A walk down memory lane!

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It brought back a lot of memories to me! The price of food was so cheap!
 
Even though I was born later than the 50's but I still do remember the following objects:

I absolutely LOVED hula hoops!
The old phones where it took you ages to dial a number to call my grandmère - If memory suits me well there were 13 numbers to dial!!!
As a young child, my first duty was to pick up milk at the farm in grandmère's old milk glass bottles!!!

:D
 
cool! I was born, only 20 years later. Most of them that my parents kept them when they didn't have money. I remember seeing those stuffs in my parent's home for long time before they got rid of them. My parents started having some money to replace something in the house. or put them in the basement for years!

Great thread. i d love to see more of late 1960 and 1970s. :D
 
Frisky we have the same age...

At my parents house we had green/orange kitchen for years :D

Though I love the ORANGE color, I just think that orange and green aren't nice fit when it comes to furniture *sigh* - at least I know back in the 70's it was very cool to have such a kitchen so my parents are good :giggle:
 
Ah, I remembered almost all of them back in the 1950 to 1960. Boy, would it be wonderful if McDonald still have 15 cents for the hamburgers instead of less than five dollars of hamburgers? Yep, things have changed a lot and raising the prices up so fast that we don't know where the time have gone. :ugh:

When I was living in the country (forest), my grandfather had to put the horse trough in the sitting room so that we could get water from the lake into the horse trough for washing the dishes or wash clothes or take a tub bath. We did not have modern things like in the 1950 but later he had add some (new inventions). As for drinking water, he had to go out to the someone's farm and fill the fresh water into two milk cans. Boy it is really good water to taste. Never drink water from the lake. We had our first T.V., but the signal was very bad, even if we had rabbit ears. We watched only one channel that was clear up.

I remembered the old washing machine and I hated it.

I wore long dresses and cashmere sweaters before I wore pants later. I had penny loafer shoes (coool), and wore my hair back for pony tail. That was in the city. But when I was in the country, I had wore pants all the times, never dresses. Today, I still wear my hair back into the pony tail. Some of them were good memories that I remembered very well back then. :D
 
The old spiced shaving cream kit is the exact thing my Granddaddy had! :)

I used to carry the old tin lunch boxes also to school

Lets not forget the first mordern microwave! Momma, brought one home in the late 70's. Oh and the Color T.V.'s
 
I was born 20 years later but I remember my grandmother still having some of these stuff in the 80s. Now, she is in the 21st century! :lol:
 
I loved my grandma's old house. The sinks had double spigot faucets--one was hot and one was cold. The phone was in the hallway and there was a built-in phone shelf. She had a really big porcelain gas stove and a big porcelain farm-type sink. So many good smells cooking in that kitchen. Good times at my grandma's house. I miss her!
 
Yes, my grandma's house was built in the 1940's. The houses were wood instead of brick and most of them are gone now. Recently, a hurricane hit the area hard and destroyed some of the remaining homes. There are some brick homes from the '40's here but they are very expensive (because of their location and restoration).

I used to live in another house built in that same era, and I loved it. We sold it and a builder tore it down and put up a big Mcmansion. I suppose that's progress but I miss those creaky wood floors.
 
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