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Child of the 50's
By Kathy Reed
I am a child of the fifties.
I still remember when the Saturday night entertainment was to go to the roller rink, and that was where I spent my $.75 weekly allowance. And oh yes, I remember that I didn't GET that allowance unless my room was clean and my bed made every day.
My Saturday during the day entertainment was to rid my bike and occasionally, if I was lucky and got to babysit (for $2.00 an hour) then I had enough money to go horseback riding at the local stables.
I remember when the owner of the stables locked all us kids into the office and made us stay there while he was breeding a mare, we could hear the stallion carrying on and kicking but we didn't get to watch. (He let us out when it was over)
I remember that in elementary school we walked home at noon and ate lunch. If you lived too far away you brought your own lunch and got to eat it at school. When it was really cold and snowy I was so excited to get to take my own lunch! Nobody drove us to school in those days, we walked. The country kids I think had a bus, but I am not sure, perhaps they didn't, I wasn't a "country kid" so I don't remember that.
I had to wear a skirt or a dress clear up until I was in 8th grade. We girls wore pants to school in the winter UNDER our skirts. We wore bobby socks and "rock and roll" shoes. After school the appropriate attire was blue jeans and your dad's long sleeved white shirt with the tails tied at the waist.
I remember the summer I earned a whole $700.00 detassling corn when I was in high school. It was totally awesome. My folks made me put it into a savings account.
Things have changed a lot since then. My old high school isnt there any more, neither is my elementary school. No body walks to school unless they live across the street. the stables has burned down and even if it were still there probably nobody would be locked in while there was a breeding going on! Girls don't know what a dress is unless it's prom night and blue jeans are the dress of the day. As a teacher I can see that the values are different that they were in "my day". And sometimes I just really don't know if that's good... or bad. I wish that we could all return to the fifties...but we can't. My grandchildren will never know or appreciate how easy life USED to be. I hope that they will believe, in their time, that America is the greatest country in the world to grow up in....I did. And still do, even though things have changed so much.
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Thank you for sharing the memories, Kathy. I too was a child of the 40's and 50's and can relate to those simple times.
Walk to school and have a savings bank account, out of the question for todays parents.
Best wishes.
Frederick
Kathy, your intel brought back many memories. I can tell you that us country kids did have to walk. There were no buses to come to pick us up then. Dad worked out of town and had the only vehicle so there was no chance of a ride.
Great intel!
Regards,
Laraine
I still remember when the Saturday night entertainment was to go to the roller rink, and that was where I spent my $.75 weekly allowance. I remember that too. I met my wife at the local roller rink. She went home and told her mother who was half asleep that she had met a neat guy at the roller rink. As soon as she said my name, her mother was wide awake. She had gone to school with my father and mother. Her mother and my mother played together when they were eight. My father and I share the same name as I am a jr. Her first panicked question was, "How old is he?"
I remember taking public transportation (can you believe it? I must have come from a deprived background) to school and walking home on nice days. The 50s were my childhood so I remember them as being idyllic...except for the part where I didn't make "patrol boy." Great job of bringing back a "golden era."
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