Growing Up In The 50's

Wow that was the best RR :) Brings back memories sooo vivid still in my mind's eye.....hopscotch and jump rope we played all the time!
I'll let others post some nostalgic ooh and aah moments from the 50's :cool:
 
PopsnTuff said:
Wow that was the best RR :) Brings back memories sooo vivid still in my mind's eye.....hopscotch and jump rope we played all the time!
I'll let others post some nostalgic ooh and aah moments from the 50's :cool:
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we played hopscotch and jump rope all the time too... but in the 60's. I was a toddler in the late 50's so I don't remember much of it ...but I remember seeing cine film of my family particularly those who lived in Canada , and they were all so much more modern than us in those days... but it was always in B&W....

It's a completely different world now to those days... some good but so much bad!!
 
Hop-scotch & jump rope....while girl play...either are something seldom [if ever] seen today. I noticed no 'muffin-tops' on those teen girls dancing as well.

Yes I'm way overweight , but I'm old now. But today I see way too many kids that are grossly overweight in just their teen years. Can't imagine what awaits them in 20 or so years.
 
Kids playing together, kids actually walking alone or riding a bike without parents needing to watch them, yes those were the good times we tend to forget. Lots of good memories during my teen years. In 1957 owing a 1954 ford fairlane convertible one of my better memories.
 
good memories, good times

I remember watching gurls play hopscotch, and jacks
they told me I was 'too little' to join in

but I had my dog

....and a patched up garden hose



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I played Jacks with my Grandma. She loved the game and was a good player. Remember Giant Step, Red light stop, and Motor boat? Giant step was a really dumb game but we played it a lot. I'm not sure how the others were played. Then there was rattlesnake which I hated to play because I never could remember how to spell rattlesnake.
 
Ruth n Jersey said:
Loved it RadishRose. Brought back a lot of happy memories. I think we called those pants pedal pushers.
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Around our neck of the woods, they were called "cabin boys", I guess after the old sailor's uniforms?

hollydolly said:
oh yes but it was the boys that played it around our way....we called it Jacks or 5 stones... because they'd play with little pieces of gravel if they had no real jacks
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I loved to play jacks but had to do it at school. They were banned at my house after my father stepped on one in the middle of the night.

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One of my younger sisters was chosen at five to be on a local station week-day show that was similar to Romper Room, called "Kindergarten Kollege". She was strongly admonished by my mom not to talk about certain subjects. She did. Extensively. For a week.
 
Ruth n Jersey said:
I played Jacks with my Grandma. She loved the game and was a good player. Remember Giant Step, Red light stop, and Motor boat? Giant step was a really dumb game but we played it a lot. I'm not sure how the others were played. Then there was rattlesnake which I hated to play because I never could remember how to spell rattlesnake.
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Yes, Ruth! I had totally forgotten about Rattlesnake and now I can hear it in my brain- "Rat-tle-snake spells rattlesnake". We played the othes too, but I don't recall Motorboat.

Remember Kick the Can?
 
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