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I remember duck and cover drills!
Sneederbunk
(14,293 posts)Floyd R. Turbo
(26,549 posts)dchill
(38,510 posts)The Magistrate
(95,248 posts)dchill
(38,510 posts)Dream Girl
(5,111 posts)calguy
(5,319 posts)padah513
(2,503 posts)tblue37
(65,443 posts)inside--and then sleeping on those medieval torture devices.
I also had a hair dryer with a hose and a soft plastic bonnet.
Tadpole Raisin
(972 posts)nt
multigraincracker
(32,699 posts)he was in a parade on Rt 66 in Iowa.
wryter2000
(46,051 posts)I wish we still had him around to tell the current Republicans what kind of disasters they are.
TxGuitar
(4,203 posts)and try to smear his "so called military record".
wryter2000
(46,051 posts)We used to think of them as crackpots. Now there are worse people in the Congress.
BarbaRosa
(2,684 posts)Tomconroy
(7,611 posts)msongs
(67,421 posts)calguy
(5,319 posts)kozar
(2,118 posts)Dark Shadows after school (5th grader)
Koz
Shrike47
(6,913 posts)Lash Larue!
calguy
(5,319 posts)frogmarch
(12,156 posts)as it was torpedoed by an enemy submarine.
Atticus
(15,124 posts)heavy black telephone handset and cradle with a thick straight six foot cord. It also had a place for the phone book, a note pad and pen. Ours also had a three minute egg timer as that's how long you could speak to someone "long distance" for the basic charge. Every minute or fraction of a minute after three cost extra.
Demobrat
(8,985 posts)Also my first crush.
Tomconroy
(7,611 posts)He is still fab!
Tadpole Raisin
(972 posts)The American channel (had abc, cbs, and nbc prime time shows depending on the day) and a Canadian channel (I remember the friendly giant).
No need for area codes.
CurtEastPoint
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calguy
(5,319 posts)I remember ALL of those.
CurtEastPoint
(18,652 posts)Was born in 1950
calguy
(5,319 posts)wryter2000
(46,051 posts)Bob was a photographer. He'd introduce the episode with "I think you're going to like this picture," or something like that.
Don't forget Burns and Allen!
CurtEastPoint
(18,652 posts)hedda_foil
(16,375 posts)Topper
Sitting in front of the radio
Ma Perkins on he radio at lunch time
Superman
Winky Dink
wyn borkins
(1,109 posts)I remember enjoying the radio show: "The Green Hornet" with crime-fighter Britt Reid and his sidekick Kato. "Hurry on now Kato, were gonna get them bad guys..."
sanatanadharma
(3,707 posts)What was the question?
markie
(22,756 posts)Freddie
(9,269 posts)randr
(12,412 posts)doc03
(35,355 posts)I want to call.
rurallib
(62,431 posts)that we got TV from did and the other one didn't so we could watch the same show twice.
Mme. Defarge
(8,036 posts)were not permitted.
doc03
(35,355 posts)Before each shift they would read off the working conditions of each of the local coal mines. There were probably 20 of them.
Powhatten mine # 6 will work.
Powhatten mine # 6 will work.
North American Coal mine #4 will work.
North American Coal mine #4 will work.
And so on it would go on for 5 minutes or so.
GopherGal
(2,009 posts)n/t
yonder
(9,668 posts)The letters would represent a local area name: SK7-1212 might be for SKyline7-1212.
sarge43
(28,941 posts)Mom made me memorize it. I was 5 yo.
Remember Truman's election.
yonder
(9,668 posts)I can only remember the SK7 part.
I had just learn to print my first name and I was feeling quite grown up.
We had that number for several years, so it stayed in the long term file.
BoomaofBandM
(1,771 posts)If it was cold (winter in WI) a girl could wear pants under her skirt or dress.
Codifer
(548 posts)was a Hofmann. One could buy tubes for them at the market.
