Hah! I remember when my parents used to ask 'do you remember when...?'
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Hah! I remember when my parents used to ask 'do you remember when...?'
One benefit of growing a little older is that, with each year, there are fewer people who will [[irritatingly) exclaim in conversation "How would you know, you weren't even born then!"
Go to the movies[15cents]stay most of the day[two movies-a cartoon]those old movie screens were about the size of a big screen tv,but in those golden days to us kids it was a mile wide.
Did anyone here see the Motortown Revue at theatres like the Detroit Fox, or The Apollo?
They used to perform several shows a day?
Oh yeah,the howard theater in d.c. Was the venue for us in the sixties and when motown was there so were we,four shows a day at about[2.50]you could stay fro the first three[they cleared it out before the midnight show]just imagine seeing[the miracles-the classic temptations-mary wells-the marvelettes-martha and the vandellas-the contours]all for 2.50...and we thought they were overcharging us....little did we know that big changes were coming.
Arr&bee! Have you any idea just how many people here will envy you - ?!!
You should start a thread, to encourage people to share their memories of those shows.....
Four shows a day. Hmmm. I guess the acts had to be in the theatre all day? How many seats would there be in the Howard? Were the houses well attended?
I'm small potatoes west,folks like[soul sis-stubass]knew alot of the artist personaly, i envy them.
The howard was small-oh maybe[1,200]seats but it was packed to the rafters always.
I miss hopping on the city bus, getting a transfer slip, and being able to take a 45 minute trip to anywhere for a quarter. My brother and I used to go downtown to the grindhouse and watch Godzilla, Hammer Films horror flicks, or the first wave of kung fu movies. Triple features used to choose 75¢ and we would be out of Mom's hair all day. I wouldn't let pre-teens ride the bus alone in 2015, but it was nothing for us to do it back then.
You went downtown to watch Hammer House of Horror films? For some reason, it never really occurred to me that they would be seen much outside of the UK. Never thought they could compare with films made in the US....
Haaaaaaaaaaaaaa...hey west we loved those corny old films with my main men-vincent price-boris karloff-basil rathbone-peter lorre..and a young-jack nicholson.
West please forgive me for not mentioning the great-peter cushing-christopher lee.
For some reason, the Christopher Lee Dracula movies are the ones that always have me chills. Other vampire movies tend to bore me but Lee as the bad guy with Cushing as Van Helsing seemed to work much better than the Universal Dracula films.
It's probably because I was too young to be watching them in a movie theater...
"Don't you dare open a fresh mouth to me! Who do you think you're talking to--one of your friends on the street?"
And then in would go the bar of soap into my mouth.
[[If your mother ever bought Lifebuoy Soap, my advice: Hold your tongue! It can't possibly be worth it.)
Mom didn't wash our mouths out with soap, but she made us walk to the mulberry bush to get our own switches. Ah, good times!
"Remember Fleetwick" - Christopher Lee in 'The Face of Fu Manchu' [[1965)
Hey remember mom saying...the day you think you're man enough to talk back,that's the day you can get out of my house...mom didn't play.
Hey west,those christopher lee dracula movies were scary, they even stand up well today.
I definitely remember dressing up to fly and then lighting up as soon as the non-smoking sign went out. LOL
I remember my brother realized that he was 5'6" tall and told my 5'2" mother to get off of his back. My 6'1" father heard it and that was the first and last time he took a belt to one of us. It was also, coincidentally, the last time my brother smarted off to Mom.
Remember when the insurance man would come to your house to collect?
I don't. But I remember the milk man left glass bottles of milk on the porch. I also remember returning those bottles and also 16 oz pop bottles for the return of the 10 cent deposit.
The 1970s, when, for Ashford & Simpson concerts at Avery Fisher Hall, Gladys Knight & the Pips at the Waldorf, Labelle [[the group) and Patti Labelle solo, Diana Ross anywhere, etc, etc - the crowd DRESSED!
Not just that, Rob. The acts actually dressed well. People would walked out of Smokey and the Miracles came out with wearing wife beaters and jeans sagging low enough to show their underwear.
We had similar experiences. We lived in a neighborhood full of old Victorian Era mansions and large homes built in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. [[think of the house on the Munsters....LOL!) There were real practicing witches in the neighborhood, hippies that had taken over a series of apartments and Gloria Steinem lived just a couple blocks over from us. LOL! Those were the days.......................LOL!
Remember when your dog would recognize the[dog catcher]truck and hid out back when he came through,hehehehe!!
I remember school lunches when we all got hyped to find out that the entree of the day was mystery meat pizza. The other hot item at my high school was a burger [[mostly soy, I think) in a bun slathered in beef gravy with grated onions and a pickle on top.
Ok guys, read this and nod your heads, because you know it was all true! LOL!!1
http://www.siliconhell.com/humour/children.htm
Children of the 50's, 60's and 70's
According to today's regulators and bureaucrats, those of us who were kids in the 50's, 60's, and 70's probably shouldn't have survived!
Our baby cots were covered with brightly coloured lead-based paint which was promptly chewed and licked.
We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, or latches on doors or cabinets and it was fine to play with pans.
When we rode our bikes, we wore no helmets, just flip flops and fluorescent clackers' on our wheels.
As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags. Riding in the passenger seat was a treat.
We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle - tasted the same.
We ate dripping sandwiches, bread and butter pudding and drank fizzy pop with sugar in it, but we were never overweight because we were always outside playing.
We shared one drink with four friends, from one bottle or can and no one actually died from this.
We would spend hours building go-carts out of scraps and then went top speed down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into stinging nettles a few times, we learned to solve the problem.
We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back before it got dark. No one was able to reach us all day and no one minded.
We did not have Playstations or X-Boxes, no video games at all. No 99 channels on TV, no videotape movies, no surround sound, no mobile phones, no personal computers, no Internet chat rooms. We had friends - we went outside and found them.
We played elastics and street rounders, and sometimes that ball really hurt.
We fell out of trees, got cut and broke bones and teeth, and there were no lawsuits. They were accidents. We learnt not to do the same thing again.
We had fights, punched each other hard and got black and blue- we learned to get over it.
We walked to friend's homes.
We made up games with sticks and tennis balls and ate live stuff, and although we were told it would happen, we did not have very many eyes out, nor did the live stuff live inside us forever.
We rode bikes in packs of 7 and wore our coats by only the hood.
Our actions were our own. Consequences were expected. The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke a law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law. Imagine that!
This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers and problem solvers and inventors, ever. The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas. We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned how to deal with it all. And you're one of them. Congratulations!
Please pass this on to others who have had the luck to grow up as real kids, before lawyers and government regulated our lives, for our own good. [[If you aren't old enough, thought you might like to read about us).
Hey marv...you can't keep finding this stuff[i'm tearin up over here]where did those days go...and where is my youth,hehehehehehehehe!!!
Remember the[watermelon man]coming through in the heat of summer and all the kids were glad to see him...watermelons,red to the rhine!!
I remember hearing the ice cream man from three blocks away. It was just enough time to run home and get some loot before he arrived on our street. It was world shattering when we expected him to turn toward us and we saw him drive by instead.
I used to love hearing that song until I found out the tune was from perhaps the most racist popular recording in American music. Now, every time I hear it, my blood begins to boil. Only click if you want your memories dashed.
http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswit...t-news-for-you