Do you remember.....................?

Question

curb feelers---sock hops---nickle candy bars---Bosco---malts/malted milk---Spade Cooley---Crusader Rabbit---Mad Man Munce---Flav O Straws---the Legion Stadium---the Aragon Ballroom---Norelco record players---Star Chiefs and Del Rays---dime burgers---Minute Steaks---truant officers---ground straps---Sea Hunt and Sugarfoot----------?

Oh yeah, had me a genuine vinyl and rabbit fur Davy Crockett "coonskin" hat and old Betsy too.

Wonderful answers! A trip back into the past for those of us who were there. A peek into history for those who weren't. We can't go back, but we can fondly remember.

Answer 1

story: I loved Davy Crockett. When we took a trip back to my grand father's home town when I was small, we were sitting in the little restaurant in the small town. My mother was looking around and burst into a big smile. A man walked up to the table with his hat in his hand and my mother introduced him as Davy Crockett. I was speechless. The hat wasn't a coonskin but it didn't matter. I was in the presence of greatness. It turned out he and my mother had gone to school together and Davy Crockett was his given name. At the time I didn't give a fig about the history of her Davy... I'd met Davy Crockett and that was all that mattered to me. I think back on that now and laugh. The man must have thought I was 'touched'.

Most of the places we lived didn't have paved streets yet so the curb feelers weren't much of an issue. I remember when they first tarred the roads in old town in Albuquerque,N.M. [USA]. It would puddle in the heat and stick to your shoes... if you were wearing any. I was usually barefoot so my feet were covered.

There was a penny candy store not too far away. I wasn't supposed to go there by myself but, hey, it was a candy store! It was filled with the old glass candy jugs and each one had a different kind of goodie in it. My favorite were the licorice wheels. But they had everything. All the wax whistles with fruit juice in them... big flavored wax lips, rings and those hard candy necklaces on elastic bands that you could wear and munch on at the same time. Kind of left your neck a bit sticky.

Answer 2

I was never that social so I remember being told about things like sock hops, but don't remember going to one.

I do remember nickel candy bars, Bosco, Crusader Rabbit and Flav O Straws, I didn't like them.

I remember Sea Hunt and Sugarfoot, Maverick, Datari, Rawhide, Wagon Train, Dr. Hudson's Journal, My Little Margie and The Gale Storm Show, Private Secretary, The Hit Parade, and Robin Hood, the one with Richard Green, a lot of those old programs. I even remember Jerry Colonna and Dagmar. As a little girl, I had a real thing for Jerry Colonna.

And later on it was Richard Green.

Robin Hood, Robin Hood, riding through the glen
Robin Hood, Robin Hood, with his band of men
Feared by the bad, loved by the good
Robin Hood, Robin Hood, Robin Hood

I can also sing all of Davy Crocket and know all the the words to the original Mickey Mouse Club Song. In fact, every time someone starts to spell something that starts with Mic , I want to say key Mouse!

Answer 3

My teen years were the true Rock and Roll era...HS was 1955 - 1959...so of course I remember all of this...Curb feelers were a public admission that you could not drive. Bosco was so over priced, and didn't go nearly as far as Hershey's syrup, and hell, I remember nickel hamburgers (White Castle, 20 for a dollar!), minute steaks still exist but are called.. well, for lack of a better work, hammered gristle, Sea Hunt was in black and white, never did quite figure out what sea they were hunting for, but I could have told them where to look (we acutally had to pass geography in school), singing "stars" were usually one hit wonders, except of course, Ricky Neslon, The Everyly Brothers, Elvis, and Connie Frances. The Aragon Ballroom in our little berg was the "Teen center, open every Thursday and Saturday night, and all movies, April through September, were seen at the drive in. Sock Hops were after every game...football and basketball...we had baseball, but it was not a sport that the kids got into...we also had a golf team, another sport that most did not get into. Swim teams were left to those cities that were cities...we were lucky to have a community pool. I remember the first transistor radio..about 4 X 7", was all but impossible to tune, and our town recieved ONE AM station...yep, I remember it well AND NO, I do not want to go back.

Answer 4

Davy and Roy were my heroes. I used to make a sack lunch and go out to play, Roy and Bullet and Trigger were always with me--no Dale and Buttermilk.
I still remember all the words to the Davy Crocket song. I used to have a pink and grey knit shirt with lacing up the front it had a pic of Davy in his coon skin cap. I also like the Cisco Kid and actually saw him in a parade in CA in the early 60's.
Guess this ol gal was your basic Tom Boy.
I saw Elvis the first time he was ever on TV and the Beetles, then I saw Elvis with his bottom half blacked out. Met him in Tahoe in '71. I can only remember 3 kinds of cough drops.
Smith Bro's cherry or licorice--cherry mmm, licorice blah, and the Vicks. I realllly liked the cherry ones, my bro would always make me buy the nasty licorice ones. 25 cent gas, smokes were 23 cents. Movies a quarter. I laughed on my way to work one day in NC, I had gotten a cup of coffee, a pack of cigs and a doughnut it was over $6.00. Used to get a cup of coffee for 5 cents and it was bottomless and you could get a big plate of fresh french fries for 20 cents. We had sock hops twice a month in the gym during lunch hour. I met Lloyd Bridges in his home in Malibu in 1962,, our neighbor knew him and we stopped by on our way with him to visit his sister.
Right now I am watching my grandson while my daughter is at work. He is 5 and bordering on being the next Evel Kinevel, little hype has his own motorcycle and is good enough now that the training wheels are off. Granny nightmare. When he grows old he will remember razor skooters and inline skates and action games. Oh yeah I remember no turn signals and 3 on a tree.

