The 50s A Creative Generation

We drank water from the tap not a bottle and nobody knew about the dangers of lead poisoning so even cribs were painted with brightly colored lead based paint.

No seat belts or air bags in cars, nobody knew or if they did told our parents smoking and drinking was bad for the baby, kids shared coke from one bottle, soda had masses of sugar and we ate real white bread and butter and everything else including full fat milk that we are now told is bad for you. Speaking of white bread(Wonder bread) with peanutbutter,and Welches grape jelly. We children were never over weight.

Parents couldn't reach us ( no mobiles ) and most of the day we would be out playing with friends and parents knew we would be safe with hardly any weirdos wandering the streets. If we got caught doing stuff we shouldn't the cops would take us home and we may well have a got a hiding for breaking the law ( but no do gooders saying mustn't smack children ). And if we played up in school the same applied.

While playing we got cuts and bruises and the occasional tear in jeans but it was just part of being a kid and no visit to the hospital.

We had no fancy games but could play for hours making a Go cart or a new tree swing and for other games most times we would find a ball and whatever we could use as a bat. or in the summer all jump into the nearest place we could find and if the water wasn't that clean we just didn't swallow it.

We rode our bikes with no helmets and doing whatever stunts we could ( bikes were so much heavier and hard waring ) and always had punctures to repair or get dad to help with.

If we didn't get in the team we were not good enough and that was that.

But most of all we were allowed to be kids. We dad to be creative to have fun.  We made are own kites. We bought are own buckles.   
 We had To dream, to invent and to play.

It's no wonder that the generation  grew up then created some of the most innovative and exciting technology we have today.
All of this and more is what made me me.

Remember the Full Service Gas Station

Yes, back in the 50th  all Gas Stations were Full Service. Your Gas was pumped for you You had the windshield cleaned,oil checked, air in your tires if needed. All of this service was for .25cents a gallon of Gas.  There was no charge for air in those days. Yes I remember the good old days,and times were much more simple. This is what made me me.

Remember TV in 1950

In 1950 We were the on only family around to have a 7 inch black and white TV. My uncle bough two TV kits from Radio Shack,and put two TV together.  We would sit by the TV waiting for a show to come on. There were no TV listing in those days. Oh,but Howdy Doddy was on in late afternoon.  I also had Ham radio,and I would listen to a lot of interesting radio shows. Boy times have changed in 62 years. Now you can watch what you want when you want. These are some more things that made me me.  If,you lived in the 50 th's lets here from you.
All of this and a lot more I remember a long time age in the land that made me me.

Ha! How about the days of the drive-in movies . We went to see two movies,cartoon,and the news,all for $2:00 for a car load of kids. You could even bring your own popcorn,candy,soda,and chips. Oh the good old days,and life was simple. Oh,but you had to bring your girl friend  home by 11:oclock,and that was Saturday night. all these fun times made me me. I'll bet there are very few drive-in moves left in the country.

The School Dance

Do you remember going to a school dance,and the boys would be on one side of the room. The girls would be on the other side of room. Ok who was the brave boy to asked a girl to dance?  Even in high school we still  had some boys and some on one side and some of the girls on the other side of the room Oh the good old days that what made me me.

Do you remember 8 Track Tape P layers?

Do you remember when we listen to Elvis with are 8 track tapes players?  We also had reel to reel tapes. Do you remember when you went parking with your girl friend,and ran out of gas. (for real)? She didn't believe you until you tried to start the car.  There were no cell phones,so you had to walk a mile or so to the nearest gas station. to buy .25 cents worth of gas.  Oh the good old days. These things and more made me me. there is always more to come,so come back and check with us. If, you to remembers the 50'th  post your comments.


Crazy Pete

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Remembering The 50's-My Memories.

                                                     Memories of The 50's


Do you remember the days when you had Bread,Juice,and Bakery products delivered to your door.  You new them all by name,and they new you.  You new there families and you went to the same church together.  We lived in a city of 100,000 people,and we know all the people that came to our door delivering all that good stuff.  Do you all remember the Ice Cream man. I think in some cities there is still an Ice cream man selling Ice Cream in the summer.  All this good food that was delivered to my door in the land that made me.me.  All of this I remember a long time ago in the Land that made me me. 


