Want to get away? Come take a 4-1/2 minute ride thru the '50's.

[Iwillnevergiveup]

http://biggeekdad.com/2014/05/fabulous-fifties/

[In_The_Wind]

1. I was a mere child in the 50's.

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[Iwillnevergiveup]

2. Me too,

but I remember Devil Dogs.

[Art_from_Ark]

3. I have no recollection of the '50s

but when I was a kid, I had a bunch of 45rpm Cricket and Bluebird records of kids' songs and TV themes from the '50s.

[RebelOne]

4. I remember the '50s well.

I have been around a long, long time. In fact, I was a teenager when I eloped from Florida to Georgia in 1955. You could go to any justice of the peace and get married with no questions asked. The marriage lasted for 9 years before I was divorced in the middle 1960s.

[femmocrat]

5. I remembered a lot of those images. Beautiful cars in the 50s.

Fiip Wilson wasn't until the 1960s though. His TV show started in 1970 (I looked it up).

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

6. I was born at the end of 1949 so I lived through the entire decade

Thanks for the clip. My best memory of the 50s was when my dad who was a career Air Force officer was stationed in Midwest City Oklahoma. Next door to us lived the Chief of the Caddo Indian tribe who moved to the city to get a better education for his two young sons. Their last name I think was something like "Hensugar" (I was three at the time). I used to play cowboys and Indians with his youngest son who always wanted the Indians to win. We used to go down to the fishing hole with his older brother and catch crawdads and had a great time. They invited me into their house and I don't remember seeing a stick of furniture; it seems like they ate and slept on the floors. My mom one day had a shouting match with one of our white neighbors who lived across the street who came to our front door and asked my mom if she knew who she was letting play with her son: "a full-blooded Indian!". I had never seen my mom get so worked up and mad when she said she was glad I was playing with a full-blooded Indian boy.

My next best memories were when my dad got transferred to Germany when I was five and a half. My parents would let me and my friends go to the base movie theater at night, unaccompanied by any adults to see all sorts of science fiction movies. Those movies truly were golden moments in my life.























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[Rhiannon12866]

7. Wow! Sounds like you had a wonderful childhood!

And I love the movies, LOL! I've seen a few of them as an adult, can't imagine how I would have reacted as a kid!

My Dad was in charge of taking us to the movies. I realize now that my mother probably told him that it was his job, LOL. We saw a lot of Disney movies, but when I watched TV with my Dad at home, I watched whatever he did, war movies, "Peyton Place," and Alfred Hitchcock's "Vertigo." That one scared me half to death and I wasn't the same for days...

[Iwillnevergiveup]

8. WOW, aint_no_life_nowhere

Thanks for the vivid childhood memories and movie posters. You certainly jazzed things up. I hadn't heard of most of these movies, but probably would have been too scared to go see them anyway! Did see "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" - totally frightening.
Wasn't it incredible back in these days when it seemed every parent had his/her eye on every child?

[pipi_k]

9. Bittersweet memories...

brought a few tears to my eyes.

Thanks for sharing this.

[Iwillnevergiveup]

10. You are welcome, pipi_k

I know just what you mean.