Home » Poems » Tim Ryerson » The Fifties

The Fifties

Slide-out Coke machines Bubble gum baseball cards Superman/Batman comics Full service gas stations 25 cents a gallon Dial phones AM radio Fats Domino Black & white TV Rabbit-ear antennae Three channels I Love Lucy Drive-in movies Double dating Drive-in diners 10 cent hot dogs Saddle Oxfords Penny Loafers Vacation bible school Homemade playgrounds Barefoot summers A dollar was a fortune... No cable No Internet No cell phones No problem...

Post Comments

Poetrysoup is an environment of encouragement and growth so only provide specific positive comments that indicate what you appreciate about the poem.

Please Login to post a comment

Funom Makama

Date: 4/28/2015 9:09:00 AM

Reading through your words gives a majestic result of creating expectations and at the same time meeting them. This is awesome considering the feat achieved in a few lines. Great write friend and please keep on letting your heart speak for us to learn and enjoy. A def 7

Laura Breidenthal

Date: 4/18/2015 3:29:00 AM

Lovely list poem!!! Really enjoyed reading. : ) Something about the 50's makes me really happy! Wish I had a time machine Always, Laura

Cyndi Macmillan

Date: 4/9/2015 9:22:00 AM

:) Hello! LOVE THIS. Made me smile! Vacation bible school is still very much alive. As are, thank goodness, barefoot summers. We 'visit' no cable, internet or cellphones once a week. They are called family nights and we play board games. Thank you for YOU. THank you for your emails and kindness. I will try to stay away from "dark things" for a while. I feel them deeply... it is important, to tackle all the horrors of the world, but the lovely things, like this poem, are necessary & good.

Andrea Dietrich

Date: 3/25/2015 6:28:00 PM

I loved yours, Tim. I hope it scored high for ya. I should go look and see. Congrats, my friend. I was sure it was a winner and came here and saw the congrats!!

Sandra Haight

Date: 3/23/2015 12:02:00 PM

Congratulations on your win, Tim! I enjoyed the walk down memory lane through your well-chosen descriptive words. The younger generations would never believe we did quite well without the items mentioned in your last stanza! Love it! Sandra

Poet Destroyer A

Date: 3/22/2015 11:03:00 PM

TIM, Congratulations on your wonderful win. Always ~LINDA~

Kelly Deschler

Date: 3/22/2015 8:34:00 PM

A really great poem, Tim! I wish that I could have grownup in a decade of innocence and very few problems. Your words take me there!... Congrats on the win!

Cecilia Macfarlane

Date: 3/9/2015 9:36:00 PM

If only we could take children of today and put them in this decade, I do believe it would enlighten them. Excellent write Tim. Hugs

Andrea Dietrich

Date: 2/19/2015 9:30:00 PM

OH my goodness. You thought so much like me the way you did yours, Tim. Mine is very similar in style and flavor!!! (I used an oldie) That would be neato if we tied on the list (just hoping to get ON the list). I was born in the middle of that decade but i studied a lot about it when I got into school. It was truly an awesome decade!! how are you, btw? Don't get to hear from you too often.

Connie Marcum Wong

Date: 2/19/2015 7:09:00 PM

A trip down memory lane for me. What I miss about that more simple time most is someone pumping my gass. I enjoyed this poem so much Tim! I hope to see it a top winner.

Emile Pinet

Date: 2/19/2015 10:32:00 AM

Your words are bubbly and full of spirit and bravado, just like the fifties. Emile. #7.

Monterey Sirak

Date: 2/16/2015 9:34:00 AM

I love it. I came along as the 60s began but so much of what you list was a staple of my childhood too. Great times. Kids today don't understand what they are missing by having everything.

Skat A

Date: 2/14/2015 12:53:00 AM

the 50 the 60's. Nothing compares to the 70's. LOL. Oh Tim, I love this. I just read a poem called the 60's by a poet name BILL.... enjoyed... :)Have yourself a sweet valentine's Day. ~SKAT LOVE~

Rhonda Johnson-Saunders

Date: 2/13/2015 9:03:00 PM

NO video games!! I keep telling my son - there was a time when imagination was better than video games. He doesn't believe me...I'm going to have him read this tomorrow. Dial phones take me back. Yes, I remember them! Funny, one time we stayed at hotel in about 1984. The room had a dial phone and my brother had no idea how to use it. I had to teach him. We still laugh about that...I wasn't around in the fifties, but I still get nostalgic for simpler times...hugs, Rhonda