Thread: Born in the 50's, 60, 70's...stuff we grew up with!

I still remember watching TV in B/W as a kid. Zorro, John Wayne, Tarzan, Daktari,... Sure has been a ride since.

Geez Phrank, as if I don't feel older than dirt already. ;

Bob

My dad will be 99 this year and he has seen the world change from common usage of horses to the first cars and two major world wars and the early days of electricity and the beginning of radio and none of the labor saving devices we have now like washing machines and electric refrigerators and fans and A/C and I can go on and on. So you guys born in the 50s on think you have seen change?

Born in 48, but remember the 50s,Going to the post office to make a phone call (10 cents) party lines when we got a home phone.
501 levis,$3.25 per pair, pendalton shirts, 12 bux ea. gas 25 cents/gal, bulk moter oil 5cents/qt, cigs, 25/pack.
Bought our first home computor in 81, was about 4 grand,I still use AOL

Sheesh....just saw this, I used to watch this show all the time:



And, one day, having a beer in a local pub, met this very kind man who worked at the CBC for 35 years plus, we got to talking, and told him about a friend of mine who always got very sentimental when he heard the opening song of this kids show. Lo and behold, the guy worked on that show and was the set carpenter, who actually pulled the strings to open the drawbridge.

I think this show also aired in the US and who know where else, but, "The Friendly Giant", was a staple:



What a time!

One of the cool things in the fifties was what they called variety shows. Ed Sullivan, Milton Berle, Jimmy Durante and the like. All of these had entertainers who had played vaudeville and took those acts to television. Even in the movies stars like Abbot & Costello and the Marx Brothers were often duplicating what they had done on the stage in vaudeville.

Shows I recall watching when I was really young were Sergeant Preston of the Yukon, Rin Tin Tin and when I was allowed to stay up Gunsmoke when it was a half hour. All the shows except for some of the variety type were a half hour to begin with. Alfred Hitchcock, Twilight Zone. Great stuff those.

I can remember when movies were a quarter and that was for first run features. There was a theater downtown that ran grade B flicks and the admission was fifteen cents for three features. Movies had the previews (coming attraction) and then a newsreel followed by the feature and then a cartoon. My grandpa took me to one and it showed ironworkers building a skyscraper, walking the iron away up high. I told my grandpa that I wanted to do that and he told me they were "lunatics."

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

One of the cool things in the fifties was what they called variety shows. Ed Sullivan, Milton Berle, Jimmy Durante and the like. All of these had entertainers who had played vaudeville and took those acts to television. Even in the movies stars like Abbot & Costello and the Marx Brothers were often duplicating what they had done on the stage in vaudeville.

Shows I recall watching when I was really young were Sergeant Preston of the Yukon, Rin Tin Tin and when I was allowed to stay up Gunsmoke when it was a half hour. All the shows except for some of the variety type were a half hour to begin with. Alfred Hitchcock, Twilight Zone. Great stuff those.

I can remember when movies were a quarter and that was for first run features. There was a theater downtown that ran grade B flicks and the admission was fifteen cents for three features. Movies had the previews (coming attraction) and then a newsreel followed by the feature and then a cartoon. My grandpa took me to one and it showed ironworkers building a skyscraper, walking the iron away up high. I told my grandpa that I wanted to do that and he told me they were "lunatics."

Thanks JimmyHAD, for some reason, your post brought back some memories as well. I remember Gunsmoke, the Rifle Man, Carol Burnett, Abott and Costello, and my old favorite, Laurel and Hardy!

Then when you mentioned your Grandfather, like a flash I remembered he and I always watching this show together:

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

Shows I recall watching when I was really young were Sergeant Preston of the Yukon, Rin Tin Tin and when I was allowed to stay up Gunsmoke when it was a half hour. All the shows except for some of the variety type were a half hour to begin with. Alfred Hitchcock, Twilight Zone. Great stuff those.

Yoooo Rinny !!

My favorite cartoon:

Wally Gator (1962) - Intro (Opening) - YouTube