me of a very special High School girlfreind!! I'm sure we all can relate to music that reminds of of places and people. How many of you remember Sweet's "Little Willie"??

 

[tonitits]

Candid camera was great!

Speaking of Lucy, does anyone remember the movie called "The Long, Long Trailer"... I t was made in 1954, and was one of the few full length films she did with Desi. It was so funny!

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/6301972279.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

I saw that once. It was good. I never realized that they did anything together other than I Love Lucy.

 

[tonitits]

I must be the only one whose father never once had an issue of Playboy at home... must have been a Catholic thing, lol... or else he kept them at work!

My dad never did, MOM would never allow them in her house!!!! I don't think my brothers did either. I know my younger brother saw some from his friends, etc... but there were never in the house.

 

[Gil_T2]

We used to ALWAYS watch Candid Camera, I loved it when he said "Smile you are on Candid Camera" They revived it with his son and Suzanne Sommers, but I don't think it was as good as I remember the original.

It was only a few years ago that they stopped showing re-runs of the original here...normally during non rating periods but I always watched them lots of happy memories.

 

[Gil_T2]

Candid camera was great!

Speaking of Lucy, does anyone remember the movie called "The Long, Long Trailer"... I t was made in 1954, and was one of the few full length films she did with Desi. It was so funny!

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/6301972279.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

LUCY had a rock collection....ROFLMAO

 

[JennyOmanHill]

Re: Re: P.O.W. bracelets

I just found out that you can view rubbings made of names from the Vietnam Memorial Wall...

http://www.vietnamwall.org/search.html

Calvin Walter Maxwell... This is the first time I've seen his name in decades, he was the one whose bracelet I wore.

Thank you so very much for this link, Arden

When I was last in D.C., I did not have time to get to the Memorial, and this link has allowed me to virtually rub the name of my cousin, Al, who died in a helicopter explosion.