Fifties and Sixties Memories

Good Morning, ya'll and welcome to my blog. Come on in and have a cup of coffee for it is almost always full. I think you call that an addiction but what the heck, it could be margaritas and wild men. You know those sound pretty good but don't think I can remember how to do that.

I'm in a remembering frame of mind this morning brought on by trying to get in a pair of jeans which are a tad too tight. So here goes:

Remember when-

• when jeans were too tight you would lie down on the bed on your back, suck in your stomach and zip quickly - still do that
• Elvis was king and we all had duck-tails
• We rolled our long hair on orange juice cans so we would have a bouffant hair style
• Used a whole can of hair spray so the bouffant hair wouldn't move in a tornado
• Wore our collars turned up like James Dean with our Elvis duck tails
• Gas was 10 cents a gallon
• Twisted to Chubby Checker "The Peppermint Twist" - had a heck of a time learning how to do this until a friend suggested I polish my seat with a towel
• Played with a hula hoop
• Boys wore white t-shirts with the sleeves rolled up
• Combed their duck tails constantly
• Wore butch hair wax on their flat tops - felt like barbed wire
• Drugs were what you took for a headache
• Grass was what you cut with a push lawn mower
• Wore hundred yard crinolines under their gathered skirts - hard to sit in a school desk with all that
• Wore hoops under their evening dresses
• Never went to church without gloves and hat - white in the summer and black, brown or navy in the winter
• Always wore skirts or dresses to church and we had to wear them to school
• Wore bobby socks and saddle oxfords
• Wore penny loafers with new pennies

I'm sure there are many more so send me some.
Almost nuff said
The Georgia Peach