The Fifties for Jim Franklin

[Sue Pyles]

I hope this will bring back some fond memories for you.

www.stinalisa.com/50sMusic.html

[Meghan Schoonover]

The question is, did Jim listen to that type of music in the 50s? Kind of like I grew up in the 80s/90s, but I have *no idea* about popular culture from that era. Drives my husband nuts..."how can you not know so-and-so famous person/such-and-such TV show!?" I wasn't allowed that type of media. Or to play with Barbies.

And yes, my daughters have Barbies and High School Musical backbacks... :laughing

[Sue Pyles]

The question is, did Jim listen to that type of music in the 50s? Kind of like I grew up in the 80s/90s, but I have *no idea* about popular culture from that era. Drives my husband nuts..."how can you not know so-and-so famous person/such-and-such TV show!?" I wasn't allowed that type of media. Or to play with Barbies.

And yes, my daughters have Barbies and High School Musical backbacks... :laughing

Maybe Jim will reveal his younger days to us in a later post.
I'm curious to know.

[Susan Unger]

The question is, did Jim listen to that type of music in the 50s? Kind of like I grew up in the 80s/90s, but I have *no idea* about popular culture from that era. Drives my husband nuts..."how can you not know so-and-so famous person/such-and-such TV show!?" I wasn't allowed that type of media. Or to play with Barbies.

And yes, my daughters have Barbies and High School Musical backbacks... :laughing

NO Barbies?????????????

[Meghan Schoonover]

Nope, my mom didn't like the marketing surrounding them, and the body-image stuff, of course.

[Susan Unger]

Nope, my mom didn't like the marketing surrounding them, and the body-image stuff, of course.

Don't recall the marketing around them [I was just a kid so what do I know?] but I can see the body image part.

[Meghan Schoonover]

Marketing as in it teaches you to want more and more stuff...more Barbie Jeeps, more outfits, more dolls, more accessories, more pencils/backpacks/clothes branded with Barbie, etc.

[Barbara Moulton]

The question is, did Jim listen to that type of music in the 50s?

I think Jim leans more to the Lawrence Welk type music :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opm1zuEHZUU

[Meghan Schoonover]

Yoo-hoo Jim...want to comment on a thread containing Lawrence Welk, body image, marketing to children, and 50's rock 'n roll? I think we scared him off!

:laughing

[Jim Franklin]

Been getting ready to drive up to Billings, MT tomorrow to visit my in laws including my 92 year old mother in law. We will be gone and out of touch until Tuesday the 19th.

First of all I have never been to a dance and there was no TV in my living quarters until about 1957 because a college classmate needed some money and sold his TV to my roommate and me for $20. I can't remember any Nazarene youth mentioning American Bandstand. The song titles and artists I have heard of mostly by remembering some things other people were talking about. Elvis was of the Devil.

I did not have a date until I was 19 and in college because my mother warned me about "naughty girls." Finally in the 1959-60 school year my roommates lined me up with doubledates with 45 different girls in one semester. Mostly I was along for the ride to see ballgames and attend Christian college socials.

Barbara is correct about enjoying Lawrence Welk, if fact it is hard for me to understand anyone who doesn't. My car radio is set on the KBSU public broadcasting station because it is mainly all classical music but today Esther
complained about it and so I turned it off.

Are you making fun of an elderly person?

[Susan Unger]

Finally in the 1959-60 school year my roommates lined me up with doubledates with 45 different girls in one semester.

45???????????? How'd you get any studying done? :p

[Meghan Schoonover]

Are you making fun of an elderly person?

I would never make fun of you, Jim. ((hug))

45 girls! Yikes! I haven't been on 45 dates, total!

[Sue Pyles]

Been getting ready to drive up to Billings, MT tomorrow to visit my in laws including my 92 year old mother in law. We will be gone and out of touch until Tuesday the 19th.

First of all I have never been to a dance and there was no TV in my living quarters until about 1957 because a college classmate needed some money and sold his TV to my roommate and me for $20. I can't remember any Nazarene youth mentioning American Bandstand. The song titles and artists I have heard of mostly by remembering some things other people were talking about. Elvis was of the Devil.

I did not have a date until I was 19 and in college because my mother warned me about "naughty girls." Finally in the 1959-60 school year my roommates lined me up with doubledates with 45 different girls in one semester. Mostly I was along for the ride to see ballgames and attend Christian college socials.

Barbara is correct about enjoying Lawrence Welk, if fact it is hard for me to understand anyone who doesn't. My car radio is set on the KBSU public broadcasting station because it is mainly all classical music but today Esther
complained about it and so I turned it off.

Are you making fun of an elderly person?

You made a comment in the "Sixties" Post that your decade was the 50's...The Happy Days Crowd. I was only trying to help you relive those days. I guess I goofed. I forgot all about Lawrence Welk. I would have never associated him with The Fonz.

[Jim Franklin]

I really did get a kick out of what the popular view of the 50s is to many but I just thought I would throw in the difference between a Nazarene parsonage ambiance and that popular view.

The trip went well and we did enjoy our visit with our Montana and Wyoming in laws and their offspring. Even met some we had never met before. One nephew's father in law goes on work missions for their church in Wolf Point, MT. My 92 year old mother in law was quite chipper and was glad for our visit. She will be 93 on January 4.

[Jim Franklin]

One more comment: Our mother decided she would try to get a bit closer to my sister and me as teens and spent a couple of dollars and ordered a record that had about 18 snips of the "popular" songs at the time. My sister and I knowing how tight the budget asked her right away why she had wasted her two dollars on something we did not care about. I never felt that I was cheated out of fun and enjoyment of my teen years by adherring to the standards of the Nazarene church and I still adher to most all of them.