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Remember when ..... All the girls wore ugly gym slips. It took five minutes for the TV to warm up. Nearly everyone's Mum was at home when the kids got home from school Nobody owned a thoroughbred dog. You'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny Your Mother wore nylons that came in two pieces. You got your windscreen cleaned, oil checked, and petrol served, without asking, all for free, every time. It was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner at a real restaurant with your parents. They threatened to keep children back a year if they failed...And they did it! When a Ford Zephyr was everyone's dream car... And people went steady. No one ever asked where the car keys were because they were always in the car, in the ignition, and the doors were never locked. Playing cricket with no adults to help the children with the rules of the game. Bottles came from the corner shop without safety caps and hermetic seals because no one had yet tried to poison a perfect stranger. And with all our progress, don't you wish, just once, you could slip back in time and savour the slower pace, and share it with the children of today. When being sent to the head's study was nothing compared to the fate that awaited the student at home. Basically we were in fear for our lives, but it wasn't because of drive-by shootings, drugs, gangs, etc. Our parents and grandparents were a much bigger threat! But we survived because their love was greater than the threat. As well as summers filled with bike rides, rounders , Hula Hoops, and visits to the pool, and eating sherbet with liquorice sticks. Didn't that feel good, just to go back and say, 'Yes, I remember that'? The Jazz age ..... The women’s independence movement of the 1920’s resulted in a dramatic change in dress as shown by the desire to look youthful, boyish, flat-chested, and at the same time to wanting her independence in the new decade of the century. This was the Jazz Age, the decade of the flappers. The 1920’s  opened with an explosion of colour, wailing sounds, fast rhythms of jazz, and energetic dancing. the colourful decade of the 1920s still resonates among generations that never experienced it. Thirties Forties and Fifties ..... Fifties and Sixties ..... By 1959 an age of unbridled affluence and consumerism - "You've never had it so good", as Harold Macmillan coined it - was firmly established, paving the way for the profligacy and abandon of the past era of the swinging 60s. The new entrepreneurs of mass market consumerism on both sides of the Atlantic ensured that a week didn't go by without some new craze hitting the shops or the media, preferably both at once. Hula hoops, popsicles, 3D cinema, Davy Crockett hats, Bubble cars, Motor Bikes, Transistor radios, Remember the old Black and White TV set sitting in the corner of the room, pyjama parties etc the list is endless. "Protest" didn't enter the mainstream vocabulary until the sixties when political messages began making their way out of coffee houses and hootenannies onto the airwaves. Music festivals doubled as peace rallies. Folk songs inspired the civil rights movement to question the authority of whites. Old time Radio ..... Here at OldRadioWorld.com you will find some of the most popular radio programs of the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. Before television, radio provided entertainment by presenting radio plays and programs of mystery, intrigue, and comedy. Radio has been around for a long time and although there are more commercial radio stations on the air than ever before, there isn't really much worth listening to unless you like lots of commercials and little creativity. Crimes of the Century ..... They often say crime does not pay and indeed there are numerous examples of this. There are also examples of careers in crime, which do pay, well at least for a while. For instance there is the bank robber who lives quite well for a little while with literally money to burn and then after his short career gets to retire with full benefits and live in a gated community; Prison. Well not exactly the career, pension or retirement at the golf course you had in mind is it? more to read here Crime stories Film and Film stars ..... Love, hate, love-hate relationships, comedy, tragedy, tragicomedy, accidents, evolution, the creation of the universe, the destruction of the universe, extraterrestrials, Martians, the influence of other planets, curses, sex, horror, mystery, romance, violence, action, food, eviction drives, sanity, insanity, God, Satan......in short we have films on every possible topic in this universe, every aspect of life. Vietnam war ....... In the 1950's the United States began to send troops to Vietnam. During the following 25-years the ensuing war would create some of the strongest tensions in US history. Almost 3 million US men and women were sent thousands of miles to fight for what was a questionable cause. In total, it is estimated that over 2,5 million people on both sides were killed. Finding your Ancestors ..... The Internet is full of places to go to trace your genealogy. In fact, there are hundreds of thousands of websites devoted to this popular and fast-growing hobby.  If you've been bitten by the genealogy bug, here are the top 5 websites you can use to get started on your own journey into the world of your  ancestors. Make use of the free downloads and the videos, remember that it can become very addictive!! Please Visit  OldBlueWebDesigns.com Military& Patriotic Movies

