The 1950's is my favorite decade---bar none. I was a kid then and it was the perfect time to be a kid. At the time I had 3 siblings and we had FUN. We later added two more siblings (for a total of six kids) but the first four had the closes relationship (closer in age). The last two sibs always say, "If you aren't one of The Four you are nothing in this family!"
The price of a movie ticket in our small town was 10 cents and the Eagle Theater got our frequent custom and most of our dimes! That was back in the time that sodas came in glass bottles (no plastic, no metal) and there was a 2 cent deposit on each bottle. In order to finance our way to movies and to buy treats we became scavengers, we trolled ditches and the sides of roads to find our bottles so we could return them for the deposit. It would take us awhile to get enough bottles because we always made sure we had enough money that we could all four go to the movies. Then there was our ball games, we didn't have a bat or gloves but we "made do" with what we had. Our bat was a stick and our dad gave us his precious baseball that he had left over from when he was a kid. There was an empty lot next to our house so that is where the games were held.....everyone who stopped by could play. Our rules were whimsical (at best) so there were plenty of arguments and a few fist fights to settle the "official rules". The biggest guy there was usually the "rightest guy" because he had the biggest fist and could persuade the rest of us to "see the light"...by his reckoning anyway.
We didn't have a TV at our house, most everybody else had one, we probably wouldn't have watched one if we'd had it, we were to busy with our good times to take time out for TV watching---that was mostly for "old folks". On Saturday nights I would watch Gunsmoke with my grandpa (who was deaf) so I could keep him up to speed as to what Matt was saying to Miss Kitty!
He read lips but he didn't always get the story so I'd help him out.
As children we could run around town all day long and nobody had to worry about anyone kidnapping us, never heard of a pedophile until I was half grown and one moved next door to us. We had a lot of freedom in those days that kids don't have now. We would have laughed at the idea of a "play date". Back then you went outside and played and if someone came along and wanted to play you let them in on the games as well, it was all informal and simple.
Yep, that was my decade. It was great to be a kid then, it may have been rough on the adults but it was a kids paradise. Summers lasted forever, it seemed as if the sun was always shining, God was in his heaven and all was right with our world.
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