Goodness, I guess we ARE getting Old(er).
LSMFT ... Lucky Strike Means Fine Tobacco!
Green Stamps!
“... most doctors prefer Pall Mall”
One day ALL cars will have port holes(?) in their fenders! (Buick)
Butter(margarine) came in a bag and you had to add the yellow color by squeezing the little packet (my job)
Canvas water bag hung from the front of your car (If you were on a long trip) (we lived in Yuma...)
‘Ram air conditioning that used evaporative cooling in a device that hung in the passenger window opening.
Playing cards (or balloons) clipped to bike spokes.
Going 100mph with Dad in that ‘new (1952) Oldsmobile “Rocket 88.”
Having to go on a Sunday afternoon “drive” with Grandad&Grandmom in their Packard.
First time seeing Mom&Dad getting ready for the Marine Birthday Ball. (Wow!)(1952?)
Living in a WWII “quonset hut,” and Loving home!
Being amazed at the gigantic (3bdrm) home my folks bought in Orange (CA) for <$10,000!
My paper route selling the “Navy Times.” ($0.25/week?)
...having to ask customer’s to pay for their Navy Times each month.

Sometimes “remembering” can be fun/nostalgic ...and humbling.

Love hearing everyone’s stories. And impressed with all the facts you remember. I only experienced the last 6 months of the fifties which I don’t remember of course. The same year Alaska became a state, don’t think anyone’s mentioned that yet.

And Hawaii became a state after Alaska did, later in 1959!

I remember Sundays the most. Getting "dressed" for church, Sunday afternoon dinner, many times with relatives. No stores were open. Parents and aunts and uncles playing cards on a weekend evening with cocktails. Hanging out with family in lawn chairs in the backyard. Getting ready for the start of the school week on Sunday night (bath tub) in time to watch Bonanza and Ed Sullivan. Playing cowboys and indians with the cowboys chasing the indians with toy guns or cops and robbers while running through everyone's yards on the street. Makes me kind of sad how things have changed. I guess that means we really are old.

Expensive
 

All I can remember is how expensive it was for me as a kid (born 1948) to play to play in the 50's. For instance, a 10 cent spalding. You could play outside (the Bronx) with it for days. How dare they charge 10 cents. Not like the inexpensive XBox of today. Also, kick the can. I'm sure that can was expensive to someone. Johnny on the pony - another super expensive thing. Stickball - how much did that mop handle cost? In the winter making a ball out of paper and playing in some hallway. There are many others but for me lastly, every Saturday morning the movie theater played multiple shows for kids, one after the other for a total charge of 5 cents. Abbott and Costello, etc. How dare they charge 5 cents for only 2 or 3 full length movies. Thinking back I was what 6, 7, or 8 going to a movies alone. The whole theater was filled with kids under 10. I wish my parents were here today. I'd sue them for child neglect.

I remember going out with the family to get White Tower burgers-12 for a dollar, as I recall. They weren’t big, but, boy, were they ever good with a bit of ketchup.

White Castle. Try them now. Still tasty BUT given our aged digestive systems take a bunch of Tums with you.

Yes I also remember Korea ,segregation, unequal rights for women and you could be arrested and were in many states for having sex with a person of your own gender.

I miss the automat. My favorite was the baked macaroni. The Good Humor man on his bicycle and when he would open that little freezer the smell of toasted coconut. Remember the thing on a stick and you would push up and it was sponge cake with whip cram. Was that called Charlotte Rouse?

How about Davy Crockett on "Walt Disney Presents," the Spin and Marty serial on "Mickey Mouse Club," watching "Sergeant Preston of the Yukon," going to the Drive-In movie early to play on the playground equipment at the base of the screen, listening to weekly Top 20 countdowns on your transistor radio. Those were the days...………

Those were the good ol' days!

I was born in 1942 so I remember when TV first came out. My dad's boss had one, must have had an 8" screen. lol. We watched football on it, one team of little fuzzy blobs against the other.

Howdy Doody was not my thing, but I enjoyed the after school weekday programs showing old westerns, Tom Mix, Hopalong Cassidy and of course Roy Rogers and Gene Autry. A kid I knew was the "sidekick" on the show and later on while in our teens we used to tease him a little about that. We were a little jealous, of course.

I had a gunbelt with two holsters hanging on it holding 44 Colt revolver style cap pistols. I think it was a Lone Ranger item. I also had a pump action Daisy BB gun which I dearly loved. My brother and I played cowboys and Indians for hours, often switching roles.

Interesting - automat. My first job - busboy in Bickfords - 23rd street. Lied about my age (15) and used my brothers ID to get the job. Maybe I cleaned up after you. Still waiting for my tip.

Kid shows.
 

Don't think anyone mentioned Smilin Ed McConnell and his Buster Brown gang (later became Andy's gang) with Froggie the gremlin and Midnight the cat. How about Crusader Rabbit and Rags the tiger? Anyone remember Time for Beanie? Or a spin-off Thunderbolt the Wonder colt?

Wow! Thanks! Now I really feel OLD. Guess I better go take my Geritol.

I remember playing yokey with elastics, double Dutch skipping, keeping a bag of alleys and prized boulders, separated school yards for boys and girls, long walks to school, collecting soda bottles, walking everywhere, Sunday school, saying Sir and Miss, please and thank you. Oh, and bowling alleys with pin boys; the man with the pony you could sit on and get your photo. My sister got her pony photo but the man never returned and I still feel bad not getting my pony picture...������