Now that we're back in the 1950s, what will you adapt from those times?

[onehandle]

I just got my hair cut, and for a few weeks will be rocking a bit of a Elvis bouffant.

I've also chosen to grow out my sideburns, but I have not chosen to lynch black activists.


What's your adaptation?



re: SCOTUS voting rights outrage, if you don't get it.

[femmocrat]

1. I got it.

Maybe when I'm done being mad as hell, I will dust off my poodle skirt and saddle shoes. Or not.

[noamnety]

2. I'm working on a little recipe

for a tuna jello casserole mold.

[In_The_Wind]

4. ew ...

I always hated that.

[pipi_k]

3. I'm gonna go out

and hula hoop while wearing a Davy Crockett hat and listening to "Blue Moon" over and over again on the Victrola.

[grilled onions]

5. The Good Things Could Be...

Hula Hoops, 3-D glasses, the five cent chocolate bar that actually tasted like chocolate,the 50's classic cars,Davy Crocket jacket, vanilla cokes, 45's, drive in movies, drive in restaurants, dime store blue plate specials...
on the flip side we had massive racism depending on where you lived depended a lot of who they disliked. I lived in Chicago and while no one seemed to have obvious hate to minorities on a city bus or the el neighborhoods were "color coded". But other minorities were also disliked in the city and listening over any neighbors fence or the corner bar and you would pick up plenty of buzz words even if you were five years old.
But many had dreams of a better time. They never thought we would go backwards and have to fight to earn those rights again.

[Kingofalldems]

6. A '52 Chevy please

[benld74]

7. Gonna STOP using the following in my home,,,,

Air conditioning
Internet
ANY television stations other then 2,4,5, or 9
Cell phones
Microwaves
frost free refrigerator
dvd players
anything with Apple, Dell, Microsoft, IBM, written on them
etc
etc
etc
NOT!

[RedCloud]

8. Root beer kool-aid!

[Rhiannon12866]

41. And Fizzies! :)

[Myrina]

9. Oooh, can I have a wood-paneled station wagon & a little trailer home to tow behind it?

[Paulie]

10. Will the new penny loafers have to account for inflation?

And poodle skirts become labradoodle skirts?

[Aristus]

11. I'm going to wear a suit and tie every day!

And have a Martini at lunch on a daily basis.

[In_The_Wind]

12. I'll be hanging the wash out on the line to dry.

[femmocrat]

47. I still do that!

Love the way everything smells when dried outside.

[In_The_Wind]

48. There were too many pine trees in my old yard.

It's great having a clothesline out back now. If would only stop raining.

By the way ... were are all of the flutterbyes. I see little white ones, big cicadas, but no monarchs.

[femmocrat]

49. Way too much rain here, too.

I have seen one swallowtail on the butterfly bushes, but no monarchs yet. We also have the little white ones on the lavender plants.

No cicadas here yet, fortunately! We just got fireflies about a week ago. And I finally saw a hummer on the yuccas. Cute little bugger!

[In_The_Wind]

53. I saw one hummingbird a few weeks ago checking out my petunias.

They must not have been to his liking because he flew away.

I haven't put out the feeders here. At the end of last summer, this yard was full of yellow jackets. Love the hummers hate the bees. It's not too late to buy food coloring and mix up sugar water.

[graywarrior]

13. I'm gonna try and find a sanitary napkin belt in order to wear huge Kotex pads

[RILib]

15. your time frame is off.

[graywarrior]

17. Um really?

[Brigid]

20. I remember those things.

[graywarrior]

21. Me, too! I hated them!!!

[pipi_k]

26. I was too young

For them in the 50s but even the 60s versions were like wearing bunk bed mattresses between our legs

[graywarrior]

27. Plus they slid all over the place

[mimi85]

42. Like the time

I was giving a speech in front of debate class in 7th grade. We couldn't wear pants in the 60s, so I had a skirt on. I knew no one could tell, but I completely lost my train of thought and asked the teacher if I could be excused to go to the restroom. One of those shitty junior high moments in life you never forget.

[graywarrior]

51. LOL, I went to a job interview and leaked all over the chair I was being interviewed

I got the job even tho I had on my sister's purple dress and red shoes.

[RILib]

14. people will be polite

music will have melodies, and not call women hos or advocate raping them.

[KamaAina]

16. Streetcars

[Art_from_Ark]

56. And passenger trains

[KamaAina]

57. Hell yeah!

[Neoma]

18. Buy from the record store!

[Brigid]

19. One of those Caddies with the huge tail fins.

Preferably pink.

[Lady Freedom Returns]

22. Wikipedia on US in 1950's.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_in_the_1950s

[Tuesday Afternoon]

23. THE COST OF LIVING> DUDE!!

[Chan790]

24. Rockabilly.

It's as good of a reason as any to listen to some Reverend Horton Heat.

[AsahinaKimi]

25. OH THIS IS EASY!!! A TRIP TO MEL'S DINER!!

TURKEY BURGER PLEASE...with those big Frys and a Chocolate Malt Milk Shake!!

