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Penny loafers - Bass Weejuns - were a sixties thing & you did NOT put pennies in them.  Gant shirts.  Can't remember all the other things you HAD to have.

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Got my first surf board in 1959. Had a 50 Chevy with a roof rack to put it on. Went to sock hops, local soda fountain and had a red Ryder Daisy BB gun and a Schwinn 3 speed bike. Also had a pair of the strap on roller skates and wore shirts with mandarin collars. No penny loafer, just wedge sole wingbacks with horse shoe taps. I graduated from high school in 1959, so the 50's were my time for sure.

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The 50s were my time as well.  1957 and my father bought the only new car he ever owned.  A charcoal and pink 2 door 57 Chevy. I loved it and it could fly but that's another story.  My car?  Dark blue 4 door 1939 Chevy.  My Mom helped me buy it, she paid half $45.

Hair? Duck tail haircuts with a sex curl on the forehead.  Butch wax to keep the doo in place.  Having a class in a hot room and feeling the wax melt and run down your neck.  Heavily starched white long sleeve dress shirts with the collar turned up in the back.   "Steady" Girls using a whole roll of adhesive tape to make your class ring wearable. Those same girls with the stainless steel bras that could inflict abdominal injuries on you after a night of close dancing.  Sheer embarrassment when your mother points out the lipstick on your collar. Collecting the silver spoons from a Dairy Queen promotion and being the first to fill the defroster vents with them.

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On 2/19/2020 at 4:09 PM, Abilene Slim SASS 81783 said:

Roller skates that were strapped and clamped to your shoes with a key

 

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"I got a brand new pair of roller skates. You got a brand new key"

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51 minutes ago, Big Sage, SASS #49891 Life said:

just wedge sole wingbacks

What the heck are/were wingbacks?

 

I know that term as applied to football players and to chairs. I know slingbacks, which are women's high heels. And I know Red Wing, who make boots.

 

But never heard of wingback shoes.

 

 

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2 hours ago, MizPete said:

Penny loafers - Bass Weejuns - were a sixties thing & you did NOT put pennies in them.  Gant shirts.  Can't remember all the other things you HAD to have.

 

Wanna bet??  I still have a pair with pennies - and wear 'em~!  ^_^

 

Penny Loafers History!  

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23 hours ago, Rye Miles #13621 said:

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Just for the record, I had one in blue and white. My dad gave me his in 1966 when I graduated from High school. Looked just like this without the cool wheels!

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8 hours ago, Alpo said:

What the heck are/were wingbacks?

 

I know that term as applied to football players and to chairs. I know slingbacks, which are women's high heels. And I know Red Wing, who make boots.

 

But never heard of wingback shoes.

 

 

Similar to the "wingtip style" seen in dress shoes today. The tip design was carried all the way to the back of he shoe on each side.

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Wore engineer boots clear through high school, early 70s.

Mama told of weaving pink ribbon in Dad's logging boots he wore to school, soon as she did his, the other girls wove pink ribbons in their chief squeeze's laces as well.
(BAAAA and the sheep fell right in line)

Brylcreem, a little dab'll do ya!

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Drive-in burger joints

Baseball cards on bicycle spokes for that real motorcycle sound

 

REAL  M80's  (don't get caught fishing with them..... ;))

REAL Cherry Bombs (not nearly equivalent to the real M80)

 

Butch, Lucky Tiger, Brylcream, Vitalis, and Wildroot.

(Butch when I wore a 'flat top'.   Wildroot when my hair was longer.)

 

Military convoys (we lived close to a reserve base)

 

NO AIR CONDITION.   Our church had HUGE windows that were opened up

on Sunday during summer.

 

CHURCH BELLS on Sunday mornings.

 

Traveling to other places with NO Interstate.   Stopping at nearly every 'STUCKEY's.

 

Whitewall tires

 

Friday nite boxing matches on TV ...... Brought to you by "Gillette".

 

UNLOCKED doors and opened windows.

 

Ice storage box:  We actually had an ICE MAN deliver a block of ICE to us every other day.

 

And the BIG ONE:   Party Line telephones.

 

..........Widder 

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And don't forget the Burma Shave signs along side the highways, candy cigarettes, and girls with ponytails and saddle shoes with bobby sox to go with the poodle skirts.

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4 minutes ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:
8 minutes ago, Arizona Gunfighter said:

And don't forget the Burma Shave signs along side the highways, candy cigarettes, and girls with ponytails and saddle shoes with bobby sox to go with the poodle skirts.

