Disers age 50 and older I need your help with hw

[jellybean87]

In my child pshychology class I have to interview someone older than 50 about their childhood. I would ask my grandparents but its a little to late at night to do that and its due tomorrow. Thank you for all of you help.

1. Name and age (if you dont want to put your age, please put the range)

2. Where did u grow up? (state)

3. How many children are in your family?

4. Describe a typical meal you remember having when you were young.

5. Did your famliy go out to eat very often? Where did you go?

6. Do you remember what you paid for...?
A. A gallon of gas...
B. A loaf of bread....
C. A gallon of milk....
D. A hamburger at a restaurant...
E. A pair of shoes....
F. A pair of jeans...

7.Describe popular clothes and hairstyles when you were young.

8.How often did you family go shopping...And where did you shop?

9. Did your school have a dress code? Describe it.

10. What type of music was popular when you were young? Also do you remember the names of some popular songs?

11. How old were you when your parents let you date?

12. Did you have a curefew when you were around 16? What was it?

13. How did your parents discipline the kids?

14. Did you get to use the family car very ofter whne you got you driver's license?

15. What were some of the thing you did in you spare time?

16. Did you have a job when you were a teenager? How much did you make an hour?

17. List some things we have now that were not invented yet when you were young.

18. What was your favorite childhood activity?

THANK YOU SOOO MUCH AGAIN FOR ALL OF YOUR HELP!!!

 

[Dan Murphy]

1. Name and age (if you dont want to put ur age, please put the
range)

Dan Murphy 60

2. Where did u grow up? (state)

IL

3. How many children are in your family?

3

4. Describe a typical meal you remember having when you were young.

Meat (steaks, roasts, chops), potatoes, vegetables, dessert fairly often (pie, cookies)

5. Did your famliy go out to eat very often? Where did you go?

Maybe once a week. Local family restaurants (no fast food then, LOL)

6. Do you remember what you paid for...?
A. A gallon of gas... $0.28
B. A loaf of bread.... $0.30
C. A gallon of milk.... $0.50
D. A hamburger at a restaurant... $0.40
E. A pair of shoes.... $10
F. A pair of jeans... ?

7.Describe popular clothes and hairstyles when you were young.

Me? Jeans, tee-shirt, gym shoes. Hair, just combed back, with a part, greased up a bit, as a teen, a lot.

8.How often did you family go shopping...And where did you shop?

9. DId you shool have a dress code? Describe it.

No jeans, no gym shoes, collared shirt.

10. What type of music was popular when you were young? Also do you remember the names of some popular songs?

Elvis was coming in, all the early rock, plus 'comtemporary', Frank Sinatra, Rosemary Clooney, etc.

11. How old were you when your parents let you date?

I suppose 15 or so

12. Did you ahve a curefew when you were around 16? What was it?

No (and a bad idea that was)

13. How did you parents discipline the kids?

14. Did you get to use the family car very ofter whne you got you driver's license?

Got my own at 16, a '55 Ford, in '60, for $590

15. What were some of thing you did in you spare time?

As a teen? 'Hung out', got in trouble.

16. Did you ahve a job when you were a teenager? How much did you make an horu?

Worked grocery store as early teen, maybe $0.80 an hour.

17. List som things we have now that were not invented yet when you were young.

18. What was your favorite childhood activity?

Teen? Hanging out. Younger kid? Playing war.

 

[jellybean87]

THANK YOU THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! You have no idea how much you have helped me!!!

 

[Randi]

