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Donna, USA, Food My Mum Cooked in the 1960's
Food in the sixties, my mother cooked about every meal we had, we rarely went to a restaurants, except when we were on vacation. This was before there was a mcdonalds on every corner. We had creamed chicken with rice or toast, meatloaf and something mama called porcupine balls made out of ground beef too. Chicken was usually fried and cut up by my father, not sure why. Mama made composed salads out of a pear or peach half on a lettuce leaf and it had some mayo in the cavity with grated cheese on top of it. The only crackers i recall are saltines. we had potato chips and fritoes to go with our sandwiches which were made out of white bread and bologna, never ham or turkey or the healthy things we have today. Or maybe peanut butter or egg salad. No one had ever heard or seen yogurt, it would have been labeled a foreign food. And as far as those go, pizza was not everywhere either, I remember my mom making a pizza from a boxed mix like Chef Boy AR Dee and she put cheddar cheese on it! I do not remember seeing a lot of overweight people like we have today even though we ate a lot of fried food and used real mayonaise in our potato salads. My mom always had cookies around, she baked pretty often, usually oatmeal or peanut butter. I do remember being told to eat my peas, couldn't stand them as a child, but i LOVE them today. I wonder what the kids today are going to remember.
Traditional Milkman
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Milkmans Son, United States, My father was a traditional milkman
My father was the traditional milkman. Up at 3:00 a.m., got to the dairy by 4:30, on the milk route by 5:00, home be 5:30 p.m. He had (and still has some) of the original wooden milk crates and glass bottles w/caps. He would be given bottles of "booze" in the milk shoots as gifts from his customers. No matter how much snow or ice, he would get the milk/cream/etc delivered to everyone. I treasure those days when I would get up early with him and eat breakfast and watch the sun rise. He taught me a great work ethic and you do not have to make alot of money to have a happy life. He is 80 now, and his granddaughter is interviewing him for her 4th grade project on being a milkman. He still roller skates/dances and can bike up to 20 miles per day. I thank God for him.
Milkmans Son, United States, My father was a traditional milkman
My father was the traditional milkman. Up at 3:00 a.m., got to the dairy by 4:30, on the milk route by 5:00, home be 5:30 p.m. He had (and still has some) of the original wooden milk crates and glass bottles w/caps. He would be given bottles of "booze" in the milk shoots as gifts from his customers. No matter how much snow or ice, he would get the milk/cream/etc delivered to everyone. I treasure those days when I would get up early with him and eat breakfast and watch the sun rise. He taught me a great work ethic and you do not have to make alot of money to have a happy life. He is 80 now, and his granddaughter is interviewing him for her 4th grade project on being a milkman. He still roller skates/dances and can bike up to 20 miles per day. I thank God for him.
TV shows I watched in the 70s
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John, USA, TV shows I miss from the 70's
I was remembering some of the TV I watched as a child and missing them , just a few of my own favourites I can remember below
Chips
2 officers from the California Highway Patrol riding their motorcycles through southern California
M*A*S*H
About Field hospital based in Vietnam during the Vietnam War
Added By Webmaster for The People History
Vietnam should read Korean War as pointed out by our visitors in comments
Sanford & Son
Sitcom based around father and son junk dealers
Happy Days
Teenage life in the mid-1950s. featuring The Fonz who can forget thumbs-up gesture,"aaayyh!", and leather jacket
The Muppetts
The Waltons
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
Bob Newhart
If you look at the list not one was based on violence how times have changed
I am sure I missed some others that I can't remember right now so please leave your comments with your own favourites
John, USA, TV shows I miss from the 70's
I was remembering some of the TV I watched as a child and missing them , just a few of my own favourites I can remember below
Chips
2 officers from the California Highway Patrol riding their motorcycles through southern California
M*A*S*H
About Field hospital based in Vietnam during the Vietnam War
Added By Webmaster for The People History
Vietnam should read Korean War as pointed out by our visitors in comments
Sanford & Son
Sitcom based around father and son junk dealers
Happy Days
Teenage life in the mid-1950s. featuring The Fonz who can forget thumbs-up gesture,"aaayyh!", and leather jacket
The Muppetts
The Waltons
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
Bob Newhart
If you look at the list not one was based on violence how times have changed
I am sure I missed some others that I can't remember right now so please leave your comments with your own favourites
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