How Many Of These Do You Remember? ..... Coca Cola in bottles. Blackjacks and bubblegum. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with tinfoil tops. Hi-Fi & 45 RPM records. 78 RPM records? Adding Machines?? Scalextric. Do You Remember a Time When... Decisions were made by going 'eeny-meeny-miney-moe'?  Race issue' meant arguing about who ran the fastest? Catching tiddlers could happily occupy an entire day? It wasn't odd to have two or three 'Best Friends'? The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was 'chickenpox'? Having a Weapon in School meant being caught with a catapult? War was a card game? Cigarette cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle? Taking drugs meant orange - flavoured chewable aspirin? Water balloons were the ultimate weapon? If you can remember most or all of these, Then You Have Lived!!!!!!! World War ..... They came late to the ballgame by British standards, but they came to play. They were crude, crass and lacking in military finesse according to Montgomery and other Allied leaders, but they won many more times than they lost.They were a curious mixture of fervent volunteer kids and caustic older draftees. They were soldiers, Sailors, Airmen  and Marines  from Iowa cornfields and Detroit assembly lines. They sweated through eight abbreviated weeks of basic training. Life at war for the American GI  was essentially long hours of hard physical labour, painful slogging under heavy weights and tedious boredom - interspersed with moments of sheer gut-wrenching terror. Rational sane people sat down in various stages and made key decisions that ended in the killing  of over six million women, men and children. The Holocaust ..... Approximately 11 million people were killed because of Nazi genocidal policy. It was the explicit aim of Hitler's regime to create a European world both dominated and populated by the "Aryan" race. The Nazi machinery was dedicated to eradicating millions of people it deemed undesirable. Some people were undesirable by Nazi standards because of who they were, their genetic or cultural origins, or health conditions. These included Jews, Gypsies, Poles and other Slavs. Rock and Roll ..... Some British teens developed a real feel for the rock-and-roll and American blues idioms. Blending that with such local traditions as music hall, pop, and Celtic folk, they formulated original music they could claim, play, and sing with conviction. Young groups with electric guitars began performing and writing up-tempo melodic pop, fiery rock and roll, and Chicago-style electric blues." The rebellious tone and image of past American rock and roll and blues musicians also deeply resonated with British youth in the late 1950s, influencing all the British Invasion artists.   By 1962, encouraged by the anyone-can-play populism of skiffle and self-schooled in the music of Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Elvis Presley, Little Richard, Gene Vincent, Eddie Cochran, Ray Charles, Buddy Holly, the Everly Brothers, Jerry Lee Lewis, James Brown, Roy Orbison and Muddy Waters. Beatles' breakup ..... In 1980 economic growth had peaked and was beginning to slow, while inflation was rising - both precursors of the recession of the early 1990s.  A ban was lifted on anti apartheid parties and Nelson Mandela walked free after 27 years in prison.  Anti Poll Tax demonstrations ended in riots and Margaret Thatcher resigned from Number Ten. John Major became the youngest Prime Minister this century at the age of 47. French and English Channel tunnellers celebrated when they met up in the middle.  There were numerous causes for the Beatles' breakup. It was not a single event but a long transition, including the cessation of touring in 1966, and the death of their manager, Brian Epstein, in 1967. When he died the difference was immediately felt. While the Beatles continued to make magnificent music, their business affairs rapidly crumbled. Within two years of Brian's death the end of the Beatles was clearly in sight. By 1970 it was all over. Seventies Eighties and Nineties ..... The mid-seventies saw the rise of punk music from its protopunk/garage band roots in the 1960s and early 1970s. Major acts include The Ramones, Blondie, the Sex Pistols, and The Clash. By its very definition, past era's fashion is something that is constantly changing. From the drape jacket and skinny, drainpipe trousers of 1950’s teddy boys, through the disco-influenced three-piece flared suits of the 1970s and on to the urban ‘trainers and loose-fit jeans’ look of the 1990s.  Fashion has always been influenced by culture and it reflects how ‘in’ someone is with the current popular mode of expression. Comics of the 19th century..... The Beano, Eagle, Dan Dare, Dennis the Menace, Minnie the Minx, The Bash Street Kids,  Dandy, Captain America, Superman, Spider-Man, Wonder Woman, Incredible Hulk. We all remember these great comic book characters, read history of comics and remember your favourites. Vintage television ..... There have been very few inventions that have made the same effect on modern American culture as television. Before 1947 the number of U.S. homes in the United States with television sets could be calculated in the thousands. Yet, by the late 1990s, 98 percent of U.S. homes had a television set, and those sets were watched an average of about seven hours per day. Grab a"Link" back to us ... thank you

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