3catwoman3
(24,013 posts)
3 cents.
(How come there is a dollar sign on my keyboard but no cent sign?)
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Glorfindel
(9,732 posts)to "The Lone Ranger" and "Sergeant Preston of the Yukon." The excitement was almost unbearable!
steventh
(2,143 posts)ESplanade 3-3493
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)Dream Girl
(5,111 posts)You got to to_daaaaaaay. Youre got your own cigarette now baby. Youve come a long, long way!
sarge43
(28,941 posts)"If you're calling me baby, I still have a long way to go."
redstatebluegirl
(12,265 posts)You pick it the phone and somebody else is on the line.
young_at_heart
(3,770 posts)I listened to that "soap" and others after school!
wryter2000
(46,051 posts)So they could watch the McCarthy hearings. I asked my mother what it was all about, and she answered, "A bad man named McCarthy." I learned my liberalism early.
katmondoo
(6,457 posts)EYESORE 9001
(25,951 posts)I sat on my balls.
😫
DEbluedude
(816 posts)jpak
(41,758 posts)Yup
TxGuitar
(4,203 posts)spooky3
(34,461 posts)As a Thanksgiving treat?
JuJuChen
(2,215 posts)CTyankee
(63,912 posts)public pool in the neighborhood.
William Seger
(10,779 posts)Midnight Writer
(21,771 posts)All of us kids took a bath on Sunday evenings in a wash tub outside.
msdogi
(430 posts)we'd wear the key on a necklace, very cool
Golden Raisin
(4,609 posts)An early 1950's childrens' TV show which was a precursor to Romper Room, Captain Kangaroo, Kukla Fran and Ollie, and ultimately Mr. Rogers and Sesame Street.
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,354 posts)... was in the trials for the Salk polio vaccine.
femmedem
(8,203 posts)We used to get two and a half channels--the half channel being so fuzzy as to be almost unwatchable. But I watched that half channel anyway because Star Trek was on that network and I had a crush on Spock.
Oh--and Mr. Femmedem is slightly older than me. Last night he said, "I can get with that dude Jesus."
Chipper Chat
(9,684 posts)She sent me to the neighborhood for a box. I think it was 24 cents.
sinkingfeeling
(51,465 posts)NNadir
(33,532 posts)Ocelot II
(115,771 posts)Also: Plunk your magic twanger, Froggy!
DFW
(54,415 posts)They used to be my house pets.
I still miss Tiggy:
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Jim G. This message was self-deleted by its author.
liberaltrucker
(9,129 posts)DFW
(54,415 posts)I was born at the end of Truman's last term.
Nixon hadn't even made his Checkers speech yet!
Archae
(46,339 posts)Stayed up all night, watching Neil and Buzz.
Jim G.
(14,811 posts)And taking the bottle to the store & collecting a 2 cent deposit.
My earliest hustle!
Talitha
(6,598 posts)The 'big girls' (high school) wore skirts with poodles on them. Their hair was always in a pony tail and they had short little swirls of hair clipped to hang just in front of their ears - - and in order to be cool, they HAD to have a silver squeezy-clip in the swirl, holding it in place.
My older brother was a brainiac nerd and never left home without his slide rule and pocket protector for his pens.
Everyone had a skate key.
I remember combing the neighborhood for tossed pop bottles for the two cent deposit, woo-hoo!
Paper that was about the size of a cash register roll that had small dollops of candy stuck to it. Can't remember how long of a piece you got for what price, but I DO remember spitting out tiny bits of paper that were stuck to the candy after I popped it off of the paper.
And the neighborhood grocery store would let us buy half of a Popsicle for 4 cents. A full double cost 7 cents, but if all you had was a nickel....
Fla Dem
(23,704 posts)What time is it? Its Howdy Doody Time!!!!!
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spooky3
(34,461 posts)Shrek
(3,981 posts)Was chasing after the mosquito truck as it blasted DDT fog into the air on warm humid evenings.