woman, age 60
grew up in Vermont
only child
broiled chicken, boiled potatoes, and a veggie. rarely dessert
Summers we ate out more frequently, but we usually ate out at least once a week. Everything from hot dog stands to fancy restaurants.
Prices Dan put down seem correct. I do remember that take home pay was around $30 per week & both my parents worked. A week's worth of groceries was maybe $10 or so., at the local A&P.
Jeans, sweatshirts, boyfriend's shirts over a tee, knee length skirts, crew neck sweaters. Teased hair, permed, tried to have curls, but then straight became fashionable. Yea!
No dress code, but if anything was deemed really inappropriate you would get sent home to change.
Elvis of course, Bill Haley's Rock Around the Clock, Fabian, anything from American Bandstand
started single dating at 15, before that it was in groups. Home parties were popular.
Weekend nights curfew was midnight. School nights was 9.
Disciplined by my mother with a "look" and she would tell me how disappointed she was. Boy that made me cringe!
I had my mom's car after I got my license. I would take her to work and pick her up. When I turned 18, my dad gave me an MG. Sport cars were very popular with the kids I hung out with.
I did a lot of babysitting for spending money, .50 cents an hour. And I worked summers in a drug store as a clerk once I turned 18.
Can't remember for how much.
Was active in Scouts, school activities like Band, took art lessons, and movies were a must at least weekly. Also loved to clothes shop.
We did have TV, got our first one in 1948. No cell phones, or computers though.
Favorite activity was reading and traveling(we did a lot of traveling!) When I was younger, I played with dolls and paper dolls a lot.
Hope this helps.

 

[crazyforgoofy]

1. Name and age (if you dont want to put your age, please put the range) Mary Alice 54

2. Where did u grow up? Missouri

3. How many children are in your family? 4

4. Describe a typical meal you remember having when you were young. roast beef, mashed potatoes, homemade bread, green beans, apple pie.

5. Did your famliy go out to eat very often? very infrequently Where did you go? a cafe or the local drive in

6. Do you remember what you paid for...?
A. A gallon of gas... .45
B. A loaf of bread.... .40
C. A gallon of milk.... We "grew" our own on the farm
D. A hamburger at a restaurant... maybe fifty cents
E. A pair of shoes.... $5-10
F. A pair of jeans... $5

7.Describe popular clothes and hairstyles when you were young.
Girls liked mini skirts when I was in high school. I remember the "dip" so we could get a drink from the fountain without showing our behinds. Got sent home to change my senior year for wearing a "granny" (long) dress.

8.How often did you family go shopping...And where did you shop? A couple of times a month or less - in "town" at the farm store, the grocery store and the drug store.

9. Did your school have a dress code? Describe it. Girls couldn't wear skirts too short or too long. Boys couldn't wear white t- shirts without a button up shirt over them. There was NO touching allowed in the halls or in school property, heaven help us if we held hands!

10. What type of music was popular when you were young? The Beatles, The Mamas and the Papas, Supremes, Righteous Brothers. Also do you remember the names of some popular songs? (You're My) Soul and Inspiration, California Dreamin

11. How old were you when your parents let you date? 16

12. Did you have a curefew when you were around 16? What was it? No

13. How did your parents discipline the kids? lots of talking, grounding

14. Did you get to use the family car very ofter whne you got you driver's license? occasionally

15. What were some of the thing you did in you spare time? hung out with friends, babysat, listened to music.

16. Did you have a job when you were a teenager? How much did you make an hour? babysitting. $1.00 an hour if I was lucky

17. List some things we have now that were not invented yet when you were young.

18. What was your favorite childhood activity? reading

 

[phamton]

1. Name and age (if you dont want to put your age, please put the range)

Bev Hamilton

2. Where did u grow up? (state)

Texas

3. How many children are in your family?

2

4. Describe a typical meal you remember having when you were young.

Roast with baked potatoes and carrots; Fried pork chops with mashed potatoes and green beans ; Fried chicken with potato salad, corn, peas; chicken fried steak with gravy and mashed potatoes. Common appetizers were deviled eggs, orange jello with grated carrots in it, celery stuffed with pimento cheese, vienna sausages.

5. Did your famliy go out to eat very often? Where did you go?

We went out to eat every Sunday right after church, usually to a popular barbeque restaurant.

6. Do you remember what you paid for...?

A. A gallon of gas...

25¢ a gallon (gasoline was cheap in Texas)

B. A loaf of bread....

15¢

C. A gallon of milk....

Don't remember

D. A hamburger at a restaurant...

15-25¢

E. A pair of shoes....

Don't remember

F. A pair of jeans...

Don't remember. Girls didn't wear jeans when I was a kid. They didn't become popular for girls until I was in my teens. We had to wear dresses to public schools.

