TV and Movies

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@spiderw wrote:

Miimosa!!

Yes, so many great cars!  In the fifties before I could drive, I remember a girl in the area who turned seventeen, her gift a Ford Thunderbird  with the porthole windows on either side, pale blue and white in color!!!!  I loved that car and whenever she drove by and I caught a glimpse, I just stared.  To this day I still love that car!!!!!!

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@spiderw   oh wow! sounds dreamy!!      the 55/56/57   T-birds were my #1  fave car too!!  always been my dream to own  one.  LOVE the portholes ... the 56 and 57 had the porthole windows. (from what DH says the 55's did not have factory porthole windows) 

i know the '50s Corvettes get most of the attention but for me it was always the T-Birds!!  even the 58/59s when they went to 4 seats!!

DH has a 56 Chevy BelAir he restored himself. he takes it to car shows.   i enjoy car shows too. funny,  the younger motorheads go for the 70s/80s "classic"  models now.

[spiderw]

Miimosa!

We are women of good taste in cars!  I too loved the T--Bird more than the Corvettes which were very desirable at the time.  It is always fun seeing the old cars and I mean the fifties/sixties!!!!!  Restoring old cars is a labor of love!

In the early sixties, my girlfriends and I would meet at Times Sq. in Manhattan and take a walk to central Park.  On the way there was a car dealer which had  beautiful cars I loved.  Being young and not knowing that Bentleys' cost quite a bit, I would say ,that is a car I want!  I never did get my T-Bird and the Bentley, a dream!!!!!!! 

[spiderw]

Pearlee!

While I love Picnic and always watch it, I understand your comments because I feel the same.  When I first saw the movie I was ten and of course at the time this was how it was for women. I amso glad we moeed forward. 

I am a feminist and certainly do not like using the word,spinster or old maid school teacher, both used in the movie.  Also at that time women were expected and pressured to marry by a certain age.  It was the fifties. 

However, with that being said something captured my heart when I saw Picnic and still does even if I don't agree with some of which went on during the film.  I am drawn to the music, the chemistry between Holden and Novak and the simplicity of a decade I lived in when innocent and naive.