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Bobby Pins, Skate Keys, and Hula Hoops

I have decided to scrapbook the history of my life. Maybe it’s more appropriate to say the history in my life. I don’t mean the day to day happenings and a coming of age story, even I would find that terribly boring. I have had the great good fortune of having a sort of TV family life, the 50’s families like the Cleavers, not the Simpsons. My mom even wore earrings and pearls to do her housework. We were very lower middle class but it was a wonderful childhood, followed by a great marriage and family of my own, and now grandparenthood which is too wonderful to accurately describe. I want my grandkids to know the basics of my life but what I really want them to know is what every day life was for a child growing up in the fifties. My own mother’s memory is cloudy when it comes to her early life and I think it would be interesting to know how they cooked, cleaned, and entertained themselves. My grandkids don’t know that before there were MP3s, DVDs and CDs, there were tapes preceded by 8 tracks and vinyl records. Every time something new came along we thought it couldn’t get any more advanced than this, but it always does. We used to use bobby pins and tape to curl our hair and in the sixties we slept in big brush rollers. My mom says they used rags to roll up their hair and make corkscrew curls. That was all before the advent of modern curling irons and hot rollers. Remember skates with skate keys, hula hoops, and playing tag, red light green light, and red rover. I remember my dad stoking the furnace with coal from the coal bin and mom using a wringer wash machine. So I think I will have to make pages with all the different areas of day to day life. Hopefully, I will be able to find pictures of these things. I would welcome any suggestions or sources of pictures that you might think would be interesting from the past 50 or 60 years.