Did fairs really have KISSING BOOTHS in the 1950s?

Question

I have some questions relating to this.

Were diseases spread?

Was it kissing on the lips?

Say some really uggo guy was in line -- did the girl have to kiss him?

Was it $1?

Was the girl who did it considered the class skank?

Thanks for answering.

Answer 1

We used to have them at our school fairs each spring. The girls doing the kissing were the cheerleaders. If it was a person they didn't wish to kiss, they simply handed them a Hershey's Kiss rather than kissing them. You never knew if you were going to get a kiss or a Kiss.

Answer 2

People were different in the 1950's with stronger morals. It was wrong to date until you were 21 as you would have been called "fast" and that was a bad thing. Divorces were bad also and in our church you'd have been excommunicated if you divorced. And it was a public shame if an unwed mother had a child, and a shame if a woman were divorced as all she could do is work in a restaurant. In 1964 where I lived you couldn't be employed in the offices if you were married, and definitely not if you were pregnant. So you're asking about public kissing in the 1950's? Not in my city and surrounding cities. Not even up thru the mid 1960's (after that I was married so I don't know what went on there). Back in those days I only knew about church related picnics and doings.



I heard aids arrived in the country in the 1980's.

Answer 3

This one is so easy.  Yes, fairs really had kissing booths.  The answers to your next 5 questions are:  No.  Yes.  Yes.  Yes.  No.  Simple!

Answer 4

No...and to answer the next point...in the 50's we played outside in mud as kids...so we didn't smell of Dettol and have the diseases this molly coddled lot suffer from.

Answer 5

I would have been lining up for a snog, and then (I suspect) getting carted off to the loony bin by my overbearing parents for being a lesbian in the 1950's...

Answer 6

Yes I remember them ,,, and as ah young lad ,,, oll well ,,, ah dare and ah bet ,,, and the acting ,,, I could of made HollyWood ,,, I NEVER got ah hershey kiss ,,, but I won the bet ,,, and oll Lennie had to run through our town from one end to the other ,,,,,,,,,,NAKED ,,,,,,so that makes me tha winner ,,, thank you Bobby Bare ,,, oll nick,,,