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Tuesday, June 27, 2017

Some Cute Pictures From The Past



#1:  Cars Were Colorful!  Most cars these days look fairly bland, but in the 50's, our cars were big, bright, and fun!

#2.  We Got Dressed Up for Birthday Parties.  And sometimes there was a pony there!

#3:  We Played in the Streets:  We didn't have to text our friends back in the day -
we'd all just come outside and get to playing!

#4:  Gas Was Very Cheap:  On some days, it was only $0.20 a gallon, and beyond that, the people at the station could also fix just about anything!

#5:  Ben Franklin 5-10 (or Woolworth's or Neisner's) Was Everything:  We loved going to these stores.  They had just about anything and everything you could think of.

#6:  If it Wasn't the Ben Franklin, it Was the A&P!

#7: Our Skates Got "Locked" with a Key.  They were also made almost entirely of
metal and very hard to skate on!

#8:  The Drive-In Was The Place to Be:  This 1950's photo from South Bend, Indiana shows how popular they were!

#9:  Car Seats Were More Like Couches:  That’s right - they were big, long,
and you could slide all the way across!

#10:  The Freezer Actually Had to be DEFROSTED!:  That's right, every month you’d have to manually defrost the freezer - sometimes took all day with a lot of scraping!.

#11:  Grandma Let Us Do Everything.  Well, maybe that hasn't changed so much,
but we LOVED eating off the beaters!

#12:  Sometimes Your Food Came On Roller Skates!  That's right - certain restaurants had "roller girls" who would zoom your food out to you!

#13:  We got DOWN (but not FUNKY) at the Sock Hop!

#14:  Sunday Drives Were A Thing:  That's right - on Sunday, many of us would load up the family car and just go cruising over to the neighbors or just around town!

#15:  There Was One TV.  And we didn't argue all night about which show to watch. There was only 1, 2, or if you were lucky, 3 stations to choose from.

#16:  The Playgrounds were VERY Different:  We'd swing from the monkey bars and often even stood on the swings and went as high as possible.  And we survived!

#17:  TV Had "Sign Off" Messages.  Remember these?  TV would go off at midnight and sometimes even go as far as playing the National Anthem.

#18: Just One Hula Hoop Wasn't Enough:  Some of us could do multiple at a time!

#19:  We didn't Text, But We Did Pass Notes!  And we were experts at not getting caught!

#20:  We Got Bottled Cokes and Loved Them:    That’s right - no cans or plastic bottles back then.  We were excited when we'd find a cooler like this to get that ice cold bottle!

Jack Waldbewohner ohomen171@gmail.com

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