7.Describe popular clothes and hairstyles when you were young.

My mom wore a Bubble hairdo when I was a kid. Girls with short hair had duck tails. Longer hair was in a Pageboy or in a pony tail or "dog ears".

8.How often did you family go shopping...And where did you shop?

Once a week at either Safeway or the Piggly Wiggly.

9. Did your school have a dress code? Describe it.

See above. Girls had to wear dresses. The dress had to be long enough to touch the top of the knees.

10. What type of music was popular when you were young? Also do you remember the names of some popular songs?

The Beatles, Beach boys in my early teens. My first album that I owned was "Meet the Beatles" when I was 14.

11. How old were you when your parents let you date?

14 years old

12. Did you have a curefew when you were around 16? What was it?

No. I just had to be home within a few minutes after the drive-in movie was over.

13. How did your parents discipline the kids?

spankings, grounding

14. Did you get to use the family car very ofter whne you got you driver's license?

Yes. I got my drivers license at 14 years old. Yes, you did read that age correctly. If we took drivers ed we could get our license at 14. I had already been driving a year or so though as I lived in a small farming community.

15. What were some of the thing you did in you spare time?

only thing in my town to do was go to the movies. Also everyone went to the high school football games even when you were still in elem. school.

When we were kids we played outside all summer, we played kick the can, jump rope, red rover, touch football, roller skating (the kind with the keys to put on the roller skates), swimming at the public pool, bicycling riding and horseback riding

16. Did you have a job when you were a teenager? How much did you make an hour?

I worked on Saturdays at the local five and dime store in high school my senior year. I made a dollar an hour. I made 50¢ an hour babysitting once I turned 12 years old. I also got 50¢ a week allowance as a kid.

17. List some things we have now that were not invented yet when you were young.

microwave, personal computers, xerox machines (they may have been invented but we had to use carbon paper in typing class), and mimeograph machines (the kind with purple ink) for running off school papers in class. Ballpoint pens were invented but we could only use real ink and cartridge pens untill we got to high school.

18. What was your favorite childhood activity?

horseback riding, roller skating, swimming

 

[Virgo10]

Originally posted by jellybean87
In my child pshychology class I have to interview someone older than 50 about their childhood. I would ask my grandparents but its a little to late at night to do that and its due tomorrow. Thank you for all of you help.

1. Name and age (if you dont want to put your age, please put the range)
Roberta Blair Age 56

2. Where did u grow up? (state)
Massachusetts

3. How many children are in your family?
2

4. Describe a typical meal you remember having when you were young.
The four of us sitting at the kitchen table eating whatever my mother prepared.

5. Did your famliy go out to eat very often? Where did you go?
Rarely. My mother was a waitress and I don't think she enjoyed eating out all that much.

6. Do you remember what you paid for...?
A. A gallon of gas... 15 cents/gal when I first started driving in 1966!
B. A loaf of bread.... ?
C. A gallon of milk....?
D. A hamburger at a restaurant...15 cents 1966
E. A pair of shoes....?
F. A pair of jeans...?

7.Describe popular clothes and hairstyles when you were young.
While I was in high school you were either a mod or a rat. Mods wore preppy type clothes while the rats wore leather.
Long straight hair was in when I was a teen. Some girls were still into teasing their hair into beehives. Also french twists were popular.

8.How often did you family go shopping...And where did you shop?
Food shopping was at least once a week. The stores I remember were Kennedy's for milk, eggs, etc. circa 1950's and then Purity Surpreme and A&P, late 50's and during the 60's.
For clothes we had Lerners, Remicks (owned by the actress Lee Remick's family), Jordan Marsh and Filenes among others.
Our first Mall opened in the mid 60's (South Shore Plaza in Braintree, MA) The anchor stores were Jordan Marsh and Filenes. It had no roof for years and on the 4th of July they use to set off fireworks in the field that is now home to a Sears.

