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Thanks Ed Sharpe archivist for SMECC
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Gayle Goudy Kochanski" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, August 09, 2003 8:50 PM
Subject: Re: 1950s Christmas gifts!
> Bakelite was used extensively in radios in the 1930s. But when t.v.
> became the principle form of electronic entertainment, the radio
> industry responded with the transistor radio in the 1950s. That might
> be a gift for a teenager.
>
>
> -------------------
> > Dad got Old Spice, and on the dresser kinds of things,
> > like the Kangaroo caddy. There were ceramic cats,
> > usually Siamese, with cut glass turquoise eyes.
> >
> > Those aluminum tumblers were recently going on Ebay
> > for quite a pretty penny.
> >
> > Dad had Pabst or Schlitz Malt Liquor glasses, watched
> > Friday Night at the Fights, and lusted over the
> > Cigars, Cigarettes, Tipparillos gal.
> >
> > Playdoh was good, Silly Putty was incredible.
> >
> > Chinese checkers and Parchesi were left out of the
> > games thread.
> >
> > I'm not sure when Bakelite became fashionable, but it
> > was a hot item.
> >
> > Key skates were cool and were what most kits played
> > with (later you used them on your home made
> > skateboard), but if you were super cool, you got shoe
> > skates like the car hops wore.
> >
> > How about Necco Wafers and Jujubees at the movies
> > (damn those things never got out of your teeth)? For
> > other candy treats, check out this one:
> >
> > http://www.nostalgiccandy.com/?source=overture
> >
> > If you got jammies for your birthday or Christmas,
> > they were probably Baby Dolls if you were a girl.
> >
> > You might have gotten a fancy petticoat or two to wear
> > underneath your full-skirted dress.
> >
> > A little girl might have gotten a nice baby buggy (can
> > you say "Ruggy, buggy, baby bumpers?") or a
> > perambulator in the UK for her doll.
> >
> > Mother had pyrex dishes for casseroles, too.
> >
> > My dad sold stainless steel pots and pans door to door
> > while going to college as a way of making money
> > because it was quite the fashion. Could have ended up
> > under mother's Christmas tree--or upside Father's head
> > if he tried to pass off some lousy pots instead of
> > that jewelry she wanted.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --- "Nancy S. Powell" <[log in to unmask]>
> > wrote:
> > > I just sent a message, but more on this.
> > >
> > > I don't remember what my parents received. I think
> > > Dads got ties on every
> > > occassion, hankerchief sets in boxes from Sears,
> > > etc.
> > >
> > > Indigo Nights brings up several things I remember
> > > also, like candy
> > > cigarettes ( white sugar with red tips, or chocolate
> > > wrapped in paper or
> > > foil, in cigarette boxes to look just like the real
> > > thing), Nik-l Lips or
> > > something like that, wax bottles with colored sugar
> > > syrup inside, you'd bite
> > > off the tops, suck out the juice, and chew the wax.
> > > These were probably more
> > > summer time things than Christmas.
> > >
> > > Lionel trains and train sets in general. My Dad made
> > > me a big train platform
> > > and got electric trains for it. Since he didn't have
> > > any sons, I got to be
> > > the tomboy, and he probably wanted to play with the
> > > trains too.
> > >
> > > Nancy Drew books - I was an avid reader.
> > >
> > > View Master- I still have mine.
> > >
> > > Toy stoves and kitchen sets, fake plastic food that
> > > looked like the cans &
> > > boxes in the grocery stores.
> > >
> > > Nancy Powell
> > >
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Kimberly Kenney, Curator"
> > > <[log in to unmask]>
> > > To: <[log in to unmask]>
> > > Sent: Friday, August 08, 2003 9:25 AM
> > > Subject: 1950s Christmas gifts!
> > >
> > >
> > > > Hi all,
> > > >
> > > > I am planning a 1950s exhibition for Christmastime
> > > > this year (called "Jingle Bell Rock: a 1950s
> > > > Holiday"), and our theme is going to be things
> > > that
> > > > would have been given or recieved as Christmas
> > > gifts.
> > > >
> > > > I am grouping them into categories by family
> > > member,
> > > > like "Gifts for Dad," "Gifts for Teens," etc.
> > > >
> > > > So I want to pick your brains about CLASSIC 1950s
> > > > objects that we absolutely MUST include.
> > > >
> > > > We will be soliciting museum members, the
> > > community,
> > > > and other local museums for loan items to augment
> > > our
> > > > collection. I would like to provide a "wish list"
> > > of
> > > > what we're looking for.
> > > >
> > > > Thank you!
> > > > Kim Kenney
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > =====
> > > > Kimberly A. Kenney, Curator
> > > > McKinley Museum
> > > > 800 McKinley Monument Dr. NW
> > > > Canton OH 44708 * 330-455-7043
> > > > "Let us ever remember that our interests are in
> > > concord, not conflict; and
> > > that our real eminence rests in the victories of
> > > peace, not those of
> > > ar." --25th United States President William
> > > McKinley
> > > >
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