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

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:

anyone remember Victory at sea? used to watch that with my dad, a lifetime navy guy.

Originally Posted by pixelfixed

anyone remember Victory at sea? used to watch that with my dad, a lifetime navy guy.

I love that show, I actually have the DVD of Victory at Sea, World War I and World War II in Color. Plus, for the last several years, I have been fascinated with studying the American Civil War, so I purchased Ken Burns Documentary, "The Civil War".

In the DVD's for the First World War, there's a scene showing the Victory Parade in the States, and if you watch the parade, toward the end, you can see soldiers marching wearing the Blue and the Grey uniforms...

But Victory at Sea, never tire of seeing that...

Originally Posted by pixelfixed

anyone remember Victory at sea? used to watch that with my dad, a lifetime navy guy.

Watched it when it came out, Just got our first TV just before. Thanks
Still available from Belle and Blade! I have it and watch it at least once a year or more. There is the Army version also and I don't remember the same exactly but like Victory on land or similar and still available.
Belle & Blade
~Richard

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