BOY STUFF, MOSTLY GIRL STUFF, MOSTLY BOTH STUFF TEENAGE AND PUBERTY STUFF SPECIAL MEMORIES SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, MILITARY STUFF MISCELLANEOUS ------- BOY STUFF, MOSTLY ------- Cub Scouts Boy Scouts The Red Ryder, 200-shot BB gun - See your Daisy dealer (And as they say, don't shoot your eye out, kid...) Comic books Marbles Duncan Yo-Yo's Science and engineering: Lincoln Logs Tinker Toys Erector Sets Lionel Electric Trains Gilbert Chemistry Sets Crystal radio sets Ham radio, short-wave radio Science Fairs Baseball cards Little League Baseball The Yankees and the Dodgers The St. Paul Saints (baseball) The Minneapolis Lakers (basketball) T-shirts with the sleeves rolled up, a pack of cigs tucked into the wrap A Coke and an aspirin? Spanish Fly? Collars worn up Cars The clique "Shifty 7" (my lips are sealed) Mr. Divine's men's shop ------- GIRL STUFF, MOSTLY ------- Campfire Girls Brownies Mariners Girl Scouts Jacks Makeup and stuff: Powder Pink Lipstick Hazel Bishop Lipstick Breck Shampoo White Rain Shampoo Liquid Lustre-Creme Shampoo (by Sandra Dee...) Nestle's L'Amour Gold Hair Powder Pony Tails Poodle skirts Crinolines (lots of starch, please) Falsies (no starch, please) See-through blouses Suspants to hold up nylons in 7th/8th grade - a Rite of Passage Dancing lessons at Ramaley's or the David LaVay Dance Studio Mambo lessons with Carlos and Marianne (Terry Levinson's basement on Montreal) The clique "Nifty 6 1/2" (my lips are still sealed) Dr. Balkin: Nose Doctor for that "Balkinized" look... Betty Betz diaries and memory books ------- BOTH STUFF ------- Roller skates Ice skates, ice rinks Bicycles - Schwinn, Raleigh, etc ------- TEENAGE AND PUBERTY STUFF ------- Cherry Phosphates Straw wrappers stuck to the drugstore ceiling Basement Parties - sometimes with dancing Teen Town dances at Ramsey School ("5 cents of every record you buy goes towards the local musician's union which pays for this band. Thank you.") 45-RPM Records Perfume Curfews Lame Excuses Movie Drive-ins Fast Food Drive-ins: Sandy's Porky's The A&W Rootbeer Drive Ins Martin's - 25 cent hamburgers Pizza parlors Car and Driver: Driver's Ed A Driver's Permit! A Driver's License! Your car, Our car, A car, The Car, Borrowed car, My car for a while... '57 Chevies '57 T-Birds '58 Fords Convertibles Corvettes Corvair Monza's "Parking" Peeling out - laying rubber Hoods (not car hoods - ducktail haircuts, etc) Pink n' Black ------- SPECIAL MEMORIES ------- The F-84 jet parked on Grand Avenue A rocket was shot over the school by a nameless rocketeer whose initials are "DEM". Heller's Drug Store Larry's Dairy Mr. Von Arx - The writing of the ancient Babylonians is Cuneiform The La Brea Tar Pits Annual speed skating contest Esterhazy School of Ballet on Grand and Cambridge Ardis Goldman's elocution (Gettysburg Address, etc) President Eisenhower drove by on Summit Avenue (in a motorcade) The Scot Stop (Grand and Snelling by Macalester - burgers, malts, tunes) Bachke and Tein Interior Decorators - on Grand Ave Loni Schnitzer's mother's huge "Goddess Gold" Cadillac ------- SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, MILITARY STUFF ------- Salk Polio vaccine Univac computers Edmund C. Berkeley's "Relay Moe" plays Tic-Tac-Toe The transistor Black and White TV sets A few Color TV sets began to appear... Stereo records invented - 1958 Primitive TV remote control invented!! Subliminal ads tried give me all your money but outlawed Phoenicoptertis Rubber Plasticus (Plastic Pink Flamingo) - invented 1957 Propeller Airliners and Turbo-prop Airliners Douglas DC-3, DC-6, DC-7, Boeing Stratocruiser, Lockheed Constellation, Lockheed Electra I and II, Vickers Viscount Flying Tiger Lines (cargo) used C-46's Military Aircraft: F80, T33, F84, F86, F89, F94, F100, F101, F102, F104, Navy Phantom, P2V Neptune, A3D... B36, B47, B52, B57, B58, B66... C47, C97, KC97, C119, C123, C124, C130, C135, KC135... British Vulcan bomber (as used in the movie Thunderball)... Russian MiG15, MiG17, MiG19, Yak23, Yak25, TU104, TU114... Some NATO names: Bear, Bison, Flashlight, Fishpot, Flogger... *Interesting Post-War Stories: See Footnotes. Rockets: The Atlas, Thor, Redstone, Jupiter, Vanguard, Nike... Satellites: Sputnik I, Sputnik II, Explorer I, Echo... (Let's go, Werner) Dogs: Laika the Space Dog History Books on WW II in the 50s: No one knew until 1975 that the Brits had broken the German Enigma code and were deciphering their messages via Project Ultra. All the history books in the 1950s were written as if "we were just better, that's all". Eisenhower later wrote: "[Ultra] was decisive." Project "Bluebook" Science Fairs The assemble-it-yourself home computer made of rotating electrical contacts, wires, lights, and batteries. Brainiac? If you knew how to read and write in binary, you could sometimes add numbers and read (interpret) the answer, leaving you "brain numbed". ------- MISCELLANEOUS ------- Practical Jokes (Some Central grad pulled off this joke...) Prankster buys a huge fish at the grocery store. He then proceeds to University and Snelling, pre-hooks the fish on his fishing line, and drops it into a man-hole. He fishes on a "pedestrian safety island" with his line in the man-hole. A city bus pulls up next to the guy and waits for a red light. All the passengers snicker at the idiot who's trying to catch a fish in the storm sewer system. Then the guy reels in the big fish. As the bus rolls away, all the passengers gape in astonishment. Lots of Hoola Hoops 3:02pm Freedom....