You kids think you got it tough today huh? Well let me tell you

[Crazy Guggenheim]

something! When I was born - in the 50's - this is what we had to tolerate!!






And if we didn't listen, our parents would feed us to the polar bears!

[candy]

1. I was born in the thirties ----We had Benny Goodman--lucky us!

[Crazy Guggenheim]

4. That's better. Lot's better!

Tell these whipper snappers what we went through.

[babylonsister]

6. candy, you look much younger! :o} I love Benny! nt

[babylonsister]

2. How sick is this? I grew up in NY and Mom

brought us to New York City to see The Mitch Miller Show! :silly:

[Crazy Guggenheim]

7. That's child abuse!!

[babylonsister]

17. Then don't get me started on

The Match Game w/Gene Rayurn. Yep, I saw that, too!

[Steven_S]

3. Christmas wasn't Christmas....

without the Mitch Miller Sing-Along.


Then Jerry Vale,


And then.....

[AntiCoup2K4]

5. Shit, I was born in the mid-60's and had to put up with that crap

My parents watched the goddamned Lawrence Welk show every Sunday night and dragged out the Mitch Miller Christmas album every year.

And this was before I had a stereo that could drown out such horrid crap :scared:

[babylonsister]

22. Admit it; you loved it!

Ah, I remember Lawrence Welk also (thanks, Mimi, my grandmother); I laugh every Sunday if I go to PBS in Houston, for there he is in all his glory with his troupe of merry performers, and BUBBLES!

[Crazy Guggenheim]

8. And we had to behave ourselves too!!

[Southsideirish]

9. My brother worked a 2nd shift construction job - in high school ('40's)

and in grammar school he had a milk route (with a horse) before school in the morning (on the south side of Chicago). When he got to school the nuns would chide him for being so "dirty" and the poor guy had been running crates of milk up to 3rd floor walk-ups for the milkman/driver for hours.
Now his grandkids are driven to la crosse practice and fly to far flung tennis camps while on spring break in high school. I guess its the American dream.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

10. Georgie Jessel!!

[JohnnyRingo]

11. Yep....We only had THREE channels back then

You tell them kids, Craz. My parents didn't need a TV remote until I left home.

I remember laughing at my ol' man's command to "Stop flappin' that dial, or it'll break!"

Couple months later we had to use a matchbook behind the dial.

Sunday afternoons were especially torturous.....My Mom used to watch "Polka Varieties" on Channel 8 from Cleveland.
(Frankie Yankovich, I think)

[Crazy Guggenheim]

12. And we suffered! My father said "You break that dial and I'll

break you!"

[ovidsen]

21. We only had ONE channel

in Elmira, NY in the 1950s... channel 12 from Binghamton.

Needless to say, we didn't have to worry about breaking the channel changer.

Ah yes, Elmira. The place that brought us Tommy Hilfiger and Brian Williams.

[MuseRider]

13. SInce I played

the clarinet my grandparents would call me every time the clarinet player (Peanuts?) played on the Lawrence Welk show and my parents would find me and make me listen. Ewwwwww.

I prefered Mitch to Larry, I never could stand all the bubbles.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

14. Here's a picture of Joe Feeney.

[MuseRider]

It was

Peanuts Hucko

[deutsey]

15. I couldn't even afford to be born in the 20th century

so I had to be born in the late 19th century and our family struggled just to make our way up to the mid-1930s.

I'm still struggling today just to maintain a late-1970s way of life.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

16. Here's where I was born! In a hut!

[knowbody0]

18. it was a command in the nut house i grew up in

i get a gut ache just lookin at those pictures

[ElsewheresDaughter]

19. never mind

[Crazy Guggenheim]

20. Yeah ..........