What were the 50s more more more
Again more from 'GETTYS IMAGES-THE 50S', what were the 50s about, I've mentioned events, the icons of the 50s and the fashion but for the working class or the children what were the 50s about?
Pennyless Games for children.
Hopskotch popular for girls, included chants for if you stepped on the lines, such as your marry a swine or your break your spine. You could imagine how popular that would have been as a group game. And of course pennyless.
Bottle top tossing. Marbles became a popular game too soon after.
Conkers, glorious conkers a pennyless game of the 50s, such a shame its not in fashion now, still as popular but outlawed. In this picture a rev. even acts as a referee. A pennyless game of the 50s but a hit with the 1950s boys.
Soap box racing or carts to other people, very popular, not so much as pennyless game, though kids would group together with their pocket money, use their dads tools and collect scraps of wood and their mums pram wheels to build their carts to race. Building something with tools was very popular, mecanno was very popular with kids whos parents were more well off. But for those of working class or lower class backgrounds soap box racing was a hit of the 50s.
For the adults.
The days of the jukebox, something for the working class to dance to or standby (as in this picture), they really were actually listened to not as background music, this image is from 1955, where jukeboxes were located across pubs throughout europe and america. A 1950s pasttime for the 1950s working class, men, women, teenagers.
Not so much a positive for some, the parking meter was introduced for the first time. Not good for the working class, well if they had a car. I wonder how slow the milk van goes for it to have to pay at a parking meter? An impact to the 1950s working class, anyone in the above class wouldnt worry about the cost but those of working class who scrapped to pay for the running of their car, not a positive effect.
Pennyless Games for children.
Hopskotch popular for girls, included chants for if you stepped on the lines, such as your marry a swine or your break your spine. You could imagine how popular that would have been as a group game. And of course pennyless.
Bottle top tossing. Marbles became a popular game too soon after.
Conkers, glorious conkers a pennyless game of the 50s, such a shame its not in fashion now, still as popular but outlawed. In this picture a rev. even acts as a referee. A pennyless game of the 50s but a hit with the 1950s boys.
Soap box racing or carts to other people, very popular, not so much as pennyless game, though kids would group together with their pocket money, use their dads tools and collect scraps of wood and their mums pram wheels to build their carts to race. Building something with tools was very popular, mecanno was very popular with kids whos parents were more well off. But for those of working class or lower class backgrounds soap box racing was a hit of the 50s.
For the adults.
The days of the jukebox, something for the working class to dance to or standby (as in this picture), they really were actually listened to not as background music, this image is from 1955, where jukeboxes were located across pubs throughout europe and america. A 1950s pasttime for the 1950s working class, men, women, teenagers.
Not so much a positive for some, the parking meter was introduced for the first time. Not good for the working class, well if they had a car. I wonder how slow the milk van goes for it to have to pay at a parking meter? An impact to the 1950s working class, anyone in the above class wouldnt worry about the cost but those of working class who scrapped to pay for the running of their car, not a positive effect.
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