Anyone who was a kid in the fifties or sixties.

Ploppin' a Roy Orbison or Gene Pitney on my trusty phonograph and dreaming of the boy who sat behind me in History class....

I remember listening to Harper Valley PTA in secret at my friends house across the street. It was a really racy song back then.

I also remember all of my friend gathering together in front of my house on the sidewalk with our Barbies and their clothes and accesories to play for hours.

Errrrr, watchin the Beatles for the very first time on Ed Sullivan...egggads, that dates me!

An old oak tree in a vavant lot down the street from us, where we played. that tree was everything we wanted it to be. I belive we had as many as twelve kids in that tree at one time playing. LOL

I remember riding in the back of pick up trucks and swimming at the slack washer (where they washed the coal before they loaded it on the train to be shipped out). I remember watching the Arch going up and wondering if the two sides were going to meet. I remember paper dresses and praying it didn't rain . . .

playing outside,, all the time, we werent allow to watch to much tv.. to adult my father would say,,
I was born in 1962, remeber drive in movies, beatles with my sister and her fancy record album player,, remember the one room school house we live out in the country that turn into city in the late 60's, and we had a well that work for the four house on our block. that was cool...

I remeber the huge family get togethers we'd have for Thanksgiving and Christmases. Miss them too.

I recall a trip to the drive-in horror show in my story "The Drive In Banshees.

I remember Davy Crockett coon-skin caps. I also remember for about two months you could get a package that had a tommy-gun, fatigue hat with attached beard and a plastic Havana cigar. Then somebody must have discovered "Doctor" Castro's doctorate was in Marxist Econ, or something! LOL.

I remember rollerskating, the Wonderful World of Disney on tv, Barbies, Liddle Kiddles, my brother and I playing with his Jimmy Jet, swimming in our pool, go fishing with grandma, A&W drive in restaurants, Olvera Street in Los Angeles, Hugs Family Reunions esp. around the holidays, there was this little square thing and you'd pour this goop in molds and put in on this hot plate and make rubber spiders and such it was made by Mattel, I know one was Creeple People or something like that :)

Sesame Street in Color!!!!!!!!! (well okay my mom told me this but I sortof remember)

I remember putting colored cellophane on our black and white TV 's. And the only channels we received were Channel 3,6, & 10.. And after 11 at night no station broadcast anything at all, and di not come on until around 7 or 8am. I also remember eagelry waiting forthe Milkman to deliver the milk, and the gbreadman, the egg man and the pretzel guy. Oh those werethe days. When you never ran out of milk or bread or eggs as they were always delivered and no one had to waste their gas & time to go get it. THe price of bread was 19 cents. Around a holiday all the delivery guys had specials for us kids and it was an awesome time.

The protests, Beatles, War,Tv being not such a big thing, radio mysteries, Freedom to move around later in the sixties. It was a different time and an adventure.

Sitting in front of the TV with the birthdates of all my male relatives (including my brother) when they drew the lottery for going to Vietnam. I remember being so excited that my brother was safe and then coming to the realization that my cousin would end up in the war. I remember watching the news, wanting to see my cousin and terrified I might see him in a pool of blood. It haunted me.

Now for some more uplifting... packing the car for the montly all you can get in a car drive in movie night. The commercials that came on before and between the movies.

Five kids, one dog and two parents in a VW.

Girls weren't allowed to wear pants to school, hair teasing was big, saw the Beattles for their first US performance on Ed Sullivan, the twist came out.

Then in 1964 I graduated and folk music was big and then it was the Hippy thing and the war in Vietnam and LSD.

How about mini skirts, go go boots, and those hats? What were they called? Do you remember paper dresses?

Sitting at home watching the first moon landing on TV (I was 7) and being less than overwhelmed by the grainy, indistinguishable picture, no matter how many times my parents kept saying "This is history". I remember the Benson and Hedges commercial with the lady singing "La la la la" while people got their cigarettes caught in elevator doors, or the Doral commercial with a giant cigarette box on legs dancing around singing "Taste me, taste me!" Or watching the FIRST RUNs of Bewitched, Star Trek and Gilligan's Island (and being disturbed by the hole in the S.S. Minnow . . . boats shouldn't have holes in the side).

I remember Doris Day and Rock Hudson movies at the drive in. I remember watching the Flintstones and listening to Perry Mason as I was in bed. I remember black and white tv's in the big cabinets. I remember the shows Queen for a Day, Concentration and Jeopardy. I remember people wearing white gloves and hats all the time. There were big cars with big fenders. Soda was a special treat and when we went to get the crate of bottles of soda my Dad would buy us a large stick pretzel.

I remember watching a lot of TV shows on the B&W TV with my parents. I remember picking quarts of huge blackberries and climbing in a huge pear tree.

i remember watching elvis presley me and my sisters would watch him all night when he was on the tv and gumby and sallystar and christmas when the snow was so deep and halloween it was a good time then and my father makeing candy apples and my mother makeing icecream when it snowed and also the old stoves that you had to sholvel coal into

60's ~ The Hippies, the Vietnam War - my uncle was there!, the peace sign

Lots of strolls down memory lane.

