teecee Posted April 25, 2018 Share Posted April 25, 2018 Your remember (or wore).. Flares, Brothel Creepers, or the DA. Teecee. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olderndirt Posted April 25, 2018 Share Posted April 25, 2018 How about a flat top with Butch wax, jeans with the leg bottoms turned up and penny loafers? Having just come from an environment of school uniforms - boys and girls. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teecee Posted April 25, 2018 Author Share Posted April 25, 2018 USA equivalent I guess.. Thanks for that because I had no idea what it would have been back in the Good Old US 0f A at that time.. Terry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc_Z Posted April 25, 2018 Share Posted April 25, 2018 2 hours ago, olderndirt said: How about a flat top with Butch wax, jeans with the leg bottoms turned up and penny loafers? Or a pair of Keds high tops instead of loafers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olderndirt Posted April 25, 2018 Share Posted April 25, 2018 3 minutes ago, Doc_Z said: Or a pair of Keds high tops instead of loafers. Natural Bucks were nice but pricey and they were introducing 'Clarks' desert boots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc_Z Posted April 25, 2018 Share Posted April 25, 2018 Natural bucks instead of white bucks? Not so sure about that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olderndirt Posted April 25, 2018 Share Posted April 25, 2018 12 minutes ago, Doc_Z said: Natural bucks instead of white bucks? Not so sure about that. Depends on the area, I suppose. In Wheatridge, Colorado it was 'natural' - and don't be out of uniform . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rodger Pettichord Posted April 25, 2018 Share Posted April 25, 2018 Heavy brogue shoes with toe and heel steel taps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrick Cox Posted April 25, 2018 Share Posted April 25, 2018 What about the pointy toe shoes. I wore the jeans with the bottom of the legs turned up. We used to call the penny catchers. and dress and suit trousers with cuffs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olderndirt Posted April 26, 2018 Share Posted April 26, 2018 Don't recall T-shirts at school. Boys wore shirts - placket front, button down collar - in back too and long sleeves rolled up half-way between wrist and elbow. Girls often wore a circle skirt with lots of petticoats, white 'bobby socks' and saddle bucks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teecee Posted April 26, 2018 Author Share Posted April 26, 2018 So can anyone identify my items in the first post?? ( Flares, Brothel Creepers, or the DA ) Teecee. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc_Z Posted April 26, 2018 Share Posted April 26, 2018 A DA is a hair style, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JMBIII Posted April 26, 2018 Share Posted April 26, 2018 I think a DA was a hair style more commonly known as a 'Ducks A$$'. Do any remember the 'lizard tongue' belts. They were maybe 1/2 inch wide. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teecee Posted April 26, 2018 Author Share Posted April 26, 2018 You got the DA. SIgh !! I must be older than I thought..Teecee. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc_Z Posted April 26, 2018 Share Posted April 26, 2018 I grew up in on a farm rural (at least it was then, not any more) central New Jersey. Crew cuts were the only haircut considered. DA's were worn by "hoods" who wore leather jackets and rode motorcycles, see Marlon Brando in The Wild One. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
okyone Posted April 26, 2018 Share Posted April 26, 2018 Dirty white cords (pants) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rodger Pettichord Posted April 26, 2018 Share Posted April 26, 2018 All the girls wore girdles and/or petticoats. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc_Z Posted April 26, 2018 Share Posted April 26, 2018 How would you know? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rodger Pettichord Posted April 26, 2018 Share Posted April 26, 2018 Well, Doc, I know because all of the women our age loudly celebrate how glad they are that those days have passed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triplane Posted April 27, 2018 Share Posted April 27, 2018 ...you can remember this stuff...... Candy cigarettes Wax coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles Hoola hoop contests Buying milk from a vending machine for a quarter, with your penny change taped to the side Coffee shops with tableside juke boxes Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum Home milk delivery in glass bottles, with cardboard stoppers Party lines Newsreels before the movie P. F. Flyers Butch wax Telephone numbers with a word prefix .... (Drexel-5505 Peashooters Howdy Doody 45 RPM Records Green Stamps Hi-fi's Metal ice cube trays with levers Mimeograph paper Blue flash bulbs Beanie and Cecil Roller skate keys Cork pop guns Drive ins Studebakers Wash Tub wringers The Fuller Brush man Reel-to-reel tape recorders Phonographs The "twist", "mashed potatoes", and "funky-chicken" Tinkertoys The Erector Set The Fort Apache Playset Lincoln Logs 15 cent McDonald hamburgers & 10 cent fries 5 cent packs of baseball cards..... with that slab of pink bubblegum penny candy 35 cent-a-gallon gasoline When the first man walked on the moon When Elvis Presley first appeared on the Ed Sullivan show When the Beatles arrived When the Barbie doll hit the scene Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrick Cox Posted April 27, 2018 Share Posted April 27, 2018 Milk delivered in a can where the milkman filled either a billy can or large saucepan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VH-KDK Posted April 27, 2018 Share Posted April 27, 2018 The words on a product "Made in Australia." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VH-KDK Posted April 27, 2018 Share Posted April 27, 2018 Steam Locomotives. Half cab double deck buses with a conductor. Bakery and milk deliveries. TV with valves that always blew at 6pm on a Friday night. Piston engine airliners. £ s d. Looking at your change to see if you had a Victorian coin in it. Cars with semaphore indicators. Service station attendant. Buying sweets by the 1/4 out of a big jar. Being served in a grocery shop. Brylcreem Pin ups on the office wall. Crisps(chips) with the salt in blue paper. Kenneth Horne and Ken Dodd on the radio. Tin plate toys Beat Bobbies Being able to speak with out offending people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teecee Posted April 27, 2018 Author Share Posted April 27, 2018 Now you are talking memories lads .. I remember them all.. Teecee. