Fabulous Fifties

Fabulous Fifties is what they called it, we just called it a good time. It was a great time in history to be a teenager, to have our youth, it was a time for some to rebel, others to grow up. Movies were some of the best TV shows were coming of age, with I Love Lucy, Gunsmoke, Donna Reed, Ozzie and Harriet, which brought Ricky Nelson fame. Who could forget Garry Cooper in High Noon, or Ray Miland plotting to kill his wife in "Dial M For Murder". No one would believe Richard Carlson when he told everyone that a space ship had landed in the Arizona desert in "It Came From Outer Space", or the little boy who said he saw a space ship land out in his field and people kept disappearing by falling through the ground in "Invaders From Mars" in 1953. The Brooklyn Dodgers finally brought home a World Championship in 1955. This year also brought Rock 'n Roll to us teen agers when Bill Halley and his Comets had a hit with "Rock Around The Clock". 1956 was the first no-hitter when Don Larsen of the New York Yankees threw one against the Brookylyn Dodgers in the World Series, it has not happen before or since in the World Series. The Fifties also brought us 3-D, way before our so called 3-D TV sets of today. I remember seeing a few or so, wearing those white glasses we thought we were so cool. Buddy Holly, Elvis Presley, Chuch Berry, Little Richard and many others will never have that many big music stars again. A New York Baseball team went to the World Series every year of the Fifties except 1959 and they would have then also, if the Brooklyn Dodgers had not moved to Los Angles. The Fifties was a great time to grow up, things would never be the same again, our youth was left in the Fifties, times would change and leave us longing for those good old days when old age reached us. Written 6-20-11