If, you didn't grow up in the 50's you missed a great time in History. Remember though this is your time in History,so remember well. So all you young people this is your time to remember when.


Would you like to share your memories of the 50's?  You can post your blog comments.


Se Ya,


Crazy Pete 

Remembering The 50's-My Memories.

                                             
                                                         The 50's

In the 50's we didn't worry about taking a ride from a stranger. I used  to thumb home from work in the late 50's at 11:00 PM,and never worry about it.  For some reason there a lot less dirty old men out there that try to have sex with children.  Maybe no one ever talked about things that happen in the 50's that were bad.  I guess it was just a simpler time. We didn't no much about drugs. Oh,yes we did know about Pot,but hard drugs were for people in big cities like New York. We didn't know about Pot until our Senior year in High School or Freshmen in College. Yes its a Wonderful World,If you live in the USA. I wanna go back to black and white. Everything always turned out right. Simple people, simple lives.  Good guys always won the fights,BUT WE MUST GO FORWARD TO THE LAND OF THE FUTURE. We hope that EVERYTHING WILL BE ALRIGHT. Too many murders, too much sex crimes,I wanna go back to black and white.

  I will  add a lot more in my next posting.

See Ya,

Crazy Pete

Remembering The 50's

 Food we ate in the 50's

In the 50's you went to the Peanut Store(Mr. Peanut) and they ground up your peanuts for Peanut-butter. If there was to much oil or not enough oil you added or subtracted the oil.  Today we have to pay to take out the oil,take out some fat,add salt, take out the salt. Oh and the big one I like is you pay more for Organic peanutbutter.  In the 50's there were very few farmers that used chemicals,so we didn't have to worry about Organic Foods.  The one I like the best today is the ubiquitous claim NATURAL has no standard definition. Foods made with healthful ingredients might only contain a tiny amount of it. You will find more in my next blog posting.  What is the official looking stamp  on a product with the claim- HEART  HEALTHY MEAN  Yes times have changes some for the good,if you are smart enough to be informed.   This was just an example of just one product.  If,you lived in the 50's,and would like to share some of your memories let us know.

So,all you young people this is your time to say I remember when!
Because this is also a good time to live and remember when. 

See Ya, Crazy Pete

Memories of the 50's

How did we survive 50 years ago?

Memory Posted By: Boomer Boy ,and Crazy Pete


We drank water from the tap not a bottle and nobody knew about the dangers of lead poisoning so even cribs were painted with brightly colored lead based paint. Medicine and Bottles with tablets did not have child proof lids

No seat belts or air bags in cars, nobody knew or if they did told our parents smoking and drinking was bad for the baby, kids shared coke from one bottle, soda had masses of sugar and we ate real white bread and butter and everything else including full fat milk that we are now told is bad for you

Parents couldn't reach us ( no mobiles ) and most of the day we would be out playing with friends and parents knew we would be safe with hardly any weirdos wandering the streets. If we got caught doing stuff we shouldn't the cops would take us home and we may well have a got a hiding for breaking the law ( but no do gooders saying mustn't smack children ). And if we played up in school the same applied.

While playing we got cuts and bruises and the occasional tear in jeans but it was just part of being a kid and no visit to the hospital.

We had no fancy games but could play for hours making a Go cart or a new tree swing and for other games most times we would find a ball and whatever we could use as a bat. or in the summer all jump into the nearest place we could find and if the water wasn't that clean we just didn't swallow it.

We rode our bikes with no helmets and doing whatever stunts we could ( bikes were so much heavier and hard waring ) and always had punctures to repair or get dad to help with.

If we didn't get in the team we were not good enough and that was that.

But most of all we were allowed to be kids

To dream, to invent and to play.

It's no wonder that the generation that grew up then created some of the most innovative and exciting technology we have today

Thanks for those years and all those "BAD THINGS" that is why we are who we are today r Boy

Memories by Crazy Pete-posted below

I remember my father going to the farm,and picking out a chicken. The farmer would hang the chicken by the neck,and cut his through.  We would bring the chicken home,and my mother would take the feathers  off the chicken. We never got sick from eating chicken. these chickens were free range and they didn't cost any more. What would Mr. Prude think?


