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The way we were in 1958
- Thread starter heir-to-the-wind
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The passage of time does strange things.
Images I saw as a child have haunted me for so long that they seem more like dreams, rather than reality.
Expo '58 in Brussels, Belgium has haunted me all my life.
All the people I've known since the end of WWII were trying to tell me a story about the future they hoped was waiting for me.
These people from so long ago seem kinda silly today.
But their hopes about the future was for you and me, not for themselves.
The biggest event in Canada in 1958 was probably the first flight of the Avro Arrow, caught on film in this short newsreel.
Thad1527
Uncharted
My parents bought their house in 1957 in suburban Philadelphia. The deed had racial restrictions.
Some things change.
Some things change.
After all these years, last night I found the most comprehensive color footage I've ever seen of Expo '58!
This video covers waay more than the Pavilion of Czechoslovakia. Many of the fair's exhibits are covered including art shows, folk dancing and music, the City of Brussels; AND:
A brief shot, near the very end, of the Atomium at night with it's display lights active!
This video covers waay more than the Pavilion of Czechoslovakia. Many of the fair's exhibits are covered including art shows, folk dancing and music, the City of Brussels; AND:
A brief shot, near the very end, of the Atomium at night with it's display lights active!
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1958 junior high school and PE class and jockstrap as part of our PE uniform.
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peeonme
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!958, I was 6 years old and in the first grade. My dad took us camping and fishing a lot, we lived 3 miles outside of a small town and me and my older brother spent most of our free time wondering around in the woods.
Life was good.
Life was good.
Dudes!
Let's go for a ride in the 1958 Eldorado Brougham.
Let's go for a ride in the 1958 Eldorado Brougham.
Gorgeous Cadillac! It's a serious collector car. I remember the huge fins on cars. L.O.L.! Our neighbor had a '57 BelAir coupe that I absolutely loved. When the '58s came out, I was very disappointed with the successor to the '57 Chevrolet. It was ugly!
In 1958, I was in second grade in the Miami, FL area. We had a '56 Chevrolet and listened to transistor radios. My sister is 4 years older and got me into music when I was a little kid. Elvis was huge! Sis and I had hula hoops, and the kids in the neighborhood would have contests to see who could keep it spinning the longest.
Even in the wicked hot heat of Florida, our newly built home did not have central air conditioning. Mom hated the heat and the insects and wanted to go back to NJ, which we did the following May when sis and I finished the school year. Back at that time, Interstate 95 must not have been completed the entire stretch between FL and NJ. Some of the roads were 3 lane - one north, one south, and a mutual passing lane in the middle that was used by both northbound and southbound traffic. That middle lane was jokingly referred to as the "suicide lane".
The big deal at the time was Communism and the "red scare". I was too young to understand what the cold war was, but my parents spoke about it often. My life was worry-free. All that I had to deal with was school and play.
In 1958, I was in second grade in the Miami, FL area. We had a '56 Chevrolet and listened to transistor radios. My sister is 4 years older and got me into music when I was a little kid. Elvis was huge! Sis and I had hula hoops, and the kids in the neighborhood would have contests to see who could keep it spinning the longest.
Even in the wicked hot heat of Florida, our newly built home did not have central air conditioning. Mom hated the heat and the insects and wanted to go back to NJ, which we did the following May when sis and I finished the school year. Back at that time, Interstate 95 must not have been completed the entire stretch between FL and NJ. Some of the roads were 3 lane - one north, one south, and a mutual passing lane in the middle that was used by both northbound and southbound traffic. That middle lane was jokingly referred to as the "suicide lane".
The big deal at the time was Communism and the "red scare". I was too young to understand what the cold war was, but my parents spoke about it often. My life was worry-free. All that I had to deal with was school and play.
We call them 'suicide lanes', too, but not as jokes. The name is well-earned.
Thank you RoadBike, we're both members of that special generation!
As long as I live my favorite Hanna-Barbera TV series will be that improbable dog and cat duo:
"Ruff & Reddy".
The Soviet Union had Sputnik, but us American kids had Ruff & Reddy to take us to adventures in outer space every Saturday morning. And please give Hanna-Barbera credit. I'm convinced that Ruff & Reddy were key to the future world of, The Jetsons. Plenty of familiar design elements were in display in every Ruff & Reddy cartoon waay back in 1958.
As long as I live my favorite Hanna-Barbera TV series will be that improbable dog and cat duo:
"Ruff & Reddy".
The Soviet Union had Sputnik, but us American kids had Ruff & Reddy to take us to adventures in outer space every Saturday morning. And please give Hanna-Barbera credit. I'm convinced that Ruff & Reddy were key to the future world of, The Jetsons. Plenty of familiar design elements were in display in every Ruff & Reddy cartoon waay back in 1958.
Rickrock
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I also remember 1958 and we had to deal only with school and play and had no real worries. We sometimes played in a nearby woods. I remember the tail fins on cars in the late 1950's and the red scare of communism.
fabulouslyghetto
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heir-to-the-wind
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And in 1958, few admitted to being ''queer.''
I can't begin to recount all the strange things I've seen over my lifetime. No matter how I tried to explain people concluded I was either crazy or making it all up.
Only with the rise of the internet have I been able to piece together and share what I knew all along, but simply had no proof.
How many of you guys know of a submarine that used flippers for propulsion instead of propellers? I'm willing to bet that almost everyone has an idea about, or maybe even has seen, a submarine with legs and flippers, paddling like a fish underwater.
Well hang on - cuz I know where the best image of the "swimming submarine" comes from and it's yet another easter egg from the year 1958 with a tie-in to the Exposition Universelle et Internationale de Bruxelles, or Expo 58!
From Czechoslovakia in 1958 comes one of the most visually stunning movies I've ever seen. In Czech it's called, "Vynalez zkazy", (roughly translates to "Invention for Destruction", I've been told). In the English speaking world the title was changed to, "The Fabulous World of Jules Verne".
I firt saw this movie on television as a 5 year old, unable to understand exactly what I was seeing. However, you can imagine the impact this movie made on me as a child. My attempts to describe this film were useless. The whole film is a visual masterpiece. An entire movie designed to resemble a Victorian engraving treated to animation!
This is just one of a whole series of films I saw as a kid that had me thinking that somewhere in the universe there must be a place where ideas become real just by thinking them.
As for Expo 58 - you tell me.
Only with the rise of the internet have I been able to piece together and share what I knew all along, but simply had no proof.
How many of you guys know of a submarine that used flippers for propulsion instead of propellers? I'm willing to bet that almost everyone has an idea about, or maybe even has seen, a submarine with legs and flippers, paddling like a fish underwater.
Well hang on - cuz I know where the best image of the "swimming submarine" comes from and it's yet another easter egg from the year 1958 with a tie-in to the Exposition Universelle et Internationale de Bruxelles, or Expo 58!
From Czechoslovakia in 1958 comes one of the most visually stunning movies I've ever seen. In Czech it's called, "Vynalez zkazy", (roughly translates to "Invention for Destruction", I've been told). In the English speaking world the title was changed to, "The Fabulous World of Jules Verne".
I firt saw this movie on television as a 5 year old, unable to understand exactly what I was seeing. However, you can imagine the impact this movie made on me as a child. My attempts to describe this film were useless. The whole film is a visual masterpiece. An entire movie designed to resemble a Victorian engraving treated to animation!
This is just one of a whole series of films I saw as a kid that had me thinking that somewhere in the universe there must be a place where ideas become real just by thinking them.
As for Expo 58 - you tell me.
fabulouslyghetto
Kween of Hot Topics
why isn't this style of music making a comeback?