[NoPasaran]

28. Build a fallout shelter

[Mr.Bill]

29. I'm gonna be a hobo

and ride the rails.

[Jetboy]

30. I rarely listen to anything besides 1950s rock-n-roll, doo wop and rockabilly anyway.

I like go to the local '50s fest every year with an Elvis pomp, a rockabilly shirt and blue suede shoes. There was a lot of good and bad back in the 1950s. There is a lot of good and bad today.

[Bombero1956]

31. gas for 22 cents a gallon

and I want the attendant to check my oil and put air in my tires. I'm sure that little bow tie will look extra spiffy too.

[pscot]

32. 25 cent paperback books

[krispos42]

33. I think I'll pick up a pair of engineer's boots...

...a black leather jacket, a white tee-shirt, dark blue jeans, and a Harley.

I'll get to cruise around before the baby boom makes everything crowded as hell.

[jmowreader]

39. Make sure there's an eagle on the back

[MrMickeysMom]

34. I'm gonna wear pointy bras...

... down around my ass while I watch the pointy white hats come out of the Senate woodwork to really work us over, now...

[Arugula Latte]

35. A cheap-ass mortgage.

[graham4anything]

36. Adlai Stevenson

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The elections of 1952 and 1956 were the single biggest mistakes of American history, before the future single biggest mistakes of history, the Eisenhower clone Reagan, the Warren Commisson's Ford, the three Bush's and the Paul family

I like Adlai.
Smartest person ever to run for President yet the public wanted the man who brought Nixon to fame and was a war monger general.

BTW, the 50s sucked for most people. It was not the fabled Norman Rockwell time that was pictured for the vast majority of the democratic party.

Oh, wait, this is the lounge, it is suppose to be light.

Gimme some Elvis and Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis please.

Don McLean's American Pie didn't make any sense back before 1958

and the horse with no name was still trotting away on the east coast, not yet going to that dessert

and the world couldn't yet say

Who was better, Koufax or Gibson? (Damn, that is the question that broke the computers. There just is no answer to that.)
(being that we know now that there indeed is an an answer for WHY (yesterday it was revealed, WHY=NADER).

[mysuzuki2]

37. Nickle cokes at the soda fountain.

[Tribalceltic]

52. A glass long neck 12 oz. Pepsi please

[sinkingfeeling]

38. Bobby socks, a poodle skirt, and saddle shoes. Love that new dance

style: rock and roll.

[MiddleFingerMom]

40. Something I listen to alla time anyway -- Old Tiime Radio.

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http://otr.net/
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[LNM]

64. Hey MFM! What's a *.ram file

This looks like a cool site, but I can't read the files.

[MiddleFingerMom]

66. I don't know -- I DO know that RealPlayer opens up and plays them for me.

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If you're into Old Time Radio at all, it's the most incredible site ever. Try Gunsmoke (some of the
best-made radio theater EVER -- and 406 20-to-30 minute episodes) or Father Knows Best.
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It streams (for free) over 12,000 episodes of over 150 different shows -- I like the fact that I can
listen to them and do other things at the same time.
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[pinboy3niner]

43. Outing Commies

[MrScorpio]

44. An ocean cruise to France

I don't think that I'd want to be black in this country during the 50's.

[Flashmann]

45. 1950s, what will you adapt from those times?

Rotary dial telephone with a 5 digit number,drive in movies and never needing to lock my house...

[Chan790]

46. I'm going to hit on Audrey Hepburn.

That would be the only good thing about being in the 1950s. The most beautiful, perfect woman to ever live is in her prime.

[datasuspect]

50. i'm going to be the last living confederate civil war soldier

and be showcased on "This is Your Life."

[bamacrat]

54. Smoking and drinking at work. n/t

[pink-o]

55. A pre-CBS Stratocaster for 100.00

And the salary I make now transported into the 1950. Of course, as a woman I would not be able to buy my own house, so I'd prolly marry either: 1) a gay man who needed a beard. Or 2) a doctor with really good tranq's so I could sleep my way through the sexist racist, cigarette-smoking, asbestos insulated decade I was born in!!!!

[nolabear]

58. Smoking. Definitely smoking.

And martinis. And Brubeck.

[Jamaal510]

59. Black-and-white colors on my TV.

[KamaAina]

60. Marilyn Monroe!

[mysuzuki2]

61. Clean air and dirty sex!

[ConcernedCanuk]

62. Pretty hard to find nowadays . .

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Clean air . .



CC

[mysuzuki2]

63. So's the other.

Dammit!

[nomorenomore08]

65. I'm gonna pretend to be a character in a Burroughs novel...

[kwassa]

67. I'll be On the Road with Jack Kerouac. And Neal Cassiday.

[DebJ]

68. Unions and Blue Collar jobs that supported a family with multiple children

and had pensions as well.

Is this DU? I can't believe no one else posted this before me!

[Taverner]

69. The Clothing

I am already wearing used clothes. Not 'vintage' although some might call it that, but just whatever used looks good.

See a movie from the 70s like "Bullit" or "Harold and Maude" and you can find that online for cheap.

There's a lot of 50s style clothing - made in the 70s for the grandpas of that time