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Remembering the 1950's

Baseball cards and hula hoops Baloney sandwich, Campbell’s soup Howdy Doody and Mickey Mouse Mamie and Ike in the White House American Bandstand, Rock 'n Roll Elvis the Pelvis, Nat King Cole Pez Dispensers and Kool-Aid Bedtime for Bonzo, Panty Raids Oscar Mayer’s Wienermobile Superman was the ‘Man of Steel’ Archie & Veronica, Mad Magazine Skirts and Bobby-Sox, Jukebox Scenes The Roadrunner, Tom and Jerry Durward Kirby and a Moore named Gary The Price is Right, Let’s Make a Deal Hostess Twinkies – b & w newsreels A Dog named Lassie and Rin Tin Tin Yankees and Celtics always win Mickey Mantle, Ernie Banks Whitey Ford, Hammerin' Hank Joe McCarthy and the Red Scare Semi-Crewcuts or Slicked-back hair The 1950’s weren’t built to last Still and all ~ quite a cast!

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Caren Krutsinger

Date: 4/22/2022 2:28:00 AM

This should be POTD, POTW and POTC - century "Archie & Veronica, Mad Magazine Skirts and Bobby-Sox, Jukebox Scenes " Loved it!

Robert Gorelick

Date: 4/19/2022 4:26:00 PM

Wow nostalgia in the fast lane! Or, as Eddie Haskell would say: You've developed into quite the bard, Gershon. Just kidd'n, you really are a fine poet. Robert

Gershon Wolf
Date: 4/19/2022 5:47:00 PM

Thank you for your kind words, Robert. Takes one to know one I always say! :)

I Am Anaya

Date: 4/19/2022 4:21:00 PM

Enjoyed them on the flip-flop as they continued on down through the decades! Thank you for the trip down memory lane. --Flower Child

Gershon Wolf
Date: 4/19/2022 5:45:00 PM

And to think that I left out 'Our Miss Frances!'

Kenneth Cheney

Date: 4/19/2022 10:57:00 AM

Great nostalgia. The 50's certainly did include "quite a cast"

Gershon Wolf
Date: 4/19/2022 5:45:00 PM

Indeedy-do, Marichal and Warren Spahn too. Remember that 1-0 game that Spahn won (age 41) in 1961 (I think). Both pitched complete games... And then there was that Harvey Haddix perfect game through 12 innings that he lost to Lou Burdette, somewhere in the late '50's. Those were the days... Now Kershaw is lifted after 7 innings of a perfect game. What happened to this country?!

Ilene Bauer

Date: 4/19/2022 9:43:00 AM

so much i can relate to here, gershon! well done!

Gershon Wolf
Date: 4/19/2022 5:42:00 PM

Thanks, Ilene. Meant to include 'pedal-pushers' though...

Tom Cunningham

Date: 4/19/2022 7:54:00 AM

Those were certainly the good times Gershon, didn't become too aware until the early sixties, another good era. Tom

Gershon Wolf
Date: 4/19/2022 5:39:00 PM

Ah, you missed out on a great decade there, Tom. Nothing like the '50's. ~ Hair E. True Man

John Lawless

Date: 4/19/2022 5:48:00 AM

...and Rocky and Bullwinkle still search for the "Kerward" derby

Gershon Wolf
Date: 4/19/2022 5:36:00 PM

Boris and Natasha still trying to kill 'Crazy Moose and Squirrel?'

L Milton Hankins

Date: 4/18/2022 8:52:00 PM

This is so strange, gw, because just this afternoon I made a list of somethings I remembered from my childhood (the 40s and 50s). Amazing! You're showing your years, my man! I loved the way you made it rhyme.

Gershon Wolf
Date: 4/19/2022 5:35:00 PM

My years are showing and so are my ears. I have big ones. :)