A Favorite Decade is the Fifties.

A quick entertainment review of the Fifties - do you remember?

1950 - "Goodnight, Irene" was #1 on the charts for 13 weeks! It is still an old favorite today.
1951 - Have you seen the movie - "The African Queen (1951) - Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn" ?
1952 - "High Noon" was released July 24, 1952. It was not only a classic western, but a classic American film.
1953 - The song "The Doggie in the Window" by Patti Page ran 8 weeks as #1 on the Hit Parade.
1953 - was a very good year for Studebaker - Read the story in Time magazine Feb. 2, 1953 - "Studerbaker Vance"
1954 - "Sh-Boom" by The Crew-Cuts ran 7 weeks as #1 on the Hit Parade
1955 - The summer of 1955 "Rock Around the Clock" by Bill Haley & His Comets hit the charts and teenagers rocked the summer away. I was one of them!
1956 - Elvis Presley sings 'Heartbreak Hotel' on the 'Milton Berle Show.' An estimated 25% of the American population tuned in to hear him.
1957 - Tab Hunter's "Young Love" was # 1 for six weeks in 1957. (I was married in 1957 and this was "our song")
1958 - There are 4,063 drive in movie screens nationwide. Where you watched: Auntie Mame; A Long Hot Summer and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
1959 - February 3 of 1959, a plane crash took the lives of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper. Listen to their music.
1959 - Remember the 1959 Pink Cadillac?

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Do you remember.....

Hide and go seek at dusk. 

One speed-bicycles.

Hopscotch, butterscotch, double dutch.

Jacks, kickball, and dodge ball.

Mother May I?  Red Rover.

Hula Hoops, jacks.

When you picked up the phone and
the operator said, "Number please?"

Running till you were out of breath.

When the only time you wore sneakers
was at school, for gym.

When it took five minutes for the TV to warm up,
if you even had one.

When nearly everyone's mom was at
home when the kids got there.

When laundry detergent had free glasses,
dishes or towels hidden inside the box.

When nobody owned a purebred dog.

When you got your windshield cleaned,
oil checked, and gas pumped, without asking,
for free, every time.
And you got trading stamps to boot!
And, you didn't pay for air.

Drive In movies.

When homework assignments were a daily routine.

May all your memories
be warm and happy!