[ddwayspd]

When I was in high school all the cool guys wore pegged pants, no belts (or very thin 3/8" belts) Levis with the belt loops removed and the rear pocket stiching removed. The levis had to be not washed and worn at least 20 times. They were so stiff we could almost stand them up in the corner of our bedrooms.

Oh yea..

Brill-ll-ll Cream
A little dab'll do ya
Use more only if you dare!
But wa-a-a-tch out
The gals will all come to ya
They love to run their fingers through your hair!

Ha Ha - Every girl wanted greasy fingers...

Brill Cream was a greasy white hair cream that would hold your hair in any position you wanted. We used it every day.

My dad supported us with his Navy pay check (Mom, my brother and me) which was minimal so I had to peg my own pants and sometimes I used Crisco lard instead of Brill Cream. No one at school could tell the difference.

I must confess ... The Brill Cream Didn't work..

[Zoxeeoy]

Heck... I can easily remember the FIFTIES!

Verse #2 [from my crumbling memory]

Bryl-Creme
A little dab'll do ya.
Bryl-Creme
You'll look so debonair
Bryl-Creme
The gals'll all pursue ya
They'll love to get their fingers in your hair
[or, "Simply rub a little in your hair."]

Remember Butch Wax?

Burma-Shave signs?

...and something I ran across the other day while going through a bunch of my childhood "stuff"-- Kraft Processed Cheese [the predecessor of "Velveeta"] in a 2-lb "brick", and sold in a wooden box. [those boxes were great for storing things.]

When fresh fruits and vegetables simply weren't available-- at any price-- except when they were "in season".

Waxed paper instead of plastic and aluminum foil.

Milk in bottles. Delivered to your door in the early morning.

Kaiser-Frasier, Desoto, Nash Rambler and Metropolitan, Henry-J, Crosley, Willys/Overland, Hudson, Studebaker, DeSoto, Plymouth, Chevy's Corvair & Econoline, and a few more that just aren't coming to mind right now...

"Regular" gasoline at 25.9 cents per gallon at the cheaper stations, "Ethyl" at 29.9 at the name-brand stations.

Your car being gassed by the attendant... who cleaned your windshield, checked your oil [showing you the dipstick] and coolant, and battery water... and tire pressures if you asked him to.

Two-lane blacktop in the days before Ike's Interstate Highway System.

The lack of franchise restaurants. You asked the gas station attendant "Where's a good place to eat?" He usually steered you to where his sister or girlfriend was working... might be good food, might not.:question

Bragging/complaining about how many flat tires you got on any trip over 500 miles. Steel-belted radials are sadly un-appreciated by today's drivers.

"Don't play in that water puddle, you'll get POLIO!"

Infections and "blood poisioning" before broad-spectrum antibiotics.

Everybody on TV was dressed-up... even the audiences.

Yup... it was a different time alright.

For a lot of reasons I feel sorry for youngsters of today, this country will be a lot different 50 years from now than what it's like today. Our relative standard of living will continue to decline as social mores continue to deteriorate. "Diversity" and "multiculturalism" will be the dull tools that like dripping water, will erode it and eventually bring it down.

Our society is slowly crumbling and nobody seems to care as long as we don't upset the French, Germans or the Mexicans.

We will not be the superpower in 50 years [or less] that we are today. For the thinking-impaired Gen-X'ers-- rent "Bladerunner" and take its depiction of our society to heart.

[Eviftilia]

I for one did not like running my fingers through greasy hair. Let's see the girls liked the high hair do's that had a can of hair spray in it. I had a beehive once. Lord when I took it down I could have went to a Halloween party. I never did that again. Poodle skirts and bobby socks were kinda popular, although back then I was more a jeans girl.