[BITList] Fwd: The Fifties

[s14engine]

hugh

yes, I remember the films and the music too.
according to my ex-wife, the usa was some-what like shown on the movies. booby sox and pony tails were all the rage and there really were no small cars to be had. [until the vw and discounting the austin atlantic and nasty looking nash metropolitan]
milky coffee - fine. ain't never heard of HOT orange juice, with or without blue riband [are they still available?]
one of my favourites was chocolate biscuit "penguins" - great. are they still available? don't recall who made them - maybe mcvities.
bloody yummy, anyway.
"There was a subterranean Gents across the road - on a wet day it reminded us of a Humphrey Bogart film, God knows why." don't recall seeing one here though, but they were kind of spooky/dank.

ct  


From: HUGH 
Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2010 5:31 AM
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Subject: Re: [BITList] Fwd: The Fifties


John,

I remember the films and the music, but the rest is beyond my ken, it being set in the USA.  Life here was nothing like that - was it ever like that over there, outside of films and musicals?  We didn't have big cars and girls with bobby sox and pony tails.  In the early 50s I listened to modern jazz in dark places and trad jazz in bright places, walked the hills and Greenock Esplanade while setting the world to rights with my pals, then had a milky coffee or some hot orange juice and a Blue Riband in the Grey Place Cafe while plotting out a film scenario.  There was a subterranean Gents across the road - on a wet day it reminded us of a Humphrey Bogart film, God knows why.

Hugh.


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