Answer 5

In the 1940's-"black outs"-hitch hiking-cherry phosphates-rumble seats-drug store ice cream in round cartons in a freezer we could dip with a scoop-soda pop in glass bottles in ice could reach into- nickel cokes, candy bars, and cough drops-soda fountains-Sen Sen-.Lick m' Aide-.50 for an afternoon movie: 25 to get in, a whole .25 for treats-Superman- Hopalong Cassidy- red street cars-a home ice box and the ice man coming once a week to fill it.--On the radio:The Life of Riley, Fibber McGee and Molly, George Burns and Gracie Allen, The Green Hornet, The Whistler, Grand Central Station, Ted Mack and the Original Amateur Hour. In the early '50's- angora sweaters-Peter Pan collars-white bucks- nickel loafers-lots of petticoats-pony tails-neck scarfs-the "D.A", a boys haircut-Princess phones-black leather jackets-the Pachuco hop-TV, I Love Lucy, The Loretta Young Show, Betty White ( way back then!) Queen for A Day, This is Your Life-in So. CA. wrestling in LA from the Olympic Auditorium-The Long Beach pier and salt water plunge-Knotts Berry Farm- Marilyn Monroe-maps to movie stars homes-more red street cars ( for a while). Can you believe that the motto of the class of '56. Eagle Rock High, ( LA) was "fight the good fight." ?That quote is from the Bible, Paul's advice to early Christians.You can be sure that the ACLU would be called out if that showed up in yearbooks today!

Answer 6

I remember: Clutch Cargo, The Little Rascals, Shirley Temple, Peyton Place (the first night time soap opera), The Edge of Night, Secret Storm, and the soap that had the sexy dracula, Barbabas, Chatty Cathy, Tammy (we didn't like Barbie because she was too skinny, but Tammy was the answer to Barbie), roller skates, bolo, sitting on the porch playing jacks, going to the 25 cent movie and having to sit up in the balcony (where all the blacks sat) and we'd throw popcorn down on the white kids and run from them after the movie, the first color t.v. (everybody in our neighborhood came to our house), listening to the fights (on the radio), Lawrence Welk, Before McDonalds in our town there was "Jack's": I still remember the song-" Jack's hamburgers for 15 cents" - you'll go back, back, back, to Jack, Jack, Jack's for more, more, more". Butch wax, Dragnet, The Alan Young Show, You Bet Your Life, Big Town, Mama, The Colgate Comedy Hour, Amos and Andy, Jack Benny, The Honeymooners, Your Hit Parade, Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts, Our Miss Brooks, I Love Lucy, Even though I was born in 52' my mom loved music and I heard popular songs like: Anytime, Eddie Fisher, Botch-a-me by Rosemary Clooney, "Cry", Johnnie Ray, Percy Faith - Half as Much, Patti Page - I Went to your Wedding, SLow Poke, by Pee Wee King. Remember the cost of food in 52? Milk .96, bread .16, dozen eggs, .72, stamp .03 gallon of gas .20 a new home $16,800 and the average income was $3515.00 -

Answer 7

Hi and Good morning Gone.......But not forgotten!...I remember the sock hops, 25cent hamburgers and 50cents for a pack of 'smokes'...lol I also remember Rin Tin Tin and Lassie and 'I love Lucy, The little Rascals and the Three Stooges. I do remember 'Sea Hunt and Rawhide. All these are wonderful memories that shall never be forgotten. Have a wonderful day!

Answer 8

Yes, we can fondly remember...Thanks for the above memories, some of which I had forgotten.

Especially, the Aragon ballroom which was around when my parents first met there and was still around in the 1960's. although I can't remember when it closed.

And, to feel grown-up going to the sock hops on a Friday night and listening to Dick Biondi on the radio.

Thanks for the memories.

Answer 9

I remember all but "curb feelers" (don't know what that is). I remember my dad parking the car on a hill and the next morning we would push and he would pop the clutch and if it started we went to town and if it didn't we took our clean clothes off and hung them back up! I remember hooking up the little 45 record player to old stand up radios and rattling the windows and dancing to Chuck Berry doing the "dirty bop"!! I love these stories. It refreshes my memory and I show them to my kids and they really laugh!!

Answer 10

Oh yeah, I went straight back to my childhood with all the things you mention. But burgers were 25 cents, I think. I couldn't afford them often. And my favorite candy bar was Mounds, which was a dime. That was a rare treat, too.