The Beatles
Twilight Zone
The Drive In (James Bond movies so my girlfriend and I didn't have to worry about the plot. Nobody actually watched the movie.)
The draft (lots of kids with hight draft numbers dropped out of college the morning after that first lottery).

I remember that married couples on TV (Lucy and Ricky, Rob and Laura) slept in separate beds. I thought my mom and dad had to share a bed because we were poor.

Captain Kangaroo and Mr. Greenjeans.
Huckleberry Hound and Yogi Bear and their friend Quickdraw McGraw
Sitting on the floor on a handmade quilt watching tv on a sepia-toned Sears tv
Liberace playing his piano with the candlabra on top
Miss Frances' Dong-Dong School
Captain Midnight
Mickey Mouse Club
Special Disney glasses filled with Welch's apple and grape jelly.
Crinolines and socks with lace wearing patent leather shoes
My swingset - the universe rolled into a "toy"
Being an only child for 9 years
Being the only granddaughter on one side of the family
Bambi
A three-foot walking doll
Chatty Cathy
Bike with training wheels
Dancing with the doorknob to music on American Bandstand

I remember black & white TV, my mother listened to the radio a lot. My mom canned a lot of our food - I even remember canned chicken!. I remember shoveling snow and the old push lawn mowers. Being able to burn the leaves! Everybody wore hats and gloves! Even in the summer! I didn't get to wear pants to school until my senior year!

I remember when FM radio was a new thing.
I remember a DJ in St. Louis getting fired for playing Alice's Restaurant.

The (silver colored) aluminum Christmas Tree, with the color wheel.

this is going so lovely carol...


thanks for your sweet comments

I remember how much music was a part of our lives, the big steer horns that hung above the entry way in our house, the ford farilane and the 56 Chevy that sat in our back yard. I remember my favorite place to be was under the concrete steps of our home, it was my secret private place, I kept an old cigar box there that contained all my treasures, leather shoe strings, and Mardi Gras Doubloons mostly, Mud pies and Sunday dinners at grandma and grandpas, listening to grandpa sing and us kids dancing out on the back gallery. Picking strawberries and eating them, followed up with a trip to the emergency room, because of allergies. I remember traveling around the country in the back seat of that Ford having the window down and wind blowing on my face. I remember the war and going to visit different family members that were enlisted , the very large ashtrays sitting on the coffee table of every house we visited, I remember thinking how pretty they were, our house burning in Florida and the generosity of a neighbor replacing my Mrs. Beasley doll. I also rermember the racisum, we wern`t allowed to play or go to school with the colored folks, the constant rioting and not being able to comprehend the hatered. I also remember having to draw water from the well, packing it back to my cousins houses, using the out house and not understanding why, my aunt had a beautiful new bathroom, and not being able to use it. I remember the weekly visits from our pastor and company at dinner time.

Pinkie Lee Show

Skybar candy bar

Root Beer Kool Aid..

Fizzies. Looked like Alkselser (sp) and you but them in water and they Fizzled and made a drink Kool Aid.

Putting foil on the rabbit ears antanna to make the picture come in better.

TV Dinners

I remember gathering around our black and white tv, with our Micky Mouse Ears on, and chanting, the Micky Mouse Theme, yea Micky.
I remember coming home from school one day, one of the boys that lived on the same block said, gee, your family is the first ones in the whole neighborhood to have pay tv. I was so mad, I thought that there was a box on the tv somewhere, that we had to put money into it, each time we watched it. I thought this was punishment because my brother, sister and I always fought about what we would watch on tv. When my dad came home from work. I told him, that I would use up all of my allowance paying to watch tv. He laughed and said, all this means is we got cable tv now. I have to pay a monthly bill. We will get more channels than we had with an antenna. I said, didnt we have to pay for the antenna? He said, yes, but after you paid for the antenna, it was paid for and all you paid for was the electric to run the tv. With cable, there isnt any antenna but you will always have a monthly bill.
After watching cable, I loved it and never wanted to go back to an antenna again.

The first time my Uncle said, wanna see what happened to me in the war? Pull my finger.
Like an idiot, fascinated that it might come off, I pulled his finger. BRrraaaarrrck!

Being so old that I was not much of a kid by then ... I remember that (among so many neat things I could write a book about them ... did you notice the word 'neat' ?) ... the 'chore' my mom gave my sister and I which we fought over whose turn it was to do it, we each wanted to, take the plastic package of Oleomargarine and break the color capsule then knead it it into the milky looking margarine to make it look like butter which either we couldn't yet get right after the war, or couldn't afford, most likely the latter.

We listened to radio a lot more. And which songs were in the Top Twenty actually seemed important.

School dress codes. AIR, student monitors stood at their appointed stations during times between classes and chastised boys who - GASP! - were walking around with their shirts untucked!

A big memory is when we traveled in the South in 1960 and (little 5-year old me) I saw signs that said "White" and "Colored" and had to have my parents explain what they meant.

I remember our friends getting the first aluminum Christmas tree with a light that had a thing over it that rotated different colored lenses to make the tree glitter in different colors.

i remember those were my peaceful years.