19 Things Every Baby Boomer Will Recognize

Karen99 said:
That's so funny about your grandma :). My mom worked at Woolworth's lunch counter when she was 16 and that's where my dad met her. She got fired for cutting the cake too big..and that was a joke between them for the 50 years they were married before my dad passed.

i remember eating at Kress and Woolworth's lunch counters with girlfriends in jr high. We would buy cheap makeup and get our pictures taken in the photo booth...4 shots for a quarter...I guess that was my generation's "selfie". I remember we always did that at the county fair too.
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OOO -- I remember those photo booths, too. Great fun!
 

jujube said:
The Woolworth's lunch counter was my Holy Mecca of dining. I was NOT.ALLOWED.UNDER.ANY.CIRCUMSTANCES to eat there (my grandmother was convinced that eating at a dimestore lunch counter was a guaranteed bout of ptomaine poisoning as well as the first step on the slippery slope to "becoming common and/or vulgar" ).

Of course, as soon as I was old enough to go downtown on the occasional Saturday with my friends, it was off to the lunch counter. A BLT, fries and a Coke in a paper-cone/metal-holder contraption, served over the most delightful shaved ice, could be had for 50 cents or less. Round that out with a 40 cent movie (which was actually TWO movies, several cartoons and a newsreel), 25 cent bus fare and a 19 cent forbidden Tangee lipstick and a great time could be had for $1.50.
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I remember the forbidden Tangee lipsticks, too. You had to keep them hidden or your mother would have a FIT! And you couldn't put it on until you left the house -- then get your trusty little mirror and get glam!
 
Butterfly said:
I remember the forbidden Tangee lipsticks, too. You had to keep them hidden or your mother would have a FIT! And you couldn't put it on until you left the house -- then get your trusty little mirror and get glam!
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The 19 cents would get you the lipstick with the little knob to push it up. 29 cents got the twist-up variety. 19 cents was all I could afford. I remember Tangee only coming in a few shades....neon red, neon pink, neon peach and white....and very waxy. And, yes, I definitely had to wait until I left the house to put it on and make sure I wiped it off before I came home. In fact, the very first time I wore lipstick was at summer camp. I felt so glamorous and daring. Then there was always the tiny bottle of Evening in Paris (or Evening in Hoboken, as my dad called it) that no purse would be complete without.
 
jujube said:
The 19 cents would get you the lipstick with the little knob to push it up. 29 cents got the twist-up variety. 19 cents was all I could afford. I remember Tangee only coming in a few shades....neon red, neon pink, neon peach and white....and very waxy. And, yes, I definitely had to wait until I left the house to put it on and make sure I wiped it off before I came home. In fact, the very first time I wore lipstick was at summer camp. I felt so glamorous and daring. Then there was always the tiny bottle of Evening in Paris (or Evening in Hoboken, as my dad called it) that no purse would be complete without.
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I don't remember the "forbidden" aspect of Tangee lipstick. I do remember my older cousins in the 50's wore rolled down Bobby socks and petticoats to school. They also had this little red box of Maybelline mascara..with a brush..you added water and then applied. I turned 13 in 1963 and skirts were short, lips were pale and lined eyes were the thing. My dad was like..why do you want to look like a raccoon...lol.
 
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So glad my Dad got me here one more time before it closed.
 
Karen99 said:
I don't remember the "forbidden" aspect of Tangee lipstick. I do remember my older cousins in the 50's wore rolled down Bobby socks and petticoats to school. They also had this little red box of Maybelline mascara..with a brush..you added water and then applied. I turned 13 in 1963 and skirts were short, lips were pale and lined eyes were the thing. My dad was like..why do you want to look like a raccoon...lol.
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The "forbidden" part was that most of us were forbidden to wear lipstick. Thus it had to be bought on the sly and hidden away.
 
The "forbidden" part was that most of us were forbidden to wear lipstick. Thus it had to be bought on the sly and hidden away.

Yehoots, by my time as long as I was wearing a bra I could go out wearing an entire cosmetics counter. I do remember boosting Lip Smackers from Liptons. The Dr. Pepper flavor is still a favorite even now.
 

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