9. Did your school have a dress code? Describe it.
You could never wear shorts or pants to school and the skirts/dresses had to touch the floor if they asked you to kneel down. When I was in grammar school we wore something called leggins in the winter. It was a snow suit type garment that was made of the worst itchy material!

10. What type of music was popular when you were young? Also do you remember the names of some popular songs?
The first song I remember was called Green Door. As for singers, pre teen: Bobby Vee, Buddy Holly, Elvis. Teen years, the Beatles and the rest of the British Invasion. These were the people who had the songs everyone was talking about.

11. How old were you when your parents let you date?
I didn't date until I was out of high school.

12. Did you have a curefew when you were around 16? What was it?
10 p.m. on the weekend unless it was something special.

13. How did your parents discipline the kids?
As a young child, I can only remember being spanked a very few times. When I got older it was mostly being grounded.

14. Did you get to use the family car very ofter whne you got you driver's license?
Yes, all the time.

15. What were some of the thing you did in you spare time?
Pre teen: I was outside a lot playing with my friends. Hop scotch was big as were hula hoops. We also use to do something called penny walks. You'd flip a penny and if it came up heads you'd make a right turn at the next street or left if it was tails. Great exercise and you never knew where you'd end up. BTW, I can't believe that just popped into my head. I haven't thought about that in years!

16. Did you have a job when you were a teenager? How much did you make an hour?
My first real job was at John Hancock Insurance in Boston. I was 17 and they had just raised the starting rate to $1.65 and hour!

17. List some things we have now that were not invented yet when you were young.
LOL! Just about everything we take for granted now! Not sure if these hadn't been invented but no one I knew had them. Dish washers, electric can openers, color TV, portable radios, VCR's, satellites, polio vaccine, cable TV, weed wackers, unleaded gasoline, gas powered barbeque grills, self defrosting refridgerators and, of course, the more recent stuff like computers and CD's.

18. What was your favorite childhood activity?
As a pre teen: Going over to my grandmothers and checking out all her really old stuff. I think that's why I still love antiques to this day.
As a teen: hanging out with my friends and just living life to the fullest!

THANK YOU SOOO MUCH AGAIN FOR ALL OF YOUR HELP!!!
That was fun! Thanks for asking.

Roberta

 

[ladydancer]

1. Deanna, 51
2. Michigan
3. Mother raise me w/3 siblings. Father had 2 other children
4. Pinto beans and cornbread (my favorite)
5. About once a month. While out shopping
6. A. .20 a gallon
B,C,D, Don't remember
E. $5.00
F. Don't think I owned any jeans
7. Mini skirts, hip hugger pants, kind of like today only we tucked our shirts in our pants. Didn't show our middle. Also I remember a short fad. Paper dresses. You wore them a few times then threw them away. Long straight hair for girls. Guys were letting there hair grow since the Beatles came to the USA
8. Had to travel to next town to buy food. Clothes you had to travel farther. Maybe about 30 miles.
9. Yes, No pants for girls. That changed in 7th grade. There is a picture of me in the yearbook as one of the first girls to wear pants when the code changed.
10. Beatles, Monkees, Motown, Rolling Stones. "Satisfaction" by the Rolling Stones when I was 12.
11. 16
12. 8:00 or dark which ever came first on school nights as I had to be to bed by 9:00. Other would be midnight
13. Spanking
14. Only if I had a purpose. Could not have it for no good reason.
15. Summer- rode my bike, played baseball and other games, walked or rode my bike 3 miles to the convience store to buy a .12 pepsi. Drank it outside the store then took it back in got .02 deposit back then bought 2 pieces of .01 candy. Camped out in the yard alot in the summer. Winter-ice skated on any source of water we could find frozen. One source of frozen water was the pig pen across the road @ the farm. We would ice skate around the pigs.LOL Make snow forts.
16. @15 during the summer I babysat. $20.00 a week. @ 16 I work @ a Photography Studio. I think about $1.00 an hr.
17. Home Computers, microwave, cable (we had 3 channels), cell phones, portable phones, push button phones (rotary dial)
diet pop, disc player, beta max, vcr, dvd, 8 track tapes, cd's we had all of these over the years. Sleds without runners.
18. Ice Skating, Swimming, Dancing

