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| Ice cream cones double dip,cost 10 cents and bread was 5 cents a loaf. Hamburger was 15 cents per pound. On Saturday nights, people would sit fron of thier cars, then sit in the cars talking to friends and farmers. Also there was a midnight show on Saturday nights. We got our first television in 1953. Listened to the radio programs of "Amos and Andy" "Jack Benny" and many more "Fibber McGee and Molly." As children, games we played were: "Kick the can; Musical chairs; Annie Annie Over; Hide & Seek; Tag; Truth or Dare; Mother, Mother May I; Simon Says." Big TV stars of the day were: Roy Rogers and Dale Evans;Gene Autry; Johnny Mack Brown; Tarzan and Jane. (Recontact for specific years) Submitted from Rose T.; Colorado Springs, CO |
| Jack Armstrong had "The Old American Boy" soap opera; Stella Dallas, Ma Perkins; Judy & Jane. There were WSM Barn Dances on Saturday nights; Grand Old Opry and we listened to Dutch Reagan on WHO radio Des Moines, Iowa, (who later became President of the USA) and Del Rio, Texas for Country Music (back then it was called Hillbilly music.) Some popular dances of my younger years were: The Jitterbug, Polka and Square Dancing. Submitted from Rose T.; Colorado Springs, CO. |
| Some popular songs of the 40's & 50's were: "Don't Sit Under The Apple Tree With Anyone Else But me" - Andrew Sisters "Beer Barrel Polka." Eddy Arnold - "Anytime"; Rosemary Clooney "Long Ago And Far Away"; Elvis Presley - " Blue Christmas"; "Hound Dog"; "I Can't Stop Loving You"; "Heartbreak Hotel"; "Crying In The Chapel"; "Love Me Tender"; "Can't Help Falling In Love With You." Bing Crosby sang "White Christmas." Other wonderful singers of my younger days were: Andy Williams, The Lennon Sisters, The Ink Spots, Mills Brother ("Cab Driver"); Nat King Cole, Patsy Kline, Roy Acuff, Minnie Pearl and Hank Williams, Sr. Submitted by Rose T. Colorado Springs, CO. |
| When I got to play with my Aunts and girlfriends, we would sit outside and make clover necklaces and bracelets, Hollyhock dolls and clothespin dolls. We made tents by putting blankets on 1st and 4th clotheslines. We swung on tire swings and "bag" swings. Boys made sling shots and played "Cowboys and Indians." Submitted by Rose T. Colorado Springs, CO. |
| I started to work at our local drive in theater for 50 cents per hour. The year was 1949. The population of America began to increase. Heads better be showing when the manager of the theater patrolled the parking field! But a lot of fun was to be had by us boys working the lots. Some of us sold Cokes from a metal carrying tray. The Cokes were in bottles at that time, which we opened and emptied into cups. We made ONE CENT per Coke sold. Not much future here, so we went into the entertainment business...entertaining ourselves. My brother Jim seemed to provide more for our entertainment than the rest of us. There were two old maids that drove a Model A Ford Sedan there every time a new movie came on and they'd park on the first row with the front end of the Model A sticking up towards the screen. The speaker posts were embedded into concrete forms with spekers on both sides. Jim would be out selling Cokes on the parking field and wait just for the scary part of the movie before approaching the old maids car. Just at the right moment, he would slip up between the cars and slam the metal crate onto the concrete post and hollar "Coca-Cola!" The two old ladies would throw up their arms and yell " Lord Almighty! You scared me!" Jim would fake an "Oh, I'm sorry. Would you like to buy a Coke?" They'd answer "No thanks." Jim would run to tell how he had scared them and we couldn't wait for our turn to try to make the old ladies jump into the windshield! Saturday afternoons were spent at the drive-in popping corn for the evening movie crowd. There would be 500 to 700 boxes of popcorn to be popped and on special movies, as many as 1,000 boxes. There was one person inside a little hut beside the ticket office, operating the popper and filling boxes and one person outside a lift up window that had a shelf where it was their duty to close the boxes. It was very warm inside the hut and the workers would exchange places every hour. Tickets were 40 cents each and popcorn was 10 cents a box. Submitted by William J. Pearman, Jr. USA unknown location 1949 Continue on next page.... |
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