They started in the 20s.

 

They were all still around in the 50's when I was growing up.

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44 minutes ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:

Yes they lasted into the early 60s.

 

I remember the Burma Shave signs around the highways in Florida well into the late 60's

 

Edit, And the Coppertone billboards that would probably be considered child porn now although they were in an innocent type manner.

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2 hours ago, Cypress Sun said:

 

I remember the Burma Shave signs around the highways in Florida well into the late 60's

 

Edit, And the Coppertone billboards that would probably be considered child porn now although they were in an innocent type manner.


FREE

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FOR 500,000

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BURMA SHAVE

 

Cat Brules

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Little Darlin’ “  The Diamonds  (released 1957)

 

 

 

Cat Brules
 

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On 2/20/2020 at 9:00 PM, Big Sage, SASS #49891 Life said:

Got my first surf board in 1959. Had a 50 Chevy with a roof rack to put it on. Went to sock hops, local soda fountain and had a red Ryder Daisy BB gun and a Schwinn 3 speed bike. Also had a pair of the strap on roller skates and wore shirts with mandarin collars. No penny loafer, just wedge sole wingbacks with horse shoe taps. I graduated from high school in 1959, so the 50's were my time for sure.

I had a Red Ryder Daisy BB gun with a plastic stock fore and aft.  Re ws on the right side and was raised to look almost 3 dimensional.  The butt plate came off and made a nifty neato keen hiding place.  I buy another one if I could find it just for nostalgia's sake.  Been 60 years since I last saw that one and never saw another ever again.

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I have one with a plastic stock, but says J. C. Higgins on it.....from Sears. My sister gave it to me. Butt stock is broken.

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I actually found a muddied up Red Ryder BB gun in a culvert when I was 4 years old. My dad checked with the neighbors but no one claimed it so he cleaned it up and we shot it together for years on end until he got me a Savage Crackshot 22.! I remember getting a Gilbert erector set, a Hubley tractor and a fort Apache set for Christmas when I was 5. That was 1956. In 1957 I got a full sized Hiawatha bicycle from the Gambles store.  It had training wheels and I couldn't reach the pedals so my dad added wooden blocks for my feet meet the pedals. 

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Toy pistols that shot plastic bullets and my mother telling me to always carry some change in case I have to make an emergancy phone call / from pay phones / phone booth.

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"Man In The Moon"  kites.

 

10-cents in my neighborhood grocery store.

5-cents for a good ball of string.

 

Mom always kept a couple of old sheets to make the tails.

 

..........Widder

 

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8 hours ago, Widder, SASS #59054 said:

"Man In The Moon"  kites.

 

10-cents in my neighborhood grocery store.

5-cents for a good ball of string.

 

Mom always kept a couple of old sheets to make the tails.

 

..........Widder

 

That's something you almost never see anymore. I can't even remember the last time I saw anyone, kid or otherwise flying kites at any of the local parks. Instead of looking up at kites or rubber-band balsa airplanes in the sky they're all looking down at their smartphones. :(

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On 2/22/2020 at 6:57 AM, Widder, SASS #59054 said:

Traveling to other places with NO Interstate.   Stopping at nearly every 'STUCKEY's.

 

AND... waiting for hours (or so it seemed) at road construction sites when the interstates were being built!

(We took a vacation every year from Indiana to either Albuquerque or Seattle, alternating between each and sometimes hitting both!)

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25 minutes ago, Injun Ryder, SASS #36201L said:

 

AND... waiting for hours (or so it seemed) at road construction sites when the interstates were being built!

(We took a vacation every year from Indiana to either Albuquerque or Seattle, alternating between each and sometimes hitting both!)

 

In Georgia, the Interstates are already built...again and again and again and again and again.......

 

Georgia is the State of perpetual road construction on the same stretch of road, year after year after year.

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21 minutes ago, Cypress Sun said:

 

In Georgia, the Interstates are already built...again and again and again and again and again.......

 

Georgia is the State of perpetual road construction on the same stretch of road, year after year after year.

 

I've heard it told that the Apostle Paul had to travel thru Atlanta on his trip to Rome.

:o

 

..........Widder

 

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2 hours ago, Injun Ryder, SASS #36201L said:

 

AND... waiting for hours (or so it seemed) at road construction sites when the interstates were being built!

(We took a vacation every year from Indiana to either Albuquerque or Seattle, alternating between each and sometimes hitting both!)

 

 

 .... so, .... that was happening back then too ?

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