 

[Micca]

Finally, I can say "Sorry, but I'm too young to help you out". Ask me again late 2005

 

[Jimbo]

1. Name and age (if you dont want to put your age, please put the range)

> Jim, age 52

2. Where did u grow up? (state)

> Wisconsin

3. How many children are in your family?

> 4, all boys

4. Describe a typical meal you remember having when you were young.

> Tuna casserole on Friday (we were Catholic)

5. Did your famliy go out to eat very often? Where did you go?

> We almost never went out to eat. Single income, four kids, the money wasn't there.

6. Do you remember what you paid for...?
A. A gallon of gas...
B. A loaf of bread....
C. A gallon of milk....
D. A hamburger at a restaurant...
E. A pair of shoes....
F. A pair of jeans...

> I never looked at price tags, just paid whatever it cost. I still act that way.

7.Describe popular clothes and hairstyles when you were young.

> The popular gus went with a "hood" look. Slicked back hair, ban-lon shirts, A-1 racer pants.

8.How often did you family go shopping...And where did you shop?

> I never went shopping. Like magic, clothes would show up before school started in September. That's all I know.

9. Did your school have a dress code? Describe it.

> No dress code. That sort of thing was unheard of back then.

10. What type of music was popular when you were young? Also do you remember the names of some popular songs?

> I started paying attention to music about the same time that the Beatles emerged. The first song that I really remember was "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" on the car radio.

11. How old were you when your parents let you date?

> 17. But the girls in my high school made me wait longer than that.

12. Did you have a curefew when you were around 16? What was it?

> 10:00

13. How did your parents discipline the kids?

> Spankings were all too common.

14. Did you get to use the family car very ofter whne you got you driver's license?

> No, until my dad got a second car, my grandfather's old car. After that, I think I was always able to get a car when I needed one.

15. What were some of the thing you did in you spare time?

> We played an awful lot of baseball in summer, either in the streets or on playgrounds. I was also partial to board games.

16. Did you have a job when you were a teenager? How much did you make an hour?

> I swept up and washed windows at a candy store. $1.10 per hour.

17. List some things we have now that were not invented yet when you were young.

> Cell phones (heck, touch tone phones!). Imported cars were invented, but I'd never seen one.

18. What was your favorite childhood activity?

> Board games, playing cards. I was a real game player.

 

[shortbun]

mimi guthrie
50
OH
3
steak, baked potato, salad or spaghetti, broccoli and garlic bread


we went out to eat a lot. We went to the local bowling alley's
dining room which was quite nice. Shrimp coctail and cheese burgers were my choice. We ordered pizza. We got Burger
Chef. We went to A&W in the summer for hot dogs and root beer.

Gas was $.25 when I first paid for it at 16

No idea how much bread was nor any of the others

Hair for boys was getting collar length then longer fast
Girls wore ratted hair or long stringy hair
girls wore lots of eye makeup
bell bottoms dragging the ground with fringe

 

[Feralpeg]

. Name and age (if you dont want to put your age, please put the range)

Peggy Kellogg Age 52

2. Where did u grow up? (state)

Iowa until I was 13. Missouri after that.

3. How many children are in your family?

4

4. Describe a typical meal you remember having when you were young.

Meat (beef roast, fried chicken, pork), potatos (mashed), gravy, vegtable

5. Did your famliy go out to eat very often? Where did you go?

Maybe once or twice a year. A nice restaurant. No fast food.

6. Do you remember what you paid for...?
A. A gallon of gas... $.30
B. A loaf of bread.... $.25
C. A gallon of milk.... I don't remember
D. A hamburger at a restaurant... $.40
E. A pair of shoes.... $10.00
F. A pair of jeans... I really never had jeans until I was out of high school. We wore stretch pants.

7.Describe popular clothes and hairstyles when you were young.
Black turtleneck sweaters, short boots (Beatles), hiphugger pants, Neru jackets, mini-skirts

8.How often did you family go shopping...And where did you shop? We shopped for clothes each year before school started. Other than that we didn't really shop except for food.

