1950s Memories From Our Visitors
When we look back in time small things or words can jog our own memories
Corner Drugstore in the 50s U.S.A.
Memory Posted By: Catmoves
I remember the corner drugstore where you could get a chocolate Coke for a nickel. And a Malt for 20 cents. And get to sit next that pretty girl from Algebra class, at least for a while
Comment From Anonymous
what is a chocolate Coke I have never heard of it what is it made from
Comment From Anonymous
Walking home from high school (1956-1959) we would stop by Duval's, the local soda shop/drug store. One of the favored drinks we enjoyed was a lime ricky (not sure how it's spelled)also root beer floats. I loved being a child of the 50's!!!
Comment From Sherry D. F
We had a corner store in Terrell, Tx. called Rutledge Drugs. I love their limeades and floates. I loved to go there. That was a treat to walk there on Saturdays.
Memory Posted By: Betty
cokes cost just 5 cents in Athens, Ga in 1950's
Grandmothers 50s Clothes Back in Style
Memory Posted By: Jennifer
I still dont why all these things that my grandma use to wear or use are coming back in style. but you know i like it.
Comment From Brenda Lynn
Man i still cant believe that my grandma use to do 50's things, just two years ago i had to do a play of the 50's and then all those things my grandma use to do or wear are coming back to style.
Boomer memories from the 50s U.S.A.
Memory Posted By: Boomer
gunsmoke, rifleman, rin-tin-tin
saturday shopping at the new mall,
sunday mass and big noon dinner.
going to the movies eating juju beads, big charm sucker.
roller skates you put on your shoes with a key that hung around your neck.
ghost stories, swimming in the summer, red light green light at nite.
oming home when the street lights came on.
learning to drive stick shift.
brush rollers ratting your hair sprying with adorn hairspry,
ambush perfume canoe for men aftershave.
sweater clips mohair sweaters with matching skrits.
smoking was not evil.
Comment From A F
Good times sadly missed
Comment From 50'skid
there is nothing like the growing up in the 50's. I was a 50's kid and we had pure fun. all of us neighborhood kids played together. potsie,war,hide an seek,building snow forts in the winter,(no more snow anymore)watching american bandstand,or mickymouse club. i remember watching my father watching tv. and all of a sudden he would say look at that tomatoe lol i never quite knew what he was so excited about. my father just passed aug 14 age 90. one generation passes and another comes in its place. im in my 50's now and time is going faster then ever I cherrish those old time days
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Remembering the 1950s
The 50's were the boomer years and the children from those years are now the parents and grandparents who caused that boom in the birthrate
The 50's also were one of the last decades where the traditional roles of the woman staying at home and being a homemaker and the man as the sole breadwinner for a family.
Due to these family dynamics it was also the heyday of the TV daytime soap opera which a drama shown during the day when the man of the family was at work and the ( Soap Manufacturers )advertisers could target a very specific audience " the stay at home mum.
Following on from the end of World War the cold war became a grim reality because both sides had the power and technology for a Nuclear holocaust, but equally both knew any war could not truly be won.
This is also the first decade where the worlds economy was driven by consumer demand for the goods that were now available and were produced in large numbers in Japan for consumption by the rest of the western world and many of the household names that are part of our daily lives including Sony date from that period.
This is also the decade that many of inventions and technology developed during war time could be adapted for peacetime including harnessing nuclear energy for use as electricity with first nuclear power stations built towards the end of the decade and the groundwork for today's digital revolution with the invention of the microchip and the computer modem.
Towards the end of the decade the cars continued to get larger with bigger front and rear fins and nobody worried about MPG gas was a mere 25 cents
Music: At the beginning of the decade the crooners were still popular but by the end of the 50's a new genre of music was born and some of the greats who started at the end of the 50's included Elvis ( the Pelvis ) Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Bill Haley and the Comets setting the stage for the groups of the 60's
This was also the decade where the Television became a major part of most families lives and the birth of "Rock N Roll"
Please try to speak to parents and grandparents to try to understand how different it was in the 50's where after the war years many families were started while sharing a home with parents because of the lack of housing and the boom in children , if your parents are willing to share memories on The People History please do but if not at least they will have been passed on and not lost.
