Tag: fifties
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September 08, 2007 07:10 PM EDT --
Modern pop and rock started in the 50s.
Name lots of 50s songs!
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June 13, 2007 07:27 AM EDT --
As I was rummaging around Mom's house I came upon this picture and I smiled. Yes, those were the days...spontaneous summer days where the neighborhood children were allowed to be free and create . . . more
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January 15, 2008 11:51 AM EST --
I'm bored.
Let's play a tribute game to the great music of the 50's and 60's: the oldies!
Name an artist, song or album...
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October 11, 2007 07:41 AM EDT --
Carol has a great post about growing up in the fifties and sixties
Please post your memories to her article.
I remember
The Beatles
Twilight Zone
The Drive In (James Bond, so my girlfriend and I didn't . . . more
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August 13, 2007 11:30 PM EDT --
August 16 marks the thirtieth anniversary of Elvis Presley's death. Let's name an Elvis song or movie.
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November 21, 2007 05:15 PM EST --
When I was a kid, growing up in the Bronx in the fifties and sixties:
1. We played with mercury.
2. Our teeth were filled with mercury.
3. Cigarettes were good for our parents but . . . more
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May 01, 2008 11:51 AM EDT --
© David Wainland 2008
When I was young, I had a toy
the envy of the block,
It had no keys or buttons,
no built in digital clock.
It did not whir or whistle, . . . more
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August 31, 2007 07:28 AM EDT --
Taking The Somewhat Not So Scenic Route Towards Sainthood
These are my life experiences such as they are – the life experiences of a common, shy, not so comfortable in her body or her emotions type . . . more
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April 29, 2008 12:39 PM EDT --
I have been really depressed lately.....I can't do much of anything and it is very depressing....so I have spent little time on any one thing.....then I got worse physically, couldn't get on the . . . more
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July 24, 2007 08:13 AM EDT --
HOLLYWOOD, Florida. Ewell Norton has been a Latin teacher at Hollywood North High School here for over twenty years, but he's never had to turn students away from his classes--until . . . more
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August 05, 2008 12:33 PM EDT --
The Fifties, the decade that historians tell us separates the Forties from the Sixties, get a bad rap.
"You don't like the Fifties? Whadda you, some kinda hippie or sumpin'?" . . . more
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October 14, 2007 04:31 AM EDT --
Did anyone out there notice that two weeks ago Mick's picture showed up in a book. He said it was taken before he was made a vampire. He also told his friend Beth that it was a picture of his dad. . . . more
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April 16, 2007 04:46 PM EDT --
This article has appeared recently on www.LetLifeIn.com and may be reproduced free with the stipulation that credit is given to LetLifeIn.com.
"I was still in my teens --maybe 18. . . . more
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September 17, 2006 10:55 AM EDT --
One of my ongoing passions is pondering the passing of pop culture references. Baby boomers have lived through decades of new hip phrases -- for instance, the hip word for "good" has evolved . . . more
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August 25, 2005 10:01 PM EDT --
Sometimes, I like to mentally tour the house in St. Joseph, Michigan, where I grew up. Wandering through the rooms of my childhood like this jogs my memory and helps me discover who I am.
Built . . . more
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February 11, 2006 09:55 AM EST --
I grew up on a farm, out in the country. Part of the house had been a pre-Revolutionary tavern with big dutch ovens. It was completed during the Civil War with a marble . . . more
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September 16, 2007 05:22 PM EDT --
Blackballed
Item Six of an Anthology
Something thwacked me on my neck. A small paper missile; the ones made by spitting on paper and rolling it into a tight ball, ricocheted onto my desk. I . . . more
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October 11, 2006 08:10 AM EDT --
Note: I'm re-posting this because when I orginally posted it, it was under the ID boomers.gather.com. I'm leaving that one up since there are a couple of comments on it and links to it. But I wanted . . . more
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November 06, 2006 09:32 PM EST --
As a history fan, I have many research resources on hand with information year-by-year. My specialty was putting popular culture in its news/historical context, with each year's significant facts and . . . more
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February 11, 2006 06:39 PM EST --
One day in his travels my father found a flock of geese and brought them home with him. I wonder if some farmer got sick of them, or if the leader of the flock was . . . more
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