9. Did your school have a dress code? Describe it.
No pants for girls. Skirts bottoms had to touch the middle of your knee. No long hair on boys.

10. What type of music was popular when you were young? Also do you remember the names of some popular songs?
The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Dave Clark Five. Too many to list here.

11. How old were you when your parents let you date?

At 13, I could go to school functions or to the movies if a parent dropped us off and picked us up.

12. Did you have a curefew when you were around 16? What was it?

I never had a curefew. My brothers did. I guess I was good about getting home at a descent time on my own.

13. How did your parents discipline the kids?

I remember my brothers getting a swat once in awhile. All my mother had to do was let me know that she was disappointed in me. It was the worst punishment.

14. Did you get to use the family car very ofter whne you got you driver's license?

Yes. I had to take turns with my sister, but we could get my Mom's car most of the time.

15. What were some of the thing you did in you spare time?

Read, Listen to records, Watch TV, Go to the movies.

16. Did you have a job when you were a teenager? How much did you make an hour?

I babysat a lot. I usually got $1.50 an hour.

17. List some things we have now that were not invented yet when you were young.

PCs, CDs, DVDs, VCRs. We didn't get color TV until I was 10.

18. What was your favorite childhood activity?

Having dinner with my family.

 

[jellybean87]

Thank you to all of you who replied! You have no idea how much this had helped me. Plus it was fun seeing the difference in lifestyles and how how they compare today. You all have been a great help to me. Thank you again!

 

[Blueberry]

1. Name and age (if you dont want to put your age, please put the range)

Wendy 49 1/2 (Hope this counts my DH is 50)

2. Where did u grow up? (state)

New York State

3. How many children are in your family?

3

4. Describe a typical meal you remember having when you were young.

Meatloaf, baked potatoes and green beans

5. Did your famliy go out to eat very often? Where did you go?
Almost never maybe once a year to Howard Johnsons or something and maybe twice a year to McDonalds
6. Do you remember what you paid for...?
A. A gallon of gas...$.80 in 1974 with first car

B. A loaf of bread....$.50
C. A gallon of milk....$1.25
D. A hamburger at a restaurant...$.49
E. A pair of shoes....$9.99
F. A pair of jeans...$7.00

7.Describe popular clothes and hairstyles when you were young
We wore long straight hair was the style in high school, no curl at all we wanted flat shiny hair. Short skirts and hot pants were the style, then it went to maxi coats and midi skirtys for a bit.

8.How often did you family go shopping...And where did you shop?

We did not shop often, I got a lot of clothes as hand me downs from my older sisters and my cousins. When we did shop it was in discount stores and clearance rack stuff

9. Did your school have a dress code? Describe it.

No..we went to private school and wore uniforms

10. What type of music was popular when you were young? Also do you remember the names of some popular songs?

Rock was very popular, along with bands more so than individual artists. Names of popular songs-Let It Be, Bridge Over Troubled Water, My Sweet Lord, Jeremiah WAs a Bullfrog

11. How old were you when your parents let you date?

17 and they never let me, I just started to date

12. Did you have a curefew when you were around 16? What was it?

I had a curfew till I was 18 of midnight on weekends

13. How did your parents discipline the kids?

When we were kids we got a good swat if we misbehaved older we got sent to our room or grounded
14. Did you get to use the family car very ofter whne you got you driver's license?

Yes I drove to school whenever they would let me

15. What were some of the thing you did in you spare time?

Listened to music, talked a lot on the phone, watched tv and I loved to read books

16. Did you have a job when you were a teenager? How much did you make an hour?

I did not work during High School, my parents did not want me too really, just a few babysitting jobs and inventories..I started work out of High School at $2.50 an hour.

17. List some things we have now that were not invented yet when you were young.

Computers, Video Games, DVDs, Digital Cameras, Answering Machines, Cell Phones

18. What was your favorite childhood activity?

Swimming

THANK YOU SOOO MUCH AGAIN FOR ALL OF YOUR HELP!!!


__________________
~Jenny~


Last edited by jellybean87