(January 19, 2015 at 7:34 am)paulpablo Wrote: What was it like being a teenager in london in the 1950s
Getting off' introduction topic' but life was simpler.
Every generation has its, 'good old days,' and for me that time period was part of my own good old days. The trouble was, no one told you at the time that they were !
Second hand book shops and interesting junk shops galore but no junk food.
Rationing had just finished at end of the 40's. Shopping was more time consuming as one had to go into so many shops.....no Tesco etc.
Black and White, single channel 405 line TV had restarted for London so we enjoyed that in the evening which began at 8pm with the TV Newsreel.
Ballroom dancing at the weekends where the women's hairstyles were worth looking at as well as their other parts.
We took them out for a date on our Lambretta or Vespa scooters..............£200 on Hire Purchase.
The London trolley bus that took one a very fast dash to catch as it accelerated away from bus stops was always a challenge.
One could leave school and walk straight into a job in London.
Some of us were absent from London at that time for two years doing National Service.
(I am one of the very few remaining who slept down on the platforms of the the London Underground during the WW2 blitz)...
.........all part of my own good old days.
"When a star twinkles I will sit and stare.
When the Earth trembles I will be aware.
When oblivion takes me I shall not care,
For in Earth and in Heaven, I have been there."
Richard
When the Earth trembles I will be aware.
When oblivion takes me I shall not care,
For in Earth and in Heaven, I have been there."
Richard
