would you like to go back to the 1950's just for a week?

Question

Elvis, national service, big red flashy cars with white trims on the wheels..sargent bilko, buddy holly
if not what decade would you like to go back just for a week

Answer 1

Oh yes! I often try to relive that era. Born in the centre of Glasgow, was just a child for most of the 1950's (born 1949) and the place was so vivid compared to now. We looked down from our tenement building to the shops and tramcars passing. Shopping was a wonderful experience, sitting waiting for 'your number' to be called in the Co-op where there was a big mound of butter that with 'pats' they broke off the weight you required. If you were going for a new dress or coat every shop you visited had something different, not like nowadays with the same shops in every High St. in the country. I played on dykes, middens and walls where the railings had been removed in the war effort. Lots of cafes, usually owned by Italians with the most wonderful ice cream. I recall still having Ration Books in the early 50's for my sweets. Then there was the old wash houses or the 'steamie' as they were called in Glasgow. Each week your mum would go off, usually with an old pushchair filled with washing and get a 'stall' in the steamie. What conversations took place there....from marriage counselling to putting the world to rights. Only now I realise this as when a child these conversation didn't mean anything to me. Bakeries with delicious smells and around 9 pm you could get hot, freshly baked rolls, pies etc. As a 3 - 4yr. old I was allowed out to play, nobody thought anything bad could happen and it didn't/ Milk bottles with a chalk and water mixed together that you could paint on shop windows....never thought it as vandalism. Then the Coronation and the big street parties. In May the lorries would come in procession and we would go on a trip in this big convoy of lorries. Then came TV. We never had one then but could always get an invite to the few that had. The Woodentops as a young child I recall. Then left the centre of Glasgow to one of the many housing schemes/estate built after the war. Seemed like the country but never realised what it did to our parents having left the buz of the city to what seemed like a God forsaken place, nearest shop 3/4's a mile away. Housing conditions much improved....we actually had a BATHROOM but gone was the friendly Glasgow neighbours. Nice neighbours but not the same kindred spirit. Then came transistor radios and Radio Luxemburg, all the waiting and then all the crackling on a Sunday night trying to hear the latest hits. By the end of the 50's almost everyone had TV. Wonderful at the time but was it beginning of the end of life as it was as we entered the 60's?

Answer 2

I didn't know the 1950's as I was only born in 1949, but I love all the big-band music so I would love to go back and be able to dance to them.

Answer 3

Same here, the 1950's, I just missed them. I love the clothes women wore, and life was a lot more straightforward then. The music was great too.

Answer 4

As a child of the 50's, yes it would be lovely to be a child again for a week

playing on the street, playing in the dirt, climbing trees, and generally doing all the things that children can't do nowadays, without the risk of over zealous political correctness :)

Answer 5

Oh, yes!



The 1950s was my childhood and I should like to take my camcorder with me to record those wonderful things called trolleybuses - the best kind of transport for towns and cities ever devised, and fulfilling all the present-day green criteria.



Why can't we have them now?

Answer 6

I was a kid in the 50s, and yes, I would like to go back. Allot more of my family was around then, and I miss them all so much. I lived in New York in the 50s and wouldn't trade a minute of it.

Answer 7

I think that the 1950's were maybe our country's "Golden Era" myself and am so sorry to see what it is now and is becoming. Except, of course, for the Korean unpleasantness. It was also known as a new disease, GonetoKorea.

Answer 8

I was the fastest runner on the block, not anymore! Hula Hoops with steelies inside to make noise, being able to stay outside and run all over the neighborhood til dark, the police were very friendly with us kids, even when we were up to no good - they must have been children once also!





YES would I ever like to go back for a short while!

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Answer 10

I'd like to go back to the late fifties.... for a he*l*l of alot longer than a week

Answer 11

I wasn't around in the 50's.



I have wondered what it would be like. I think the

men would be more gentlemanly. :) I think it

would be fun.