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gypsy Pilot Posted April 27, 2018 Share Posted April 27, 2018 I could not comb my hair without butch wax to hold my DA in place. If I combed straight down my hair was shoulder length. I remember the Boot Camp barbers grin when I got to his chair. If we had met in 1949-1954 you would have considered me a hood because of my Haircut, Motorcycle Boots, Bikers Jacket, and Black Jeans. The girls in my neighborhood went for the "Bad Boys" and we all know that their opinion carried more weight than our parent's. I joined the Navy on 13 January 1954 and my life was changed forever. Gone was the "Hood Look" because I discovered that a White Hat and Bell Bottoms attracted girls like moths to a flame. What can I say, I was 17, full of raging hormones and dreams. Dale Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olderndirt Posted April 27, 2018 Share Posted April 27, 2018 Lucky Strike "Hit Parade" - Dorothy Collins, Gisele McKenzie, Snooky Lanson and Russel Arms. In glorious black and white on a 15 " Admiral. The big hit when I got off the boat - Eddie Fisher singing "I'm walking behind you, on your wedding day". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
azkid Posted April 27, 2018 Share Posted April 27, 2018 when it takes longer to get over a good time than it did to have it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rodger Pettichord Posted April 27, 2018 Share Posted April 27, 2018 After looking at the above lists and remembering, I feel kind of sad. You know what?--those really were better days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrick Cox Posted April 27, 2018 Share Posted April 27, 2018 5 hours ago, Rodger Pettichord said: After looking at the above lists and remembering, I feel kind of sad. You know what?--those really were better days. Amen to that Roger. 17 hours ago, VH-KDK said: Steam Locomotives. Half cab double deck buses with a conductor. Bakery and milk deliveries. TV with valves that always blew at 6pm on a Friday night. Piston engine airliners. £ s d. Looking at your change to see if you had a Victorian coin in it. Cars with semaphore indicators. Service station attendant. Buying sweets by the 1/4 out of a big jar. Being served in a grocery shop. Brylcreem Pin ups on the office wall. Crisps(chips) with the salt in blue paper. Kenneth Horne and Ken Dodd on the radio. Tin plate toys Beat Bobbies Being able to speak with out offending people. And the jingle "Brylcreem, a little will do you." Also listening to radio shows like: Dad 'n Dave, Yes What, Hopalong Cassidy, The Quiet Stranger, Mrs Obbs, The Jack Davey Show, Pick-A-Box, And many more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VH-KDK Posted April 28, 2018 Share Posted April 28, 2018 1 hour ago, Pat Cox (Aussieman) said: Amen to that Roger. And the jingle "Brylcreem, a little will do you." Also listening to radio shows like: Dad 'n Dave, Yes What, Hopalong Cassidy, The Quiet Stranger, Mrs Obbs, The Jack Davey Show, Pick-A-Box, And many more. Nice to see some good Australian shows Pat, there were so many good ones in the UK back in the 50s and 60s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyingleaf Posted April 28, 2018 Share Posted April 28, 2018 Hi ho Silver. And then my blue suede shoes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Terry Posted April 28, 2018 Share Posted April 28, 2018 In the early days of WW2 I remember the local warden knocking on the front door of our house in Melbourne Australia to tell my father that there was a small window in our toilet without blackout paper. Wouldn't want us to be bombed. And dad had a car with a gas producer on the back and half way to Geelong he would have to stop and stoke the coals. That's a long time ago. Pity I still don't have my toy tin wind up car - they are worth a fortune today. Cheers Ken Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyingleaf Posted April 28, 2018 Share Posted April 28, 2018 Just now, Ken Terry said: In the early days of WW2 I remember the local warden knocking on the front door of our house in Melbourne Australia to tell my father that there was a small window in our toilet without blackout paper. Wouldn't want us to be bombed. And dad had a car with a gas producer on the back and half way to Geelong he would have to stop and stoke the coals. That's a long time ago. Pity I still don't have my toy tin wind up car - they are worth a fortune today. Cheers Ken Wonderful story Ken. Good for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrick Cox Posted April 28, 2018 Share Posted April 28, 2018 I think one of the longest surviving toys still on the market today is the Tonka Truck closely followed by the Meccano Set both of which I had when I was a very young lad. Talking of radio shows my paternal grandmother used to demand absolute silence every week day so she could listen to a serial on the radio called "Blue Hills". It ran for 60 years and was still on air many years after she passed on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rodger Pettichord Posted April 28, 2018 Share Posted April 28, 2018 Of course there are other lists too Dentists with slow drills Doctors with reusable needles they never sharpened Wilted produce in the grocery store Limited antibiotics Polio Smallpox Nuclear preparedness drills Inner tubes (unless you were swimming with one) Teachers with paddles Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olderndirt Posted April 28, 2018 Share Posted April 28, 2018 Our teachers had leather straps, similar to a razor strop - six of the best was SOP. Upper class student monitors and prefects issuing punishment 'lines' for infractions of the school rules. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teecee Posted April 29, 2018 Author Share Posted April 29, 2018 Dentists with slow drills Doctors with reusable needles they never sharpened Wilted produce in the grocery store Limited antibiotics Polio Smallpox Nuclear preparedness drills Inner tubes (unless you were swimming with one) Teachers with paddles Too right Roger.. But the good things in my life way outweighed the bad.. thought in all honesty I have a lot of memories of the bad stuff.. Teecee. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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