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Post by ARENA on Aug 15, 2013 12:37:18 GMT
Some popular coffin nails we all 'enjoyed'........
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Post by scorp on Aug 15, 2013 15:09:26 GMT
...and there was Capstan Full Strength - I used to smoke those when I had a cold. Don't recall Rhodian though. And what about Turf, Airman, Senior Service, de Reszke and du Maurier?
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Post by scorp on Aug 15, 2013 16:49:49 GMT
Nothing says '50s' to me like the omnipresent duffle (or 'Duffell') coat. Mine was Navy, and I've no idea what happened to it - probably thrown out when I was in the RAF. They cost a bomb these days, but back then we all went to surplus stores for them.
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Post by scorp on Aug 16, 2013 15:45:10 GMT
Another memory of the 1950s - The Soho Fair, which was started in (I think) 1955. 'Revived' might be a better term.
Waiters' races, beauty contests, jazz bands on open lorries, spaghetti eating contests, calypso bands...
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Post by ARENA on Aug 17, 2013 11:38:50 GMT
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Post by jimshoo on Aug 17, 2013 11:44:49 GMT
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tina
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Post by tina on Aug 19, 2013 12:04:38 GMT
I remember my dad saving stamps from his fags. What were they?
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Post by scorp on Aug 19, 2013 18:25:00 GMT
Embassy had coupons you could collect and redeem at some point.
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Post by scorp on Aug 19, 2013 18:33:41 GMT
The 1950s was a time when girls looked and dressed like girls... and very nice it was, too.
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Post by goldielox on Aug 20, 2013 9:32:00 GMT
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Post by ARENA on Aug 21, 2013 11:35:29 GMT
Until I did some research of my own, I thought girls breasts were cone-shaped and what's more didn't have nipples (thanks to an old men's magazine I found)
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Post by scorp on Aug 21, 2013 21:16:59 GMT
Watching Family Guy last night - a very unintelligent clone of Brian wandered onto the room and said 'Duh - I sharpened a pencil in my butt, and now I need a band-aid'.
Made me laugh, anyway...
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Post by scorp on Aug 23, 2013 9:58:18 GMT
An American (of course) survey on the decade people would most like to go back to, not surprisingly shows many people with ayen to revert to the time when they were young, but what is surprising is the enormous 'spike' in the graph showing the number of people aged 65+ who would choose the 1950s. www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/08/poll-decade-nostalgiaThe lure of one's youthful years can certainly be very strong - despite the austere, grey image of those years the 50's would be my choice too - well, the ones before the dreaded call-up, anyway.
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Post by ARENA on Aug 23, 2013 10:55:24 GMT
Your survey is US and of course those were halcyon days there but Aberdeen in the 50s? A bit more dreech!
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Post by scorp on Aug 23, 2013 18:11:43 GMT
Yes - I see I forgot to mention that - still - I was in Aberdeen once - misty, it was...
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