*80's would be fun. Big hair and people didn't seem so

rude back then.



(((John))) :)



Love,

HoPeXx

Answer 12

I would like to go back to about 1925/ 1930.

I did not live then but my father did. My mother also. it would be so much fun to watch them and see , what they were like back then, To see my grandparents and how they looked then.

I would also get to see my grandfather , who died in 1925. and my Uncle who died in 1927.

I could even see my great grandparents, who were still alive back then. that would be so cool and so much fun!

I know what happened in the 50's and while it was fun , would love to see the people that did not live long enough for me to know!

Answer 13

The 80's :))

Best Rock music

Best Pop music

Madonna had come on the music scene and I loved her fashion lol loved getting dressed up and goin dancing all night :))





(((John)))

Answer 14

As much as I liked the innocence of the 50s I would rather go back to the 60s. I don't care what anyone says that was the most momentous decade in the Boomers lives. Just like WW2 was my Dad's finest era for America's greatest generation, so was the 60s for us. By the 70s we got caught up in the rat race in spite of all of our protests. In the end we all sold out.

Answer 15

I'm not for going back for anything or reason managed to get this far and not going back for any reason.

Answer 16

((((Johnny)))) I go back lots in my memories of those days gone by.

I would like to go back to 1967 when I was out of school and young and pretty and slender and so tan from hanging out at the beach and doing nothing but playing on the beach with my friends.

But only for a week. :)

Answer 17

Yes! And half way thru the 60's, too.

Answer 18

No, too little and nothing for black folks but 60s made me believe that this country would change for the better and in some ways it did=best music, dances, freedom to exploit intimacy without being bombarded with crassness, people exploring the world and learning from others...good times!

Answer 19

No. The fifties were hard times , we were still suffering from the War,it was not until the mid fifties that food came off the rationing system. The sixties were better .

Answer 20

1960's and the 1970's here, I just has too much fund back then..=)

Answer 21

Yea, buy up a bunch of stuff at 50's prices, and come back a zillionair...

Answer 22

I bear in concepts. As a wrinkly we had fish and chips, and my brother fell and decrease his shins. It substitute into on Wednesday, the day that The Beano comedian got here out. and that i've got been given detention. Who desires computers? (Oh nicely. desire it added a grin.......)

Answer 23

I would hate to have to see Elvis wiggle his butt around again. The girls liked him, but most of the boys were unimpressed. I do wish my grand-kids could experience the 50s, when there were no drugs, no gangs, no porn, no cell phones, no ipods playing RAP, and kids were actually safe on the streets at night. My grand-kids have no clue what they missed.

Answer 24

Yes, it was so great! The music was to die for. I stood in line to see the first movie Elvis put out, and it went around the corner from the theater and down the other street. My brother worked as an usher, so I got in free. That was the happiest time of my life.

Answer 25

YES but not all the health problems...... or other things not for Elvis nor not for any type of cars ... just childhood and familys but someone messed familys up ... i dont care about the nonsense of life ... just as Tom said the innocence ..TOM I SWEAR YOU DONT LIVE IN OHIO......... I LIVE IN OHIO TOM ..I think you live in la la la land TOM .. yeh just for a week only then can we die and get it over with??? everyone i know of that lives in ohio hates life Tom.... cept for lake erie.... i hate the 60s cause im smarter than that......i hate today too...:)

Answer 26

i would want to go back to the 70s, in the 50s I was a kid. Poppy

Answer 27

The 90s and change a very bad decision I made then.

Answer 28

The seventies. There would be a certain someone I would like to stalk.( I mean meet). Ha.

Answer 29

I would buy some stock in a couple of key companies.

Answer 30

Sounds like bliss.I had white wall tyres on my car,too.

Answer 31

I would not mind living in the early 1700's.

Answer 32

I was born in '55. I would love to go back as an adult, that would be neato.

Answer 33

In a heartbeat.