I Remember the 50s: This is great. I am sure I recognized all the stars and the products. http://safeshare.tv/w/FEDEwZHZXu Sarge69...

sarge69 Loc: Ft Myers, FL

This is great. I am sure I recognized all the stars and the products.

http://safeshare.tv/w/FEDEwZHZXu

Sarge69

Dianakkb Loc: Norwalk, Ohio

Boy, this made me smile. I grew up in the 50's and 60's and I remember nearly all of these.

photonutbob Loc: ME,CT,MA

How about the forty,s?

Beowulf Loc: Aquidneck Island, RI

Thanks, Sarge. Love everyone of these that are posted every so often. The depressing factor is being reminded of all the products that we actually ate, drank, used, viewed, etc., in our "youth".

MtnMan Loc: ID

sarge69 wrote:

This is great. I am sure I recognized all the stars and the products.

http://safeshare.tv/w/FEDEwZHZXu

Sarge69

Like yesterday...

They should have included Ed Sullivan introducing the Beatles. I clearly recall that too!

sarge69 Loc: Ft Myers, FL

photonutbob wrote:

How about the forty,s?

I was an curtain climber then and only remember food.

Sarge69

wilsondl2 Loc: Lincoln, Nebraska

MtnMan wrote:

Like yesterday...

They should have included Ed Sullivan introducing the Beatles. I clearly recall that too!

That was in 1962. The 50's were the greatest time to be a teenager. We did not have to go to war. We were going to have worry about getting a job. etc. etc. I am glad that I was white middle class because times were not so great if you were not. - Dave

sarge69 Loc: Ft Myers, FL

wilsondl2 wrote:

That was in 1962. The 50's were the greatest time to be a teenager. We did not have to go to war. We were going to have worry about getting a job. etc. etc. I am glad that I was white middle class because times were not so great if you were not. - Dave

At age 14 I worked on tobacco farms in Connecticut broad leaf fields. At 15/16 I was a counter short order cook at a neighbor confectionary store going in at 4:30 in the morning before school. They started me at .75 cents an hour and free drinks and food. Within a month I was at $1.25 an hour and pay for drinks and food. :lol: :lol:

Sarge69

khh Loc: brooksville,fl.

see that you live in Ft.Meyers my home in 1950 was Naples I was linemen for the phone co. called intercounty out of FT.Meyers we covered from BOCA Grand south to Monroe station and east to Clewiston. Was gone week at a time home on week ends were I worked on a cattle ranch just north of Naples.There was no AC no TV and it was gods country being a ww11 vet loved the wild rural Fl. were guns in the rear widow of a PU truck was normal and a pistol on board was no big deal.Now I reckon the state is what civilized and it sucks.

MtnMan Loc: ID

wilsondl2 wrote:

That was in 1962. The 50's were the greatest time to be a teenager. We did not have to go to war. We were going to have worry about getting a job. etc. etc. I am glad that I was white middle class because times were not so great if you were not. - Dave

They included a 1960s coin.

wilsondl2 Loc: Lincoln, Nebraska

sarge69 wrote:

At age 14 I worked on tobacco farms in Connecticut broad leaf fields. At 15/16 I was a counter short order cook at a neighbor confectionary store going in at 4:30 in the morning before school. They started me at .75 cents an hour and free drinks and food. Within a month I was at $1.25 an hour and pay for drinks and food. :lol: :lol:

Sarge69

That was one of the great things of the 50's kids could work. Had a paper route when I was 9 - cut, racked, and stacked hay when I was 14 - When I was 15 I drove a 5 ton grain truck from the field to the elevator and at 16 I worked on the railraod. It was great. - Dave

guts Loc: texas.

sarge69 wrote:

At age 14 I worked on tobacco farms in Connecticut broad leaf fields. At 15/16 I was a counter short order cook at a neighbor confectionary store going in at 4:30 in the morning before school. They started me at .75 cents an hour and free drinks and food. Within a month I was at $1.25 an hour and pay for drinks and food. :lol: :lol:

Sarge69

Hey Sarge. I picked tobacco in conn. and mass. when i was 14 also,Thought i was rich when I got home with all that money,Was a great time back then,thanks.

rayford2 Loc: New Bethlehem, PA

wilsondl2 wrote:

That was one of the great things of the 50's kids could work. Had a paper route when I was 9 - cut, racked, and stacked hay when I was 14 - When I was 15 I drove a 5 ton grain truck from the field to the elevator and at 16 I worked on the railraod. It was great. - Dave

The lawyers put a stop to that.

dljen Loc: Central PA

This made me smile too :) I remember my first transistor radio...thinking back, it was probably a little, ugly piece of plastic but then I thought it was the most beautiful thing there was. It opened the world of music to me, the Beatles, the Stones...all the British invasion... It was a little turquoise radio. How I loved that!

Memories...thank you for sharing, Sarge.

rmalarz Loc: Tempe, Arizona

sarge69 wrote:

This is great. I am sure I recognized all the stars and the products.

http://safeshare.tv/w/FEDEwZHZXu

Sarge69

I recalled each of those. Though, I didn't grow up in the 50s, I simply got older during that period of time. I still haven't grown up, just got older.
-Bob