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You may not remember the date but the event is something you can’t forget if you were alive in the 50′s. Sputnik marked the beginning of the Space Age but even more it demonstrated that the future did not belong to the United States alone. The Soviet Union was challenging our leadership and in the realm of public opinion, the USSR was winning. Continue reading
Originally posted 2011-02-09 07:47:35. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
There has been a lot of nostalgia here over the last years. Specifically the memories from the 50′s and 60′s that shaped my life then and still affect it now. I’ve decided to review some of those posts from time to time and provide links. Maybe you missed them and want to check them out. Maybe you’d like to revisit.
This week, I’m getting nostalgic about old nostalgia posts here at RCB. One year ago. I remembered the pleasure of slow dancing during the 50′s. Those were the days, actually holding your girl close. Quite a change from the new dances that came along during the 60′s where you hardly acknowledged your partner. Dramatic changes from the 50′s to the 60′s.
If you want to explore the entire range of nostalgia posts, you can easily do it by going to the Trails page and selecting Nostalgia. There you can follow the Nostalgia Trail and see all the posts to date.
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Charlie the Tuna cane to life in 1961 as the marginal tuna who wasn’t good enough for Star Kist. The story doesn’t hold up to analysis because being good enough for Star Kist means ending up in a tin can. It’s hard to imagine this as a life goal even for a tuna. Still Charlie got the message out that Star Kist meant good tasting tuna. Fifty years later Charlie still makes us think about Star Kist tuna.
Until I was 9 we lived in suburban communities with regular telephones. While most telephones in the 40′s were bulkier and had rotary dialing, they can still be recognized as telephones today. When we moved to the country in 1949 we stepped back 50 years in telephone technology. Instead of dialing a number we had to get the attention of an operator who made all the telephone calls. We also had a party-line which meant that eight other households shared the use of our telephone line. If they were talking, then we had to wait until they finished. Basically it was the same as if each of us was an extension in a very large house. It wasn’t a big problem for a 10 year old but it was often a big nuisance for adults. Of course if there was an emergency, you just asked the person talking to let you make a call. Sometimes there might be a disagreement about what determined an emergency. Then too there was always the concern that some nosy neighbor was eavesdropping on your conversation. In those days, in the country, you didn’t have choices. If you didn’t like party lines, it was just too bad. Continue reading