Buying our first home U.S.A.
Memory Posted By: anon
My husband and I bought our first house in the mid-1950s. Actually, we bought our first AND second house during the same year. It was 1956 and we had just moved to Michigan from Missouri with our three children. The automobile industry was taking off (no pun intended) during that decade and there were a lot of southerners moving up into Michigan to get an envied job with General Motors. Back then, a job at General Motors meant that you were set for life. They offered great wages, benefits, and everything that a person needs to run a family. Those were the days.<
But our first home was on the east side of Flint, which is about one hour north of Detroit. It was a new neighborhood that was sprouting up and new homes were going up all over the place around us. The house we bought was more of a temporary home. We actually had our eyes set on the one being built across the street. It was larger and it had a basement.
We moved into the first home in 1955. It was there before the neighborhood really sprouted, so it was more rundown and it was older than rest of the homes. As soon as the one across the street was built, though, we sold that one and moved into the new one. We had a family to think about and the new home had several bedrooms that we would be able to utilize. A year after we moved to Flint, the new home was completed and we moved in. Unfortunately, my brother-in-law lost his job and we offered to let him and his family stay with us until he got on his feet. He had seven kids. Even though our home was spacious, most of that family ended up sleeping on the floor and stepping over each other in the middle of the night. That lasted for a few months, but it was a great way to break in our new place. Now, 50 years later, I am still in this home that has come to be an important part of our family.
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Strange But Trus Pope Pius X11 Malta
Memory Posted By: graham
In 1958 while only 8 years old and living with a Maltese family in Mosta Pope Pius XII died , like all Maltese people the family I was with were very staunch catholics and in the front room in pride of place was a photograph of the pope. On the morning he died I as I was going out their son called me in to the front room and showed me the photograph of the Pope which had gone a strange purple colour, to this day I can not think of an explanation.
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Ryhl In Wales Holidays Wales
Memory Posted By: Dawn
When I was a child my whole family would go to Ryhl in Wales on holiday Whitsun weekends with my brother and sister, Parents and Grandparents.
We stayed in self catering rooms at the Prestatyn end of the town. The beach was always crowded as most everybody went to seaside towns across the UK not over to the mediterranian in those days.
There was an old arcade where we used to have a full three course meal for six shillings and a social club where there was bingo and a singer.
As a kid I hated it as we just had to sit there for hours while the oldies had fun and enjoyed themselves.
3 years ago my husband and I and 2 children went for a weekend and even the kids enjoyed it, it has changed but the beach is quieter the facilities and entertainment are better and we have been back each year since.No Comments Yet
Childrens Toys From The 1950's
Childrens toys offered a much wider range following the boom in babies born, but toys were very much gender designed with dolls, prams, dressmaking for girls toys and Cowboys and indians, cars and construction sets for boys.
Part of our Collection of Toys from The 1950's
1950s Music
A new generation of pop stars including Elvis Presley were created whose main target audience was teenagers.
Traditional Bakers Malta
Memory Posted By: Joseph
My favourite job as a child was going to the local bakers after we could smell the bread being baked , my mother would send me to the local baker and the bread would still be hot as it had only just come out of the oven , I would carry it in my arms and bounce it up and down so it did not burn me, when i got home we would break bits off and eat it while it was still to hot , I am glad to say that traditional baker is still in the same place it has been for 50 years and when i visit my mother I can still smell the bread baking and it is one of the nicest smells in the world and reminds me of my childhood.
Younger Brothers UK
Memory Posted By: Steve
I was always close to my younger brother even though because he was younger and smaller than me I tormented him a lot when we were young. But things always seem to work out in the end, the one thing I was not allowed to do under any circumstances was to hit him or there would have been hell to play from my parents and for many years all was fine until he worked out that he could hit me and was immune from punishment by me and my parents. Anyway when he was 8 and I was 12 he went to far as we were larking around and he pushed me down the stairs and I broke my nose, I never did forgive him to this day even though we are still quite close.
My brother is some years younger than me and never lets me forget it but the thing I have noticed is as we have got older the difference in age appears to be less and less, it may well be once the grey hairs and the wrinkles appear unless you have time to count them the difference in age shows less, "sorry kid"
