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Common items from the 1950's game ( alphabetical)

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rosesarered Mon 01-Aug-16 17:29:25

Don't know how long we can get this game to go on to, but have a go anyway.In alphabetical order name an item you would see around in the 1950's ( it doesn't matter if you would also have seen it in the 1920's, ie, a tin bath, but don't include things from later decades ie, miniskirts.)

Alligator skin handbags

Jalima Thu 08-Sept-16 20:48:01

Wendy House

Jalima Thu 08-Sept-16 20:48:26

she was a bit scary

Cherrytree59 Thu 08-Sept-16 20:48:52

Vegetables. (boiled to death!)

rosesarered Thu 08-Sept-16 20:50:07

Ana...... Of course not, we will get trendier when we get into the 1960's.grin

rosesarered Thu 08-Sept-16 20:50:37

XYZ

Cherrytree59 Thu 08-Sept-16 20:52:15

Oops all at 20.48!

X ?

Yachts. ( Wee ones for boating lake in park)

Jalima Thu 08-Sept-16 20:55:00

Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah

wot Thu 08-Sept-16 20:55:10

I can think of a z but it's for the 60's!

Jalima Thu 08-Sept-16 20:55:16

All-sorts

wot Thu 08-Sept-16 20:56:06

0oh blast!

Jalima Thu 08-Sept-16 20:56:43

(Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah. Production Date. c.1956. Country. Great Britain. Original Price. 3'-. Details. Single fold-open sheet, with lyrics - if you're thinking it came out in the 1940s!)

wot Thu 08-Sept-16 21:19:36

Beehive hairdo

numberplease Thu 08-Sept-16 21:27:00

Coronation (the)

Jalima Thu 08-Sept-16 21:30:00

Dinkies (those tiny little bottles for babies, which were filled with water or shock dilute rosehip syrup and used as soothers.

Jalima Thu 08-Sept-16 22:15:54

Easels

Jalima Thu 08-Sept-16 22:16:09

Fur gloves

Jalima Thu 08-Sept-16 22:16:57

Glace leather gloves

Jalima Thu 08-Sept-16 22:17:56

Heather knit jumpers

Indinana Thu 08-Sept-16 22:23:38

Inkwells

Christinefrance Fri 09-Sept-16 08:08:03

Jam jars for collecting sticklebacks and frogspawn

rosesarered Fri 09-Sept-16 10:42:58

Wot .....soon be the swinging sixties coming up, start thinking!

BBbevan Fri 09-Sept-16 11:07:29

Kardomah cafes

rosesarered Fri 09-Sept-16 11:55:35

Well done BB I was avoiding the dreaded K.grin

Rosieroe Fri 09-Sept-16 12:01:56

Loofahs

wot Fri 09-Sept-16 12:07:42

Oh!I had one lined up for K and I missed it!
Milky Bar Kid

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