All our Halloween costumes were home made. Today we would put the stores out of business,if we didn't buy Halloween costumes for our kids. We bought our sugar,and flour by the 25 lbs bags.  Most food was bought  in 25,50,and 100 lbs bags,because there were no Supermarkets


I remember Elvis in. 1956 when he was first on the Ed. Sullivan TV show the girls went crazy over him. Elvis was not only a singer. He was a bona-fied sex symbol.  He was so influential that young men began to wear their hair like him and began dressing like him. And who could blame them. Elvis drove girls into a wild frenzy. He made them faint. 
I for one dressed like Elvis for a while. 

I remember going to a dance,and the girls were on one side of the room. The boys were on the other side of the room,and the girls would dance together. After some time I would muster up the courage to ask a girl to dance,after some of the guys would dare me. 


There will be a lot more to come in next blog.


Crazy Pete

A Time to Remember

If you grew up in the 50's you will enjoy this video that is posted to the left of you. If you didn't, you should enjoy the history lesson. 




Long ago and far away, in a land that time forgot,
Before the days of Dylan , or the dawn of Camelot.
There lived a race of innocents, and they were you and me. For Ike was in the White House in that land where we were born, 
Where navels were for oranges, and Peyton Place was porn.We learned to gut a muffler, we washed our hair at dawn,
We spread our crinolines to dry in circles on the lawn.. We longed for love and romance, and waited for our Prince,
And Eddie Fisher married Liz , and no one's seen him since. We danced to 'Little Darlin,' and sang to 'Stagger Lee'
And cried for Buddy Holly in the Land That Made Me, Me Only girls wore earrings then, and 3 was one too many, And only boys wore flat-top cuts, except for Jean McKinney.

And only in our wildest dreams did we expect to see
A boy named George with Lipstick, in the Land That Made Me, Me.

We fell for Frankie Avalon , Annette was oh, so nice,
And when they made a movie, they never made it twice.. 



Elvis Presley sang his songs,and Ed Sullivan Tv Show would only show his top.

We didn't have a Star Trek Five, or Psycho Two and Three,
Or Rocky-Rambo Twenty in the Land That Made Me, Me. 

Miss Kitty had a heart of gold, and Chester had a limp,
And Reagan was a Democrat whose co-star was a chimp.
Gunsmoke was the best western TV Show of all the Western Shows.

There was only black and white TV on the biggest 19 inch TV.

We had a Mr. Wizard, but not a Mr. T,
And Oprah couldn't talk yet, in the Land That Made Me, Me.
We had our share of heroes, we never thought they'd go,
At least not Bobby Darin, or Marilyn Monroe. 

For youth was still eternal, and life was yet to be,
And Elvis ;was forever in the Land That Made Me, Me.

We'd never seen the rock band that was Grateful to be Dead,
And Airplanes weren't named Jefferson , and Zeppelins were not Led.

And Beatles lived in gardens then, and Monkees lived in trees,
Madonna was Mary in the Land That Made Me, Me. 

We'd never heard of microwaves, or telephones in cars,
And babies might be bottle-fed, but they were not grown in jars.

And pumping iron got wrinkles out, and 'gay' meant fancy-free,

And dorms were never co-ed in the Land That Made Me, Me.

 And hardware was a box of nails, and bytes came from a flea, 

And rocket ships were fiction in the Land That Made Me, Me

Buicks came with portholes, and side shows came with freaks, And bathing suits came big enough to cover both your cheeks

And Coke came just in bottles, and skirts below the knee,
And Castro came to power near the Land That Made Me, Me. 

And middle-aged was 35 and old was forty-three,
And ancient were our parents in the Land That Made Me, Me

But all things have a season, or so we've heard them say,
And now instead of Maybelline we swear by Retin-A.
They send us invitations to join AARP,
We've come a long way, baby, from the Land That Made Me, Me. So now we face a brave new world in slightly larger jeans, 

And wonder why they're using smaller print in magazines.
And we tell our children's children of the way it used to be,
Long ago and far away in the Land That Made Me, Me.

If you didn't grow up in the fiftys, you missed a great time in history.

So,all you young people this is your time to say I remember when! Because this is also a good time to live and remember when.  We hope you enjoyed a trip back into the 50's when times were simple and quite.  For you folks that are young you will look back in 20,30,or 40 years from now, and realize that now is also a great time in history. See Ya, Crazy Pete